Vendor removing fitted carpets!

poppysarah

Mrs_pbradley936 wrote: »

Digging up the plants! Are you serious?

Yup. That's really common.

And I know someone who took the paving slabs up too.

SP123_3

getmore4less wrote: »

Ever bought a house whre the vendor took the light fittings?

It does happen, takng light bulbs happens a lot.

Forgot to add any major garder plants, I have known people dig up stuff and take them.


Most times a verbal is fine but these vendors have shown their cards don't risk anything.

We took our light fittings when we sold our last house, and the curtains and curtain poles. Reason being they were inordinately expensive and we wanted to use them in our new house. We made it very clear from the outset that we wouldn't be leaving them. We did leave the carpets though.

The sellers of our current house left all the carpets, curtains and light fittings, though to be honest I would have rathered they took them as we replaced them all almost immediately. These things are so much down to personal taste and I would never expect people to leave them.

Davesnave

Mrs_pbradley936 wrote: »

Digging up the plants! Are you serious?

Bad planning. I took 'copies' of all my treasured plants, including seeds from the trees, which are now growing.

If you fall out big-time with your buyer, leave some Scotch Thistle seeds behind in the garden. They will continue to remind him/her about you for up to 20 years. How do I know? I accidentally bequeathed this plant to my BIL when he bought the house I'd been renting!:rotfl:

Dumbledore55

poppysarah wrote: »

Yup. That's really common.

And I know someone who took the paving slabs up too.

OMG - now I'm really worrying about what state they are going to leave the property in - they're only up for the weekend so I'm hoping they don't do anything rash, especially as we haven't exchanged contracts yet.

We'll view it again when they've gone, if they've wrecked the place, the price will go have to go down. They'll struggle selling it again for the same price we're paying and to someone without a chain!

mishmash

Dumbledore55 wrote: »

OMG - now I'm really worrying about what state they are going to leave the property in - they're only up for the weekend so I'm hoping they don't do anything rash, especially as we haven't exchanged contracts yet.

We'll view it again when they've gone, if they've wrecked the place, the price will go have to go down. They'll struggle selling it again for the same price we're paying and to someone without a chain!

Oh I am sure they are just trying it on. I would reccomend you view before completion though just to be sure.

Good luck

Mish

benjo

We exchanged contracts yesterday on a property - the vendors are taking the living room and dining room carpets even though they are hitching up and travelling the world in a camper van - best carpeted camper van in the world!!

Honestly though, they have done me a huge favour since the poop coloured carpets are not my taste and this will kick me into fitting a new floor straight away instead of putting the job off.

pawpurrs

Wierd! Did they offer them to you first?

barnaby-bear

benjo wrote: »

We exchanged contracts yesterday on a property - the vendors are taking the living room and dining room carpets even though they are hitching up and travelling the world in a camper van - best carpeted camper van in the world!!

Honestly though, they have done me a huge favour since the poop coloured carpets are not my taste and this will kick me into fitting a new floor straight away instead of putting the job off.

Fitting a carpet when you have stuff in the house is a nightmare.... multiple visits shifting all furniture from room to room, dismantling beds.... big favour

987654

When I bought my house 6 years ago, the vendors took everything they could. We really wanted the house so ended up paying about £2k they asked for carpets - which I must admit I regretted as actually they were not of the quality I wanted and therefore replaced them straight away in the main rooms.

They also took bathroom fittings - loo roll holder, towel rail etc., & curtain rails. This was annoying but I suppose when I went out to replace & find out how much they cost, I appreciated why.

However I realised how petty they really were when on the list of things they were taking was a dimmer switch and some rocks from the garden (the neighbours later told me the rocks had come free from the builders) .

I suppose more fool me who left blinds, curtains, bathroom fittings and in fact anything else I knew I didn't want in the new house.

barnaby-bear

ukcarper wrote: »

25 years ago carpets it was normal to pay extra for carpets and curtains. I did when I bought a house in 80s. I took carpets and curtains with me when I moves a year later as my buyer wouldn’t pay the very reasonable price I asked for them. The carpets and curtain were good quality and I used them in my new house for quite some time. I’d leave them now but things were different in the past. If you think I was bad the person I bought off not only took the curtains and carpets but one of the kitchen cupboards. this was before the time of filling forms on what you would take.

It's true when houses were £25k and pre-chinese boom etc - people could buy a cheap house but the stuff to go in it was relatively far more expensive - carpet was £20 a metre and people would spend £3-4k on carpets or a lot more so £1k for second hand seemed reasonable and the carpet was of a quality and cost that refitting it was economically worthwhile.... people also often spent far more envisaging a carpet lasting 40years. If their old and smell of dog / indifferent colour I'd sign in to the contract they *have* to remove them (it's actually a big job and hassle to do yourself and fitters charge - if they are offering to do the lifting and disposal grab it) £1.5k will get you a nice clean carpet to a colour of your choosing nowadays, it won't last 40 years like the carpets people used to buy but would you want it to....