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Is this reasonable

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noddyholder · 17/03/2006 12:06

We have buyers for our house which is great.They put the offer in on 20 Feb and we found somewhere to buy the next day so very quick.Their buyers (FTB)put the offer in on their flat last September so they took 6 months to find a house(ours)and hence their buyers are really hassling them.They have asked us to move out and rent as they are scared of losing out but I think they should move out if anyone as we are only a month into things and haven't been slow at all but there are a few questions with our purchase which are still to be answered so exchange/completion is prob not going to be for 3/4 weeks.I think they are being unreasonable as they are implying they will lose their buyers if we don't vacate but I can't with 3 cats and ds etc

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RedZuleika · 17/03/2006 12:08

I think they should move out. You've only been dealing with them for a month. They've been dragging on for ages.

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noddyholder · 17/03/2006 12:09

Thankyou that is what I think

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Carmenere · 17/03/2006 12:09

I'm not sure but I does sound a bit unreasonable to me. Why wouldn't they rent rather than ask you too? weird

Twiglett · 17/03/2006 12:09

bloody hell

its their problem .. they need to move out and rent surely

anyway as soon as they have a date in sight they'll be fine .. tell them 'this is the date of exchange / this is the date of completeion'

cheeky buggers

NomDePlume · 17/03/2006 12:11

They should move out, especially given that the 'delay' is their fault and I assume they don't have kids etc to move.

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noddyholder · 17/03/2006 12:11

I just don't get them.They have had since sept and are now hassling us.We offered on the first place we viewed following hteir offer and it has a loft room so we need a few questions answered I think i will suggest they move out!

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alison222 · 17/03/2006 12:12

You can't let them move into your house if things are not complete as then what happens if for any reason (hopefully not) their sale of your house goes wrong.
It would be a nightmare if something went wrong and they were living in your house not legally having comleted on it.
I wouldn't I would expect them to rent.

NomDePlume · 17/03/2006 12:12

We had this same problem with buyers when we've sold houses in the past. I have to say that in every single case the buyers were young and childless, so it was 100 times easier for them to move out than it was for us to move out with 3 children and 2 pets etc.

NomDePlume · 17/03/2006 12:15

We had threats of buyers pulling out at the 11th hour and alsorts if we didn't bow to pressure and move out ! They never did oull out. In the end they just put up and shut up, a move takes as long as it takes.

NomDePlume · 17/03/2006 12:15

We had threats of buyers pulling out at the 11th hour and alsorts if we didn't bow to pressure and move out ! They never did pull out. In the end they just put up and shut up, a move takes as long as it takes.

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noddyholder · 17/03/2006 12:16

They are not expecting to move in before completion but they want us to complete with them and move out and wait for our purchase to go through!They say they will lose their buyer but if they do we will stay here and wait for another buyer tbh so I am trying not to get stressed!

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Twiglett · 17/03/2006 12:16

you cannot let someone move into a house you own .. and you own it until completion date

you will get buggered over with legal loopholes and squatters rights etc

tell them they're being ridiculous

GDG · 17/03/2006 12:16

Their problem, they should move. It's a no brainer!

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noddyholder · 17/03/2006 12:17

Agree Nde P It is 4 weeks today since they first viewed our house and 4 weeks monday since the offer so they are being ridiculous!

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RedZuleika · 17/03/2006 12:18

Presumably also their buyers have invested a lot of time and money in this sale, so surely they're not going to just pull out when exchange is on the horizon?

Agree with the others, you can't have them in your house until it's completed - and that's not going to happen overnight, even without taking your new house into consideration.

puddle · 17/03/2006 12:19

Totally unreasonable! Sounds like you are being v speedy to me.

Did you decide to make the move to Patcham in the end?

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noddyholder · 17/03/2006 12:21

I don't think I have been clear they don't want to move in before completion!It is just they are hurrying us and our purchase negotiations are not complete I don't want to rent anyway as I have a heart condition and have to keep my life stress free so don't cope well with these things at the best of times.

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noddyholder · 17/03/2006 12:21

Not Patcham still in Brighton but right by a lovely park!

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alison222 · 17/03/2006 12:23

Why cant they complete and rent?
Explain you can't possible expect to get short term rental when you have pets (hopefully they don't?0 as it is genuinely a real problem.

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noddyholder · 17/03/2006 12:27

I don't know why they can't it seems silly I am a bit worried that they will lose their buyer but there is a way round it they are just trying to get us to move.

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alison222 · 17/03/2006 12:29

Probaly less hassle for them. And you would have 2 sets of moving costs, or storage costs too depending on if you rented furnished

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noddyholder · 17/03/2006 12:43

I hadn't thought about the double moving costs plus the rent which is extortionate around here!A definite no then!

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wannaBe1974 · 17/03/2006 15:48

firstly, I can kinda sympathise with the buyers above your buyers, if I'd put in an offer on a property in September and it'd taken the venders till March to find somewhere to buy, I think I'd be getting a bit twitchy myself. however, as these people have waited this long for the sellers of the house they want to buy to find somewhere, I think it's highly unlikely they will pull out at the stage where things are now actually starting to move along. After all, I wouldn't imagine they now want to go back to the beginning of finding a house, waiting for the venders to find a house, and so on. I would just call their bluff. Tell them that you're not in a hurry to move, and that if they're threatening to pull out, you'll put your house back on the market, and will sell it to the first person who can complete your chain. I wouldn't be threatened by people like that, if they can pull out, then so can you, good luck.

mommie · 17/03/2006 15:51

it's very unreasonable. tell them to move in with friends or parents til you are ready

yackertyyack · 17/03/2006 15:57

surely if there buyers have waited 6months already another month or so isn't going to make much more diffrence to them. I would say its their problem-why should you have the hassle of moving into rented and then again into new house!! You will end up wasting money!!! Esecially as you would have to pay reference fees etc!! Hope it all works out for you!!!

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