Stupid question - completion day - how does it work?

Levs01

G_M wrote: »

I wouldn't wait. Just pack and go.

It's waiting to move in that you have to do!

We are loading 95% into the van the day before so minimal to do the day we actually move. I have to wait to last min as I have cats that I want to keep in place to the last possible second. I do have a contingency if it's too long between our buyer completing and ours completing for the cats but would prefer not to use it if possible. They are too small to go into a cattery otherwise I would have done that for the day.

Cakeguts

Strictly speaking once the money from your buyer has gone into your account the house doesn't belong to you anymore so you don't have a right to be there which is why it is better to be packed and out early. It isn't fair to rely on buyers to be nice and let people move things out of the buyer's new home after completion.

copperjar

My solicitor told me that it is in our contact that we will be out of the property by 2pm. Not sure whether that is usual or not. What if exchange happens at 10am?!

Levs01

copperjar wrote: »

My solicitor told me that it is in our contact that we will be out of the property by 2pm. Not sure whether that is usual or not. What if exchange happens at 10am?!

2 pm would be fantastic! I'm worried about it being much earlier.

Cakeguts. Everything will be out of the house bar me and the kittens. As soon as I get the call from the sols that completion has happened I'll be out. Our buyer is nice and won't mind a 2 min cross over.

Levs01

I'll also be using that time to hoover and clean so it's nice for our buyer when they get in.

G_M

Levs01 wrote: »

I'll also be using that time to hoover and clean so it's nice for our buyer when they get in.

:kisses: :kisses:

:smileyhea :smileyhea


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penguingirl

Our contract said we had to be out by 12. Also your buyer's solicitor may not transfer the money to you unless they know you have definitely gone and it is 'vacant possession'. We were only homeless for about 2 hours, which was enough time to drive to the new house 45 mins away, pop into EA to say our sale had gone through and our solicitor was transferring money to the vendor, and have a nerve wracking lunch in the cafe next door to EA while waiting for the keys.

AnotherJoe

How would the buyers solicitor know that?

DaftyDuck

Ahh, G_M is in a good mood again... he does like a nice seller.... He's in his jovial Barry Cryer mode :kisses3:

These things do just generally work. On here, if you search, you'll find the scare and horror stories but, if you were buying a telly and looked on various websites, you'll read horror stories about shoddy sales tactics, swapped contents, broken guarantees... yet I'd state that 99.341% of TV-purchasing experiences go without a hitch (there - I made that stat up just for you). Nobody writes "Went to Currys, bought a Samsung, went home, now watching Georgie Shaw (what is that???), just perfect"

On the day, there will be a solicitor somewhere, who'll pick the phone up and chat for a few minutes with another solicitor and, when he puts the phone down, he'll sign a form, and then either call you, or possibly call the estate agent. Then he'll bu55er off for an early lunch or a round of golf. The estate agent may then also call you, and tell you the keys are available for collection. Or, the owner will come from the spew of boxes all over the lawn, give you a set, but say they've just got a little bit more to do.

That means the downstairs of the house and the garage. And the shed. She'll have forgotten the carp in the attic, and the carp (sic) in the pond. It will be a while. If you have removal men, they will be so used to this, it won't elicit a fart. They'll be doing that anyway, on your sofa in the van.

At some random point you'll suddenly realise the last owners have gone, that the removal men are unloading (or brother-in-law is, and has just put his foot through a glass door), that the house is all yours (except for the 92.4% owned by Nationwide), and you can start moving in.

Unlike you, they will (so, so sorry) have packed their vacuum cleaner in the first load, so they can clean their nice new pad. Brother-in-law will have walked his blood all over the (already filthy) carpet, and is now washing his ankle in the loo but, aside from that, peace will reign. It will, it almost always (99.759% of the time) does.

I've only once had problems, when the police had to get the daughter of the owner out, she having handcuffed herself to the stair rail. Oh, then there was the time the removal lorry manoeuvred in the drive, found a drain, and tipped over. On arrival at the new property, so my entire Life went to 60°. The time the police were informed I was probably a drug dealer (misheard job description, and the several hundred plants and gro-bags I'd brought before the professional removals arrived). And the time I found that only three sockets in the entire house actually worked on arrival, and another where the owner (who had moved just next door to a house he'd built in the garden) hadn't emptied all his furniture, or anything from the cellar, and, again, this time, when it took an extra day for the previous owner to empty their junk from the now-my house.

No, these things do just work. They really do. So long as you take a slightly relaxed attitude, and don't fret too much.

:D:D

DaftyDuck

Levs01 wrote: »

Everything will be out of the house bar me and the kittens

Now I think I really do love you! Cleaning the house and kittens. I have kittens; mine are now six. But still kittens!

That's me and G_M in a good mood; you have done the impossible!


Kittens can help you pack and clean....


But your (still cheery) removal crew may need a little help from two rescue lorries in getting out again...


Relax; it'll work.