Are we being unreasonable?

pelirocco

Unfortuantely this is happening more and more , we own a removal company and we can be as much in the dark as anyone else when it comes to moving dates . Often we are contacted just a few days before the moving dates to change them , or have people wanting to book in because they have only just exchanged and are looking to move in the next couple of days ....we have had peoples moves fall through mid move !

Its all great fun

Clutterfree

gingercordial wrote: »

OP, where are you living now?

Would it help to remember that you aren't obliged to move on completion day? Say you complete on 1 June but can't get annual leave until 14 June, that's fine, you own the property from 1 June but don't actually pack your things and move in until two weeks later. In the meantime you have the keys, can visit, run around naked in it if you like in celebration of owning your first property, but no need to take time off to do anything else.

Downside: you'll draw down your mortgage and start paying from completion day so that'll be two weeks before you move in, but on the other hand you'll pay it off two weeks earlier in 25 years' time...

Upside: plenty of time for a thorough cleaning, repaint or whatever before you start moving furniture in.

Might thoughts exactly.
As they are first time buyers, they've no buyers pushing them for a completion date so in theory "should" be more flexible than those in the rest of the chain who need to sell in order to buy.

Obviously if they are living in rented, rather than with friends or family, then they may have a date they need to move out by. That said, with no completion date set it seems unlikely that they've given notice yet to their landlord.

So as the above poster said, why don't you wait until you have a firm exchange and completion date and then book time off work? You don't have to take time off and move in on completion date.

Good luck with it all.

bobwilson

NineDeuce wrote: »

I dont understand why being new to the forum is a reason to bear with you.....

We'll bear with you while you try to understand.

AnotherJoe

NineDeuce wrote: »

I dont understand why being new to the forum is a reason to bear with you.....

It's the people who ask us to bare with them that worry me