What happens on completion day

bigisi

Wonder how he's getting on?

RelievedSheff

bigisi wrote: »

Wonder how he's getting on?

I'm going to put my money on badly!

RelievedSheff

oystercatcher wrote: »

One house move many years ago , we had hired a removal company to help us move 'just up the road' locally. Maybe a half mile it was a long road.

At 9am after I had sent kids to school and pets to family members. The Idiots buying our place turned up with their first small van load of stuff while we were still waiting for our removal men to arrive !! Idiots had to wait until removals had cleared one downstairs room before they could unload and return. I think they put some stuff in the front garden, it was December and cold and wet !

Can you imagine the chaos that ensued as our removal men tried to go up and down stairs and not trip over The Idiots as they tried to stuff all their belongings into the one downstairs room !

Goodness knows what time the First Time Buyers got the keys to The Idiots old place !

We packed all our belongings into the removal van, stopped for fish and chips then collected our keys and moved in as we should do, only to find the boiler didn't work !
That house was already empty, imagine the chaos if we had also used a small van and multiple loads of 'stuff' .

Removals is one area where it's not worth it at all to go MSE and do it yourself.

Good Luck OP I hope you don't drive others over the edge of sanity!

It is possible to do a DIY move and not upset everyone else in the chain in the process.

Our last move in April we hired a man and van service (which ended up being van and three men due to their next job) who charged us £295 to move 25 miles to our new house. Our house was packed into the van in about an hour, we already had everything boxed up and put into one room, and they met us at the other end and unpacked in about an hour and a half with everything in the right room and no breakages.

Local removal firms wanted £850-1050 to do the same move and the service would have been much the same!

oystercatcher

RelievedSheff wrote: »

It is possible to do a DIY move and not upset everyone else in the chain in the process.

Our last move in April we hired a man and van service (which ended up being van and three men due to their next job) who charged us £295 to move 25 miles to our new house. Our house was packed into the van in about an hour, we already had everything boxed up and put into one room, and they met us at the other end and unpacked in about an hour and a half with everything in the right room and no breakages.

Local removal firms wanted £850-1050 to do the same move and the service would have been much the same!

That sounds like a regular removals service but 'on the cheap' as it were. One van and a few extra hands and one trip . Is fine depending on amount of 'stuff' to be removed.

AdrianC

RelievedSheff wrote: »

I'm going to put my money on badly!

RelievedSheff

oystercatcher wrote: »

That sounds like a regular removals service but 'on the cheap' as it were. One van and a few extra hands and one trip . Is fine depending on amount of 'stuff' to be removed.

They don't specialise in removals but they certainly did a great job. Worth every penny as it made the move quick and simple. Far better than hiring a van and trying to do it ourselves which was plan B!

jamie_128

Well that was all a bit of scaremongering wasent it chaps.

Went perfectly smoothly, my buyers money came through at 10.30, the estate agent asked when i wanted to drop the keys off so i said after lunch, my purchase went through an hour later and the keys were available to pick up.

All this sitting around in a van crap literally did not happen.

AdrianC

So, basically, exactly as we said...

You completed at lunchtime. You didn't have access to the old property once you'd completed, and you didn't have access to the new one before.

Glad it all worked out for you.

chunkytfg

jamie_128 wrote: »

Well that was all a bit of scaremongering wasent it chaps.

Went perfectly smoothly, my buyers money came through at 10.30, the estate agent asked when i wanted to drop the keys off so i said after lunch, my purchase went through an hour later and the keys were available to pick up.

All this sitting around in a van crap literally did not happen.

So basically you kept illegal possession of a house you had no right to as you were no longer the owner and you were fortunate enough that the new owners didn't turn up and gain entry and change the locks while you were gone leaving you without half your stuff and no way of getting it back!

You were lucky!

jamie_128

Lol how dramatic, i didnt have to be out of my house until 2 and i could pick up the keys for next house from 1130, contracts have a time you have to be out by, not just as soon as the money transfers.