Help - buyer wants to stay on after completion??????`

atrebor

Sorry guys - back in internet land today! Its been an experience. We completed at 9.30 am and the estate agent confirmed they had the keys ...... but were still in the final throws of moving out. I said that I would be picking up the keys at midday and would be heading over to the house soon after and did not expect to see anyone. Thanks to a very kind doctor, my arm was released from its plaster confines and I could drive so I got the keys ... and went over and there was still a van there and the vendor was still moving out. I told him that I was suprised that they were still there and that I wanted access to my property and he said that it was still full of his possessions and that he would call the police if I went in....so I said that in that case I would call the police as he was trespassing. In the event I called the solicitor and he said that the safest thing for me to do as a girl on my own with the children was to get a way for an hour whilst he spoke to the vendors solicitor. So lost the kids at my mums and drove back, the solicitor had arranged that they would pay interest on the property and any incidental costs made by us - i.e. b and b, wasted van hire for every 24 (and part of) hours past the completion time. Got back to the property without the kids later and stormed in to see exactly where they were - honestly it was absolutely full of boxes - and loads of stuff (like the whole kitchen) that wasn't even boxed up. Told them that I was on my way to B and Q and when I got back with new locks I would be changing them. (Was feeling fairly foolhardy by then) Anyway husband talked me into staying away until the following morning when he finished work as I guess he was worried about me (no need to be - I box, that’s how I broke my arm...) anyway back to the tale... Went back to mums and got up at the crack of dawn and got there at 7am to find them gone...not without leaving some parting gifts though. Everything was stripped bare all the curtains, curtain poles, lightbulbs, loo seat - bath plugs and there was a rather unsavoury deposit in the bath that rightly belonged in the loo and as a final parting gift they'd driven a motor bike round and round on the lawn and carved it up something chronic. the vans turned up just as I had finished deep cleaning the house and we've managed to get a couple of coats of paint on most of it now and plan to move the furniture from the garage this weekend. Happy days.

Interestingly the neighbour popped over with a bunch of flowers and said that the first thing he knew about them putting the house on the market was when he saw them moving out on Friday and would we mind if he pruned a tree that was overhanging his garden (as is his right) as the prev owners persecuted him for ages when he did it last time. God knows how they moved in time, but we were planning to move on the Saturday anyway and will take the interest - thank you very much. And if we get charged a reconnection from BT we will charge them as they cut it through (and we know it was working as that is what their solicitors were calling them on and hence no internet) As for the rest - I'm fairly happy to let it go - its our house now, lovely new paint and locks and thanks to them not a trace of them remaining and if the neighbours stories are anything to believe we are going to be the most perfect neighbours! (on the theory that anything is better than then) Its such a gorgeous house and at the risk of sounding girlie I can't wait to breath life into it and show it a bit of love - I am only grateful to them for being such slobs that no one else saw through the muck to see the potential and we have scored ourselves a bargain but more to the point a wonderful wonderful home. Am now deliciously happy and am almost (almost) laughing about last weeks stress. especially since I found that they have moved miles and miles away.

atrebor

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:P.s I would just like to thank you all for your support and advice, Thanks to you lot I was fully armed with my rights - you guys are great just need someone to point me towards the best deals for phone / broadband forum now!! (not to mention utilites)
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Generali

Well done for sticking to your guns. Enjoy your 'cash bonus' when it comes through. IIRC, I got about £250-£350 for late completion (by about 10 minutes). I don't think that works on a minute-by-minute basis though!

wherediditallgo

Well done for standing up for yourself & winning. Good luck in your new home.

WTF?_2

Generali wrote: »

Well done for sticking to your guns. Enjoy your 'cash bonus' when it comes through. IIRC, I got about £250-£350 for late completion (by about 10 minutes). I don't think that works on a minute-by-minute basis though!

That assumes the OP doesn't have to chase them in the small claims court for the money - unless it was deposited somewhere first of course.

The sellers sound like a right bunch of idiots. I would have been tempted to call the police and report vandalism of property (the motorbike on the lawn incident surely took place after completion when the house was legally the OP's).

sooz

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The sellers sound like a right bunch of idiots. I would have been tempted to call the police and report vandalism of property (the motorbike on the lawn incident surely took place after completion when the house was legally the OP's).

that and cutting through the phone line! (I had to read that bit twice...I couldn't believe it)

They sound like really bitter sad people. I'm sure your new neighbours are thrilled that they have gone.

PasturesNew

I'g glad it all worked out for you.

There are a lot of people out there that have no idea about their rights, so make their own up and bully people so they get their way.

Imagine the kind fo infantile and sick mind that would have taken the extra time to go round making sure you had a !!!!!! arrival (literally!). Their lives will be blighted wherever they go because they're scum and won't change. You, on the other hand are on the threshold of a lovely home.

Good luck!

paddy's_mum

Such appalling behaviour was always going to be on the cards. They had to be 'that sort' to have been cheeky enough to make their outrageous demands in the first place.

You have been relatively lucky, and I for one am pleased if our collective warnings gave you the ammunition you needed to stand up to them. No doubt, in the coming weeks, even more tales of their stupidity and unpleasant attitude to their neighbours will filter through to you.

I wish you every happiness in your new home.

(PS Horrible thought - they're not the people who moved into my lane on Saturday, are they? Two teenage thugs, a Vauxhall Nova car and a pair of Rottweilers called Tyson and Devil .... ?!!!)

atrebor

I hope not for your sake paddys mum....there was no evidence of any pets if thats any consolation!

space_rider

The gits. Glad it worked out eventually and remember what goes around comes around!