seller wants to charge for carpets

googler

As previous posters have asked, what's been said about the carpets before now? Surely you must have had some idea whether or not they were to be included or not?

Down my way (Scotland-shire) the typical scenario is that the agent's particulars will have a para that says something like "Extras - included in the sale are all floorcoverings (excluding loose rugs), curtains and blinds....." - then, in standard form, when any purchasing agent makes an offer, it includes a standard clause saying that the price is to include "all extras specified in the seller's sales particulars"

Nothing similar in your case?

Running_Horse

When I first bought 20 odd years ago, offering to leave carpets was a big thing.

Now it is pretty much standard, and you wouldn't try to take your laminate flooring with you.

Perhaps they have not moved for a while.

_bankrupted

I don't have a single piece of carpet in my house! All wooden flooring or tiles.

The UK has the dirtiest homes in Europe due to our love of carpets. Does this house have carpets in the bathroom!!!

Personally I would not want to share my living space with a floor covering that has kindly absorbed all sorts of things from the previous occupant!!!

Nitha

My OH had this sort of offer made to him, he just said no thank you he didn't like the carpets that much and would rather have to lay cheap laminate than pay for something he didn't care for. They left the carpets of course.

ukcarper

Running_Horse wrote: »

When I first bought 20 odd years ago, offering to leave carpets was a big thing.

Now it is pretty much standard, and you wouldn't try to take your laminate flooring with you.

Perhaps they have not moved for a while.

Your quite right 20 years ago it was quite normal not to include carpets. In fact I bought a new house in the seventies and as with most new houses then all you got was the basic house no carpets white goods etc

trumpton

I don't think she is being cheeky. You are buying the house not the contents and unless the carpets are listed on the f and f list, the vendor is entitled to take them with her. You could make her a lower offer or let her take them.

We offered the buyers of our first house the chance to buy the carpets for £100, but they said no, so we took them up to refit in the new house as the rooms were smaller. It seems a recent thing to expect the house to have stuff left inside.

Manual_Reversion

If you need any kind of damp work and subsequent replastering done then you WILL trash the carpets anyway, despite best intentions.

Why pay £500 for carpets that you may not particularly want, only to ruin them and have to pull them up and replace. Have the vendor do it for you and save yourself £500.

All said and done it's pretty trivial and any decision should me made bearing in mind the extent to which you don't want to lose the place, in the event that you upset the vendor. Only you can make a judgement on that.

Kind regards and hope it works out.

honeyD

Running_Horse wrote: »

Now it is pretty much standard, and you wouldn't try to take your laminate flooring with you.

No? When I move Im taking the laminate floor. Not only because its actually my parents, but if I dont take it I wont have flooring! And it can always go in another room easily enough.

JQ.

Be aware they will probably take them if you refuse to pay. The houses we have bought where we've not agreed to pay, the vendors have removed them. Whether they actual want them or have just put them in a skip. If you call their bluff be prepared to have to install new blinds and curtains throughout the house which will cost alot more than £500. Offer them £250 and come to some sort of agreement. Living in a house without carpets is a pain.

festragatto

Thanks everyone for suggestions. I think we are going to try and negotiate a lower price and hope she'll settle for around about £200.