What happens on completion day

AdrianC

phill99 wrote: »

Normally you wake up stressed out of your head as you haven't slept in three weeks and on the verge of killing partner/kids/estate agent/vendor/purchaser.
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You then start the whole process again tomorrow.

Phil - you forgot to mention the cat doing a runner.

RelievedSheff

It is surprising what you can get in one van. Our old house was packed up into a Luton box van and I took the house plants in my car. Which wasn't easy with a big dragon tree attacking me at every junction and roundabout!

But to be fair we had done a massive declutter prior to boxing stuff up which was oddly therapeutic and also vastly reduced the amount of stuff we needed to move.

You do need to think how you are going to do this as once the funds are transferred the house is no longer yours. You cant do several runs unless you have the agreement of the people buying your house and dont forget they will probably be excited about moving into their first home and want to get their stuff in not wait around for you.

maisie_cat

phill99 wrote: »

Normally you wake up stressed out of your head as you haven't slept in three weeks and on the verge of killing partner/kids/estate agent/vendor/purchaser.


You then realise you still haven't packed up the stuff from the loft which you should have done last week so you start panicking.


You then have a loud slanging match with your partner/wife/husband/random person over trivial stuff.


The moving van then turns up two hours late and get shirty with the driver.


You load the stuff on including all of your clothes, change of underwear and toothbrush.


Then you have a load more arguments with loads of people.


You call the solicitor and can't t hold of him as he is on a course today and you can't get hold of his secretary either.


The estate agent has called you seven times asking when the keys will be dropped off and you are now looking up the names of contract killers as you want him wiped off the face of the earth.


You're about to leave your house and then get a call from the solicitors office saying that the purchasers funds haven't cleared so they can't complete today. Everything then comes off the removal truck just to get to your toothbrush and clean knickers which your partner told you not to put on first.


You then start the whole process again tomorrow.

Excellent observation, made me spit out my tea laughing!

jamie_128

Well its a bit last minute to find all this out now i have booked a van, estate agents and solicitors told me none of this at all!!

AdrianC

jamie_128 wrote: »

Well its a bit last minute to find all this out now i have booked a van, estate agents and solicitors told me none of this at all!!

When's the completion day...?

jamie_128

Tommorow is completion day.

RelievedSheff

You really should have done more research yourself. It isn't the solicitors or estate agents responsibility to sort you out on completion day!

Slithery

jamie_128 wrote: »

Well its a bit last minute to find all this out now i have booked a van, estate agents and solicitors told me none of this at all!!

That's because it's obvious...

You won't own both properties at the same time so at no time will have access to both to go back and forth. This is how 99% of all house sales/purchases happen.

babyblade41

AdrianC wrote: »

Phil - you forgot to mention the cat doing a runner.

Or in our case the pigs won't go into the trailer :eek:

AdrianC

babyblade41 wrote: »

Or in our case the pigs won't go into the trailer :eek:

Just explain to them that it's a simple choice. Trailer or freezer.