Moving out - What can I take?

PasturesNew

When I bought my house there were small shelves/coat hooks at the viewing ... they were gone when I completed, leaving holes. Not sure why as they weren't expensive shelves... but a pain in the butt to me as I am not the shelf-fitting sort.

Unless they have sentimental value I can see no reason to remove shelves, to be honest.

kerri_gt

The people we bought from took most shelving including some floating shelves in the lounge and I think I removed close on 60 rawl plugs from various holes in the walls throughout the house (and filled, and repainted) I can't say I'd given much thougt to whether they would or wouldn't be left, except for perhaps the lounge ones as I was thinking what I'd put on them.

TBH though I'm not fussed they went, it gave us a blank canvas (now have a picture where the shelves are for example) .and the house was totally spotless when we moved in which meant more to me than a few holes to fill.

If you love them, take them.

ellie27

It's your house, your possessions, you take what you want but do make sure the buyers know - by filling in the fixtures/fittings form that your solicitor will give you. It is more important that large items eg appliances are listed/discussed/agreed whether leaving or taking.

I am sure their offer of x price is not based on an assumption you leaving a few shelves.

Take all your picture frames/mirrors etc, from the wall. Buyers will quickly replace with their own photos/frames etc

MobileSaver

ellie27 wrote: »

I am sure their offer of x price is not based on an assumption you leaving a few shelves.

However their offer will have been based on how the room looked when they viewed and they'd be within their rights to complain if they took ownership with holes in the wall where lovely oak floating shelves used to be.

To avoid any dispute the OP should specify in the F&F inventory that the shelves are not included. Any damage/holes in the wall caused by removing the shelves will need to be made good.

trailingspouse

There are plenty of things that don't fall out when you metaphorically turn your house upside down - carpets, curtains, light fittings, wall-mounted TVs. And you might or might not want to take any or all of these things with you. The important thing is to communicate with the buyer so that they know what is going and what is staying. Then no-one needs to feel hard done by.

Fosterdog

How far through the sale process are you? Have fixtures and fittings been discussed yet? If so were the shelves mentioned? If not that is the time to sort it out.

It may be worth speaking to the buyers though, the house I've just bought had shelves in the alcoves and the days we got the keys they were all ripped out, partly because they were really tacky looking and not to our tastes at all and partly because we were also taking down a wall and replastering the walls so they had to come down anyway, however if we had liked them it would have been done carefully so that they could go back instead we just took a sledge hammer to them.

If you speak to the buyers you may find that they are not fussed on the shelves anyway and would want them gone or they may have been a selling point to them and they really want to keep them

flimsier

You can take whatever is specified (or not specified as being left) in the fixtures and fittings agreement - which you should have decided when you filled in. That's the reason for it.

HB58

I agree with the advice to have a chat with your buyers. We have just moved and our buyers have had some walls replastered. In other places they simply didn't want the shelving we had there. No point in reluctanly leaving your lovely shelves and then finding out they went into a skip as soon as your buyers moved in!

ACG

When you sell your house, the solicitor sends you a form to fill out. That form is all about fixtures & fittings etc, you can put on there what you plan to leave or take and the choice is compeltely yours.

That will get passed to your buyer and your buyer can query anything.

I bought my house recently and the lady took the curtains but left the blinds. She took 2 light fittings and left the rest.

So long as you fill out the paperwork accordingly it is up to you what you take. If the buyer does not query it then there is no issue.

googler

Did the OP sell in England/Wales or Scotland?

If the latter, what's included/excluded is determined by a combination of

Any extras, inclusions or exclusions specified in the sales particulars
The standard clauses in the missives
Any confirmation or modification of the above in the offer and subsequent missives.