help! completion was yesterday but sellers did not move out!

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

Only 28 answers to get the sensible one!

I thought I had entered a parallel universe which looked the same but the rules had all changed!

Doozergirl wrote:

I have suddenly become an expert on failed completions and what Vacant Possession actually means

How annoying. care to share?

Drodough

So, if the OP chucks this guy out, what exactly is he going to do? Take her to court for evicting him from the place he has sold with VACANT posession? Unlikey he'd bother. Assuming it was sold with vacant posession (if it wasn't, you'd know!) I personally would- pack up his stuff, put it in storAge, change the locks and let him pay the stoarge bill to retrieve his stuff! I really dont think he'd bother taking the issue to court.

Failing that, get a load of big guys (or gals!) and fierce looking dogs, await his return and very nicely (with afore mentioned persons and animals loitering in the background) request he remove his stuff IMMEDIATELY.

As for the Police thing- 99.9% sure they would say it was a civil case. In fact, unless things got heated I doubt they would even attend.

Good luck!

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

How annoying. care to share?

Well, there was the buyer in November who tried to gazunder us after exchange. After he got his wife to phone my H in the morning to ask if they could move in as the money hadn't gone through yet but the removal men had finished at their house (him not telling me me because he knew I would say no - wonder why?!). 3pm we phone buyer to ask if there is a problem. She was completely ignorant and stood their sobbing when we had to go and collect the keys back. Left them homeless for four days with their stuff locked in our house while his credit card payment for the balance cleared! Lesson learned: always trust gut instinct.

Then vendors requested a 56 day completion so they could clear the house we just bought - this meant us incurring SDLT.

And this is what we were left with:
http://www.photobox.co.uk/my/album?album_id=312363863

And their solicitor says that this is Vacant Possession as we were given the keys! It's cleared now and the architect is due in next week so I finally get to do the thing I enjoy Leave our solicitor to it.

jillie1974

someone moved out of a house and left it like that??
omg!!!

Drodough

Doozergirl wrote: »

And this is what we were left with:
http://www.photobox.co.uk/my/album?album_id=312363863

I have seen some sights in my time- but that is ASTONISHING! Did you, or will you, recover any of the clean-up bill??

Doozergirl

Drodough wrote: »

I have seen some sights in my time- but that is ASTONISHING! Did you, or will you, recover any of the clean-up bill??

Different, isn't it?! Hopefully we will recover the cost. The vendor's solicitors reaction (ie. none) belies belief.

PasturesNew

What was their story of why they lived like that/why the house was like that?

jayss

Take it that lot wasnt on the fixtures and fittings list.
:eek:

Nixer

Bloody hell! I think I would have cried. And then got a huge van and driven all their crap round and dumped it at their new place (not really). Were they actually living amongst all that or had they moved into the shed or something?

I hope you get your costs back plus some more for the aggro.

slummymummyof3

When we bought our first house around 20 years ago, we moved in to find that the vendor had swapped the back door to a door that did not remotely fit and I could fit 2 fingers in the gap all the way around and was rotten(he was a plasterer and had clearly obtained someones old back door from a site) - they claimed that the glass had been accidentally smashed on the original door so they had 'replaced the whole door'. A number of other fixtures and fittings were also 'swapped' from those that were included on the fixtures and fittings list. There were also subtstantial damages to carpets that were not there previously and to the 3 piece suite that we had agreed to purchase from them at additional cost.

We had to take them to the small claims court and the first court official who was dealing with the case could not see what our problem was as they had replaced the door, fortunately he was asked to swap hearings with another case as the official dealing with another case knew one of the respondents. As such, the replacement court official found in our favour, but it had initially had the potential to go extremely pear shaped.

I received threatening phonecalls and intimating visits from the husband and had to get the police involved, who I have to say were excellent.