Taking things from the house when you move?

zipwen1

BobProperty wrote:

We've done this one before... cat fleas, woodworm, dry rot.....
and if you are going to block the toilet, do it properly, there's some extremely hard fast setting concrete that is used for emergency repairs to things like runways, expensive but......:eek:

been thinking about leaving a big old trout under the kitchen units and floor boards

BobProperty

zipwen1 wrote:

been thinking about leaving a big old trout under the kitchen units and floor boards

Allegedly, someone once sewed some prawns into the hem on the curtains they left in the house. :eek:

zipwen1

BobProperty wrote:

Allegedly, someone once sewed some prawns into the hem on the curtains they left in the house. :eek:

:rotfl: lol oh my god what a clever person bet they were trying to locate the smell for weeks. good one keep your ideas cumming they will be very useful

MJMum

I have heard the prawn story as being left inside the curtain rod. LOL. A classic urban myth, but maybe someone actually did it.

zipwen1

inside the curtain rod. even better.

stolt

MJMum wrote:

I have heard the prawn story as being left inside the curtain rod. LOL. A classic urban myth, but maybe someone actually did it.

ha ha I did this, not when we moved house, it was a house party a good few years back, my mates mum was not best please.... i still havent owned up to this day...

Poppy9

pbfhpunk wrote:

I feel really bad now!!

We've already talked about when we move we.re taking the toilet seat and lightbulbs, but this is because
The toilet seat was an xmas present and is one of the ones with barbed wire in, and the light bulbs are all energy saving ones that have been in for less than a year.
HOWEVER....
We will refit the old toilet seat and replace the bulbs with normal ones

1. You kept your old toilet seat:o
2. Energy bulbs are now on sale in B&Q for 94p - how much are you selling your house for?:p

Go on leave them. The new owners will think kindly and fondly of you and it will add to their enjoyment of their new house to think the old owners were not meanies

Madmel

With the last house move, we talked through with the purchaser what they wanted and left that. As other posters have said, it's not worth haggling over carpets etc. We tried to be open & honest and I left them a note with the days for rubbish collection etc., our paid up garden waste bin til the end of the year and a bunch of flowers.

However, the first house I sold was to a young guy from up the road. He came along with his "girlfriend" and pleaded poverty. They "persuaded" me to leave my fairly new fridge and oven as they were setting up their first home; I had fitted ones in my new house, but my sister rented out flats and would happily have bought them.

There was a month between me getting the new house and completing on the sale, and when I drove the 250 miles back to clear the old house, just before contracts were exchanged, I saw a To Let board fixed onto my house. I rang the number and made an enquiry, so I'd know what the rent was. Then I rang back and said that they would be getting a solicitor's letter for trespass on my property, at which point they threatened me (nice!) and said that as exchange had happened (it hadn't yet) they could do as they liked.

As soon as the exchange came through, I took anything that wasn't nailed down. Yes I left the oven & fridge but I took the shelves, salad boxes and egg holders. I took the loo rolls, holders, light bulbs and didn't bother to vacuum any of the house. If he had been honest in the first place that he was setting up in business, I would have done him a good deal on the stuff, but the deceit really stuck in my throat. I found out later that the girl wasn't his girlfriend, and it was all a ploy to get stuff for free.

Tiglet

When I bought my house, the seller had said that she'd leave curtains at all of the windows. When I moved in, I found that she'd left one curtain from each pair. It didn't occur to me to ask how many curtains she was going to leave!

(BTW this was another example of christian charity)

zipwen1

Tiglet wrote:

When I bought my house, the seller had said that she'd leave curtains at all of the windows. When I moved in, I found that she'd left one curtain from each pair. It didn't occur to me to ask how many curtains she was going to leave!

(BTW this was another example of christian charity)

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