How mean are some people??

tbs624

paulmapp8306 wrote: »

My vendor left all carpets and rails - we replaced them all anyway.

Exactly. It can be seen up and down the country - new owner moves in - skip outside within the first couple of weeks, usually containing the previous owners prized bush roses, beloved wisteria and crysanthemums and those hotly debated second hand carpets etc. Mmmm...other people's dead skin cells...priceless

There seem to be a fair few posters of the "I would never do x" variety - that does not mean that a vendor who acts differently is wrong. I'm with harrup on this one.:)

pimento

What about wall lights? You can't attach a pendant to them.

googler

Things work differently here in Scotland. Rather than debating a fixtures and fittings list ages after you've agreed to buy the house, we settle all this upfront.

An offer is made, and the offer specifies in writing that the buyer is offering to buy the house with X, Y and Z included. If any of X, Y and Z are not present when the buyer moves in, that's a breach of contract, but typically, X, Y and Z are always there because it was agreed they would be, and they were outlined in writing in the offer that the seller accepted.

tbs624

pimento wrote: »

What about wall lights? You can't attach a pendant to them.

You could probably attach a pedant to them though;)

I think that as long as the wires were securely taped off then they'd be okay as there is usually also a main light, so the new owner would not be in darkness.

pimento

tbs624 wrote: »

You could probably attach a pedant to them though;)

I think that as long as the wires were securely taped off then they'd be okay as there is usually also a main light, so the new owner would not be in darkness.

Story of my life...

andy.m_2

I believe that as well as allowing the new purchaser to have lighting, you are also required to NOT leave the lighting or electrics in a dangerous condition, basre wires, or even wires into a chocolate block left outside the wall could easily be described as dangerous.

Mr_Thrifty

they could use the carpet to cover their compost bin

LOL

phoebe1989seb

In the house we sold last year we had a three foot wide custom made (by a blacksmith for the previous owner) gothic style light fitting with twelve bulbs, hanging from the vaulted ceiling in the main reception room. Our vendors expressly stated that their offer was on the understanding this was left which we were happy with as we knew it wouldn't suit or fit our new house. The room also had a couple of wall lights which we had added. As these were antique we wanted to take these and explained to our buyers that we were doing so. We also expained that our electrician would replace the wall lights with a temporary pendant-type fitting - he did and they were happy with this.

Carpet-wise, we only had a couple of fitted carpets in that house as most rooms had 1930s solid oak flooring, but in our previous house, apart from stone/ceramic floors in kitchen and bathrooms, we had fitted carpets throughout. Our style being quite eclectic and being collectors of antique 'stuff', some of our fitted carpets were in the Turkish style - ie, not to everyone's taste, lol Our EA advised us to change a couple of these to neutral, plain colours to widen the appeal of our house to potential buyers so we renewed both the stair and drawing room carpets at some cost - the drawing room requiring a wider than standard carpet

Rather than wasting our (expensive and only 4 years old) Turkish carpet from the reception room we took this with us and reused it as a stair carpet in our next property. As it happened, the buyers of the previous house told us they wished we had left the patterned carpets as they too had antiques and felt they would have been better suited to their style - typical, huh!

StevenMarks

I've always left fitted carpets and never replaced them in the three properties I've bought.

Horace

We had the same problem with the house I am now living in. The vendors firstly wanted £500 for aged kitchen appliances to which we refused because we could buy new. This started them on the road to messing us about - we reduced the price to cover the cost of new windows because some of the windows have no lintels and thus the walls are starting to sag.

We were told by the vendors and the EA that the carpets were staying and then we were told they were not and I got quite mad and said that they could take them up professionally and move them out because by this time I was getting frustrated with the whole process but in the end my mum gave them £500 for the carpets. We will be replacing the lounge/diner carpet which is a wonderful 1970's lime green pattern:eek:

We were told they were taking a lot of things but when we got the keys we found they have left the curtains and the light fittings (bonus as it saved me from buying new) - we also discovered that they had left an electric lawnmower in the shed - so money saved by me because I had intended to buy a lawnmower. They also left some very large and very expensive terracotta pots, lawn seed, weedkiller etc. although no digging tools. They even left a large step ladder and a pasting table along with bits of junk which will be carbooted - namely lampshades.

Good luck and if they keep messing you about be prepared to walk away.