Carpets included in sale

Old_Git

wait and see what delights your new house has for you

CathA

If the only problem I've ever had was a burn mark on a carpet in a house I was moving into I'd be delighted!!

I don't know where all the clean houses are as I've never had one of those to move into, ever!! The house we're in now looked ok on first inspection but when we put the cooker on there was so much smoke we had to open the windows-in February!! We moved a settee that was left behind, cobwebs were attached between it and the wall. Some kitchen cupboards were clean, some not (?) Cobwebs the size of a small village festooned the tops of some kitchen units, others were fine. I could go on but you get the point.

Every house I've left has been cleaned from top to bottom, damn shame I've never moved into one the same.

Windsorcastle

The OP sounds like a very decent vendor. You are leaving lots of things behind that a stingy vendor might take, and if the new buyer, especially a FTB, has any sense, she will appreciate you saving her money on various things, especially white goods.

I definitely wouldn't worry at all about the burn mark on the carpet. However, I have never heard of a buyer asking if the carpets are staying! It wouldn't even occur to me as a burning issue (no pun intended) when buying a property!

somethingcorporate

On the day we moved out of our old house one of the movers managed to switch the shower on which promptly flooded the bathroom and soaked down the walls and was dripping down the kitchen window below.

Oops!

The buyers didn't mind (they didn't have a great deal of choice!!).

tyllwyd

I think the OP is getting criticised over talking about whether or not to leave the carpets but it hasn't always been automatically assumed that carpets were included in the sale - I remember when I bought in the 1990s it would always be mentioned in the house details that carpets were included, and when my mum & dad moved into the house where I grew up in the early 70s they brought the carpet from the previous house.

CathA

tyllwyd wrote: »

I think the OP is getting criticised over talking about whether or not to leave the carpets but it hasn't always been automatically assumed that carpets were included in the sale - I remember when I bought in the 1990s it would always be mentioned in the house details that carpets were included, and when my mum & dad moved into the house where I grew up in the early 70s they brought the carpet from the previous house.

IIRC, people always took carpets when we moved when I was younger. Many a time we moved into houses where the carpets had been taken; it was a common practice years ago (and I'm talking about 30-40 years ago, plus we moved loads of times as well). Not sure when it became the norm to leave them?

amiehall

What would anyone do with an old carpet if they took it? Surely not put it down in a new house... Seems to make sense for everyone to leave them where they're fitted. Even if you want to change them, it makes the place halfway liveable while you're getting round to it.