Completion - flat filthy!

Errata

Stands up and says "I left a property I sold without a thorough final clean, because the purchaser had been a total PITA from start to finish and I wanted to pay them back". I am not embarrassed.

Ivana_Tinkle

You've got no chance of getting anything back from the scummy vendor for the dirt, and I wouldn't have thought it's worth the hassle of pursuing them over the lack of "making good". I feel your pain though. It took two days to clean just the kitchen of our current place. Seriously - two days on one room! I wouldn't have believed it possible.

I've been laughed at on here for saying this before, but if anyone's reading who's currently in the process of buying a place, this is a good reason for having a final viewing before exchange if you possibly can. If you go round and it's a filthy pit, you can then make them clean up before you exchange.

Our last vendors clearly didn't do any cleaning at all between us putting in the offer and completion, which ended up being 5 months (and the place hadn't been particularly clean even when we viewed!). It's easy to assume a bit of cleaning is a trivial matter, but it certainly didn't feel that way to us! To be honest, if we'd turned up to find a gaping hole in the roof it probably would have been less disruptive and unpleasant to deal with.

pops5588

Errata wrote: »

Stands up and says "I left a property I sold without a thorough final clean, because the purchaser had been a total PITA from start to finish and I wanted to pay them back". I am not embarrassed.

Fair enough but personally I believe there to be a difference between not having a thorough final clean because someone was a pain in the backside, and living in a self-created cesspit because you are a lazy mofo who knows you get to walk away from it soon and it's someone else's problem!