Furniture already in a house I'm buying

Loonytunes

I've just had an offer accepted on my first house. I've got to this stage a couple of times before, only for other people to come along and offer more money even though the houses were supposedly off the market so I'm not getting my hopes up too much but hopefully this is it.

Anyway, the owner of the house died and its their family selling the house. There is still all the owner's furniture in the house. The house is bigger than the house I'm currently renting and I was wondering about saying that I don't mind if they want to leave any furniture to save them the hassle of getting rid of it. I've stretched myself to buy the house and the furniture is all quite dated so I'd probably only keep hold of it for a little while and then pass it on the the local furniture bank so I can't/don't really want to pay for it. How do I offer to have the furniture without sounding really cheeky? I would be absolutely fine if they want to get rid of it all, I'm just thinking its more effort for them at a difficult time. I'm very new to all this so don't really know what I'm doing yet! Thanks

mrsp89

I would ask politely what they are planning on doing with the furniture, they might actually want the furniture - if they say they are planning on dumping it then just say something like 'Anything you plan on dumping, just leave if you like, I could probably make good use out of it' ...

Soot2006

We got all the furniture with our probate purchase.

Like you, we were moving from rented and while we did have some furniture, we didn't have much. We asked the vendors what they were planning on doing with the (very old but clean and functional) couches and they were only going to dump them so immediately were delighted to leave them behind. Less trouble for them. That discussion ended up in essentially the house staying as it was with lots of furniture. This was very helpful for us as we kept a lot of it for several years while saving up to buy reaslly nice replacements. Definitely worth asking, gently.

Kirstyb1987

Tell them exactly that....Be honest, you may be doing them a favour. Explain that you don't need the furniture but your happy to take it free of charge if they are only going to get rid of it anyway.


I would imagine they would only be skipping it because the owner has died - your probably saving them £140 and their time!

Browntoa

I'm on the opposite side of this . Mums moved into sheltered housing and we are selling her place , theres a fridge and freezer still there and a few other bits. We are hoping that the buyers may want them otherwise they will be skipped

PasturesNew

We had a house cleared for free. They take it and sell what they can, so no charge. If the new buyers had wanted to have any of it I'd have pleased to have left it for free for them.... although there does need to be a simple list written up so you know what's going/staying when the house clearance mob come.

I got a local 2nd hand electrical guy to buy the fridge/freezer from me .... which paid for him to transport the washing machine to my sibling's house as she needed a new one. So that was handy as I got them both cleared out and the WM transported.

ellahenderson

plz dont dump it other wise you would have to buy new furniture ofr urself!

DRP

I would say nothing.

They may want to keep it, sell it or offer it to you. All that will be sorted during the conveyancing process.

By telling them you want it they may see the opportunity for a few £££.

Mojisola

Browntoa wrote: »

I'm on the opposite side of this . Mums moved into sheltered housing and we are selling her place , theres a fridge and freezer still there and a few other bits. We are hoping that the buyers may want them otherwise they will be skipped

Please don't throw them away! Your area probably has a furniture centre which provides second-hand furniture and white goods to people in need. They will collect free of charge. As will several charities.

If not, offer the goods on Freegle or local Facebook selling page.

Browntoa

the problem is I am 2 hours away from the property , its nigh on impossible to arrange to give stuff away even though I want to

Mojisola

Browntoa wrote: »

the problem is I am 2 hours away from the property , its nigh on impossible to arrange to give stuff away even though I want to

If you have to go there to take stuff to the tip, isn't it as easy to arrange a furniture collection from the house by a charity?