House sellers asking for money to leave carpets/blinds etc

pinkshoes

In which case, I would reply that your offer of £250k included all blinds, carpets, and listed fittings, but if they would like to take them instead, you would be happy to lower your offer to £247,500, as per their agreed price of the fixtures listed.

go_cat

pinkshoes wrote: »

In which case, I would reply that your offer of £250k included all blinds, carpets, and listed fittings, but if they would like to take them instead, you would be happy to lower your offer to £247,500, as per their agreed price of the fixtures listed.

I think that is a really good response :T

Mojisola

fishfins wrote: »

About the taps/shower and garage, I am feeling now like we should be asking to test these and go in the garage before we buy. The reason we didn't feel too bad about the waterworks was that on our second viewing we had a good look and saw water drops on the inside of the shower door and in the sinks which made us think it was working ok.

On the garage, we did think of putting a retainer in the contract but knowing how they have been so far with money etc, we felt like they would run a mile thinking we would rip them off. It would be worth trying that before pulling out maybe though.

I can't believe you've actually offered on the house and haven't tried the taps or looked in the garage. I assumed you hadn't been allowed to on the first visit but would have done so before putting in an offer.

I wouldn't think about buying before trying the flush on all the toilets, tried the taps and showers and lifted the manhole covers outside. We failed to do the latter and have spent many hours rodding the drains since!

You're going to have to live with any problems or find the money to put them right. Don't buy without testing everything - taps, heating, light switches, etc. And look in the garage!

danlojo

On buying our first house the seller did say on all of the viewings and when I went to size up that all the curtain poles would be left. It did say when we looked after that he had put on the fixture and fittings form that they wouldn't be but as he continued to say they would be there on getting the keys we left it..........

On getting into the house when we got the keys the sod had took all of them plus he'd made a real mess of the walls when he gouged them off.

Yes, it was our fault for trusting him but more not asking about the F & F form.......

Oh well........after the sale he got his solicitor to phone us and said that he had forgotten to ask us for the few hundred pounds of fuel left in the tank but knew we'd be ok if he gave us a good deal......oh yes........that would be ......NO DEAL:D

Made me feel a bit better about the state he left the house in.

gravitytolls

I thought that homes had to be left in a good condition (unless you're buying a doer upper), and damage caused by the removal of curtain poles etc. needed to be rectified by the vendor?

No, I'm a not a solicitor, wish I was though, good rates of pay ~ actually, I hope I have too much integrity for such a profession lol.

The water was turned off when we viewed the house we currently live in. We correctly assumed this was because there was a leak somewhere. It was simple enough to sort out, but you never know. We did have terrible problems with the drains though, but thankfully, since the law changed on ownership of drains and covers etc., the water board have sorted them.

Ivana_Tinkle

You absolutely have to look inside the garage or, at the very least, make sure that your surveyor does. Our buyers have had three viewings and a Homebuyers' Survey and not once have they or their surveyor so much as opened the door to our garage. Crazy!

fishfins

Ivana_Tinkle wrote: »

You absolutely have to look inside the garage or, at the very least, make sure that your surveyor does. Our buyers have had three viewings and a Homebuyers' Survey and not once have they or their surveyor so much as opened the door to our garage. Crazy!

Hi,

we did instruct the surveyors to go inside the garage, and they did. BUT... the survey report came back "Due to the walls and floor of the garage being almost completely covered by boxes, we were not able to inspect these areas."

It just keeps getting better I'm trying so hard not to let it get me down!

hcb42

googler wrote: »

Wouldn't happen in Scotland...

I have had far worse happen in Scotland. Twice in fact.

I think they are trying to squeeze a few more pennies too, so I would either call their bluff and state they may take them or be polite and reaffirm the first offer "to include carpets, curtains..etc...and subject to internal inspection of the garage..!")