What happens if I can't empty house by completion day?

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What happens if there are still things in the house when the new owner arrives? Going as fast as I can but unlikely to be done by tomorrow...

Course not 😂

Usually it’s written in the contract , mid day is normal . The new owners would have every right to dump everything on the lawn .

please let us know how it goes 😄

have they cleared lofts and garages etc ?

if they have white goods don’t get involved because if they don’t have the correct moving equipment trolleys etc you could get injured / hurt your back etc and they won’t have insurance if you can’t work .

Even if you pull an all nighter?

Turn your phone off for later. No sympathy considering she hasn’t hired movers and has gone off to soft play!!

I assume you both agreed to the completion date and you knew it was coming, so why are you still messing around?

You need to make sure everything is gone. End of.

If you don't then the buyers would be right to throw your stuff out or to charge you for having to dispose/hold things on your behalf.

Ask for help from family and friends or pay someone but just get it done...

You could do what my bitch neighbour did. Pack up what you can, leave what you can't.

New owner got a skip and put all her junk in it.

Under cover of darkness, bitch neighbour came back, raided the skip and took the stuff she wanted, and left what she didn't.

New owner hadn't moved in because he had to gut the place, so he wasnt there and had no idea.

@Wherearemykeysagain

I agree, most people are not confrontational about these things. Doesn't mean op's dsis isn't taking the piss though.

Dear me. I wouldn't lift a finger to help, particularly as she hasn't hired movers. When I moved out of my last place, I started packing two weeks before completion day and even then the last evening was a bit of a scramble!

This. Not your circus OP.

I Hope she is planning to pull an all nighter once back from soft play!

OP if your sister is disconnecting the washing machine please do it now just in case it's harder than you think. Don't do it when the new owners have been waiting 6 hours to get into their house and cause a fucking great flood - by which point the new owners won't give a shiny shit that your sister couldn't get her act together (I still see the pricks that did this to me over 17 years ago and they still think it's funny). See also spilling gloss paint on the landing carpet and claiming I must not have noticed this when we last looked round the house.

How will we get updates if she does that?

Depends when funds transfer. Could be anytime from late morning to late afternoon, as the chain starts at the bottom and funds cascade upwards.

No it doesn’t. If you are not ready to leave by completion, you are liable for any reasonable costs that the new owner may incur. This includes storage, hotel bills and food.

The time of completion is usually by 2pm-ish, and is when the estate agents get confirmation from the solicitors that all the bank payments have been made and everything is in order. At that point they then hand you the keys, usually at the estate agent's premises.

When I last purchased, completion happened at 9.30am. Your DSis sounds a tad unorganised and has no idea of priorities if you ask me OP! She'll have to pack all night if necessary.

That's if they find the sellers rushing around trying to get things done. Pissing off to softplay for a few hours might elicit a more robust response.

She should get her luck with a removals firm/man with a van and see if she can get them to come out today or first thing in the morning. They can pack and dismantle furniture as well. It’ll cost her, but it looks like she’s run out of options.

If the new owner did that, they could potentially be liable if anything was damaged/lost or stolen.

Oh god. Are you sure you don't have a vomiting bug OP? A dose of Convenient COVID?

There’s one in every family. Everything HAS To be a drama with a capital fucking D

Soft bloody play??

This happened to us when we moved into our new house the bloody woman was still placing bits and bobs in boxes, slow as you like. We told our removal men and they said “we’ll see about that” and they proceeded to sweep all her stuff up with a broom, throw in boxes and dumped them all outside. She was so slow, no sense of urgency whatsoever 😡

Fair enough, I was wrong, confused with something else.
I’d certainly be hitting them with all the relevant costs to recover the belongings though.

bloody hell... I was mid chain, completion on mine was midday and the new owners arrived with their family and removal vans a few minutes later - to a house that was completely empty apart from us, the dogs and the cats in carriers and the cleaner who had followed the removal men round making sure the place was spotless for them. Due to someone in some office being on holiday (!!) an email authorising exchange on my new one didn't happen until 3pm when my solicitor chased it up and finally untangled it. Sitting outside an empty property unable to unload for two and half hours was stressful enough - if the property was not packed I would have been stuffed. I'd got a car full of cats and dogs, never mind the removal vans.

Moving requires everyone to keep to their side of the deal, and often a lot of goodwill. We allowed our buyers to move their garden furniture in the day before, our sellers would not allow us to do that - or to unload ours, on the day, until formal completion. End result, we are friendly with our buyers, they notified us about the odd parcel that went astray to the old address, things not covered by redirected mail. Our sellers never bothered to redirect mail at all, and one ran a business form the house(!), just asked us via the EA to send things on. We sent one letter with a note on the back that this was the only thing we would redirect. The rest was returned to sender.

Please don't bail your sister out. She really needs to experience the enormity of what they are failing to do!