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Move from hell, purchasers failed to complete HELP!

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  • enthusiasticsaver
    enthusiasticsaver Posts: 16,048 Ambassador
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    I feel for you and we had the same situation twenty seven years ago moving 250 miles from one side of the country to the other with a toddler and a baby. What a nightmare! The buyers at the bottom of the chain(No 1 in chain) were £2k short to complete, it was a Friday and our van was packed and halfway down the M3 and we were sat in an empty house waiting for phone call to say our purchaser's money had arrived (No 2 in chain). We ended up putting our furniture in storage near where our new house was and went into a hotel and charged it to buyers. Luckily for us it was just the weekend though and we completed on the Monday. Took a while for them to pay up though. Hope it all sorts itself out on Wednesday.
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  • pinkshoes
    pinkshoes Posts: 20,523 Forumite
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    ViolaLass wrote: »
    But if you stopped unloading the van(s), then you wouldn't have to keep paying the guys to load them again.

    The vans will be needed for other jobs, so the stuff can't just stay on the vans!
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  • hcb42
    hcb42 Posts: 5,962 Forumite
    Fingers crossed for Wednesday, stuff of nightmares this
  • dancingfairy
    dancingfairy Posts: 9,069 Forumite
    Gosh, what a horribly stressful turn of events. Are you able to do anything to try and relax at all? Checking in to a hotel/b&b sounds like it might be sensible - you'd have wifi, food, a gym, a tv etc.
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  • ViolaLass
    ViolaLass Posts: 5,764 Forumite
    pinkshoes wrote: »
    The vans will be needed for other jobs, so the stuff can't just stay on the vans!

    That's why you put your stuff in storage - I'm not the first to suggest it.
  • ecgirl07
    ecgirl07 Posts: 662 Forumite
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    ViolaLass wrote: »
    That's why you put your stuff in storage - I'm not the first to suggest it.

    Their stuff is in storage? Post#42

    Good luck op hope it completes asap!
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    Sounds like it will go through. I hope the OP keeps us updated on how they go about suing the non completers at the bottom.
  • pinkteapot
    pinkteapot Posts: 8,044 Forumite
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    Fingers crossed you get completed soon OP. Do keep us updated on any subsequent cost-reclaiming that goes on!

    I feel sorry for everyone in the chain, but it must be extra stressful for those who work and only booked Friday off to move. What a huge inconvenience for a lot of people.
  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    Well...if this is the sort of mess/unreliability/etc Duffhead at start of queue makes of buying a house, you can only imagine what a mess he is making of this organisation he is running......:eek:.

    Now which one of us might like to apply for his job?
  • Blackpool_Saver
    Blackpool_Saver Posts: 6,599 Forumite
    What would happen to people who could not access this extra money I wonder
    Blackpool_Saver is female, and does not live in Blackpool

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