Nightmare!!!!!!

Wee_Willy_Harris

PottyHouse wrote: »

Its hard to imagine there are sellers like that out there - can't imagine to think what is going through their minds as they are taking those things down and away - just the word "spite" comes to mind !!

I know. We had a good old laugh trying to work out what the odds were that their new place could accommodate the house numbers from the front door!

The number was 57 (replaced by my friend at a cost of £1.40, 70p per number) and we worked out that only a house number of 5, 7, 57 or 75 would work for them. No use adding one number to the two they already had as they wouldn't match. We even factored in turning the 7 upside down to make a 4 (sort of). It was even suggested that they may have bought one of EVERY number (0-9) when they got their first home and just used the ones needed for every house they lived in. But then, they would not be able to even consider a double number address (44, 77 etc, or even 101, 337 etc). I think we concluded that they were restricting their options far more than they were facilitating them.... lol

ILW

When we moved house, on the day of the move it rained a little. It was a complete nightmare but I expect to end the therapy soon.

Wee_Willy_Harris

ILW wrote: »

When we moved house, on the day of the move it rained a little. It was a complete nightmare but I expect to end the therapy soon.

MSE Support group anyone?

dfh

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

I know. We had a good old laugh trying to work out what the odds were that their new place could accommodate the house numbers from the front door!

The number was 57 (replaced by my friend at a cost of £1.40, 70p per number) and we worked out that only a house number of 5, 7, 57 or 75 would work for them. No use adding one number to the two they already had as they wouldn't match. We even factored in turning the 7 upside down to make a 4 (sort of). It was even suggested that they may have bought one of EVERY number (0-9) when they got their first home and just used the ones needed for every house they lived in. But then, they would not be able to even consider a double number address (44, 77 etc, or even 101, 337 etc). I think we concluded that they were restricting their options far more than they were facilitating them.... lol

At least they did not leave dog poo all over the house,which is an experience one of my friends had.

Wee_Willy_Harris

dfh wrote: »

At least they did not leave dog poo all over the house,which is an experience one of my friends had.

Urghhhhh...... Well, let's just say that this thread is open to landlords and tenants as well. I'll bet someone will trump dog poo now !!!!!

jackieb

The day we moved in my husband opened the garage door and the whole lot, including frame fell off. Only my MIL saved my husband from being flattened. When we viewed the house we went into the garage from the side door and never thought of asking them to open the up and over door. It was unrepairable. Our solicitor got in touch with them (a family of 4 selling their deceased father's house). They wouldn't even give us £100 between the 4 of them as a good will gesture. We kind of knew them. They always seemed nice genuine people and I was shocked that they wouldn't even contribute £25 each towards a replacement! We were told we could take them to the small claims court but we really didn't want the hassle.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Hmmm... I think I can beat that. I was inspecting a formerly tenanted property. Turn of the century town terrace. Long standing tenant left suddenly (abandoned). He'd obviously been watching a lot of daytime TV, and evidently most of the "home improvement" programmes that were becoming so popular at the time. This was evident as he had fitted a new, hardwood front door without putting the LL to the trouble of having any knowledge of this. Unfortunately, his skills with a televison were not matched by his skills with a tape measure, and the door was about half an inch bigger in every direction than the frame it was meant to fit into. As a result, some considerable force and shoulder barging was needed just to gain access via the door. Eventually, once the door had been barged open, the full extent of his "home improvements" became apparent. The ceiling was drooping down like an awning full of water, but far worse was the staircase. He must have seen an open plan, stripped wood staircase on TV and though "I'll have some of that", so the stair carpet was stripped and all support removed to leave the wooden stairs just hanging out of the supporting wall and into the (now) open plan front room. I got as far as two steps up before the whole structure started flexing and swaying away from the wall, so the extent of his upstairs "improvements" would remain a mystery to me. On leaving the property, the front door needed a considerable effort to force back into the hole in which it didn't fit, so I gave it as big a slam as I could. At the moment to door went SLAM, the most almighty crash was heared from within. With as much nonchalance as I could muster, I sauntered away from the house. To this day I don't know if the crash was from the stairs, the ceiling, both, or even an undiscovered horror from the first floor..

jackieb

Our previous owners had built an extension but as it was over 20 years old they didn't have to submit all the paperwork we had to when selling our place. When we moved in and lifted the carpets we saw that where they had removed part of the back wall, they had left the old doorstep sticking out of the floor (we wondered why there was a hump in the floor). There was also nothing joining the joists in the original floor, to the joists in the new part of the floor (wondered why it was bouncy!) Just floorboards over a hole where the wall had been.

The previous owner had been a woodwork teacher. He obviously thought he knew enough to do everything himself. But you know the saying, Those who do, can. Those who can't, teach. I could've cried the day we moved in. All fine now though. Not nice at the time though.

Wee_Willy_Harris

dfh wrote: »

At least they did not leave dog poo all over the house,which is an experience one of my friends had.

Slightly off topic (but I am the OP, so I'm allowed) but that reminded me of a visit to a clients house. Not the tidyest place and I had to walk over a grass area to get to it. As I sat down, I couldn't help but notice the stench of dog poo. Horrified, my first thought was that I'd stepped in something on the way to the house and walked it in! So, as subtly as I could, I checked the bottom of my shoes and, just as I'd eliminated them from my enquiries, a big Boxer dog strolled in from the kitchen!!!

How do people live like that? And I say that as a dog owner myself!!!

lizzielondon

We moved house when i was 8, my parents and movers got everything in and we started unpacking.... My parents had known that the carpets would need replacing as they were a bit grubby but the aim was to get it done at a later stage.

As we were unpacking the smell of the carpets just started to grow and grow (the vendor had obviously covered the stink massively for viewings)

My parents had to rip the carpet up after realising this was due to dog numbers 1 and 2 having soaked in

and found the most beautiful parquet floor underneath