Page 6 | Completed on house this morning but previous owner still hasn’t left!!

BlueFireSmokey · 2021-09-22T18:26:52+00:00

Got the message from the solicitor to say we had completed at around 11am this morning. Told the house was now ours and we could pick up the keys from the estate agents. Phoned estate agents and arranged to pick keys up at 3pm. We were very excited as it’s our first home! Got to estate agents no sign of keys no one seemed to know where they were. They phoned the vendor who said she wasn’t done packing!! And would be gone in a couple of hours. Estate agents told us they shut at 5:30 so to get the keys we would need to go to the house and get them direct from the vendor. We then left it a couple hours before going to our lovely new home. Fortunately, we have several weeks left on our tenancy so we aren’t actually moving all our furniture in today (vendor doesn’t know this). Anyway they are still there! They said they will be another twenty minutes. We are gonna find some dinner somewhere then head back and see if they are gone. They gave us a key but they still have keys they said they will put through letter box. This isn’t how I imagined today would go!

FudgeFlake · 22/09/2021 21:51

Sorry we should read they ... We were ready to rock and roll. Our new home's seller's weren't.

Whentheydontmeanwhattheysay · 22/09/2021 21:51

@Lunificent

We were the baddies who didn’t leave in time when we last moved. Our removals company underestimated the scale of the job and on topic that one removal man had a bereavement during the move so he was totally distracted. It was all awful and really embarrassing.

Similar here. Disabled DH and I were helping load the van in the end. It was awful. On top of that the place we were moving to was filthy. We finally got our beds upstairs at 9pm. I’m still furious, and sad, about it all several years later.

Congratulations -wishing you happiness in your new home OP.

FunnysInLaJardin · 22/09/2021 21:56

jeez, what a massive fuss about nothing. Yes you completed today, but you don't need to move in yet and the sellers are frantically trying to move out.

Just chill the fuck out. You have years at this house. A few hours for the sellers to move out after completion is nothing.

GreenTea77 · 22/09/2021 21:59

That’s very unfair of them and also quite rude… do people not understand that when moving you usually have a removal van booked and so on. Same happened to us, we were only moving round the corner and we took a walk by the house the previous evening.. they were sat in the lounge drinking wine (yes I could see right in - how dare they 🤣) so low and behold the next day we sat waiting till late afternoon till they packed. Got to the point I said to them the van needs returned and I swear they emptied the contents of the house onto the front garden and packed from the garden 🤣 that was the grass ruined. Good luck op I hope you are in by now x

cittigirl · 22/09/2021 22:00

@FunnysInLaJardin

jeez, what a massive fuss about nothing. Yes you completed today, but you don't need to move in yet and the sellers are frantically trying to move out.

Just chill the fuck out. You have years at this house. A few hours for the sellers to move out after completion is nothing.

I bet you wouldnt be saying that if you were in that situation!!

FunnysInLaJardin · 22/09/2021 22:01

cittigirl, yes I would, however my 30 years as a conveyancing solicitor may have some bearing on my comments

Whatamesssss · 22/09/2021 22:01

I cannot understand these eejits who don't pack.

In case there is any doubt, the only things left to pack on moving day morning should be your bedding from the night before not your bed frame, that should already be dismantled, kettle, toiletries and your cleaning stuff. It really is not difficult.

No clearing kitchen cupboards on the day etc, what are these people thinking?

Glad you are now in OP.

Hope you are very happy in your new home.

Djifunrsn · 22/09/2021 22:02

FunnysInLaJardin it's most likely against the terms of the OP's mortgage!

Binting · 22/09/2021 22:03

@FunnysInLaJardin

cittigirl, yes I would, however my 30 years as a conveyancing solicitor may have some bearing on my comments

Is that the message you would give to clients?

SeaToSki · 22/09/2021 22:03

We are in the US and here you get a walk through the morning before you close (complete). If the place isnt “broom clean” you delay and dont pay until it is. It means there is none of this CF stuff. Most people ask the estate agent to do the walk through for them, but you can go yourself to check everything that was meant to be left is still there and they havent forgotten to clean the crap out of the garden shed etc. If things have been taken, the vendors have to put them back or a price adjustment is made to compensate.

Makes for a much easier transition

Mistymoors · 22/09/2021 22:04

Surely you be better to leave them move their stuff out annoying as it is to be so late ! What is changing the locks going to do except cause a major hassle for you and them . I probably give them a hand !

FunnysInLaJardin · 22/09/2021 22:04

@Djifunrsn

FunnysInLaJardin it's most likely against the terms of the OP's mortgage!

quite possibly, for about 2 hours....

surreygirl1987 · 22/09/2021 22:04

@funnysInLaJardin what's your work as a conveyancing solicitor got to do with it? I'm particularly surprised by your reaction if that's the case! If I legally owned a property and there were people in it, I would be very concerned!

