Nightmare!!!!!!

princessamy86

We've just had a sale complete where the previous owners have cleared their stuff out of the house...onto the front garden. They are declining to do anything about it, cue poor old first time buyer in tears on Friday. Had one a few years ago where the house got broken into on the day before completion, all the lead, pipes and radiators ripped out, floors ripped up, completely trashed. That was awful because nobody knew and it completed and the new owners had to sort it out.

DKLS

My 2nd house purchase was a repo, on the day of moving we had quite a shock, every light fitting and plug socket had been ripped out and the cables snipped. Resulting in a total re-wire.

The 2 marble fireplaces had been wrenched off the wall and smashed into 100s of pieces and the boiler had been sabotaged and was leaking badly.

Finally every wall was scrawled, with dark chaotic and ever so slightly crackers rants about the ex owners wife and kids, and assorted "Goodbye dear house" graffiti.

Thank heavens it was so cheap, I never did feel settled there, so as soon as I had renovated it I flipped it.

House_owner

When we arrived at our house, complete with a van load of stuff, we discovered that the estate agents had given us the wrong keys!

dubsey

Like PrincessAmy I have had loads of my buyers give me recounts of moving in day. I've had a few with entire central heating etc ripped out between exchange and completion - usually repos though. Also had a new investor who was buying the property with the view that the new owners stay after completion, which was a condition of the purchase, only to find the place empty on completion day. Worst one was recent, they had taken the fireplace in the lounge (newish build 8 years old) all the integral appliances, the shower screens, the shed and all the carpets and WOODEN flooring. They also found two broken windows on arrival to add to the heartbreak. Their solicitor also referred them back to me when they contacted him and said I would have to negotiate the return of the items!

We have had one move ourselves where we had key release at 12.30pm and the seller still hadn't dropped off their keys at 4pm - they had gone shopping and hadn't even started packing! It was a simultaneous exchange and completion and they didn't think it was going to happen so hadn't bothered doing anything!

Nothing on Doozergirls scale though - where do people get so much stuff from??

clutton_2

""where do people get so much stuff from?? ""

shopping addiction....

Wee_Willy_Harris

clutton wrote: »

""where do people get so much stuff from?? ""

shopping addiction....

More likely a Bin Allergy!!!

vet8

We seem to make a habit of buying houses from idiots.

When we bought our first house it was new and when we moved in it had nothing, no curtain track, toilet roll holder, towel rail, bathroom cabinet etc. We had to buy all that stuff and as FTBs it was a struggle. When we sold it after 3 years it never occurred to me to take this stuff with me. We got to our next house, a 1920s detached and the previous owners had taken everything; curtain track, a dreadful ugly old bathroom cabinet that I had wondered how I would remove, etc. Even the wall lights in the dining room and living room, so they just left bare wires sticking out the wall. When the guy came to tune in the T.V. it would not work, so he looked at the roof. There was the aerial bracket, but no aerial. He was furious. He said what was the point climbing into the really tall roof to take down a second hand aerial.

They were dirty !!!!!!s as well, the bathroom only had a shower with 2 tiled walls and 2 glass doors. They must have had to use that as it was the only shower or bath in the place. It was absolutely filthy, it took me weeks to clean, it I had to scrape the dirt off using a pain scraper.:eek:

When we moved into this house I was wiser and I took loads of stuff with me. Just as well, as the previous owners had stripped the place bare and there was not a single light bulb in the house. This is in a village so the first thing my OH had to do was drive into town to buy some light bulbs. Neither of us smoke, but the removal men did and even they were disgusted at the fireplace in the living room. It had a mountain of fag ash, fag ends etc. over 2 foot tall. They must have been sitting there for months flicking their fag ends in the heap and watching it grow. The first thing we did was get a shovel and the bin and shovel that lot out.

They had also left all sorts of rubbish we had to move out. Some of it was usable, a hedge cutter, ladders etc. so we asked our solicitor what we should do about it. He said unless there was some arrangement we could assume that anything left behind we could keep, so we sorted out the good stuff. My OH managed to make one good wheelbarrow out of 2 broken ones. On the first Saturday we were there we went out in the afternoon. When we got back, the previous owners’ son had got into the garage, yard and garden and taken the mended wheelbarrow and all the other usable stuff leaving us the rubbish, which we spent the next 20 years chucking out.

InaPickle

I need to leave this thread. I've never bought my own house, and your stories are PETRIFYING me! :eek:

I hope you are all happy in your homes after sorting out the craziness left by the previous, horrible owners.

Over and out *Pickle runs screaming from the thread*

fallgirl

My disaster was (sort of) self made. I moved into my new flat exhausted and excited. Waved off the removal men, closed the door and locked myself in. I waited some time for a neighbour to let me out. I never did understand the logic of such a lock and a neighbour locked herself in while cat sitting before I got the lock changed.:o

BeccaBell

This thread has told me what I had a niggling about anything get absolutely EVERYTHING in writing failing that dont buy it!