Getting annoyed with buyers messages AFTER completion

[AlexisP90]

We completed a weeks ago all good all moved in etc. As the process had taken so long we got chatting to our buyers and thus they have my mobile number. Seemed nice. Was nice to complain together about the process.

Important to say we asked them if they wanted to do a survery 3 times and they declined every time.

Since then we have had constant messages about things.
"Why are there holes in the wall" - asked them for more info on this but didnt get it...
"People are parking in our space can you ask them to move" - i dont own the house i cant!
"The neighbours are having a party and its disturbing us"
"The water isnt very hot"
"Heating not coming on"
"We dont like the bins can we change them"
"We are concerned that there may be a leak"

Etc...

Now aside from being a bit of a pain they are nice people but honestly im getting sick of it now.

I politely replied that we no longer own the house and cant help with these things but the messages keep on coming!! They mentioned in the last message "we may need to take the leak further and seek some compensation"

Im close to telling them to fuck off tbh.... I dont recall any leak so could have happend at any time but they also did no survey so while im a little concerned about the "taking it further" surely thats not on us?!

Have they ever owned a house before? They sound like people who have maybe always rented so just had to ring up the landlord/council to get any issues sorted?

See renting v buying already been mentioned. Teaches me to read the full thread first!

The noisy party thing made me laugh.

They definitely think you are the landlord.

Block number.

Can’t believe you didn’t manifest your powers of seasonal control for them 😀

I'd say 'No problem. Here's the invoice (£400) and once you've paid that, I'll get it sorted".

Not that they'd be likely to cough up but if they did, I'd pay your old window cleaner to do it and keep the profit! 😁

A sympton of the ‘it’s always someone else’s fault’ culture that is sadly so prevalent these days.

Block. Anything in writing, “return to sender”

Not if you live in Australia it’s not - the landlord pays c tax

Well thats mad, its for service used by the people in the house like bin collections and local amenities like schools, libraries, parks, street up keep etc...

Landlord/owner pay if the property is empty but if someone lives their they pay for them as they are the ones using those services and benefiting so their bill.

As a landlord who has had to deal with god knows how many really daft questions from tenants, this is sadly not very surprising! If you’re used to always being able to call someone else to sort out your issues, it’s probably quite a shock to realise you’re now on your own!