FTB completing next week, sellers have asked for a few hours flexibility to leave the property, advice?
I’m a first time buyer and complete next Friday on a flat. The sellers are moving literally 2 doors down on the same road, and our contract states we complete at 2pm.
They got the estate agent to email me less than 10 days from completion asking if despite completion being at 2pm they could have a few hours to move their stuff out before the flat would be empty.
I’m not actually moving all my stuff in that day (we are renting and have to service our notice period on our current place) but we do want to spend time in the property that day and have tradesman in from the next day onwards to start redecorating.
They haven’t booked removals because they are only moving 2 doors down, so I think their argument is they need to wait until we complete then they will be moving all their stuff into the new place themselves.
How should I approach this? They never raised this via their solicitors prior to exchanging, and they’ve just had their estate agent emailing us and saying things like “this isn’t a matter for solicitors and is very common practice”.
I instinctively don’t love the idea of this as what if a few hours drags on and become “oh actually we’ll be done tomorrow morning”? But equally I don’t know if I’m being unreasonable here and don’t want to make enemies with someone who is soon to basically be our neighbour. Any advice would be helpful!