Buying your first home is stressful enough, but dealing with petty sellers adds a whole new layer of mess to the situation
One couple thought they’d finally won the home-buying game, only to meet sellers who refused to leave, hid the keys, and kept sending packages to their house
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After overstaying their welcome by 46 hours and dumping trash in the buyers’ yard, the sellers had packages delivered to the house and called the police on the buyer
Our Redditor finally closed on their dream home, ready to move in with their fiancé. The papers were signed, and the keys were theirs… technically. But hold the happy tears and the celebratory pizza. The former owners didn’t get the memo. Instead of vacating on time, they decided to hide the keys and hang out at the house they sold—for 46 hours post-closing. That’s almost two days of squatting where they had no legal right to be.
Once they finally gave the new buyers the keys, they left behind not just the house but also a yard full of junk. And just when our Redditor thought they’d seen the last of the nightmare sellers, Amazon packages started rolling in, all addressed to the former homeowners.
Being reasonable people, the new homeowners told them, via their real estate agent, that the packages would only be returned once the junk in the yard was removed. Sounds fair to me. But the ex-owners didn’t seem to think so. They called the police, of course.
After some advice from a lawyer friend, the new homeowners placed the packages on the porch, and the seller eventually retrieved them after being tired of waiting hours for a police escort. Crisis averted—or so they thought.
Two days later and—what do you know—yet another package mysteriously appears on the porch! I guess it’s “Finders Keepers” this time. Or is it? Well, technically, when a package is delivered to your address, it’s considered yours unless the rightful owner makes a claim.
