Stuff your vendor left in the house you bought

GBNI

What a childish over-reaction.

We got a roll of wallpaper (unopened) and a carpet off cut in the shed.

All manuals for the white goods which were negoiated in the price of the house.

The vendors had also topped up £10 in the electric 'to keep us gonig until we had time to top it up.' Very kind I thought

The house was also absolutely spotless. I am a total clean freak and hardly had to do a thing! It was a very straight forward and stress free house buy.

dimestorediamond

In our family house, bought when I was about six, the attic had loads and loads of old newspapers, mostly from 1900-1920 - including some national ones that featured the Titanic. (House built in the late 19th century). Then, in the garden, it was being landscaped, tons and tons of old glass bottles, in green, clear, brown and blue. We think that there was an alcoholic in the property at some point, hiding their bottles in the ground. The bottles are still about - all the whole ones are used as decoration in the house.

My sister recently bought hers too, and got left a bunch of junk in the garden and some very worn and useless office furniture. She did however, get left a nice leather sofa, which will do for her kitchen (its big) for now. And oddly, when we were cleaning out the fixed storage for her babys room to put stuff away, we found a book entitled "101 ways to please your man". It raised a fair old giggle, but my sister was mildly perturbed as she was sure she had looked in that cupboard in her second viewing and nothing was there. (House had been empty a while)

eddddy

I bought a flat... sadly, the previous occupant had died.

The flat had been empty for about a year. But nothing had been cleared. It was fully furnished, the kitchen was fully equipped and there were personal belongings in the draws. And it was like walking into a 1960's time warp.

The saddest thing was that the old-guy's 'last dinner' was still in the oven.

It looked like it was a 'meals-on-wheels' meal, which had just been left keeping warm for days or maybe weeks. The meat and veg looked like they had fossilised into solid carbon, but exactly retained their original shapes.

... and the front door was broken. Presumably somebody had to eventually break it down to get in.


(Now I've told you that, anyone wanna buy my flat?)

Curlywurli

Quite a lot of rubbish. The people had been old and died and their kids did the clearing out. The one thing we found in the loft was a set of newspapers spanning the Falklands War- still got them up there.

Davesnave

eddddy wrote: »

I bought a flat... sadly, the previous occupant had died.

An even sadder case near me.

Gentleman, not really old, but in poor health, died late on Sunday.
Police cars etc called Monday.
Relatives arrived Tuesday....put out furniture.
Wednesday morning, council removed furniture.
Wednesday lunchtime 14 bin bags of assorted 'stuff' appeared by our drive ready for the dustcart. We investigated: everything from wedding album to benefit books, medical notes to betting slips. The guy's entire worldly possessions. Even the photos of the grandchildren had been junked.

By Thursday there was no evidence he ever existed.

God, they must've hated him!

Contessa

Davesnave wrote: »

An even sadder case near me.

Gentleman, not really old, but in poor health, died late on Sunday.
Police cars etc called Monday.
Relatives arrived Tuesday....put out furniture.
Wednesday morning, council removed furniture.
Wednesday lunchtime 14 bin bags of assorted 'stuff' appeared by our drive ready for the dustcart. We investigated: everything from wedding album to benefit books, medical notes to betting slips. The guy's entire worldly possessions. Even the photos of the grandchildren had been junked.


By Thursday there was no evidence he ever existed.

God, they must've hated him!

That's so very sad.

Makes me think about all the junk I have. I certainly don't want to burden my children with it but I do hope that when the time comes (in several years I hope!) they will look through most of it. Hopefully have a laugh, maybe a tear, and talk about their parents with fond memories and love.

mgtr

Those interested in this thread might enjoy this story;


http://moversandstorers.co.uk/2013/11/26/vacant-possesion-its-an-obligation/


This lady is about to get this case into court. Although the defendant will likely settle in advance as he doesn't have a leg to stand on.

FelinePrincess

So much rubbish was left behind in our house when we brought it a few months ago, too much to list but here's a few highlights

Loads of ladders (well 4) - 1 of them us a really good one so I'm very pleased! We found to in the house, then later another 2 in the garden.
An Asian !!!!!! magazine
6 mis matched dining chairs
Bathroom bin complete with unpleasant rubbish
Lots of bills and debt collectors letters - we have also had a bailiff visit looking for previous tennants
Baby bouncer, push chair and car seat
A bed frame
3 double mattresses (none in good condition)
A old canoe (in the garden)
2 parking cones (also in the garden) - due to my previous neighbours I never want to see a parking cone again so these were promptly taken to the recycling place (who were pleased with them and used them themselves)

queengoth

We bought a boat off an old hippy and got
Chemical toilet (full)
Frying pan with congealed fat
Mattress with stains
Pair of false teeth
Jar full of 'herbs'

We also found out that he had previously sunk the boat and the fire brigade had pumped it out and he just put laminate over the wet carpets. We had to take the interior out and go right back to the steel shell and start again. I cried for weeks.

jamie11

I bought this large place in Spain, for the first year I explored the garden and found many items that had been removed from the house and just chucked into the garden, 75% were easily repairable and I fitted them back to where I thought they had originally come from, a particular triumph was a five legged chandelier that just needed cleaning and rewiring, it's been perfect now for ten years plus.