Closing tomorrow, seller wants to grab things after closing. Is declining his request bad? Are there things to worry about for declining request?
We close on our first house tomorrow. The seller asked us during our final walk through today at 5PM(he was moving stuff out) if he could keep taking things out of the garage for a week or so. There was a bit of discussion but we decided to let our agents decide( he wanted to have “a week or so” to sort through the garage and move things)
Our agent agrees that closing day should be the last day to grab things and we are getting everything ready to go through with that.
At around 1PM today seller asked if we could move back closing(we declined because we need to move out of our apartment)
I want him to get his stuff but don’t want anyone in my yard for an unknown length of time or to be liable for anything that comes with.
He has been clearing out the house since 2024. Our offer was accepted 46 days ago and closing date was determined.
We have in our conditions that we will keep whatever is left(there was tools in the basement that we were ok with keeping but if the seller wanted them we didn’t want to keep them on the seller)
I feel awful because we want him to grab his stuff and go, as well as the “keep what is left behind” part in the contract makes me feel like it seems like I want his stuff.
I am also justifying it that he has had time to clear it out and should hustle.
Is declining his request a bad thing to do? Is there anything I should be worried about?