Storing belongings

mstevo

Hi, bit of advice needed....

Me and my partner have bought a house and have a move in date in May as they seller has lodgers in the property and needed to give them notice to move out.

My partner sold her house to fund the move but as we couldnt move in to new property for a few months we had a verbal agreement through the estate agents with the buyer of her property that some of her belongings could be left in the garage until we move in new property. 2 weeks after moving out we get a call from estate agents saying they now want us to move it all her belongings out. We only agreed to the sale on the condiditon that the stuff could be stored in there and felt we were helping them out as they were in a rush to move in.

My partner still has contents insurance on her old property, ideally be best to move all the stuff out so causes no problems but ill cost us £300 to move and store till May which we are not willing to pay. Would be interested to hear other users thoughts about the situation. Dont feel the estate agents has offered any support and say it now has nothing to do with them now the sale has gone through but personally feel it questions their professional integrity even though it was a verbal agreement.

AdrianC

Was this a verbal agreement or written? Was any timescale agreed?

HappyMJ

mstevo wrote: »

Hi, bit of advice needed....

Me and my partner have bought a house and have a move in date in May as they seller has lodgers in the property and needed to give them notice to move out.

My partner sold her house to fund the move but as we couldnt move in to new property for a few months we had a verbal agreement through the estate agents with the buyer of her property that some of her belongings could be left in the garage until we move in new property. 2 weeks after moving out we get a call from estate agents saying they now want us to move it all her belongings out. We only agreed to the sale on the condiditon that the stuff could be stored in there and felt we were helping them out as they were in a rush to move in.

My partner still has contents insurance on her old property, ideally be best to move all the stuff out so causes no problems but ill cost us £300 to move and store till May which we are not willing to pay. Would be interested to hear other users thoughts about the situation. Dont feel the estate agents has offered any support and say it now has nothing to do with them now the sale has gone through but personally feel it questions their professional integrity even though it was a verbal agreement.

£300 is a bargain. I'd take it. You could try and offer them £250 to rent the storage space of them if you wanted to save money but I'd just take the £300 and get your stuff out of the way of them. They can remove your property into storage at any time and CHARGE YOU. 2 weeks is quite a long time....until MAY is a very very long time. If that were my property I wouldn't have it. I'd chuck everything out and that's something you do not want so remove it yourself. It's March now...come on 2 weeks is more than enough. More than 2 months is taking the P.

marksoton

mstevo wrote: »

Hi, bit of advice needed....

Me and my partner have bought a house and have a move in date in May as they seller has lodgers in the property and needed to give them notice to move out.

My partner sold her house to fund the move but as we couldnt move in to new property for a few months we had a verbal agreement through the estate agents with the buyer of her property that some of her belongings could be left in the garage until we move in new property. 2 weeks after moving out we get a call from estate agents saying they now want us to move it all her belongings out. We only agreed to the sale on the condiditon that the stuff could be stored in there and felt we were helping them out as they were in a rush to move in.

My partner still has contents insurance on her old property, ideally be best to move all the stuff out so causes no problems but ill cost us £300 to move and store till May which we are not willing to pay. Would be interested to hear other users thoughts about the situation. Dont feel the estate agents has offered any support and say it now has nothing to do with them now the sale has gone through but personally feel it questions their professional integrity even though it was a verbal agreement.

I suggest you become willing.

Oh, and never ever trust an EA... :wall:

mstevo

The agreement was only verbal and all done via the estate agent. A timescale was agreed as we knew our move in date at the start of May and the buyer was happy enough to do so. Just she changed her mind after 2 weeks of being in the property. Why agree to it if she knew she wasnt going to stick to it??

AdrianC

<shrug> Ask her. But a verbal agreement is worth the paper it's written on.

PasturesNew

Nobody wants the last owner's stuff lurking around - you can't relax in your new home perchance they should randomly ring the doorbell or turn up.

A verbal agreement's one thing, but once you've got the keys things do change and they probably are now all excited about some new plan/idea.

Just get it shifted. It'll be better stored/safer in a professional storage unit anyway.

Get closure on the sale, pay up, move your stuff and move on with your life.

mstevo

Looks like people have differnet morals to me, If I make a verbal agreement I would try my hardest to abide by it. Guess we shoudln't have assumed this would be the case.

marksoton

mstevo wrote: »

Looks like people have differnet morals to me, If I make a verbal agreement I would try my hardest to abide by it. Guess we shoudln't have assumed this would be the case.

No, you shouldn't i'm afraid.

Ulfar

You had a verbal agreement what about the fact if the buyer needed a mortgage the contract of sale would have stipulated vacant possession.

Move your stuff into storage, its the easy and proper solution.

Marvel1

Maybe the buyer has realised they don't want to be responsible if anything happens to your stuff. Is the contents insurance valid?