What time does seller need to be out on completion day?

Gordon_Hose

Trixi wrote: »

We had completed by 12 but the seller was there until around 5pm and we were unable to collect the keys - the back door keys were dropped off the next day. The seller also collected several items the next day.

Luckily, we were in no hurry to move in and were willing to be a little flexible. The place was filthy when we did eventually get in.

Any house purchase I make in the future is going to be wonderful in comparison!

There's being flexible, then there's being taken for a mug. Especially turning the next day to pick things up they stored in YOUR house, as well as keeping hold of YOUR back door keys.

I wouldn't have been happy, not if all my stuff was sat in a removals van and nowhere to put it.

Trixi

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

There's being flexible, then there's being taken for a mug. Especially turning the next day to pick things up they stored in YOUR house, as well as keeping hold of YOUR back door keys.

I wouldn't have been happy, not if all my stuff was sat in a removals van and nowhere to put it.

I know - there were circumstances (the vendor's) that I didn't share here but that made me give a little more leeway. There was no reason or excuse for the delay/mess - and the solicitors/estate agents were also waiting to hear something - but chasing it up would not have achieved anything.

As we had no intention of moving in for at least another month it was not stressful. In this case, it cost us nothing to be nice. If we had been in the situation of sitting outside with a delivery van, as many buyers are, it would have been quite another story!

jackomdj

We have had good and bad moves.

One house i arrived and the people had a small van, it would have taken about 4 trips over a ferry ride (about 1h round trip each time without unloading/loading). In the end I put all my stuff in the fining room and we used our van to transport them!

Our most recent house move we got the phone call at 9:30! The people we were buying from were moving abroad so almost all their stuff had already gone and we had put out TV in the night before as sky were coming on moving day afternoon (worked out well as she could watch tv on her last night, he had already gone) also we already had a key and she left the rest of them in the house for us. There was no chain involved in that move and we used the same solicitors firm!

BeansOnToast_2

Our recent purchase worked well as the vendors moved out the day before and spent the night in a Premier Inn.

penguingirl

We are just waiting to exchange (and hopefully complete on Thursday, but pigs may fly first), and our contracts from the solicitors say we have to have vacant pocession by 1pm.

STG_2015

I remember waiting to move in, we ended up helping the sellers pack and babysat their dog for a week whilst they settled into their new home!

StuC75

That should be easily achievable when there are days between the exchange and completion happening and there is a reasonable length chain..

Because exchange has happened then there is "less" to go wrong on the day - since a legal contract exists that can be enforced \ remedy sort If goes wrong... In these case of the OP exchange\completion was the same day so there is more risk and scope of what can go wrong - I.e. the buyer could still walk away or delays happen.

My last Move had to be rescheduled as the buyer funds didn't clear in time with there solicitor for action, and So I had wasted a days holiday from work and cost of hire van (not to mention everything boxed and ready for transport), so then had to reschedule for the week after (after making sure then exchanged following the bank holiday.. But because we hadn't exchanged before there was no way of recovering any of those costs incurred..

So when it did finally happen I took my sweet time moving out! (House was buying was vacant so that was fine)..

penguingirl wrote: »

We are just waiting to exchange (and hopefully complete on Thursday, but pigs may fly first), and our contracts from the solicitors say we have to have vacant pocession by 1pm.