What do you leave in the house when you move out?

cattie

First off I always leave a card & a bottle of nice wine to welcome the buyer's to their new home. Never found one left for me yet sadly.

I always leave all curtains and blinds, which all my buyer's have been very appreciative of. Light fittings stay, except when there has been the odd one I've become very attached to, then I've arranged for something suitable to go in it's place.

When selling to ftb's I always ask them if they would like any household items I no longer have need of, as generally they are starting out with very little.

Left over paint & tiles are always left & I leave a folder with all instruction manuals & any useful info about local dr, rubbish collection days & such things, also where stopcock & meters are located.

bylromarha

Terry_D wrote:

Think of what you would like to find when you move into your next house - clean, empty of funiture (unless you asked to leave) tidy garden, instruction manuals on CH etc...........

I think this is the nub of it. i would be hacked off if I found half full old tins, random rugs and things like that in the house when we move in...OH would see it as useful.

We don't have a phone number for our buyers and it's a pain trying to contact them via EA.

SnowyOwl_2

I left instructions for heating timer thingy, info about local services particularly bins, plus any other manuals for various appliances which were included eg the fridge/freezer, washing machine, dishwasher and so on (I was moving into a single room while my new house was being built). I left all the curtains as they were ugly - well, not that ugly but a bit dated looking and I was fed up looking at them having had them in the house before as well.Where I lived had a "special rubbish collection" arrangement - I had a mattress to be picked up so left that in the front garden (generous eh!?) but arranged for the council to come and get it. You were allowed to leave five things for special collection so left a note for the new owners that they could put four things out as well as the mattress and that the council would come and get them - all paid for and arranged by me. Think it was only a tenner or so.I had conversation with a colleague recently on this subject - she wanted to know if I ever left the television aerial. Urm...yeah! She said that no, she would never leave it cos she had paid for it, or else the new people could pay her extra. Streuth! Call me weird but I think that is v.mean!

Rimo2021

Tassotti wrote:

I always leave a bottle of Moet and two glasses

Then I may have bought my current home from you :-) what a lovely welcome it was.

Philippa36

Our sellers left behind masses of half empty paint tins ~ some have been useful but where they took the light fittings from the wall in the bathroom, we tried all the various tins to try and find the matching colour but there wasn't one!

They also left spare tiles for the bathroom floor and drive which helped when we needed to replace a couple.

I wouldn't mind if you left these things behind, I wouldn't consider them heavy pieces of junk that you couldn't be bothered to get rid of

clutton_2

The TV aerial ??????????? how extroardinarily mean !!!!!

newmoney_3

I would say leave anything that would be helpful and useful, like instructions and bin days. I have just moved into my new house and loft is full of rubbish, old computer and TV and it is just a pain having to clear it.

He did leave me nice blinds that fit into the windows though, but then that was agreed within the contract. Ask your buyers is definetely the best option.

Do recommend the bottle of wine or something like that with your new address details. They might actually forward any mail that you miss to you that way and it is a nice touch.

Good luck in your new house.

cupid_s

Tassotti wrote:

I always leave a bottle of Moet and two glasses

I want to buy a house of someone like you.
When moving into our first house we were left with:
(in the loft)
two potties!
an unused water tank
a moses basket
two old suitcases
wall tiles that aren't present anywhere in the house

(in the kitchen)
about 12 months worth of cr*p caked onto the oven - and no handle for the grill
grime in every kitchen cupboard
a filthy ashtray, and a pack of chalk on top of the wall units

(in the shed/shoved behind shed)
three traffic cones
a radiator cover
a weights bench
about 12 pots of paint, all of which had gone off
and no end of other totally useless rubbish

the annoying thing was it seemed so well presented and clean when we viewed it. I didn't expect anything like this

and two years on half of the stuff is still here. I refused to pay for a skip, and couldn't contact the previous owners to get them to sort out their mess. And we don't have a car to be able to take stuff to the tip.

so i would advise you to let buyers know anything you're going to leave so they can choose whether they want it or not

bylromarha

cupid_stunt wrote:

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and two years on half of the stuff is still here. I refused to pay for a skip, and couldn't contact the previous owners to get them to sort out their mess. And we don't have a car to be able to take stuff to the tip.

Have you tried to freecycle it? People will come and collect it from you.

Joscar

cupid_stunt wrote:

the annoying thing was it seemed so well presented and clean when we viewed it. I didn't expect anything like this

and two years on half of the stuff is still here. I refused to pay for a skip, and couldn't contact the previous owners to get them to sort out their mess.

Too late for you now as you moved in 2 years ago, but I was told that if you complained to the EA when you move in that the vendor left a mess they are supposed to either pay for a skip or get the vendor too