Sellers want to stay in the house up to 6 week after completion...

FireWyrm

GDB2222 wrote: »

I am a bit surprised by this. You had a verbal agreement that is just as binding as a written one, just a bit harder to prove. In the end, it is just your word against his. Do you really have no evidence whatsoever? Think carefully. Even evidence of your buying train tickets every 3 months to go there would give the court some indication that you might be telling the truth.

I am not sure what you mean by the agreement having lapsed four years ago? You have 6 years to enforce the debt before it becomes "statute-barred", so if your sale was in 2007, you are still within time to issue proceedings.

Wow, thanks for that. I had no idea. I won't hijack the OPs thread with this discussion but I will go away and think about it. I believe I still have the receipts. I wanted to put a charging order against the house, but feared it would cost more than the debt was worth.