Bought house but they’re still in it now!

[ItsOnlyRainFFS]

So we exchanged contracts last week and completed by 10am today. We vacated our house by 12.30pm as our buyers keen to get in and contract said 2pm. The house we bought was supposed to be ready 2pm but it’s still
not ready! Now the seller (house we now own!) is saying they’re going to struggle to empty it by 8pm! And that sounds optimistic. They just don’t sound like they packed up properly. Anything we can do? Solicitor and estate agents shut.
We have put most of our stuff in storage - which is shut. We have though thankfully hired medium van which has our essential stuff in it. But we just want to unpack it now. We have 2 kids and have been at a bowling alley and kfc trying to kill time since school.
Would we be unreasonable to demand we move in 8pm?

@Doris86 we were similar. I was so organised with box numbering and spreadsheets it was a lot of waiting around by DH and I. We eventually started giving the removals guys a hand bringing every box we could carry into the front room. This was in the middle of winter so super dark super early. Fortunately the house we were moving into was empty but the bloody garage door didn't work which was an absolute pain to get stuff into the back rooms.

This happened with our neighbours , the people moving in ended up persuading their removal men to just go in and empty the house onto the front garden so that they could move stuff in . The out going people had barely packed , hadn’t cleaned at all and basically had a small self hire van to move a large 4 bed detached . Hopefully you are now in @ItsOnlyRainFFS .

What an absolute pisstake, I'd be fuming. I hope you managed to get them out !

Neither could I 😆 - we were young and naive - selling our first house.

We had never moved before, I moved in to this house, when we married, coming straight from my parents house, with a couple of suitcases.

We certainly hadn't kept a handle on ‘just stick it in the loft’ during those two years! 😆

Take lots of pictures and speak to your solicitor.

Omg this happened to us. I assume OP is in now as silence. Took us 3 days to get in 😱

They stayed for the weekend and already had the keys for both houses. They wanted to get the house sorted properly before moving in apparently.

We found out we were exchanging the morning of our exchange day last time and completed less than 24 hours later. There was no discussion of dates at all!! Maybe as we were FTB and the house was empty, but it was so stressful then. Moving again now (selling ours) and we haven’t been able to agree a clear date for 2 months now for the whole chain… never again.

hope you’re now in, OP!!

Hope they're out by now and that you're in by now. You must be exhausted!!

What ended up happening?!

Big payday in fines and compensation. In hindsight it worked out quite well for us although there was a point when I was thinking omg they are squatting. They are never going to leave!!! We had an excellent solicitor.

Well it's not hard if you can afford professional movers to do literally everything for you, no.

OP, what happened? They are right chancers doing this to you.

Hoping OP is holding a cold drink of some description whilst celebrating their new home.

Looking forward to an update.

We definitely took longer than we should have done to move out. Our professional removal company totally under estimated the time it would take to pack up. We were a couple of hours late, completely out (and cleaned house around the removers) by 4pm though! Luckily our buyer wasn’t moving in that day. Did you ring the solicitors at 4.45pm to advise they were no where near ready and what options were?

Also, never move on a Friday!!

Oh god, I really hope that you've managed to get the cheeky twats out and you are settled in enjoying your new home now.

We had this once, although not as late as yours. They were moving small van load at a time. We just marched in and started moving their stuff out onto the street. They'd left if filthy too and infested with fleas. So grim.

How are you going OP? I hope you’ve kicked them out, whether you move your stuff in or not tonight.

Wow, surely they must have realised that you also wanted to get your house sorted

Hope you’re in @ItsOnlyRainFFS

This happened to a friend. She didn't know what to do so called her dad. Her dad came and they went into the house and said, this is my house now. Move your things into the garden, so we can get our stuff in. This guy panicked and dragged his stuff into the garden and came the next day to pick it all up!

Are you in yet OP? I would ask your solicitor but I think you might be able to get them to cover any out of pocket expenses you’ve had to incur because of them - eg extra hire van/ storage costs or hotel for you all tonight.

Got to our new house removals guys stood around. All the doors open. Walked into the sitting room to find the wife on the sofa having a panic attack. I had to talk her down because her husband was at their New house organising the removal guys. 🙈

They didn’t do everything for us. We packed every single box, dismantled every item of furniture, and disposed of all junk and rubbish. All the removers did was turn up on the day of completion, and loaded everything into their vans.

It wasn’t hard because we were organised, not because someone did it all for us.

Not people still in the house but those next door blocking the street with their shitty little car so we could not get the removal van in. Twice I went around and politely asked them to move the car, Kept saying we will do it "in a minute". Id had a few run ins with them about bins so they probably saw it as a chance to get back. I was only moving up the street so had got a few mates to do the work. After a cuppa one of the removal guys went around - he was a 6 ft 6 foot biker - and they quickly moved their car. I dont know what he said but I think he looked pretty scary with all those skull tattoos.

Next bin day I moved all their bins into a nearby alley so they didnt get emptied. I am petty that way. I bloody hate neighbours/

Happened to us many years ago. Pouring of rain and my sellers had nt done a thing to move (thinking they had all Easter weekend. 🙄). Drafted in all able bodied family and put their stuff in our garage to be collected the following day or it would be left out on the lawn. Obviously the house was filthy and we had to clean it too.

next day they came back to collect from the garage (unlocked) but had kept a key and tried to let themselves into our house … annoyingly nothing could be done when we complained . Outrageous behaviour.