Non- Moving day

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Right , as titles this is obviously a NON AFCB but for me tomorrow is house moving day. Today is house loading day as we're doing the move ourselves. We've been in this house for 20 years and have accumulated a serious amount of shite. Anyway, getting to this point has been a nightmare, sold originally 7 months ago and had 2 pull outs the day before exchange so really has been 3rd time lucky, although not without its bumps, and Bere Regis here we finally come !!
Not wanting to tempt fate but let's hear your moving horror stories! There's got to be some!
 
The worst I had was having a fixed date for moving out and then getting gazumped at the last minute on the house we were buying right when contract exchange was due to go through.

Ended up having to put my whole life in storage and move in with my parents for a few weeks. Other than the extra work and cost it was actually quite nice regressing to a teenager again!

All the best mate, I think it's in the top 10 most stressful life events so treat yourselves kindly!
 
Drove 11 hours from Sydney to Brisbane in rental truck and turned up extremely fatiqued (joke).

It had been raining in Brisbane which although not unheard of, was unusual for the season and time of day

Backed down the steep driveway and stopped at the fence keen to unload all of our belongings.

Got out and tried to open the truck doors to unload, but they were too close to the fence.

Easy, just drive forward a couple of feet, right.

Rental trucks wheels just spun and spun on the steep driveway and the truck wouldn't budge. We couldn't open the double doors of the rental truck to get our gear out, despite it being about 2 feet away from being possible.

Had to call a tow truck which took 2 hours and 5 hundred dollars to haul us back up to the roadside.

We then had to move all of the heavy items back down the steep driveway by hand to where the very spot they had just been, and into the house.

Was a long day!
 
When my dad was young they moved into a brand new house that had just been finished. My nan was proudly showing people around and when they went into the upstairs indoor bathroom she noticed a small box had been left in the bath by the builders so she asked my dad to pick it up. He lifted it to discover that the friendly builders had left a massive human turd in the bath. My nan was not happy to say the least.

The house never quite felt like home after that. It still makes me laugh now, I'm tempted to post it on the St George's thread as a celebration of England.
 
dragonm8 said:
Drove 11 hours from Sydney to Brisbane in rental truck and turned up extremely fatiqued (joke).

It had been raining in Brisbane which although not unheard of, was unusual for the season and time of day

Backed down the steep driveway and stopped at the fence keen to unload all of our belongings.

Got out and tried to open the truck doors to unload, but they were too close to the fence.

Easy, just drive forward a couple of feet, right.

Rental trucks wheels just spun and spun on the steep driveway and the truck wouldn't budge. We couldn't open the double doors of the rental truck to get our gear out, despite it being about 2 feet away from being possible.

Had to call a tow truck which took 2 hours and 5 hundred dollars to haul us back up to the roadside.

We then had to move all of the heavy items back down the steep driveway by hand to where the very spot they had just been, and into the house.

Was a long day!
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Did you used to live in Brisbane Dragon?
 
dragonm8 said:
Sure did mate yep.
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A relation of mine is a notorious/infamous business man who lives in Brisbane. He was the owner of North Queensland Fury Aussie A league side. He signed Robbie Fowler. The relationship was short lived and RF departed acrimoniously.

My uncle (through marriage, I hasten to add), is now being investigated by very heavy authorities for alleged shady business/land dealings with some extremely influential individuals.
 
Heavy handed authorities are in every corner of the globe mate, if you upset the wrong people, or they think you've upset them.

Way of the world.

Fowler did alright in the A league, but probably so would you and I.

He was playing in the A League when I lived there, and was fsr too good for that league.

But like you say, one minute he was there, next minute he just disappeared.

Le Fondre was also killing it in the A league, as was, if my memory serves me correctly Emile Hesky.

The A League did however sign Usain Bolt.

Lol
 
Before moving to NZ, we lived in Poole and viewed a house at the top of Dorchester Road, one of those that backs onto the cemetary - it was so new to being on the market, there was no for sale sign or in the window Anyway the wife and estate agent, who knew her, showed us around pointed out all the bits that had been done.
The missus fell in love and we put in an offer that was accepted. Went back and did some measurements for curtains etc and everything was going swimmingly but then we couldn't get hold of the estate agent.
Decided to pop round to see the wife to see how things were going. Knocked on the door and a gruff man answered. Hi, I said, is ??? in? 'Who the **************** are you and why are you here asking for ????' came the reply
Taken back a bit, 'oh we're buying your house and popped by as we couldn't get hold of @#$& at the estate agents'.
'Oh that cnut. The house has never been for sale and she's trying to sell behind my back as she 'knows' @#$&, hmm hmm, very well!!'.
Suffice to say that it was our last visit to the house.
 
I grew up as an army kid, moving roughly every 2 years. My son also lived at 10 different addresses by the time he was 8. I have it down to a military operation nowadays. I don't get the same level of stress that others do, I don't accumulate so much and I can find the life laundry aspects & hitting the reset button quite cathartic.
 
Had someone bail in a chain a week before it was all set to happen causing the whole thing to collapse. Was having to move a business across the country at the same time, and had a newborn in the house so the stress levels it created were off the scale.

