When Selling Your House, Did You Automatically Include Curtains in the Sale?

StevenMarks

I always take curtains and poles but leave fitted blinds.

geoffky

Some people just are tight and remove everything but some people do leave stuff and a bottle of champers in the fridge with some flowers...taking the door bell was a trick pulled by our sellers..petty...

sammyjammy

meg0210 wrote: »

I think it is very simple: if you can reuse the curtains (size-wise and design-wise), take them, unless the buyer specifically request them - then you can sell them for some extra cash (that will also help for your new curtains). But I think you can leave the poles behind because it is kind of fixtures

I agree, if I wanted them and they fitted my new house i would take them otherwise I'd leave them.

People really do get het up over the silliest of things.

TrickyDicky101

go_cat wrote: »

Mine was a bit of both I left some as they were size specific and didn't need them for new house, however the ones I could use I took. However I did leave all curtain poles and roller blinds as well

Ditto

Some of our curtains we could use again (and the kids would never have forgiven us for leaving their Mr Men curtains). We left all curtain poles though.

cattie

I always include curtains and blinds in a property sale and think it's pretty stingy of a vendor to take them, unless of course it was a very low offer they accepted on their property and they want to try to sell them to make a bit more money.

That said, I've just sold my house for quite a low offer, but have included most curtains and all blinds at no extra charge. I am taking the living room and my bedroom curtains for the simple reason that the windows in my new house are a pretty similar size, the curtains were very expensive and they will fit the respective windows in the new property. Otherwise I'd have left them behind.

picklepick

I always leave curtain poles but take most curtains. My curtain fabric matches my fabric doorstops and my cushions, and so far I've always lived in victorian houses, so they're very long. We're moving to a more modern home soon and I'll be taking them because I can shorten them and they'll still fit.

I'm leaving a roller blind in the bathroom though. And a pair of curtains from the front room that doesn't match anything and I don't need. Not charging for them though, just leaving them.
So, it depends on whether they'll be useful to me or not.

The ones I'm taking are also pretty, let's say, 'eclectic' and I'm not sure they'd be to everyone's tastes anyway. I made them all myself.

When we've moved in the past and had nothing up at the windows for the first few days, hanging a towel or duvet cover over the rail has worked until I've had chance to buy/make some.

Jangin

When I get an offer I will be leaving all the blinds as they are made to measure. They weren't cheap but they wouldn't fit elsewhere.

Lavendyr

If buying a house I wouldn't expect curtains to be left but I would expect curtain rails/poles to be left behind. I might not want the curtains after all, and many modern houses have similar sized windows so curtains can be re-used.

Of course if as a buyer I wanted to keep the curtains I'd negotiate that separately.

Mobeer

Left them behind as:
(i) they didn't fit the new place
(ii) buyer was encouraged by this

Torry_Quine

Maybe things are different in Scotland but when I sold my home the curtains, carpets etc weren't even mentioned and it never crossed my mind not to leave them.