What would you expect to be left by vendors?

suzyp1982

I think personally i would expect the carpets and light fittings (fixed) to be left unless other wise stated right at the beginning.

My buyer seems to expect that i leave all the blinds, curtain poles, bathroom accessories like toilet roll holder, towel rail etc

I mentionied yesterday that i would be willing to sell our blinds(one set cost us £300!) then the buyer asked if we would leave our curtains, again i said we'd think about selling whatever but he didnt seem to take me up on this and just mentioned as he left he'd like the blinds.

What are your thoughts on the rights and wrongs?

Slinky

We were left blinds by a vendor, and in turn left them for the next people. Curtains were offered to a purchaser who didn't want to buy so we took them and they've now been used in 3 of our homes. Depends whether they were expensive made to measure and can be usefully used elsewhere or whether they were cheapo ready mades as to whether I'd leave them behind.

tanith

I would leave anything that would need to be unscrewed as a fixture and fitting to be honest. If they wanted the blinds/curtains then I'd give them a price but if I wasn't going to reuse them then I'd leave them anyway I think.

Mrs_Z

We paid for the curtains. The seller left all the bathroom fixtures and fittings, as well as light fittings in the sitting room and fixed shelves - but none of these were expensive I don't think.

IHateDida

My buyer thought exactly the same about our curtains and lampshades! But I left anything that was fixed to the wall which is what I would expect.

So I left blinds (more hassle than it was worth to make good holes - and you end up with blinds that won't fit new windows anyway), tv bracket, hanging baskets - basically anything that had been drilled to the wall.

I didn't leave lampshades nor curtains.

Alybea

It doesn't matter if the blinds were £300, if they wont fit in your new house they're effectively worthless to you and the chances of recovering anything close to the purchase price on ebay is slim.
Ask for a nominal amount.
Are you actually going to go the trouble of unscrewing the curtain poles and towel rails on the last morning while the removers are packing everything up?
It also depends what are you being left in your new house?

googler

Blinds and curtains from your current house are unlikely to fit the house you move to, so why can't you just agree a sale price including them, rather than trying to 'sell' them separately to the buyer?

googler

suzyp1982 wrote: »

My buyer seems to expect that i leave all the blinds, curtain poles, bathroom accessories like toilet roll holder, towel rail etc

What are your thoughts on the rights and wrongs?

The implication being that you want to take these with you?

c'mon, you can't be that attached to them, can you?

rosyw

I left all my curtans and blinds, but only as they wouldn't fit the new place and my vendor did the same :beer: but they took some items which I would consider fixtures, in that they were screwed to the wall, and left me some lovely holes to fill:(

suzyp1982

The house we are moving to is pretty much identical to what we live in at the moment but empty and very old so all our current stuff would easily fit into the next house, our curtain poles are for example the extendable ones.

Im quite surprised at how many would leave curtain poles. just our lounge one cost £60! Sounds like i will just have to lose some money and re buy if thats the right thing to do

J_i_m

I don't it's a case of what to expect.. It's a case of asking questions on viewing the property and agreeing to a fixtures and fittings list.