Closing walk-through

We’re closing on our new place tomorrow. So we had our walk-through yesterday. We showed up only to find an apartment completely furnished and lived in. So my first question was, “uh, when are you moving?”.

The response was, “the 24th”. Huh? They said, “didn’t your lawyer tell you?” Well, no. So there wasn’t really much point to doing a walk-through.

It turns out that their lawyer never told my lawyer. There was a contingency in the contract to give them an extra week if needed. They have to pay some fees to cover our expenses. It isn’t a big deal because we weren’t planning on moving until August anyway. But it would have been nice to know a while ago.

Buying a place is stressful enough…