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What happens on completion day

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  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    jamie_128 wrote: »
    Tommorow is completion day.
    Better you find out now than tomorrow lunchtime, eh?

    What time do your local van hire open? "3.5t Luton" is what you're asking for. And if you fill that, it's straight to Big Yellow.
  • jamie_128
    jamie_128 Posts: 252 Forumite
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    Ive already hired a van, deposit paid and all, its a luton tail lift.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    jamie_128 wrote: »
    Ive already hired a van, deposit paid and all, its a luton tail lift.
    And that's as big as you can drive on a normal post-97 licence.

    Get packing! You may have a change to get two runs in by lunchtime, first straight to Big Yellow...
  • jamie_128
    jamie_128 Posts: 252 Forumite
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    Why would the following not work?

    Take our first load to our new house once we get the keys, on the way back hand a set of keys in for our house and pick up the last of our stuff and leave the other keys posted through the door, then by the time our buyer gets to our house we should be gone.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    jamie_128 wrote: »
    Why would the following not work?

    Take our first load to our new house once we get the keys, on the way back hand a set of keys in for our house and pick up the last of our stuff and leave the other keys posted through the door, then by the time our buyer gets to our house we should be gone.
    Because you don't get the keys to the house you're buying until AFTER you need to be totally cleared from the one you've sold...

    You will not own two houses simultaneously. You should not have access to the house you do not own. Not even for a minute.

    I don't know how to explain this any more clearly to you.

    Anything still in the old house after completion, is no longer your stuff. It's not in your house. It's somebody else's stuff that got left in their house when they bought it. And your buyer wants to move their stuff in.

    Before completion, your vendor will probably be moving THEIR stuff out, and they'd be mad to let you start shifting your stuff in to their house.
  • jamie_128
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    If you have to sit in a van waiting for keys what are you supposed to do with dogs and cats?

    Cant keep a cat locked in a cage for hours while you wait for your keys.
  • G_M
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    jamie_128 wrote: »
    Why would the following not work?

    Take our first load to our new house once we get the keys, on the way back hand a set of keys in for our house and pick up the last of our stuff and leave the other keys posted through the door, then by the time our buyer gets to our house we should be gone.

    * You will not get the keys till you have paid your seller.

    * You cannot pay your seller till your buyer has paid you first.
    * As soon as your buyer has paid you, it is his house.
    * There is almost certainly a delay (half hour? 2 hours?) between you receiving the money and 'selling'your house, and you paying for the new one and 'buying' it.
  • Slithery
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    A lot of people leave pets with friends/family on moving day.
  • greenhill
    greenhill Posts: 188 Forumite
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    jamie-128
    Please say this whole thread is a joke _pale_
  • davidmcn
    davidmcn Posts: 23,596 Forumite
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    jamie_128 wrote: »
    If you have to sit in a van waiting for keys what are you supposed to do with dogs and cats?

    Cant keep a cat locked in a cage for hours while you wait for your keys.
    People regularly take pets on hours-long journeys, I'm sure you'll manage.
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