Van wouldn't hold all my stuff, buyers getting angry... help!

NameUnavailable

It's amazing how many people don't understand what completion means!

If you bought a used car off someone, paid the cash and then as you were about to get in to drive away the seller said, 'oh no, I have to use it for my holiday and I leave tonight, come back next week and you can pick it up then' would you be happy?

When you sell and complete, that's it! The house is no longer yours. You have no right to store anything on what is not someone else's property (unless you have made some advance agreement with them).

Section62

diystarter7 said:

By all accounts, you are a decent man.
When under stress we can all lose track of what we would ordinarily do if we were not under severe pressure.

Then there are idiots that know they made mistakes and it could have been better but will never admit to it.

There are others that would never accept that they may have made things slightly worse.

To say/post what you have done IMHO makes you a man that I could trust 100%

Good luck.

Why resurrect a thread which is over two months old and came to a satisfactory conclusion?

Especially when it might be better for the OP to be able to forget all about this unhappy experience and move on with life in their new home?

diystarter7

NameUnavailable said:

It's amazing how many people don't understand what completion means!

If you bought a used car off someone, paid the cash and then as you were about to get in to drive away the seller said, 'oh no, I have to use it for my holiday and I leave tonight, come back next week and you can pick it up then' would you be happy?

When you sell and complete, that's it! The house is no longer yours. You have no right to store anything on what is not someone else's property (unless you have made some advance agreement with them).

The OP made a genuine mistake. He knew what "completion" mean I have no doubt about that but anyone can get caught out.

Moving is very stressful and what the cap has posted here, credit to him, I take my hat off to him.

It's nice to see threads like this, happy ending and hopefully if you are caught out when moving no matter which side of the fence you are on, if things go wrong, remeber this thread and it will calm you down. Things happen that are not expected and at times it is no ones fault.

Megaross

I mean personally if this happened to me I would roll with it (within reason) but I'd expect them to be round next day bright and early with a hire van.

Not wait til they could get proper removals people a week later. Just hire a van and get stuck into it, blimey o riley.

diystarter7

Megaross said:

I mean personally if this happened to me I would roll with it (within reason) but I'd expect them to be round next day bright and early with a hire van.

Not wait til they could get proper removals people a week later. Just hire a van and get stuck into it, blimey o riley.

Thanks. We are all different and have different levels of stress. I've seen what I would deem very sensible, reasonable people mess it up when under extreme pressure.

TBH, I would have got someone the same day and there we have, we are all different. The OP did well recognising his mistakes and not everyone has the capacity for that so credit to him for that.