Bought house but they’re still in it now!

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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?

OP I hope you properly read them the riot act and are in now.
If they are still there call the police.

This happened to my brother. He called his mates and they moved the stuff out while he moved his stuff in to make sure the kids had their beds set up etc. his wife was giving the kids their evening bath while he and his pals were chucking the last of the previous owners stuff into their van. They then had the cheek to ask if they could park up their van on the driveway.. I can imagine the reply but basically the answer was no!!

What are the coppers going to do? Tell them to move faster?

The police won't do anything - the people concerned are moving out, a few hours late. What useful thing could the police do?

Did ye get in?

Any update OP?

Go in. I had this shit when I was helping to move my elderly parents. I sent my parents off for a late lunch, went in on my own and went apeshit at the trespassers in my parents’ new home. They were moving stuff out of the front door as my removal guys were moving stuff in from the back door, whilst I was stuck in the middle cleaning the fucking mess they’d made in my parents’ new kitchen. Cunts.

You’re well within your rights to go in and start throwing their stuff out of windows.

What she posted was:
I don’t remember this at all growing up. I live in a better area now and tbh it really feels like an entitlement issue. Lots of people,

I take that to mean that she lives in a better area than the one where she grew up. Not that she's only just moved there.

This happened to us. No apologies, no embarrassment, they just carried on plodding along packing very slowly. And asked us to help them. And this was in the evening, when the exchange of keys had been planned for midday and been pushed back and back. They eventually finished getting their stuff out a day or two later. Of course the place was disgustingly filthy too.🙄

Tell them to haul all their stuff out onto the front lawn pronto, and they can deal with it from there by 8pm.

Tell them you'll be sending them a bill for the storage unit you've had to put your stuff into.

In the OPs previous post she said that she lived in a better area than the one she grew up in, not that she had already moved. No need to assume a fake thread.

No. They have to take possession of the house. They are now the owners. If the previous owners burn it down, the new owners will not be insured

For goodness sake just move in! It's your house. Yes involve the police if you need to. It's now your house and they are trespassing. Anything they haven't moved out it's tough shit and you are technically not under any obligation to allow them access to obtain it. They need to give you the keys and let you move in. I'm horrified that your estate agents haven't advised this and read them the riot act tbh. We had a similar situation but on a smaller scale and the estate agents were checking in all day and made clear that we needed to exchange keys at least before they closed for the day. No way would I have hired a storage unit. Our removal men were very fair but forceful too. When the sellers were a bit difficult about us starting to move stuff in they basically said they were unloading to the garden at least whether they liked it or not.

Are they out? So selfish of them. Moving is stressful enough with out this.

Same thing happened to me this summer. We were there for 12pm and they decided they had until 4pm (totally made up). They had one car and it was already full, kitchen fully unpacked still. They could have had an extra week and wouldn't have managed it!!

We parked up beside them, our movers helped them put stuff in OUR garage and just started unpacking around them. Very awkward but had to be done. You are within your right to tell them to now leave. The movers said they had people who have said it before and made them leave their things.

Our guys were back for the next three days in a row emptying the garage and honestly believed they had been hard done by! Some people are surreal. Hope you are in now!

Make sure you taje videos and photos ... cheeky buggers!

I don’t like to assume really, it was just a flippant remark based on a comment from
another poster. I’m hoping she’s disappeared because she’s in 🤞 But it seems odd that it’s a new account and now all this drama is occurring.

I got my keys at 3pm. They'd gone to the estate agents to hand them in. I got to the new house to find it full of people dismantling wardrobes and faffing about. Luckily I was renting so didn't have a van waiting that day but they didn't get out until that evening. I did go and make sure but it was a bit nerve wracking knowing they were all in my house and I wasn't.

I am on my own too so wasn't pleasant.

This is why you should never complete on a Friday!! A conveyancer told me years ago not to complete on a Friday. It's tempting because you then have the weekend to settle in and sort everything out, which is fine if there are no problems, but as in this case, there's nothing you can do until Monday! I'm sorry this has happened to you and hope it's a simple case of the vendor being disorganised. Wishing all the best for an easy resolution!

All but 9 pm now. Hope you are in now.

Photos in emails sent now will give a times trail of events.

Whether I'd push for them to leave or whether I'd stay in a hotel would depend on details - how much they had to remove, how quickly they were shifting it, how tired my children were, whether my vans could stay over etc

When we moved into our current house our solicitor came over, in person, to see if the house was actually empty. When we made our offer it was empty but between then and our moving in there had been some short term lodgers in. They'd gone! (As promised)

@MathsMum3 mine was sa Friday 👍🏻

There have been similar threads on here in the past , and it never ceases to amaze me. What on earth goes through these people’s heads? It’s not like completion day comes as
a surprise. You literally have months to prepare for it, from the moment you decide to go on the market.

When we moved, we woke up on completion day, packed our last minute things in a suitcase and waited for the removal men to arrive. We literally twiddled our thumbs most of the morning, whilst the removal men loaded the vans with our pre packed boxes and pre dismantled furniture. Then we just ran a hoover round at the end. It’s really not hard if you start early.

this happened to us a few years ago very slow sale finally got exchange arrived with our van full of stuff they had not packed still had pictures on the wall, i lost it, we went in and packed fast and did not give a monkeys with their stuff, they had to come back next week for shed and loft, taking the p, be firm

Are you in yet?