what is the weirdest thing sellers have taken?

PipPip

When I moved into a rental flat in London years ago I discovered behind the water tank a stack of VHS videos. Immediately I thought, "!!!!!!", but in fact they were copies of police interview tapes, often with the same character appearing. The quality was terrible and really I was not that interested in them so I took them to the local police station and never heard anymore about it.

1echidna

Our seller removed three large carp from the garden pond. Presumably he sold them. He also left all the thermostatic radiator valves on their maximum setting and all the power sockets switched on. We surmised he was a bit irritated by us negotiating the price down as a result of the survey. His wife, however, made every effort to ensure that the place was clean and tidy.

The_Eponymous_M

A bit off topic; but I have a few great ones about things tenants have taken.

We had a tenant that unfortunately passed away; the family came round and removed all his stuff and returned the keys to the flat. They then proceeded to steal the front door (just a standard council front door) because they wanted something to remember him by.

Another tenant took this a bit further. They moved out and returned the keys; when the team went in to make the property ready for the new tenants they discovered they had stolen all the floor boards. This was discovered by the foreman unlocking the door and stepping in without looking first...

However, my all time favourite story was about another gentleman who had passed away. He had died at about the age of 90 with no family and apparently no friends. when we started to clear out his property, we found a pair of thigh length leather stilletto boots. At this point his neighbour from below came up and seemed suprised when we said the old gentleman had died and there was no one to collect his goods. "Are you sure?" she said, "There was often a woman walking around in here." It was at this point we found the vinyl catsuit. We elected not to go through his DVDs. I hope I'm still enjoying myself that much when I reach his age.

Slinky

Jemima5317 wrote: »

The people I bought from were lovely - they left me curtain poles, curtains, all the light fittings (which are all nice). But they'd done an awful lot of work on the house - a victorian terrace - including putting in a bathroom, and taking out the old outside loo (and using the space as storage). They used the old loo as a planter in the garden, and when they left they took that which I found a bit odd....

I run a local magazine for my village which involves a lot of walking round pushing them through doors. There was a house in the middle of the village which was up for sale, with 3 toilets in the front garden, full of weeds. I kept thinking they'd do better selling it if they got rid of the toilets or at least put them in the back garden. Anyway, eventually the house had a sold sign outside it.

The toilets are now under the bay window of a house down my street..... I feel sorry for the neighbours opposite, they must get a lovely view of these every time they look out, as the house with the loos is higher up than the ones opposite.

The only consolation is they have at least planted some plants in them, but they still look grim. They even have the black plastic seats and lids.

The owner is a plumber.

babygeorge

Our sellers took the door bell(not evan a fancy one) took the wheelie bin, curtain rails, light fittings. Don't mind as will replace, but the wheelie bin and door bell?
When moved into my other house, we was left two antique dolls prams and they made us some money.

poppysarah

babygeorge wrote: »

took the wheelie bin,

Our council charges for them if you move into a new build.

(But replaces them free if you've had it stolen)

babygeorge

poppysarah wrote: »

Our council charges for them if you move into a new build.

(But replaces them free if you've had it stolen)

Our sellers are moving into a new build, explains!

lmclean100

hieveryone wrote: »

When my mum and dad moved into this house the sellers had taken all of the lightbulbs!

We had that too, they even took the phone books.

L

Bufger

My vendors are very kind, they're leaving the fitted blinds, light fixings (except for the ones in the kids rooms which is fine!) and are even leaving their large leather sofa as its too heavy for them to move and they want to buy a new one.

Saves me sitting on beanbags!

Some people are lovely and some are just horrible. I'm glad i was lucky

barnaby-bear

Sundayjumper wrote: »

Having no idea how much gas & electricty I'd need, I asked how much people normally put on. "You can put on £1, £5, £10..". Seriously, do some people buy electricity £1 at a time ?? I went with £20 each and we got through it rather quickly. Ended up putting on £50 a time until the leccy people came out to fit a proper meter.

Bloke in one-stop in front of me bought 4 scratch cards, 2x 4 packs of lager, 3 packets of fags, one pint of milk then held up the entire queue dithering over whether to buy £3 or £4 of electricity I kind of thought interesting priorites there....