Vendor saying “after Christmas”

peterhjohnson

I think it's unlikely that they will move before Xmas. If you don't agree, there will be loads of other buyers willing to complete after Xmas

lookstraightahead

peterhjohnson said:

I think it's unlikely that they will move before Xmas. If you don't agree, there will be loads of other buyers willing to complete after Xmas

Will there? 🤣

I think the seller needs to decide on the inconvenience of completing before Christmas, or the inconvenience of waiting til next Christmas. At a reduced price. 

TheJP

lookstraightahead said:

peterhjohnson said:

I think it's unlikely that they will move before Xmas. If you don't agree, there will be loads of other buyers willing to complete after Xmas

Will there? 🤣

I think the seller needs to decide on the inconvenience of completing before Christmas, or the inconvenience of waiting til next Christmas. At a reduced price. 

Lets be rationale, the buyer is FTB, they can and will likely wait. 

Bonniepurple

We moved just before Christmas one year.  It was a nightmare.  Packing up the house while ferrying the children back and forth for their plays etc (move of 12 miles, so they’d started the year at their new school) was tiring.  It was DH’s busy period so he couldn’t help much.

OP, your vendors don’t want to move until after Christmas.  You can do the stamp feet, shout and sulk, or look forward to your last Christmas in your current place.

HampshireH

It sounds like you have got ahead of yourself. The paperwork hasn't been read properly and now you are miffed your ideal won't happen.

That's understandable as it's an exciting time but you need to appreciate that isn't the sellers fault.

Nothing about what you have written suggests they haven't been straight up or messed you around.

Flugelhorn

the vendors will have thought "one last Christmas in this house and then we'll be off" - I can understand it 

You have everything in place in the old house, know how many seats you can get around the table, where the decorations go, where the extra table mats are hidden etc - you put the decorations up earlier in the month - you aren't going to take them down until January! 

lookstraightahead

TheJP said:

lookstraightahead said:

peterhjohnson said:

I think it's unlikely that they will move before Xmas. If you don't agree, there will be loads of other buyers willing to complete after Xmas

Will there? 🤣

I think the seller needs to decide on the inconvenience of completing before Christmas, or the inconvenience of waiting til next Christmas. At a reduced price. 

Lets be rationale, the buyer is FTB, they can and will likely wait. 

Ah of course, which makes their situation less important than someone who has done it all before.

FTB are usually the people with the 'power' to make or break whole chains. Looks like there's no chain here agreed, but we all need FTB even from our ivory towers.

Flugelhorn

lookstraightahead said:

TheJP said:

lookstraightahead said:

peterhjohnson said:

I think it's unlikely that they will move before Xmas. If you don't agree, there will be loads of other buyers willing to complete after Xmas

Will there? 🤣

I think the seller needs to decide on the inconvenience of completing before Christmas, or the inconvenience of waiting til next Christmas. At a reduced price. 

Lets be rationale, the buyer is FTB, they can and will likely wait. 

Most FTB have the 'power' to make or break whole chains. And wait where? 

they do and they don't really - any cash buyer is in the same position. But not far into the process FTB get much more tied into than those with a bit more experience, far more conscious of "what they have spent so far" and not realising that that that is part of buying houses and if it all collapses you don't get your money back, so yes, they will just wait 

TheJP

lookstraightahead said:

TheJP said:

lookstraightahead said:

peterhjohnson said:

I think it's unlikely that they will move before Xmas. If you don't agree, there will be loads of other buyers willing to complete after Xmas

Will there? 🤣

I think the seller needs to decide on the inconvenience of completing before Christmas, or the inconvenience of waiting til next Christmas. At a reduced price. 

Lets be rationale, the buyer is FTB, they can and will likely wait. 

Ah of course, which makes their situation less important than someone who has done it all before.

FTB are usually the people with the 'power' to make or break whole chains. Looks like there's no chain here agreed, but we all need FTB even from our ivory towers.

I didn't say we don't need FTBs, i clearly stated that the OP can wait, the seller if there was no other reason would agree to completing before Christmas. Its highly unlikely the OP will pull out because they cant get in before Christmas, if they do then nose spite and face come to mind.

newsgroupmonkey_

pinkteapot said:

I don't blame them. Having moved on 12th December one year, and late November the following year, it kills Christmas. You're still unpacking. 

Or it could be they have a financial penalty for completing earlier (e.g. mortgage redemption charge).

As others have said, it's a negotiation. You don't really have a lot of sway though as they know you won't be able to find somewhere else and get completed before Christmas. 

If they don't back down, I would push to exchange sooner rather than later, so you've got the certainty of knowing the purchase is going ahead, then complete in the New Year.

We moved at the beginning of September. Still have lots of unpacked boxes.
I've moved rented the week before Christmas. It was absolute chaos.