Completed - seller still has set of keys WTF?

[rumbelina]

Completed on a house on Friday. EA rang for us to collect keys and said the seller had left a radio and some timer plugs at the house, could we leave them in the garage and the seller still has a set of keys so he'll pick them up and drop the keys through letter box over the weekend.

I said ERRR NO I will bring the stuff to EA and he has to drop the keys off with them or at the house over the weekend. He lives in a different city so I don't mind being semi reasonable.

Rang solicitor who gave notice to his solicitor to drop keys off by the end of Sunday. This morning - no keys.

I'm just waiting for EA to get back to me as to whether he's dropped them off there but I doubt it as they'd have rung me at the weekend.

What do we do??? I don't think there's anything dodgy, he's just a dozy twat that won't listen to anyone as he believes everyone is inferior to him.

The solicitor gave notice that if he hadn't dropped them off then we'd change the locks and he'd be billed. But I don't want to go down this road as I don't believe we'd ever get the money.

He's been a cock the whole way through and we're still not rid of him. ARGH.

Glad you got it all sorted (and new locks) OP!

When we bought our first place, the vendors were only moving across the street and were (ahem) quite relaxed about it all. They didn't really bother to pack anything, just started carrying it over to their new house item by item about an hour or so before completion. The agent met us as the house to hand over the keys and we just sat in the front garden watching and waiting to get in. It took sodding ages! Grrr.

After they'd finally buggered off, they suddenly remembered they'd completely forgotten to clear fucking tons of all sorts of shit their stuff out of the loft, so had to go up there and spend another hour or so getting that. I know we could have told them tough titty, but there was some right manky stuff coming out so we were happy to see it go! They actually turned into very good neighbours and friends and even though we've moved again since, we're still in touch.

I have lived in 5 houses since moving out of my parents house and changing the locks upon moving in has always been the first thing we do.

I would hate the thought of there being nobody knows how many keys to my home floating around out there.