FunnysInLaJardin · 22/09/2021 22:05

Binting yes, I like to manage my clients expectations and not whip them up into a frenzy about something that doesn't really matter

FunnysInLaJardin · 22/09/2021 22:06

[quote surreygirl1987]@funnysInLaJardin what's your work as a conveyancing solicitor got to do with it? I'm particularly surprised by your reaction if that's the case! If I legally owned a property and there were people in it, I would be very concerned![/quote]
Seriously, when you could see they were moving out, and would be out in a couple of hours?

HopingForOurRainbowBaby · 22/09/2021 22:06

@Clymene

There was a thread on here a while ago by someone who was pissed off that her buyers had showed up because she was still having lunch

They're trespassing. The house doesn't belong to them, it belongs to you. I hope they're gone.

Was that the one where she was pissed because he started demolishing HIS kitchen and they still had all their beds upstairs?

FunnysInLaJardin · 22/09/2021 22:07

@Mistymoors

Surely you be better to leave them move their stuff out annoying as it is to be so late ! What is changing the locks going to do except cause a major hassle for you and them . I probably give them a hand !

Yes, but people like to be in the right, don't you see?

FunnysInLaJardin · 22/09/2021 22:10

@SeaToSki

We are in the US and here you get a walk through the morning before you close (complete). If the place isnt “broom clean” you delay and dont pay until it is. It means there is none of this CF stuff. Most people ask the estate agent to do the walk through for them, but you can go yourself to check everything that was meant to be left is still there and they havent forgotten to clean the crap out of the garden shed etc. If things have been taken, the vendors have to put them back or a price adjustment is made to compensate.

Makes for a much easier transition

Other countries have much better systems tbh.

I am in Jersey and the sale completes in court on Friday and then folk move over the weekend. None of this 'its been my house for 2 hours' shit here.

The UK system is mean and shored up by equally mean people .

Yayayaya20 · 22/09/2021 22:10

@Mistymoors that’s what I am thinking! Either the OP is going to have to gather up the rest of their belongings or they are so might as well be them?

Mistymoors · 22/09/2021 22:13

This has happened to us so many times, sometimes people just underestimate the job in hand ! Yes it’s annoying, yes it’s not their house any more etc etc but if you can genuinely see their moving out surely it’s better to help !! Honest to god some people just love causing drama ! Change the locks ha then tire left with all their crap which you then have to move ! Sound advice not

Rummikubfan · 22/09/2021 22:14

Annoying yes and I would be irritated
but some slightly hysterical over the top reactions from people.

BringPizza · 22/09/2021 22:15

@HappyDays101010

Fucking hell - lots of super chill people on here. I’d be threatening to burn their shit and chucking their telly out the window. Well, that’s what I’m imagining I might do - would depend what their attitude was.

BronwenFrideswide · 22/09/2021 22:16

Yes, but people like to be in the right, don't you see?

It's not just a case of being right it's a case of people getting their arses into gear, planning and organising and not being dimwits that think they can pack an entire house in a couple of hours and inconveniencing others by their lack of sense and their puffed up sense of entitlement.

Buying and selling property takes weeks if not months it is not an overnight process so it should hardly come as a surprise to people that they need to get sorted, packed and ready to move out once the sale is completed.

People who do what the OP's sellers have done and those who enable it or rush to excuse it are the problem not the OP and those who have the foresight to be organised.

BronwenFrideswide · 22/09/2021 22:17

@SeaToSki

We are in the US and here you get a walk through the morning before you close (complete). If the place isnt “broom clean” you delay and dont pay until it is. It means there is none of this CF stuff. Most people ask the estate agent to do the walk through for them, but you can go yourself to check everything that was meant to be left is still there and they havent forgotten to clean the crap out of the garden shed etc. If things have been taken, the vendors have to put them back or a price adjustment is made to compensate.

Makes for a much easier transition

I like the sound of that.

countingto10 · 22/09/2021 22:19

My parents bought a house in the 70’s (had 4DCs under 6 at the time), turned up at house on the day to move in to find a mother with her children in situ unaware that her (Iranian) husband had sold the house without telling her - the poor woman. Fortunately my parent’s solicitor was very proactive (as far as they could be) - I think she was given one or two weeks to find new accommodation. I remember staying at a family members (quite large)flat surrounded by packing boxes of stuff, there would have been 9 people in that flat plus 2 families belongings whilst she found somewhere to live (not sure where the husband was)