Sellers not movingout till a month after completion?

princeofpounds

Where are you in the process? It is important. Have you exchanged?

It will be incredibly difficult to allow them to stay in the house and something that will require serious legal advice. This is because if you permit them to stay and take money you will be creating a tenancy, and they have minimum 6 months right of occupation. Other sorts of licenses to occupy will be created too. It is unlikely they will become squatters (in the legal sense of the word).

They should be in short-term accomodation if they want the deal to complete, not your house. Who pays is a matter of who cares most for the deal to go through.

mlz1413

lee-majors wrote: »

.Solicitors are trying to get a fixed date and are asuring me that everything will be legally water tight.

I really hope you get this as in this current buyers market it seems ludicrous that vendors are battling with you.

But just a thought but if you do decide to rent to them, then make sure it's worth your while by charging double the currently rental value.

Richard_Webster

You can't do it. Your solicitor must be satisfied that you will get vacant possession otherwise he can't use the mortgage money.

Another reason not to buy a newbuild! I always tell people who are buying them that are not physically complete, they may have to move out to complete their sale. If OP was not told that this could happen then it is the seller's problem and they should e.g. approach builder to provide alternative accommodation.

lee-majors

I sent an eMail last night telling our solicitor that we either get completion and move in on 24th April or the deal is off. Its gone far enough now. They just want a nice cushy move out. Where as we have been lving in my gf's parents house with all our stuff in storage.

We looked at another house last night and are considering bidding for that, so they need to get a move on.

MissMoneypenny

lee-majors wrote: »

I sent an eMail last night telling our solicitor that we either get completion and move in on 24th April or the deal is off. Its gone far enough now. They just want a nice cushy move out. Where as we have been lving in my gf's parents house with all our stuff in storage.

We looked at another house last night and are considering bidding for that, so they need to get a move on.

I wonder if they will now be asking you to store some stuff for free for them until they move in to their new house, which was what I had with one house I bought. I declined and left it for my solicitor to deal with. When I moved in they had left about 20 sacks of rubbish in the garage and a load of clothes they didn't want anymore in the drawers and wardrobes. We knew the woman's dress size and bra size by the time we cleared that lot out!:eek:

lee-majors

Just an update.

The sellers caved in to the date we requested (24th April) before our current mortgage deal runs out. We were ready to walk away if they hadn't. Buying the house from such unresonable people as soured the deal.

They had to have one last dig... I could't believe it.

They said "yes we agree but we are no longer leaving you the cooker" , that we were giving them £100 for and had been agreed previously. They don't even need it, at there new build. Pure childish.

So I went back and said well the deal is still off again.... lol

And they caved in yet again, sorry to sound like I'm gloating but this whole thing as been down to the sellers not willing to compromise at all. They lied to us from day one about when we could move in, and then tried bullying us into giving in to there demands.

We tried doing the right thing by leaving it till the last possible moment to move in and compomising.

After all this negotiating and bad feeling, the deal we origianlly struck which was a fair one, meeting them half way with move in (we wanted end march, them may 29th), is the one we agreed.

mlz1413

good for you!

serve them right for being unreasonable they have put themselves over a barrel by being so demanding and to quibble over £100 cooker is as you say just childish.

mlz1413

lee-majors wrote: »

I sent an eMail last night telling our solicitor that we either get completion and move in on 24th April or the deal is off. Its gone far enough now. They just want a nice cushy move out. Where as we have been lving in my gf's parents house with all our stuff in storage.

We looked at another house last night and are considering bidding for that, so they need to get a move on.

Did you move in on the 24th? Did everything go smoothly once a date was set?