Stuff your vendor left in the house you bought

Dan-Dan

mctaggus wrote: »

in my very first house we discovered 893 bottles of newcastle brown ale buried in the back garden when we started landscaping…..

were they full ?

McTaggus

Dan-Dan wrote: »

were they full ?

If only - as it turned out, the ground level of the bottom tier of the garden dropped three foot as a result when they were removed. Perhaps, had they been full, I would have been slightly slightly less sober and therefore less perturbed! :beer:

We stopped landscaping after the bottom tier, once we realised the other three tiers (it was built on a sharp hillside) were of the same construction….

Best guess, over 3,000 empty bottles of ale in that garden. Over 2000 remained when I sold up for the next buyer to find in due course!


Just to add - we also found out that the "sea themed" ornamental feature in the back garden was one of those metal things they tie massive ships too…. which had been stolen from Chatham Historic Dockyard by a previous owner years beforehand….

Grenage

I discovered about 30 issues of a niche adult magazines hidden in a secret compartment in the loft. When I took them to the tip, I was praying that the bag wouldn't break.

gloriouslyhappy

Nasty old knickers and thongs behind the radiators - builder thought it hilarious when he removed radiators to paint, kept going on about Ann Summers until he blessedly finished and left, taking said undergarments with him. (pity his wife - I got you something darling)

Winter_Phoenix

When I moved into my first flat, the only item the former tenants had left was in the kitchen broom cupboard. It was a large tube of cream intended to - er - to assist gentlemen to remain firm in intimate situations. In the broom cupboard.

Trina90

2 very small old tvs in the loft

walwyn1978

The disappointing: Old rusty bike in the shed, along with a set of broken patio chairs. A rotting carpet in the loft, along with a 1980's style fake plastic tree and Xmas decorations. Various industrial cleaning chemicals in plastic tubs which had solidified into sludge. All went to the tip.

The awesome: A set of unopened kitchen unit fronts and handles still in packaging. Didn't fit the kitchen that was there, so stuck them on Gumtree. Happy days - paid most of the removal company bill!!

Contessa

I thought houses (including lofts, garages, sheds and gardens) had to be left completely empty. Or am I naive?

I certainly remember reading some threads about it on here.

At the moment a friend of mine is frantically trying to get rid of all the junk in her house prior to selling. I've been lending a hand but she wonders if she really needs to get rid of absolutely everything (e.g old bookshelves in the loft - junk or useful storage? Carpets in the eaves-junk or insulation?)

lincroft1710

Contessa wrote: »

I thought houses (including lofts, garages, sheds and gardens) had to be left completely empty. Or am I naive?

I certainly remember reading some threads about it on here.

At the moment a friend of mine is frantically trying to get rid of all the junk in her house prior to selling. I've been lending a hand but she wonders if she really needs to get rid of absolutely everything (e.g old bookshelves in the loft - junk or useful storage? Carpets in the eaves-junk or insulation?)

She can leave whatever she wants, but she runs the risk of having her buyer posting on the forum asking if your friend can be pursued for the cost of disposing of her rubbish or even a solicitor's letter from her buyer. As she is contracting to leave the house empty, that is exactly what she should do.

NotGivingIn

In 1991 we moved in to find old television screens in the loft, under the kitchen floor and buried in the back garden (with empty vodka bottles). We never even found out why they had all these screens as our neighbours said that wasn't his job or had ever seemed to be his hobby. They also left curtains that didn't even close fully and a broken bedstead - but I think that was spite because we wouldn't pay twice the value for the cooker (so they removed that even though they were emigrating and couldn't actually take it with them.):eek: