house moving etiquette?

No? I don't have a date certainly hope not this friday! Am gonna get work van this weekend and move all I can from sheds/unrequired into work I think.

 

As I recall - you exchange contracts and then there is the exchange of keys day.....

Are you saying you do not know which day your exchange of keys day is?

 

This doesn't mean leaving your keys in a bowl on the coffee table for a bit of an 'exchange'.

 

I am planning ahead i do not know any dates yet I just found out if I want work van/helpers it has to be a sat, now it's you all saying Friday I need to rethink

 

Ahh - I thought it was this Friday coming.

I still think chatting with whoever is moving in, and the people you are moving to is the way forward - they may all be looking at a Saturday move anyway.

 

have you exchanged thou ?

 

Our house (our first bought house) was a repo, in the months while the "pros" p1ssed about it got broken into and trashed. Worked out in our favour though as we got a huuuuuge discount to pay for rebuilding which I then did myself for a fraction of the quotes we were required to submit!
I worked for a removal company in Sydney, some of the crap people (women) want to move is mental. One woman had boxes and boxes of magazines that she was taking with her in order to try and sell yes magazines

 

I've signed the sale contract for here and the purchase one for the new place

 

Yeah good idea

 

The person who's buying mine has been a knob all through but is buying to move in while renting his out so may not be in a rush, the bloke I'm buying off is moving into an empty place so not much chain

 

I really don't envy you, mate. Good luck. Our current house was vacant possession, and moving was still a nightmare.

 

Not really, it works like this, assuming the people buying from you are the bottom of the chain they will put their solicitor in funds either by giving him the money to hold in his client account or undertakings from the mortgage company (I'm not sure if they (the solicitor) actually get the money from the mortgage company perhaps they do). On the Friday morning (assuming you are moving) your buyers solicitor will then contact yours and say we would like to complete on the sale, knowing he has the monies secured he will give your surveyor a legally binding undertaking and start transferring the monies, your solicitor once he has the comfort of the money will complete the sale and then you no longer have any legal right to belong in that property. As part of the contract you will have agreed to give them vacant possession so yes you have to move out, your purchasers solicitor is unlikely to suggest to his client that it was OK for you to remain, even for one night just in case you were an *rse and then didn't move out the following day.

Now in possession of the proceeds of your sale, your solicitor will do the same with your vendors solicitor and it will work all the way through the chain like this until the top of the chain, where someone will pocket all the money. A couple of years ago we were in a 8 property chain and a 2 from the top, we completed our sale at midday but didn't get the key to the house we were buying until 2.30 in the afternoon. You could end up with no where to stay if your vendor messes you about after yours has completed, but for whatever reason doesn't allow you to complete your purchase.

Some people like moons don't like people like me, well I'm a surveyor (albeit commercial property) but I chose my solicitor and estate agent carefully and made sure they were on top of everything, if they are any good they should be checking that everything (as much as it can be) is in place on the day before, if not earlier, that's not just them having funds from you but checking with other solicitors, that everyone else in the chain has done the same. Talking the talk, and being a man of little humour, obviously helped me but they also operate from office the same village and were within a short walking distance if I needed to hassle them.

Hopefully that is reasonably clear.

 

All 4 houses we've bought have been dead people's houses, no chains and they're not bothered what day you move in

 

Presumably they removed the bodies before you moved in...

 

Only one of the four where the previous owner had actually died in the house at the breakfast table and been found by the neighbour, months before we bought it obviously!

 

if the dead person was bothered would that have bothered you

 

I've only moved once properly, we'd only been there 2 years. The loft was full, the outhouse was full, the shed was full, I had a transit van and my mate Nick.
Jeez what a nightmare. It's been covered above.

Then it was my turn to help Nick. I arrived - where's you van? No van - a very large skip. Everything went in. Kitchen drawers were emptied into it then returned to the kitchen, chests of drawers too, then smashed up and into the skip. When we'd finnished they each (3 small kids as well) had a small bag of clothes. No toys, no nothing.

Someone mentioned magazines? When my ex left I could have piled them to the moon.
It's taken 4 years to empty this house after 20 filling it. Haven't face the summerhouse which is still chokka, but will do shortly.

I'm taking a tip from my old friend and I'm leaving in the camper and I expect to be able to camp in it that night without an awning.

 

This is the reason I've just put in an offer on Graceland.

 

When my mum moved she not only put the wrong keys through the letter box on leaving, so the new people where locked out (she had to hire a locksmith), when we helped unpack, we were opening boxes for her to tell us they were to go to the tip!