Stuff your vendor left in the house you bought

robatwork

I was left:
1971 aquamarine bathroom suite
Scabby lampshades
Scabby carpet
Scabby curtains
Collapsing fence
Leaking shed
Dodgy electrics
Outside light powered by internal mains extension cord running 60ft to back of garden
Mould, lots of

All gone now....

Bonniepurple

Ours was a repo, so we were left...
A partially plumbed in bathroom
A kitchen with varying stages of cupboards (the ones with doors had no shelves)
A bonfire in the back garden
10 tonnes of gravel
Industrial cleaning kit
Squash
A pond filled in with rubbish - old tyres, lino, alsorts
A massive dog flap
No bannisters
And......
Graffiti on the master bedroom walls, the politest of which read.....
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"We conceived our first daughter here - hope you do the same":rotfl: (the rest were rather graphic descriptions of how!).

duchy

My brother bought a flat in Brighton.
He ended up putting up a note by the bell saying that the "ladies" who had previously operated their business from there had moved on. The late night callers stopped except during party political conference time which took a bit longer to stop.

Sonofa

duchy wrote: »

My brother bought a flat in Brighton.
He ended up putting up a note by the bell saying that the "ladies" who had previously operated their business from there had moved on. The late night callers stopped except during party political conference time which took a bit longer to stop.

Understandable thought, it's so difficult for one to find a good manicurist.

Unitoons

Lol - it is amazing what people can't be bothered to take with them!
I cleaned my house from top to bottom and checked all the rooms twice before I left!

When I moved in my new place I had been left:
A small art deco wardrobe
A child's swing, sandpit and caterpillar rocker (I don't have kids!)
A wheelbarrow (seems to be quite common to leave these!)
Several dreadful pictures
A large heater
Lots of blunt tools

They took all the lamp shades and curtains and left loads of holes in the walls where they had pictures and shelves up!

EmmyLou30

2 sheds full of old tenants stuff including the original broken loo seats in the boxes from the replacement loo seats - well just in case they wanted to put them back on presumably! The replacements were on their last legs so goodness knows how long they'd held on to them. The old wee soaked carpets from the bathrooms in the loft 'just in case', and lots of other rolls of carpet off cuts up there too. A table, a chair, rusty BBQ, empty bottles and cans in the kitchen cupboards and brown stained toilets. And an extractor hood with fat dripping off it. Plus we still get all their bank related mail talling us how overdrawn they are!
The garden has nothing buried in it as far as we know.....just a lot of conifers and a plant label for every plant ever planted in the garden over the last 20 years all of which fall apart when you try and remove them as they're so old. Honestly, the flower beds are full of plastic tags! Became a running joke as we cleared the garden 'ooh look, another plant label'.

BigAunty

Toe nails, an oven splash back that must have been left outside as it was covered in bird poo and a dirty oven that was splashed with grease from the fry-up they must have had on the morning of the move, plus an envelope containing pocket money for their children which was returned to them.

savvy02_2

We had some very odd items left, and the old owner left more than she intended I think due to it getting to 12 noon the day after completion, and she (well, her sons) were still moving things out!

Things included;
Large wooden patio table and 1 chair (she took the other 3 chairs?)
Wooden chair with table joining the two, again, she took the other single chair to match.
Many many wind chimes / bird feeders in various states of disrepair, hung all over the garden, and I mean all over!
Fitted wardrobes that were in both larger bedrooms - she took down one and a half sets - the half that was left held to the wall by decorators caulk!
Full working chest freezer in the garage - we actually now use this though
And finally, she had taken half the latts from the 'shelves' in the built in airing cupboard - she must have needed small lengths of wood exactly that size in her new house - odd considering she bought a new build.


I think she would have taken more, however she could see that we were getting more and more annoyed that they were still going 24 hours after they handed (half!) the keys back in to the EA. Also, us being FTBs and a bit green, didn't realise the implications of them still having stuff in the house we then owned as completion had taken place. All water under the bridge 12 months later though.


Thankfully we gutted the entire house, so these were small fish in terms of what we were getting rid of, but still bemusing, even now.

ACG

Plant pots! More plant pots than I can count - there were also a good 100+ in an old coal bunker in the back garden. If I put them all out I dont think I would have any garden left.

- A hedgetrimmer - working and came in handy when I first moved in.
- A singer sewing machine - must be worth a good couple of hundred quid as its a big'en.
- Some chairs (handy for the emergency christmas chairs).
- A heat gun which came in really handy when stripping all the yellow gloss off EVERYTHING - so much so I actually burnt it out just as I got to the end.
- A jigsaw (as in the electric tool).

Quite a good find really in my loft. No hidden monets or Lowrys though unfortunately.

fromtheshires

My house was a repo so more stuff was left than normally there would have been.

They pretty much left everything they couldn't fit in the back of a car by the amount of stuff I had to throw out in the few weeks after I purchased the place, but the following I thought were really interesting finds.

Drugs (disposed of in the proper manner via the local plod)
Adult films / accessories / magazines - they must have been addicted to the stuff as there was that much of it.
Nappies full of poo just left all over the place
Half filled bottles of milk at the point of explosion hidden in rubbish bags and other places in the house.
Just shy of £50 in change :j
Fish tank full of dead fish (in the garden under piles of more rubbish)

I didn't do the loft as it took me 8 hours to do the small bedroom that day but apparently there was loads more adult films and mags and other nasties up there.

It was a major health hazard but the price was right and I have access to unlimited amounts of gloves and protective clothing.