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

eamon

When I sold my previous house GF & myself cleaned it from top to bottom, even though the buyer was going to be renting the place out. I left all curtains including the shower curtains and intruction manuals for all the built in appliances. I even sold the fridge freezer to the buyer (£10), cheap I know but it was on its last legs and I had no means of getting it to the tip.

At the new house previous owner kindly left dead lawnmower in the shed plus numerous bits & pieces. Also dangerous electrical wiring and substandard plumbing work (a full survey wouldn't have picked this up). Will take a fair amount of money & time to fix the remaining faults but the house is in a good area and the work to be done will add value and if we sell in the future I'll have certificates for the work done.

If everything went smoothly we wouldn't have anything to moan/rant about!!

yours

Eamon

Joe_Bloggs

The names of your neighbours. The position of extenal stopcocks !
J_B. (Should you mention ASBOs on your neighbours ?)

clairehi

Is there another website (mean-people.co.uk?) where all the sellers who leave their houses full of junk, and dont leave any nice bottles of fizzy wine, post?

otherwise, where are they???

Contains_Mild_Peril

I would ask new owners if they wanted leftover paint etc. Some would appreciate it, others would be annoyed at "rubbish" being left behind. Pretty much the same applies to curtains, carpets, shelves etc. which you might consider leaving. Always leave toilet roll - it's not the sort of thing someone wants to have to unpack first if they need to go!
If you do find "junk" left behind in a house when you move in, don't throw stuff out unless you're sure it has no value to anyone else. Antiques Roadshow often features unlikely treasures found left behind in lofts etc. Even old doors and kitchen sinks might have considerable commercial value.
Even clutter which isn't valuable in the monetary sense can be appreciated, though not by everyone. When we moved house when I was about 10, my sister and I found (among other things) and old wooden chair in the garden shed, which we cleaned and revarnished and gave to my dad as a present (I think it was for his birthday). While we were hiding an obviously large object in our room, my dad joked about us hiding an elephant, and the chair is, to this day, known as The Elephant!
If you're leaving a council house, my advice is don't leave anything at all for the next tenants unless it's a mutual exchange, otherwise the council will probably dump it, even if you're obviously trying to be thoughtful by leaving useful stuff like teabags.

kit

I am about to exchange on a house... the vendors are taking all the curtains AND the curtain poles! I think there are some lampshades being taken too.

They were going to take the shed but I fought that and won (it was in the house details so the EA's told them it had to stay).

Dont think I will be getting a bottle of wine and a card!

clutton_2

kit - if they are that pennypinching, you would not want any of their stuff or their energy left in the house anyway would you ? best of luck in your new home

sportbeth

That is so harsh - taking the toilet roll. I know we're all MSE's but how tight do you have to be?

tesuhoha

Im leaving all our lovely expensive John Lewis curtains, the brand new shower curtain, the lovely built in wardrobes, all our lovely new lampshades. I'm not leaving a bottle of champagne because champagne is expensive and our buyer's are getting our house at a fraction of what its worth and I feel quite resentful about it.

Jorgan_2

cupid_stunt wrote:

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

We had cockroaches & maggots in the kitchen, fleas in all the carpets, 'herbal' plants in the greenhouse & a visit from the baliff.

BobProperty

Jorgan wrote:

We had cockroaches & maggots in the kitchen, fleas in all the carpets, 'herbal' plants in the greenhouse & a visit from the baliff.

Didn't you give the "herbs" to the Bailiff and tell him to chill out, then?