Bought flat only to find seller has taken the lawn!

DRP

shocking behaviour - i hope the OP gets a good bit of compensation to teach the petty sellers a lesson :mad:

reminds me of friends of ours who bought a house which had a lovely lawn when they viewed it. but was in pretty ropey condition by their moving-in day. When they went out to do some gardening to try to rescue it, they found that the vendors had just laid turf directly over the concrete yard and after several months it was all just dying off ...

:rotfl:

haguey1231

any news on it???

haguey1231

back when we moved into our hour a couple of years ago it was less what the seller had taken but more what they had left behind it took 3 skips too get rid of all the rubbish in the gardens and the house was filthy luckily over the first few months it was completely rebuilt... there was hedge rows full of rubbish Stanley knife blades all over and about 7 car batteries in the garden all appeared since our final viewing what had happened is the 2 barns they had they'd emptied the rubbish over the site..

marmitequeen

Any news on grassgate?

When I moved into my first flat they'd taken the toilet seat (and all light bulbs, shelves, curtain poles etc, obviously). It was the toilet seat bit I really couldn't fathom. However, a lawn beats that.

mrsmchapman

Well, im just gobsmacked to read this! what on earth is the world coming to taking a lawn! just when you think youve heard it all!!

I hope you get the issue resolved quickly

seven-day-weekend

paddy's_mum wrote: »

That little note they left may be their undoing since it clearly demonstrates that they knew they were behaving unreasonably (to the point of outrageous in my view).

Whatever next ... 'Dear Buyer, I've left the toilet pan but I've taken the section of pipe that connects it to the sewer' ...!

I'd be onto their solicitor in the morning and if I hadn't had the garden reinstated at their cost and to a professional standard within 14 days, my next call would be to the Small Claims Court.

The mind boggles as to what justification they had come up with in their own thinking to justify going so stridently against the natural justice of sale and purchase. Good luck.

There was one on Homes Under The Hammer recently that had exactly that problem...

NW_London

Certainly gives a new meaning to "the grass is always greener".

narabanekeater

when we moved in to this house my partner had to leave early the nect morning to go to work. As I got up there were some really bad noises coming from in our room. Id got visions of mice and all sorts.
Being the scardly cat I was I went an indtrouduced myself to my new neighbours that mornign and asked the man of the house to come round and have a look what it was for me. The lovely lady told me as they were friends of the past owners her partner would nip round and that me and my daughter should stay for a cuppa. Whick I did happily. Imagine my horror when 10 minutes later the bloke came back in his house carrying a large box of sex toys telling me my toys had started themselves off by themselves. After assuring them that they werent mine (which I do think he believed) I finished my cuppa and left. We are still very good friends to this day.

propertyman

2 am, walking home via vendors new garden

Oh dear did I just drop this whole family of Moles on the lawn?

Oh no, they are tunnelling away , I'll never catch them.

Tut tut how careless. :rotfl:

Lou67

LOL! This is crazy. I don't even know whether you would have any way of taking action against this, because I doubt it would be ANYwhere in the deeds or whatever that they promised not to take the grass!

But this reminds me of when we moved into a house in the late 90s, and the stupid idiots that owned the house, pulled their dishwasher out, took all the fittings, and didn't 'cap off' where the water came from, so when we turned on the water, we had a flood in the kitchen. Some people are inconsiderate fools.