Leaving blinds behind

VfM4meplse

12 months ago I would have said leave them, it's a nice thing to do. Now I've changed my mind.

Sell them to the purchaser or take them with you - £200 could be very handy at a time like this, when the incidental costs mount up. If you have standard-sized windows and the blinds are in reasonably good condition you may well be able to sell them on eBay (since a friend sold her kitchen on eBay I am convinced that anything is possible). Is it going to cost you anything to ask the purchaser?

When another friend bought his first home, he was in no rush to move in and on completion day the vendors asked him for more time, which he generously allowed. More fool him - in that time they had stripped everything detachable from the house, including all the lightbulbs, curtain rails and tracks.

hats123

Yep, our seller asked if we wanted to buy his blinds, we said no, he left them anyway - they were hideous and went straight in the bin!

We now have new lovely wooden venetians from Hillary's, we had a couple of spares which didn't fit and we put on ebay, these were brand new - and we got £10 each for them! Just leave them behind, I wouldn't dream of charging for them when we come to sell in however many years.

flora48

I would be thanking my lucky stars to have got the full asking price in this economic climate!

Just leave them bet they will not fit your new windows anyway.

Daisy70

tbs624 wrote: »

OP - regardless of whether you wanted to ask for payment have you asked the buyers whether they actually want the blinds?

They may think they are hideous and be the first things to be going in a skip

No, we weren't going to ask them.

Certainly not hideous, they are lovely venetian wooden blinds:D

1886

I bought my first house a year ago. The seller left the downstairs front room`s blinds and the upstair`s front bedroom`s curtains as both rooms would be visible by passer`s by otherwise. We really appreciated this, esp as the blinds are expensive wooden ones.
They also left a huge leather sofa in the frontroom because the only way they could remove it was to remove the bannister in the hallway!

Daisy70

flora48 wrote: »

I would be thanking my lucky stars to have got the full asking price in this economic climate!

Just leave them bet they will not fit your new windows anyway.

We might measure up in the new house at the weekend just to check.

We are thankful, we never saw that one coming:T

Daisy70

1886 wrote: »

I bought my first house a year ago. The seller left the downstairs front room`s blinds and the upstair`s front bedroom`s curtains as both rooms would be visible by passer`s by otherwise. We really appreciated this, esp as the blinds are expensive wooden ones.
They also left a huge leather sofa in the frontroom because the only way they could remove it was to remove the bannister in the hallway!

We won't leave the curtains as the new house doesn't have blinds and we'll have some privacy for when we first move in.

Definitely not leaving my leather sofas behind;)

phoebe1989seb

We usually take our curtains with us as they are expensive fabrics that match the style of our (antique) furniture and most of them are now out of production. Blinds, on the other hand we do leave behind as they are custom made to fit windws that are unlikely to be replicated in a new house.

In our last house (sold a year ago) our buyers did ask if they could buy our exceptionally long and wide main reception room curtains that hung at the double-height bay window, but as this fabric was no longer available and we wanted the same curtains at our new house, we declined. In our new house I have been able to split them and make three pairs to hang at the considerably smaller windows in our living room. The fabric alone cost in excess of £400 without trimmings, linings and cost to make

Most of the houses we have bought have also had no curtains left behind - in fact this house didn't even have poles or curtain rails in many rooms - but mainly 'cos we always buy renovation projects

Person_one

Daisy70 wrote: »

We won't leave the curtains as the new house doesn't have blinds and we'll have some privacy for when we first move in.

Definitely not leaving my leather sofas behind;)

Hey, I'm still sitting on leather sofas left behind two years ago!

I do think taking curtains is petty, if nobody did it there'd never be a problem when you first move in.

We moved once when I was a kid and they'd taken loads of shelves off the walls and left gaping holes. That was really naughty.

zaksmum

I personally wouldn't dream of asking for payment for blinds to a purchaser paying full asking price for my house! It would seem really greedy to me.