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They're now wanting upto £500 'warranty' that the free fridge (double American thingy, 3 years old) and the free dishwasher (2 years old) are still working...so they have not signed missives again today.
Just take the items away if they are "free with house" That way they've not lost money on the purchase as they weren't included in sale
Hope you get this sorted, it really is a miserable process isn't it.
WTF happens to seemingly reasonable people that they start making these crazy demands. Last house we sold was about 130 years old, we had done some recent work to get it ready for sale. One offer we had was dependent on a snag list. Not happening, it is an old house, go away.
People we sold it to had terrible solicitors, I'm sure they had never dealt with anything other than modern buildings. The shit they were coming out with, in the end my wife insisted we tell them to piss off at the eleventh hour over some indemnity crap around a flue. It was only 50 quid, but we were so pissed off by then it nearly fell through. I paid it without telling her to force it through - to this day she doesn't know I did that.
Firstly I would point out that you already had been exceptionally accommodating in allowing an 11th hour asbestos survey as a matter of goodwill.
Then I might move to offering a 100 quid indemnity as a gesture of further goodwill.
Lastly and only upon successful conclusion of the sale I would nail a prawn under the stairs.
We are done. Some more last minute wobbles today, but our solicitor seemed to basically kick off (professionally) at lunchtime and by 3pm we were done.
Only half a job at present - 6 carpet fitters at 7am tomorrow and an unload of all our worldly goods as they work their way round the house...
6 carpet fitters at 7am tomorrow and an unload of all our worldly goods as they work their way round the house...
Good news!! 👍👍
I can't imagine having carpet fitters in the day after I've moved in though.
I'm more a sit and chill for a month, let the nerves settle, live out of boxes and see how I want things after I've got a feel for a house type of person!
We've not moved in - we are in Premier Inn and everything is stored in two hire vans and the garage.... Mind, kettle is out for the morning....
Completion on exchange day sounds like an utter nightmare. Piss-takers charter with the seller up to their elbows in cost commitments around the move. Glad you've stuck the landing though.
Like others, my first thought would be deliberate delaying tactics by the buyer's solicitors. Either on behalf of the buyers or because of their own **** ups.
They have a huge range of these tactics to employ and the fact that it happens so often suggests it's not genuine concerns behind it. Our solicitors got my name wrong on some of the docs once, I told them, they said it didn't matter then when we had a delay with the mortgage they suddenly decided they had to take a couple of days to fix the documents which bought us the time we needed. I also think they're not above doing that sort of stuff just to make it look like they're earning their money.
They're now wanting upto £500 'warranty' that the free fridge (double American thingy, 3 years old) and the free dishwasher (2 years old) are still working...so they have not signed missives again today.Standard bullshit lawyering. To be honest it is stupidity on both sides legal professionals if this stuff emerges in the last minute - which it frequently does. Their side know you are unlikely to actually let the sale fall for the sake of £500 warranty, so left this to the last minute. Your side must have seen this tactic before so if they knew there were such items included should have been crystal clear weeks ago that any such bullshit means you just take the items with you.
It's all pointless anyway - we had a central heating system which had such a warranty that didn't hold pressure when we moved in - we tried to claim under such a clause, they disputed... and ultimately our lawyer said - if you actually want to get the money back my legal fees will be more than the plumbers! (And that money was in a client account under Escrow!).
We are done. Some more last minute wobbles today, but our solicitor seemed to basically kick off (professionally) at lunchtime and by 3pm we were done.
If they had done that a week ago you might have been less stressed! Of course its a balancing act because the otherside might have pulled out properly. But basically from what I can see these things often get stuck with lawyers trying to one-up each other rather than remembering that their clients both want a smooth and stress-free transaction.
And we are toasty in our new home. This is the first house we've lived in as a family where we are detached. Where we have a garage. Where we have rooms big enough or where one of the bedrooms isn't downstairs. While there's a few snagging niggles to get sorted (mainly paint that's splattered on everything!) it is working as it should.
We had three huge days - where it felt everything that could go wrong did. From hire vans being 4 hours late at Enterprise, to a truck load of chickens blocking the A9 road, to torrential rain, to having to carry all the new carpets and flooring across the estate as they closed the road.....but also some amazing old and new neighbours, some herculean efforts from carpet fitters, sun just when we needed it, and just lots of tea and coffee to see us all through.
I'm impressed that on a frosty but sunny morning the heating barely came on, and we've used about a third of the gas we would have in the old house...
Sounds great. 🙂
I decided to get rid of the overpaint and minor defects myself rather than have workers come in making a mess and ****ing up stuff that was right. When they build luxury yachts they have to stop trying to make things perfect at some point because doing one thing they invariably slightly mess something else up.
I'm a bit disappointed that a new build uses gas. 🙁
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" a truck load of chickens blocking the A9"
I heard that on the radio. Should have known someone here would be caught.
The driver of that lorry will forever be known as .'The A9 Chicken Choker'