Can't sleep... Vendors changing things on day of exchange, what would you do??

[Halfwayoranges]

Hi all.

I feel like I'm having a breakdown!! Meant to exchange yesterday with completion this Friday, and the vendors have suddenly said they want to leave their shed until their next purchase goes through, and collect at a later date! Their reason for this is apparently that they are waiting for probate on their next purchase. They agreed to move by end of June as our tenancy runs out then. We don't want to be stick with their shed until God knows when! And how would it be removed? How would we communicate this?

We said no and have heard nothing from the vendors. We need to find a new tenancy within 7 days if they don't exchange.

What do you think we should do? We feel totally drained with it all!!!

I'm sure it'll all be fine.

Now offered 150 to help them get it removed and the agent has said would I pay 150 to keep it?!!

unless I misunderstood this,

The EA question sounds a bit vague - not really an offer but more an EA suggestion they hadn't yet run past the vendor. The OP appears to fell it wasn't a genuine offer that would resolve things either, or presumably she'd have said yes (given she was willing to pay out £150 anyway). She did say that the vendor offered to sell the shed previously for thousands rather than hundreds.

And it's also very annoying to agree a sale and then force the buyer to cough up £150 for a shed they didn't even want in the first place. It doesn't matter that the seller is stressed (everyone is stressed when selling their house). They are being arses.

OP - our vendor left us many things which were not agreed to, and a pain to dispose off. The biggest one being their super king sized mattress! It lay inside our house for months while we tried selling it & finally PAID the council £60 to collect it from us. No one wanted it for free either! But we didn't lose sleep over it. House buying is too big a deal to cry over the small stuff. Just agree to the £150 purchase & do as you please with the shed.

Fwiw - we have a similar 'shed' that I hate only coz its eating up my garden. DH loves it though & dreams of setting up his home office/games room in it. Only dreams. Meanwhile it's eating up my garden space. Would love to know what I should do with it?! Any suggestions anyone?

Have you spoken to the EA/ solicitors OP?

I know it's annoying, but not as bad surely as forking out thousands and throwing it away and starting again. These things are sent to try us.

You do realise they could say they will remove but leave it anyway. If you set a limit of a month are you really likely to be ready to redo the garden in that time.

Any update? I've got my fingers crossed for you.

Come on OP: update please!

Not only do we have a house full of mis-described fitted furniture we weren't expecting (it's not actually fitted so we didn't think that it was being left in the house), our vendors left a large item of furniture and a host of other stuff in our house because they felt it went with the house! It meant we couldn't unpack properly and we'd paid the removal firm to put out stuff back together again at the other end, but there was no room so they couldn't. We had no warning.

That said, we are seeing if we can sell the stuff and it's not worth expending the energy and money on pursuing them over it. Bloody annoying though.

Lizs - it really doesn't matter if they are getting to redo the garden after a month.
It matters that they have given the vendors a time limit to come back and reclaim their property after that time it becomes the property of the OP who can do what they want to it (sell it/demolish it/retain it).

Come back OP and let us know if you have bought or if you're still on the look out for a property because these vendors didn't recognise a good thing when they had it!

Just wondering how you got on. I was following the thread yesterday but didnt post as Id just have been repeating what others had suggested.

Hope you got something resolved.

So OP, did you pull out of the deal or did you exchange?