Selling a house What am I obliged to leave in the house

lilab_2

googler wrote: »

You're kidding - unless all the windows at your new house are the same size....?

No not kidding at all. £600 for one set of bedroom curtains alone. And yes, they will all fit in the next property. They were all hand made, no machine stitching, and I don't think that they would raise even half that amount if I indicated that I would be willing to sell.

To make them again for the new property would be an additional expense. I've never moved into a property where curtains have been left either. Although previously I have left them, as the expense wasn't so great in other properties.

zara*elise

It depends on the price we get as to what we'll leave. Otherwise we'll be taking white goods, curtains (like lilab, ours are handmade silk) and wardrobes, but from what they said when viewing I doubt our stuff is to their taste. They'd probably only bin it anyway.

JimmyTheWig

Depends on what's being left at the new place.

Ideally, everyone would leave curtains, carpets, light bulbs, etc all the way up the chain and there would be no problem.
But if there's not going to be, say, curtains at the new place then I'd want to take my existing ones, at least as a stop-gap.

casper_g

I'm currently looking to buy a house for the first time, so this is an interesting topic to see people's thoughts on. I would have assumed that fitted carpets, lino, laminate flooring would generally be included, as they're fitted to the house and are unlikely to be of use elsewhere. They're also likely to be damaged if they are removed. Curtains/blinds I would think would be more variable -- if they will fit at your next place, and perhaps were chosen to match your soft furnishings etc, then there is nothing wrong with taking them. My current rented house only had some curtains, not all, when I moved in, and I wouldn't expect a house I had bought to be any different.

vacheron

lilab wrote: »

No not kidding at all. £600 for one set of bedroom curtains alone. And yes, they will all fit in the next property. They were all hand made, no machine stitching, and I don't think that they would raise even half that amount if I indicated that I would be willing to sell.

To make them again for the new property would be an additional expense. I've never moved into a property where curtains have been left either. Although previously I have left them, as the expense wasn't so great in other properties.

When we were buying our house last year the vendor listed her front and rear, floor-to-ceiling curtains on the fixtures and fittings forms at £320 for both. When we politely declined (to us they looked awful) she apologised for the amount she was asking by saying, I realise it seems quite a lot to ask, but they're only 8 months old and they cost me £3,200 :shocked:

She was a lovely lady and honest as the day, we later found the receipt in a drawer full of manuals etc which she left behind which confirmed her story!

mizzbiz

This is an interesting topic as we are just about to sell a place. We want to remove a chandelier and matching light switches which were very expensive and which go together. We want to use them in our new house and would cost us a fortune to buy them all again when we have accepted an offer for the place for less than we bought it.

On the F&F form, it says are you leaving light fittings? And switches? What do we answer tot his. The switches will be replaced with normal white ones and the chandelier will be replaced with a normal light. Our worry is that they might think we are leaving the same fittings they saw on viewing, rather than replacements. On the form, if we say we are leaving these things, does this imply the originals?

We don't want to get into trouble for removing things they thought were included when they are definitely not included.

Thanks :-)

googler

mizzbiz wrote: »

On the F&F form, it says are you leaving light fittings? And switches? What do we answer tot his. The switches will be replaced with normal white ones and the chandelier will be replaced with a normal light. Our worry is that they might think we are leaving the same fittings they saw on viewing, rather than replacements. On the form, if we say we are leaving these things, does this imply the originals?

Write on the form

"The chandelier and light switches currently fitted in (insert room) will be removed and replaced with generic items"

OR

Write a codicil to the form explaining the same, however you want to put it.


However, why are you worrying about this now? Why didn't you decide at the time you went to market that you'd be taking this with you, and add a statement to the particulars to that effect? If you'd said this upfront, no viewer could be mistaken about what's included.

Amanita_2

Depends on the buyer - when we sold last time it had to be fairly quickly to tie in with children's schools. The buyers took full advantage of this. They also messed us about with their financing and the quick cash sale took months.

I left the absolute bare minimum. My nice light fittings and curtains etc are still in my garage along with the custom curtains. Neither fit my new home but I'd rather freecycle them than let my buyers have them. A few carpets came with us which have made a great pond liner!

JimmyTheWig

Agree with googler - just write on the form. Probably best not to tick any box for that entry.

In my opinion, if the items were mentioned in the estate agent's description of the house then they would be assumed to be included. By not including them you may be inviting them to revise their offer accordingly.
Obviously the same would be true if they were said to be included on a viewing!
But if they haven't been mentioned, then doing what you're doing is fine.

147718

mizzbiz wrote: »

This is an interesting topic as we are just about to sell a place. We want to remove a chandelier and matching light switches which were very expensive and which go together. We want to use them in our new house and would cost us a fortune to buy them all again when we have accepted an offer for the place for less than we bought it.

On the F&F form, it says are you leaving light fittings? And switches? What do we answer tot his. The switches will be replaced with normal white ones and the chandelier will be replaced with a normal light. Our worry is that they might think we are leaving the same fittings they saw on viewing, rather than replacements. On the form, if we say we are leaving these things, does this imply the originals?

We don't want to get into trouble for removing things they thought were included when they are definitely not included.

Thanks :-)

We also are about to sell and our estate agent is asking us for a list of items that we would let the purchaser have like curtains and carpets and any thing that you can think off
These items will not be included in the sale details
He will then use these items as a negotiating ploy if he is getting near the asking price