tenants in house

Apple45

Thanks so much, yes our house to be is tenanted and we think its a two bob estate agent that has been instructed, owners are abroad

G_M

mikey72 wrote: »

We were in the same position. The tenants finally left on the day we should have moved in.
We instructed our solicitor not to pay until we phoned him on the day, and we sat outside until they had left, then we went to the estate agents to get the keys.
Then we phoned our solicitor to instruct them to release the money.
We did get a couple of calls in the morning to ask where the money was, but it was late afternoon when the tenants left, so that's when we paid.
Cleaned?
Hmm, luckily we weren't actually moving in for a couple of weeks.
The carpets looked more like an allotment.
The oven I swear had a four week old chicken in it. (dumped)
The hob caught fire (honestly) there was that much grease under it (dumped)
The toilet cistern top was cracked.
Now it was a doer upper, and a very good price, so it was expected, still.......
Oh, then we had about six months of debt collectors.
To give them their due, they were all pleasant, and all apologetic when we told them we had just moved in.
And gas, electric, and water were quite nice about the bills too.
It's quite funny looking back........

You're lucky they actually left. They didn't have to unless there were court bailiffs there.