Items left in the house we sold

getmore4less

one of these type of charities in your are

http://www.communityrepaint.org.uk/

mrginge

Perhaps the new owners don't want your old crap left lying round their new house.
Perhaps after asking nicely for a week or two they are now sick of being fobbed off by feeble excuses.

Silvertabby

What a lot of fuss about nothing! We have no plans to move at the moment - but if/when we do I don't think we would leave any paint behind, as I would expect the new owners to re-decorate rather than just touch-up. Although they could have used them to touch up any moving-in damages to tide them over.....?

We have kept the spare tiles from both the bathroom and the en-suite, just in case the shower units need digging out and replacing - otherwise the whole rooms would have to be re-tiled to match. I suppose that if/when we move we will have to just skip them if they would be classed as 'rubbish'.

-taff

If you left items in their house that weren't mutually agreed upon, it's your reposnibility to remove them.
They are perfectly entitled to remove those items and charge you for it.
If you don't fetch them soon, they will. Go and fetch them before you're charged £120 for a skip.

Mickygg

That's a shame they are ungrateful. My previous owners did exactly the same by leaving laminate and paint and I was very grateful to go round the house touching up!
I did the same to my last buyers and they contacted me to say thank you.
Now I've read this when I sell ill have to ask the buyers if they want it.
What seems odd about this is rather than pursue through you it would surely have been easier for them to dispose of it. Oh well just to put it to bed even if you have to make 2 trips to dump it's easily resolved.

marliepanda

Mickygg wrote: »

That's a shame they are ungrateful. My previous owners did exactly the same by leaving laminate and paint and I was very grateful to go round the house touching up!
Now I've read this when I sell ill have to ask the buyers if they want it.

It's not necessarily ungrateful

What if you hated the laminate and planned on ripping it up at the best opportunity. Would you want a shed full of spare laminate that you hate?

Kalamazoo

I'd appreciate the gesture even if I was going to rip it up/repaint.

I think most normal human beings would, and would just ditch it next time they go to the tip if they don't want it

marliepanda

I wouldn't fuss either, but that's me. If it won't fit in a car, no matter how
Small, I could see it being a pain.

phoebe1989seb

Indout96 wrote: »

The bungalow we moved to had a garage half stocked with items, we just kept what we thought we might need and took the rest to the tip. by the sounds of it we should have demanded compensation :rotfl:

Similar experience here. A few years ago we bought a house that had previously been divided into four flats. The vendor had moved to the US and although he popped back regularly to deal with the sale he was raher laissez faire about the whole business.

On completion day we counted fifty seven items of furniture - plus odd personal items such as sports equipment and musical instruments - left at the property. Being young and naive we had no idea we could have demanded their removal. I don't think we even mentioned it to our solicitor.

We contacted various charities etc but they weren't interested. House clearance companies wanted paying to remove it, so we chopped the stuff up and took it to the tip/put it in the many skips we needed for the renovation work

When buying our current house in 2014, the vendor - who no longer lived at the property - noticed between exchange and completion that the washing machine wasn't working. He kindly offered us £300 (iirc) for a new one and left the old one in situ. We got the local scrap guy to take it away. In the cellar we found a large fridge freezer and a huge safe (sadly empty!) that weren't on the fixtures and fittings list. Not for one moment did we consider threatening to sue the vendor, but I guess we are [STRIKE]nice people[/STRIKE] mugs!

We usually leave left over paint for our buyers when we sell - having checked first that they want it though - and last time we left offcuts of some expensive limestone floor tiles as well as a couple of packs of unused engineered oak flooring that we'd laid in the reception rooms, thinking these might be useful to the new owners......

OP, you've had plenty of time to get these items removed, I'd just find a way to get it done asap. Otoh, your buyers do sound like ungrateful idiots!

macman

Indout96 wrote: »

When we sold last March we offered the buyers free of charge the fridge freezer / washer as they were colour coded to the kitchen - they said great as they were first time buyers after renting for years and did not have these.
1 week before moving we got a letter from their solicitor saying we must remove these items or we would be charged for disposal.

The bungalow we moved to had a garage half stocked with items, we just kept what we thought we might need and took the rest to the tip. by the sounds of it we should have demanded compensation :rotfl:

If you had already exchanged contracts at that point then you were under no obligation to remove them. They were the ones in breach of contract, not you.