On reflection, I think that was maybe the first time I started considering moving over here. It really is a complete bs system that people can just pull out for no reason.

A couple of years later we were gone. The buying and moving process here felt like an absolute doddle in comparison.

Maybe there's a good reason why the system is allowed to continue like that (anyone?), but I struggle to see upsides. Only unnecessary stress and financial loss for people.
 
A bit tame but compared to some but.......... My brother was due to move house when the Beast from the East storm passed through. None of the movers were able to come due to the snow. The whole chain was stuck but completion still went through. My brother and his family spent 1 extra night in the home they no longer owned whilst knowing that the people they were buying from were still in the property that my brother now legally owned. Thankfully they were only delayed by 24 hours
 
Slightly off topic. Talking about moving - Last year a neighbour of mine went up to the Scottish highlands last year for a ten day break. It took them over 8 hours to get there. When they arrived at their booked lodgings. The guy went out to get the luggage out of the car. On opening the car boot there was no luggage!
It was a case of the wife thinking that he had put the cases in the boot and him thinking that his wife had done it. All they had up in Scotland was the clothes that they were stood up in. They had to purchase emergency clothes and toiletries etc to last them for their stay.

On arrival back home ten days later they found the luggage in the front room.
 
The UK needs to change the buying process.

Here in Oz we exchange contracts the day the price is agreed with all the due diligence done prior to putting an offer in or bidding at auction (auctions are very common in Oz).
*Sometimes there is a cooling offer period (7-14 days)*
not like the UK where the deal could collapse 1 week before move-in date.
 
chriscooke said:
The UK needs to change the buying process.

Here in Oz we exchange contracts the day the price is agreed with all the due diligence done prior to putting an offer in or bidding at auction (auctions are very common in Oz).
*Sometimes there is a cooling offer period (7-14 days)*
not like the UK where the deal could collapse 1 week before move-in date.
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England and Wales as opposed to the UK. Once the sale is agreed it's a binding contract in Scotland.
 
Red Sky said:
I grew up as an army kid, moving roughly every 2 years. My son also lived at 10 different addresses by the time he was 8. I have it down to a military operation nowadays. I don't get the same level of stress that others do, I don't accumulate so much and I can find the life laundry aspects & hitting the reset button quite cathartic.
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I got away lightly in comparison, only three moves growing up.

I had one near miss of note. We were in Germany, my dad had done his 22 was looking to stay on so took a posting in Pompey. MFO boxes packed (remember them - rope for handles), said our goodbyes to everyone, my school, mates, teachers, neighbours the whole lot- never to be seen again as it was back then. Got a call from my dad the day before the move, he'd seen the married quarters and pompey :ROFLMAO: and pulled out. Unpacked the lot and back to my old life in Germany until he left a couple of years later- then civvy street and Dorset.
 
chriscooke said:
The UK needs to change the buying process.

Here in Oz we exchange contracts the day the price is agreed with all the due diligence done prior to putting an offer in or bidding at auction (auctions are very common in Oz).
*Sometimes there is a cooling offer period (7-14 days)*
not like the UK where the deal could collapse 1 week before move-in date.
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I don't get how that works. In the UK you invest thousands in the 'due diligence' before exchanging contracts? In Aus you pay thousands without even having an offer accepted?
 
The process of buying, conveyance etc hasn't changed much in decades to my knowledge and takes so many months, is so prone to falling apart and nuking a whole chain in doing so.

Things only seem to progress if you phone and chase, so I assume everyone is regularly chasing, meaning so much time must be lost just chasing and fending off the chasing!

It surprises me that nobody seems to have come up with a better process in that time (in England/Wales at least, no idea if Scotland or elsewhere works any better).

Not something I hope to do too often in life.
 
Kudos said:
I don't get how that works. In the UK you invest thousands in the 'due diligence' before exchanging contracts? In Aus you pay thousands without even having an offer accepted?
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The important parts of the due diligence are prepared in advance of a sale by the vendor's solicitors and are inside the contract of sale.

It's up to the purchaser to do any further due diligence like any neighboring planning applications, check for any previous flooding etc and most properties that go on to the sales market have a building inspection report done and the potential purchasers can purchase this or get their own done.
 
northstandmark said:
The process of buying, conveyance etc hasn't changed much in decades to my knowledge and takes so many months, is so prone to falling apart and nuking a whole chain in doing so.

Things only seem to progress if you phone and chase, so I assume everyone is regularly chasing, meaning so much time must be lost just chasing and fending off the chasing!

It surprises me that nobody seems to have come up with a better process in that time (in England/Wales at least, no idea if Scotland or elsewhere works any better).

Not something I hope to do too often in life.
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Solicitors are the worst part of the process in my experience. You can chase the hell out of them but they'll only tick over at their own languid pace, usually to find the person dealing isn't actually a solicitor but a paralegal or a paralegals assistant. To be fair the paralegals assistant usually has more enthusiasm than anyone, only to get reigned back in from above.

I've had better service from dedicated conveyancing firms but yes the process is pretty archaic.
 
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