Moving house, those things you missed...
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Not had many issues myself when moving into houses and so on, although it does help that I have very low expectations of others as I have fond it the best way to avoid disappointment.
The last house I bought was a total tip. 8 years old and owned by a pair of alcoholics with three feral children who has between the 5 of them destroyed the place internally. We know it would be a total gut and refit.
On the day of completion they had emptied everything they said that they were taking from the house and most of the garage leaving a large pile of what, on the face of it, looked like crap for the bin in the garage. Being the sort we are we start to work our way through all this crap and find that there is actually a few quite nice things in there that will come in handy. Feeling a bit bushed by the day when we have finished we head indoors for a cup and look at the back garden. We return back round the front to see the old owner has turned up and has loaded all the decent stuff we had spent the last few hours sorting out into the back of their car. They were just about to get into the car and drive off when we spotted them.
Pissed off just does not cut it. They had messed us about for over 7 months, lied so many times in the paperwork it wasn't even funny and had the most incompetent advisors in the area acting for them. We had just decided that the house was exactly what we wanted and we didn't care about 99% of the usual stuff like boiler services, state of kitchen, etc. The title was sound, as was the basic house and that was all we wanted to know. It really annoyed me though that the one thing that had not turned out to be worse than even our low expectations had prepared us for was suddenly taken from us by someone you knew didn't even have the brains to ebay it and would just let it sit in their new garage. Well it didn't actually as we shortly after found out where their new house was and spotted almost all of the stuff lying in the front garden...
Yes I could have made a fuss abut it and so on but it's not a bad story, we didn't really need the stuff (would have been nice, but not must have or would have saved £1,000's) and at the end of the day I know that no matter how bad life gets the chances are that it will never be as bad as theirs.
The last house I bought was a total tip. 8 years old and owned by a pair of alcoholics with three feral children who has between the 5 of them destroyed the place internally. We know it would be a total gut and refit.
On the day of completion they had emptied everything they said that they were taking from the house and most of the garage leaving a large pile of what, on the face of it, looked like crap for the bin in the garage. Being the sort we are we start to work our way through all this crap and find that there is actually a few quite nice things in there that will come in handy. Feeling a bit bushed by the day when we have finished we head indoors for a cup and look at the back garden. We return back round the front to see the old owner has turned up and has loaded all the decent stuff we had spent the last few hours sorting out into the back of their car. They were just about to get into the car and drive off when we spotted them.
Pissed off just does not cut it. They had messed us about for over 7 months, lied so many times in the paperwork it wasn't even funny and had the most incompetent advisors in the area acting for them. We had just decided that the house was exactly what we wanted and we didn't care about 99% of the usual stuff like boiler services, state of kitchen, etc. The title was sound, as was the basic house and that was all we wanted to know. It really annoyed me though that the one thing that had not turned out to be worse than even our low expectations had prepared us for was suddenly taken from us by someone you knew didn't even have the brains to ebay it and would just let it sit in their new garage. Well it didn't actually as we shortly after found out where their new house was and spotted almost all of the stuff lying in the front garden...
Yes I could have made a fuss abut it and so on but it's not a bad story, we didn't really need the stuff (would have been nice, but not must have or would have saved £1,000's) and at the end of the day I know that no matter how bad life gets the chances are that it will never be as bad as theirs.
Well, a colleague of mine moved a while back.
Not long after settling in, he started to smell something rank in the bathroom which over time continued to get worse. He assumed that a rat or something had probably got in behind the bath and died there, so he called in a pest controller.
This chap had a good look around behind the bath panel and found nothing, luckily though he had a good sense of smell (and stomach) and soon sniffed out the cause of the smell.
Stuffed behind the radiator in the bathroom were a load of used tampons.
He hadn't done anything to upset the people he bought off and they seemed genuinely friendly.
I guess some people pull these stunts simply because they can.
Not long after settling in, he started to smell something rank in the bathroom which over time continued to get worse. He assumed that a rat or something had probably got in behind the bath and died there, so he called in a pest controller.
This chap had a good look around behind the bath panel and found nothing, luckily though he had a good sense of smell (and stomach) and soon sniffed out the cause of the smell.
Stuffed behind the radiator in the bathroom were a load of used tampons.
He hadn't done anything to upset the people he bought off and they seemed genuinely friendly.
I guess some people pull these stunts simply because they can.
Dromedary66 said:
Otispunkmeyer said:
Apparently it was very kind of our buyer, after gazundering us and bearing in mind nothing was set in stone until friday PM, to let us have until 4 pm on saturday to move out!
So did you do anything in the end to make the gazunderer's first day in the house less than ideal?Even ended up leaving the wardrobe. Just didn't get round to it in time so had to leave it. Less hassle for me that way though, would have been a b
h to move and I would have ended up having to store it somewhere and rent another van to palm it off on some second hand store. He said in the end he didn't care for the wardrobe anymore, so hopefully he's going to have to chew about getting rid of it. Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Thursday 2nd October 22:53
fesuvious said:
Gazundering can only happen prior to exchange.
The game is played whereby exchange of contracts is dragged up to the point of completion.
Solicitors and EA's, or at least the vast majority of them don't actually advise their clients on this. In fact, in my experience they don't really care.
The public, in their ignorance (that word used simply in descriptive fashion, not insulting) do not know any different.
I saw a chap get stuffed for £17k like this once. Although that is the worst ever in my experience.
http://moversandstorers.co.uk/2014/07/09/gazumping...
The buyer of my uncle's property tried to gazunder him for £150k on the day of exchange (day before completion). He transferred the extra £150k to the solicitor that afternoon to complete. The buyer was selling his house and him and his family would have been homeless. He paid the full agreed price.The game is played whereby exchange of contracts is dragged up to the point of completion.
Solicitors and EA's, or at least the vast majority of them don't actually advise their clients on this. In fact, in my experience they don't really care.
The public, in their ignorance (that word used simply in descriptive fashion, not insulting) do not know any different.
I saw a chap get stuffed for £17k like this once. Although that is the worst ever in my experience.
http://moversandstorers.co.uk/2014/07/09/gazumping...
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