Charging for house 'fittings' with sale

jw2003

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neverdespairgirl

Mum_of_3 wrote: »

PS Am I the only one who thinks that taking curtains, lightfittings etc with you is petty? After all what's the chances of them fitting/looking good in the new house?

It depends, I think. Usually curtains are fairly specific, and should be left.

My parents made an exception the last time they moved - my Granny had made floor-to-ceiling velvet curtains for one room, and they took those.

geoffky

see tight people still exist...my seller took the doorbell and sky dish..try and beat that.. 400 for 5 yrs old blinds....ha ha ha

PasturesNew

If I was buying it, your blinds and shed would be handy, but I'd be d4mned if I'd pay £400 for somebody else's choice of 2nd hand blinds in a conservatory.... I'd rather find my own much cheaper - or just do without out of spite.

A sound shed I'd go to £75 for, just out of convenience.

But - I'd really think you were taking the p155 asking for any of these bits and bobs.

bristol_pilot

Second hand household goods are worth very little and if you exaggerate the value of 'fixtures and fittings', even if the buyers are daft enough to pay those prices, you may be investigated for stamp duty evasion.

liberty_lily

Mum_of_3 wrote: »

PS Am I the only one who thinks that taking curtains, lightfittings etc with you is petty? After all what's the chances of them fitting/looking good in the new house?

Last time we moved we told our buyers we intended to take most of the curtains (and some light fittings) with us as these had been specially made (the curtains by me) or collected over the years specifically to go with our particular style of furniture. They would be very difficult to replace these days as the fabrics in particular are either unavailable or else ridiculously expensive.

Our buyers happily accepted this and as we were down-sizing asked if we were going to be selling any of our redundant pieces. They gave us a list of what they were interested in and offered £5k for the items we agreed to part with - we considered this a fair price and we agreed. This was nothing to do with stamp duty evasion as the house sale price was just under £600k.

When we move next we will once again be taking these items as they form part of our collection and would not be to most other peoples' taste anyway I guess

dizziblonde

Curtains I'd only be inclined to pay for if they were good quality ones - otherwise stuff that I'll buy my own in the exact colour I want and for the price I want. Blinds maybe - but nowhere near what you'd originally suggested for the age of them. We're getting the curtains that are in the place left without charges for them (don't think the vendors want the trip back here to sort out taking anything else out of the house) - which I'm pleased about as they're good quality curtains and a proper bay window curtain pole (rather than the bane of my life we have at the moment in terms of a badly bent plastic one that pings out of its fixings on a monthly basis).

Otherwise it all just smacks of petty to me and I'd be wondering if it was the sort of person I wanted to be dealing with tbh.

jw2003

I'm not feeling the Money Saving love on this thread

Anywhere else in the forum you'd be commended for being tight and potentially saving yourself in the region of £500

Mum_of_3_3

jw2003 wrote: »

I'm not feeling the Money Saving love on this thread

Anywhere else in the forum you'd be commended for being tight and potentially saving yourself in the region of £500

Maybe when houses were easy to sell buying F&Fs from a vendor would be ok. But in this dire market would you really put a buyer off in order to get £500 from them? Also, to me it's not nessicarily about money saving, if they don't fit in the new house or I don't like them that much to take with me, why should I make my buyers stuff that I'm otherwise going to bin? After all what comes around goes around.

I guess I would take really expensive curtains with me, BUT only if they would fit in the new house and go with the decor. For instance we've got expensive curtains in our bedroom, but as they are 7ft long and 8ft wide and really thick and heavy I can't see them fitting in any future bedroom and as they're not really lounge curtains either when we sell they will come with the flat.

Just like our conservatory blinds even though they cost an arm and a leg, we bought them because we wanted them, not because we thought we could flog them on at a later date. Also they are made specifically for our windows and doors, so we would have to be pretty lucky for them to fit any future conservatory.

I just don't get asking for money for bog standard curtains that you could replace from Next for £80 a go (or Asda for £15 if you're really short on money).

ocalllo

when we bought hse 5yrs ago, vendor tried to charge us £300 for the blinds as they were made to messure and then another £500 for made to mesure furniture in the main bedroom.

the furniture was horrible and very badly fitted so we said no and the blinds we didn't really like either but saw that they were good quality and fitted perfect.

but we were FTB's and money was tight so we declined any extras. in the end they removed the furniture (taking a chunk out of the windowstill) and left teh blinds. we washed them and are still using now!!!