Stuff your vendor left in the house you bought

princeofpounds

I never used to realise this, but it turns out the burying obsession is actually relatively common (as compulsive behaviours go).


My strange object was a whale vertebra. Apparently people used to use them as garden ornaments, back in the day. It was all a bit too Jurassic Park for me.

natrapx

Apart from a bit of dust (that the lady was willing to clean but we shoo'd her out, in a nice way, so she could get on and enjoy her new house.

Couple of plants in the garden, all the manuals to the kitchen bits, and a nice selection of spare floorboards, wallpaper, paint etc. all neatly organised if we needed to touch up any bits.

Not exciting, but for first time buyers much better than the horror stories i've been reading on this thread!

dc197

Complete office in a garden shed - chair, filing cabinet, files, calculator, in tray, etc.
Record player and hifi unit in loft
Coffee table in loft
Fish tank & accessories in loft

KayTM

We unexpectedly got some live fish in the garden and a dog kennel. (Unwanted)

On the other hand, they left the house in pretty good nick. I'm not a clean freak but I do like things to be up to a certain standard. They left us lots of useful things too, which weren't part of the house price, eg a fridge freezer which was so clean I didn't even feel the need to wipe it out before putting our stuff in it, and the oven in their old cooker was spotless. Several things like that.

In the longer term their appliances will all be replaced (I'd like a complete kitchen revamp) but it's a big help to move into a house and have a cooker and fridge from day one while you get settled in. Better still that they were clean!

Marvel1

A wardrobe, asked if I wanted to buy first before moving out, said no I have my own, seen it was left there, and I used that one instead.

Hoploz

Hoploz wrote: »

Update a week on and I still have an uncollected Portacabin and an escaped hamster!

No word on when the Portacabin is likely to be removed

Can hear the poor hamster scratching in the middle of the night still, but sadly it is coming from the far end of the eves (behind converted loft room) and there is no way we can get anywhere near it - no floorboards! Trap cage left with some food for it by previous owner but the food is still there so guess he must be stuck

Update:
The porta cabin finally got taken away after a month!

The hamster ... Well we think that might have been a load of !!!! by the seller. A year on and the scratching started again ... It's mice scurrying around between our bedroom ceiling and the floor of the loft-conversion-bedroom above us! No way to get any traps in the void so they scratched and scurried for weeks, kept us awake at night. Awful for a couple of months, seem to have gone quiet recently so I guess they've moved on outside for the spring!

cloo

We kept finding 'stealth' Jesuses (Jesii?), crucifixes and Virgin Marys around house for a few weeks. Previous owner was an Italian gentleman and his English wife.




I've kept the Mary inside my wardrobe door as a memento.

LannieDuck

A headstone for the previous owner's father, left in the shed.

(We did contact the previous owner to check he didn't want it; he didn't.)

They also left the light fittings (that we had declined to pay £400 for), a pair of dumbells, some old duvets and a pair of spare curtains.

jackr5

natrapx wrote: »

Couple of plants in the garden, all the manuals to the kitchen bits, and a nice selection of spare floorboards, wallpaper, paint etc. all neatly organised if we needed to touch up any bits.

I too was lucky and got these things - like a little welcome starter pack from the vendor!

Hoploz

We had been here several months before we discovered we have a car buried in a corner of our land. We are in contact with people who lived here 20 years ago, they alerted us by asking if it was still there!!