Completion day questions?

eddddy

Lisa2000 said:

Err, sorry explained badly, they will charge me if they run into unsocial hours, just dont want to inconvenience anyone or get charged for other people being slow.
Theyre just loading and unloading, all the stuff will be dismantled and packed ready to go the day before, they estimate it will take 2-3 hours to load.

(Just to double check - you've already exchanged contracts, with a fixed completion date. You're not exchanging and completing on the same day.)

Ask your solicitor what time completion should be - and tell the removal firm "My solicitor says completion time should be...".   (Then you just blame your solicitor when it happens earlier or later - buyers and sellers usually blame their solicitors when anything goes wrong!)

If completion happens before you've moved all your stuff out, then your buyers (and their removal van) might turn up - and start 'tutting'. So you just apologise, blame your solicitor, and try to look as though you're doing everything as fast as you can.

The same thing might happen when your removal van arrives at your new place.

In theory, if you complete at, say, 2pm, but your sellers only finish moving at, say, 8pm - you'd probably have to pay your removal people extra for working into the evening. (They may or may not be pleased to earn a bit of extra overtime cash.)

In that case, in theory, you could try to claim the extra payment back from the sellers for failing to give you 'vacant possession on completion'. But that might involve a bit of a fight, and maybe a court case - so you might prefer to swallow the loss.

Drawingaline

Do make sure that you when you lock up for the final time you don't leave anything essential inside and only realise after you drop the key through the letterbox. Like car keys 🤦 I had to ring the ea to come out and let me back in less than half hour after dropping the keys off! It was a memorable day 😳

AnotherJoe

Drawingaline said:

Do make sure that you when you lock up for the final time you don't leave anything essential inside and only realise after you drop the key through the letterbox. Like car keys 🤦 I had to ring the ea to come out and let me back in less than half hour after dropping the keys off! It was a memorable day 😳

LOL.When i vacated my house finally and posted the key back through the letter box (EA already had another key) I must have gone through the whole house top to bottom about three times paranoidly carefully checking.