Vendors pull out AFTER exchange of contract

Pete111

Welshwoofs I really feel for you here and like the others cannot believe these people have the front/idiocy to continue this ridiculous & greedy escapade.

I genuinely hope you see this through and they get exactly what they deserve. People like this couple need to learn some harsh lessons in life asap or they will continue to treat people like dirt and quite possibly raise kids who are more than happy to continue the family 'ethos' when dealing with others.

As others have posted make sure you hit them with any and all relevant incurred costs too - I reckon the only way they will truly learn to think of anyone other than themselves is via serious wallet related surgery.

Good luck.

P
PS Damn, I'm really angry now.....and it's not even happening to me!

lfc321

Please get building insurance cover for the property asap. It won't cost much (and I guessyou can add it to your costs). Your solicitor should be insisting on this in my view. Who knows what these vendors might do next.

Agree that you should be documenting all assosciated expenses, but the court will have expected you to mitigate losses wherever possible. Not sure they'll agree to the crates of vino!

Good luck.

LandyAndy

lfc321 wrote: »

Please get building insurance cover for the property asap. It won't cost much (and I guessyou can add it to your costs). Your solicitor should be insisting on this in my view. Who knows what these vendors might do next.

Agree that you should be documenting all assosciated expenses, but the court will have expected you to mitigate losses wherever possible. Not sure they'll agree to the crates of vino!

Good luck.

Move all their belongings out, cancel their insurance, have an accidental fire and go for completion:o.

Chinkle

I think we are all on tenderhooks on this thread. Welshwoofs, I sorry that another week has gone by and they still haven't seen the light. I hope our messages of support are helping somewhat and if not go for it with that vino tonight!!

morg_monster

Gosh just finished reading through this. What a saga already and only 8 days old! I suspect this is going to turn into one of those threads running into hundreds of pages... like that one from that poster who was trying to get a deposit back from a landlady... what was her name? Eagersomething? Easy something?
Anyway I look forward to following it but hope for your sakes OP it doesn't last that long.

clutton_2

Eagerlearner

gosh - what a pair of utter eeejits......

i think over the next week you will have some very difficult decisions to make

it is fine for all of us here to say ""go for it - take the court route - get 'em " - and all that - none of us are going through this hell. None of us has any idea how long it will continue.

If you choose the court option you are facing a seriously stressful long period of confrontation and uncertainty.

Have you thought about actually Living in this house - that these eejits used to own - will it not bring back such awful memories that you will never rest easy in it ?

I 110% agree with everyone else on this thread that you deserve as much justice and compensation as you can get

but

is it worth the wait if you choose the court route ??

Might you be better off negotiating on their "get-out-package" and try to get them to pay a much much larger financial settlement than they are currently offering - which will allow you the time and money to settle your emotions and look for somewhere else to live.

Try to rationalise the emotional and financial losses you will suffer if you embark on this legal course.....

Many times, judges and barristers will tell you, cases are settled out of court - but in the court lobby on the day of the trial - so litigants have gone through maybe years of stress, and then compromise on the day - and in the meantime the lawyers have made a killing.

Both your lawyers will come out smiling sweetly out of all this - and you will have no guarantee that any court will get the other side to pay your legal costs.

I know you desperately want this house - but it is only bricks and mortar - your family security and serenity is much more important in the long run

Retiring gracefully with a slightly smaller financial compo package takes more courage than battling on

These eejits will not believe that you will take them to court - they are so arrogant they believe they can get their own way in everything.


The thing that makes negotiating difficult is answers/cross-examinations/yes/but etc

If you offer a ONE OFF offer to settle - valid for 14 days only - and instruct your solicitor to have no further contact whatrsoever with them in that 14 days, they will know you are serious.

best wishes

gettingbetter

want to say i agree with Clutton
but 14 days is to long
5 days max
they have already had a week

kas xx

Dinah93

In their shoes right about this point I'd be realising what an expensive mistake I had made, but feel I had to carry on that course as backing down would cost too much, and the only possibility of it not costing loads would be the unknown route of hoping you'll back down instead.

In your shoes I wouldn't let them off the hook with this, you really want the house, you've wound up your partners business in preparation to move there, I'd take it all the way.

clutton_2

""but 14 days is to long"

you have to take into account the time it takes for solicitors to send letters back and forth - 14 days is just about the least most reasonable time frame to offer.

Joyful

I agree with Clutton. I hope they will see sense and sell to you but don't put your life on hold for the next 2 years for it to go to court. It sounds like so much stress. I wouldn't though give them 14 days. They've had long enough already.