Vendor removing fitted carpets!

Hectors_House

eanick wrote: »

For the record - I once had a vendor lift the wood laminate flooring! The vendor and purchaser were not on good terms all through the sale and the vendor wanted the last word!

The house I just purchased was a repo.

They ripped everything out they could carry including the entire kitchen, but, oddly put wood laminate down in the hallway (rest of the house was bare floorboards).

We found out why on our first viewing - they'd put some kind of grease all over it.

This worked in my favour cus I called the EAs bluff when he told us there had been a lot of interest in the house already by asking him why he hadn't done anything about the obvious safety hazard after the first of his fictitious viewers skidded their length as soon as they stepped into the house.

I'm with the folk advising the OP to tell the vendor to take his carpets and make good on any damage. Even the plushest carpet in the world still restricts you clourwise if you want to redecorate.

Tim_Deegan

poppysarah wrote: »

Carpets are often quite well attached. Carpets that aren't are called rugs.

They aren't part of the house though, and aren't included in the buying price unless agreed.

virgo149

So they build a conservatory on a property that they know they have to get the builders permission for. They fail to do this then hope when the builder is no more that they don't need it. Surely the vendors (and their solicitor) knows they cannot get out of that one.

If I were you, regardless of what has gone before, I would not pay the indemnity insurance premium - it is their responsibility and duty to do this. Plus I guess the 'unapproved' conservatory has added value to their house? I understand everything everyone is saying but I can't see where the problem here is - they pay, end of.

When we sold a couple of years ago, we had, like your sellers, built a conservatory without permission from Westbury. We obtained retrospective permission and it was one of the first things our solicitor asked us for.

My first house purchase in the 90's was something like yours, hassle wise. I had already agreed to go halves on tanking/damp proofing the house (condition on mortgage) then something else kept coming up (boundary issues). In the end I said enough's enough, I'm not a bottomless pit of money. If you want me to buy it, rectify the problems yourself -- they did.

Every seller thinks every buyer is out to get a bargain (which they are) and every buyer thinks every seller is trying to scr*w them (no comment!).

gettingbetter

hi

could i just add my tuppence worth
i have no idea how old or new the carpets
are that you talking about

when i sold my MIL's house (2006 to pay
for carehome) i lifted all carpets
the reason was that MIL was doubly
incontinent and although i had cleaned them
i just couldnt leave them

may be there is a reason they are taking them
that they feel they cant discuss

kas xx

never_enough

I must admit that I'd be cross, but I wouldn't let a few hundred £'s stop me having my dream house either. Hope you enjoyed your holiday & have the strength to see this purchase through to the end...

I've obviously been very lucky, in my last house the sellers left everything, bathroom cabinets, coat racks, shelving in the study etc. They even filled holes from pictures they'd taken down & had the carpets steam cleaned after they moved (they moved out a couple of months before I completed).

We have always left all white goods & never asked for money, tbh it saves us having to move them, they rarely fit a new place. Curtains too except for the two pairs of 12ft ones I bought from the owner of my first flat for £500. That was a lot of money for me then, but they still look amazing over 20 years later....

Tim_Deegan

I really don't know why people expect to get carpets and curtains included .

If you turn it around the other way, and you buy a house, but when you move in you find that the previous owner had left loads of stuff behind that you didn't want........you would soon complain if you had to hire a skip to get rid of it all.

sunnysea83

i think that the seller should pay the fees for the consevertory. when i sold my flat i had replaced the boiler and i was not aware and it didnt even state this in my lease that the boiler was the landlords property and therefore I had to pay my MA £1200 for consent etc and i couldnt expect my buyer to pay this!!!

Dumbledore55

Not only have the vendors breached the covenant re the conservatory they have also breached building regs by installing windows post 2002 and not getting a FENSA certificate. This now requires two indemnity policies which comes in at £299.

We offered to pay half of the indemnity policy for the conservatory but the vendors have refused to pay a penny of either policy. Apparently they 'feel its unfair on both of us and a rip-off'. they then told the estate agent that if we don't pay it and complete by friday they will put it back on the market - this was at 4pm today!!

Anyway, I'd already guessed they were unlikely to pay so had started the ball rolling today to pay for the policies and given the solicitor the authority to draw down the funds with a view to exchanging contracts when we got the final answer from the vendors after we offered to go halves.

However, and call me spiteful if you like, I decided not to tell the estate agent that until tomorrow morning. The estate agent said SHE (the female vendor) was spitting feathers that we hadn't paid the money yet. She can spit a few more overnight!! I just told the estate agent that I would have to discuss it with my partner.

I would love to have said, we can't pay the money so put it back on the market but we do love the house so we'll put them out of their misery tomorrow.

KimYeovil

It's entirely standard practice to remove carpets when selling. This is moneysavingexpert. What a great way to save a couple of thousand pounds. Most people transfer carpets down the next-room-one-size-down chain and are only left with one room to carpet.

Who wants second-hand carpets with other people's pets'* pee and second-hand curtains stinking of tobacco and farts, anyway?

* only their pets', if you're lucky.

pawpurrs

For what its worth, I wouldnt bother with an Immdenity for the windows, its really not worth it. When you come to sell it just tick no to any windows having been replaced since 2002, that fensa is a load of nonsense IMO.