Presumably all your stuff was in the rest of the house, you?d been known in the area for years, all your other ducks were in a row and there was mutual trust founded on a little more than just fresh air. And no-one has said that we must pay their estimate of the cost. What they ARE saying in effect is that we must drop the little-Englander Tory hubris and negotiate sensibly about what we need to pay on exit.