Things that previous owners took away when moving

ognum

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Taken from current house:

- freestanding kitchen cabinet they had agreed they would leave

- one carpet

- one shelf

- bathroom door bolt

Place left filthy.

Price I paid for it was a "lay on the goodwill to me" price, as it was the full asking price minus the estate agent fees (as no estate agent was involved).

Really annoyed about not having had my "goodwill" and "bits and bobs" - as I had paid enough for it. But the lies about the condition of the place were the worst feature and I had to lay out hundreds of £s urgently that I hadnt expected to:mad:

never ever believe that a property will be left how you would leave it!

I completed on Friday on a house I am going to let, I have spent 2 x 10 hour days cleaning it! Bathroom was in a dreadful state etc.

The owner has not yet fully cleared out the garage which is in a block, he claims it will be empty today but he said that Saturday and Sunday but the c-ap is slowly going down so he is moving it.

I am treading a fine line because while I know he should have moved it by Friday he has sold me the one assets he has and is now effectively homeless and ill. If I push too hard he will just leave his garbage for me to clean.

Oh the joys of home buying!

room512

Hermia wrote: »

The previous people who lived in my flat took all the recycling/food/garden waste bins with them. The council won't supply me any for free as they say the flat has already had their allocation of free bins. Grrrrr.

Really? When we moved in (last August) we were missing a black bin, blue bin and food waste bin and I rang the council and they delivered one of each a few days later. I had no idea that they could charge us for them.

googler

Hermia wrote: »

The previous people who lived in my flat took all the recycling/food/garden waste bins with them. The council won't supply me any for free as they say the flat has already had their allocation of free bins. Grrrrr.

...and what did they say when you told them the prev owner had taken them, and when you provided proof that you moved in on dd/mm/yy ....?

LittleMax

room512 wrote: »

Really? When we moved in (last August) we were missing a black bin, blue bin and food waste bin and I rang the council and they delivered one of each a few days later. I had no idea that they could charge us for them.

Depends on individual Councils ... used to be a nightmare when I was working for a council where we provided replacement bins FOC but the neighbouring authority made a charge. Every time anyone moved over the border they took their bins with, them just in case, so we were constantly subsidising the other council. Of course as far as they were concerned their policy of charging was working just fine

Yet another postcode lottery!

cardinalbiggles

tim123456789 wrote: »

Taking light bulbs!

Do people really still do that?

tim

At £10 a pop for energy saving GU10's I would be taking them with me if I moved!

tim123456789

chrisico wrote: »

We had the door bell taken and the cable between the ariel and the connection in the front room also stripped.

We were speechless.

I moved a door-bell once

I wanted to keep it because it ran on a single PP3 and all of the new ones that I could find required 4*D batteries.

Though taking out the wiring is pretty sick

tim

tim123456789

cardinalbiggles wrote: »

At £10 a pop for energy saving GU10's I would be taking them with me if I moved!

So would I.

But I'd put back halogens at 4 for a pound from the pound shop!

tim

tim123456789

room512 wrote: »

Really? When we moved in (last August) we were missing a black bin, blue bin and food waste bin and I rang the council and they delivered one of each a few days later. I had no idea that they could charge us for them.

councils differ:

some supply and charge for them

some supply them free (and still own them, so if mover takes it with him, he has stolen it)

some supply first fre,e moving ownership to the house and charge for replacements

Some expect you to buy privately

monza23

When we moved into ours we had just finished unloading, thought we would sit the children down to watch a bit of TV but No Picture, checked up on the roof the aerial was still there, followed the cable into the loft and the TV booster had been removed leaving 4 x cable ends going nowhere!!

big5

The previous owner of my parents' house took all the carpets despite saying they'd leave them. My folks moved in when I was a few months old and a screaming baby + bare concrete floors = not a good moving experience apparently (they still talk about it now).

I wish the previous owners of our last house had taken the carpets with them - they were infested with fleas and smelt of cat pee.