Buyer/ vendor completion stand off

DaftyDuck

Try several vet practices for short term lodging for moggies... preferably following vaccination. Many will do this, but it will be more expensive than a cattery. Quite a few catteries will take unvaccinated animals and isolate them in spaced away pens. Sadly for you, it's peak holiday season, and that's why they can't help.

Some hotels and b&bs are pet friendly, so search farther afield. Borrow a caravan. Hire a boat. Try local pet rescue centres and bribe them. Commit a crime and get locked up for five days, and let the rozzers look after the cats.

If you look for solutions rather than problems this, and much else in life, will be so much easier.

KRB2725

Have you tried looking for a pet sitter? They are often people (in our limited experience retired) and enjoy looking after pets without the commitment of one full time. As it is often i someone's home, the lack of vaccinations may to be an issue.

saajan_12

Perhaps try offering to cover either party's costs rather than a lump sum.. you could offer to pay for storage and hotel costs for either of the parties?

gettingtheresometime

What do you do with the cats if you go away?

Do the neighbours look after them?

If so, could they look after them for 4 days?

Pumpkim

We were in your position with our last move, but no pets to consider. We had a two week difference.
We went with option 2, we put our furniture in storage, went away for a long weekend, spent 4 days in the cheapest of cheap hotels when we returned, then some friends kindly let us stay in their flat for a week while they were on holiday. It was a pain but we managed.
We probably could have been the one's to stand firm but we were all at stalemate and I just wanted it over with.

Thrugelmir

Rambosmum wrote: »

Our buyers want a complete date of X, 4 DAYS EARLIER. This is because they need to vacate their accommodation on date X (not their fault). trying to exchange but this is obviously a real sticking point.

Your buyers have created the situation it seems. Up to them to find a solution to their own problem. Not dictate to the chain above.

Rambosmum

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

What do you do with the cats if you go away?

Do the neighbours look after them?

If so, could they look after them for 4 days?

A friend looks after them in our house.

Perhaps try offering to cover either party's costs rather than a lump sum.. you could offer to pay for storage and hotel costs for either of the parties?

We have. They're getting back to us. 4 days storage and 4 days in a local hotel isn't going to cost that much.

I don't know why they have to move, just that say they have no choice. We'd pay an extra months rent for them if we had to. The money isn't really the issue. It's the inconvenience for us that's getting me. Happy to cover costs for people, though really don't see why we should - none of this is our fault!

Doozergirl

People in rented accommodation often don't appreciate that if they don't move out on agreed date then nothing is going to happen. The only person that can truly end a tenancy agreement is effectively the tenant or a court.

If they are in rented, they're better off explaining to their landlord that they're staying put for four days. They cannot be evicted legally before those four days are up. Legal eviction takes weeks/months. I doubt the new tenants move in on exactly the same date that they move out, but they need to put them off.

Nobody genuinely HAS to leave somewhere on a date unless the house is being repossessed!

I totally agree that it's their own problem that they need to solve, not yours or your buyers. No one can guarantee completion dates and they should not have presumed to.

Rambosmum

Doozergirl wrote: »

People in rented accommodation often don't appreciate that if they don't move out on agreed date then nothing is going to happen. The only person that can truly end a tenancy agreement is effectively the tenant or a court.

If they are in rented, they're better off explaining to their landlord that they're staying put for four days. They cannot be evicted legally before those four days are up. Legal eviction takes weeks/months. I doubt the new tenants move in on exactly the same date that they move out, but they need to put them off.

Nobody genuinely HAS to leave somewhere on a date unless the house is being repossessed!

I totally agree that it's their own problem that they need to solve, not yours or your buyers. No one can guarantee completion dates and they should not have presumed to.

I know this, but whether they'd be willing to do it is another thing entirely! Plus what if new tenants try to move in and then there's the whole stand off and feeling bad about making those people suffer etc etc. I can see why they don't want to do it.

Doozergirl

Rambosmum wrote: »

I know this, but whether they'd be willing to do it is another thing entirely! Plus what if new tenants try to move in and then there's the whole stand off and feeling bad about making those people suffer etc etc. I can see why they don't want to do it.

So they do it to you instead? The reason is nothing to do with new tenants and everything to do with wanting to be in your house. Obviously they don't wait for people to turn up on the doorstep waiting to move in. They need to communicate. At some point down that line there is going to be someone who isn't inconvenienced and it may actually be their current landlord.

There's only one thing that they've committed to do, and that was move out before having a home to move to.

It's their own fault.

Besides, where else are they going to live if it isn't in your house after those four days are up? This is FTB histrionics.