Do you think I can ask my Vendor.....

[Deleted User]

....to cut the grass on the garage's drive before they move out?

We're 2 weeks from exchanging contracts and the grass on the garage's drive is nearly 2 ft high, it is a jungle! The garage is at the bottom of the garden and is accessed from a side road.

Do you think I'd be unreasonable if I asked them to cut it? They recently mowed the front lawn, I don't understand why they are not bothering with the drive, we won't be able to park our car in the garage on day 1 if they leave it as it is....:(

UPDATE 24/10/05 The grass has been cut, without us asking. :T

Robert_Sterling_3

This seems to me to be a very trivial matter.
So on the one hand I would not concern myself with it
Yet on the other hand the vendor might happily oblige.
Either way I hope you get pleasure from your new home.

Mr_Skint_2

May I say thats a really strange request cant you cut the grass....???
Im sorry to say I am bemused at the Original Post but in a funny way..

NEWBIE_SHOPPAHOLIC

Im in the same position with a house that has been empty and they have left the grass, not only does it look an eyesore, it also takes ages to get the grass back to looking anything like!

What we have done is said thatwe want grass doing before exchange and also before completion to keep it tidy and we have said this through our solicitors, so that exchange will only take place if this is upkept.

Hope this helps!

[Deleted User]

Mr Skint, you should see the drive, it really is a jungle, it is not just the grass being 2 ft high, there are overgrown bushes and everything, my surveyor even said that a car wouldn't be able to drive through, that's how bad it is....

Thanks Newbie, that's what we might do as well.

rare_uk

We exchanged contracts on Friday and move in this Wednesday :j . But I have a nasty feeling the house we are moving to, the original owners probably will not empty out the shed and the house properly (duvets, TV, laundry basket, TV cabinet,sky boxes, mdf furniture, etc), and possibly not even clean it. That is so anoyying if they do that. We have told them to tidy it up.

They don't live in it anymore, and it had been on the market for a while and they even reduced the price by 20K (I knocked them down another 9K ), but they still didn't think that they should tidy up the house. So I can't see them doing it now that the house has sold.

If they don't do it, I might just put the shed and house contents into a van and dump it at the geezers new house! :T

Woby_Tide

I'm honestly amazed that someone is prepared to let a housing chain collapse on the premise that someone hasn't cut the grass. What next, maybe people could request that people paint and decorate to the new owners taste so they don't have the first few nights in the house with someone else's taste to cater for

[Deleted User]

Well, there is no chain actually and no, of course I wouldn't let the chain collapse, but people need to learn to leave a tidy house and garden behind when they leave. The grass has been cut anyway, my motto is 'if you don't ask you don't get'.

GDB2222

Hmmm, if they tart it up a bit, they might get a higher offer. Is this necessarily in your interests?

[Deleted User]

They won't get a higher offer because it is off the market and we're due to exchange next week. They are desperate to move after waiting for nearly a year so they won't get rid of us.

Woby_Tide

sorry I was referring to shopaholic

at least you are politely asking rather than stipulating as part of the exchange process. If someone was stipulating it as part of the exchange I'd start to regard them as a timewaster who'd potentially be pulling other stunts