One Seller won’t Move out

Thrugelmir

johnandsandra said:

johnandsandra said:

We have agreed to buy a house recently Contracts are ready to exchange the current house holders are divorcing and one as refused to move out.

No chain, first time buyer. They state that it is a joint sale. The woman is moving back to her parents, the man as nowhere to go yet and refuses to complete until he does. Need to complete soon we have furniture stacked everywhere in our parents houses. Mortgage arranged and ready to complete.

Seems perfectly reasonable from his perspective. Unfortunately as the couple are divorcing. Other issues may still be being finalised in the background. 

steve866

johnandsandra said:

johnandsandra said:

We have agreed to buy a house recently Contracts are ready to exchange the current house holders are divorcing and one as refused to move out.

No chain, first time buyer. They state that it is a joint sale. The woman is moving back to her parents, the man as nowhere to go yet and refuses to complete until he does. Need to complete soon we have furniture stacked everywhere in our parents houses. Mortgage arranged and ready to complete.

Sounds like you ‘want’ to complete soon as opposed to ‘need’ to, but I understand your frustration. Is he looking for rented or to buy? If rented you could be moving quite quickly; if he is looking to buy you are in for a long wait..

eddddy

johnandsandra said:

johnandsandra said:

We have agreed to buy a house recently Contracts are ready to exchange the current house holders are divorcing and one as refused to move out.

No chain, first time buyer. They state that it is a joint sale. The woman is moving back to her parents, the man as nowhere to go yet and refuses to complete until he does. Need to complete soon we have furniture stacked everywhere in our parents houses. Mortgage arranged and ready to complete.

So, realistically, the only person who can give you a meaningful time scale is "the man" - do you fancy asking him?

Or, some EAs are good at 'handling people', so you could ask the EA to ask to ask "the man".

But "the man" might lie, refuse to answer, or keep changing his mind.


FWIW, I've seen divorces where one partner's only real goal is to cause their partner as much pain, stress, hassle, monetary loss and embarrassment as possible. If "the man" thinks that you walking away would cause "the woman" pain, stress etc, "the man's" goal might be to keep delaying until you walk away.

But there are many other possibilities.

rik111

The “man” doesn’t have to move out and there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it. You are all totally in his hands and if getting a divorce he may not be thinking logically with his whole world crumbling around him and may just not give a !!!!!!.