Selling house exchanging tomorrow and integrated washing machine dying

ThePants999

I don't really see the sense in that approach, Mutton Geoff.

If there are a dozen different issues and you need to prioritise your time and energy, by all means worry about the ones that are the highest percentage of the overall transaction. But when you're looking at a particular number and asking "is this the right number?", that number stands alone - it isn't rendered more or less right by other unrelated numbers being larger or smaller. Otherwise, you're saying that you'd be happier to pay £500 for an appliance in a £400K house than you would be to pay £300 for the same appliance in a £200K house, and that's clearly nonsensical.

Marvel1

Burnside5 wrote: »

The cost of a new machine (including fitting is £500+) is just another extra cost at an already very expensive time.

Is this brand new or used? No need for brand new.

Rambosmum

Burnside5 wrote: »

The cost of a new machine (including fitting is £500+) is just another extra cost at an already very expensive time.

Ours was £150 from the local 'seconds' shop and we fitted it ourselves - it isn't difficult.

Burnside5

cjdavies wrote: »

Is this brand new or used? No need for brand new.

Yes brand new. I'm not intended to buy brand new, either used or contribute towards brand new if that's what our buyer would prefer. It was only Mutton Geoff that seems to think that I should just buy them a new machine as it's such a small amount compared to the price of my house, but for someone who has recently bought a house that carried a stamp duty bill of £73,750 then £500 for him is probably loose change, whilst for some of us it is quite a lot of money!

Burnside5

thorsoak wrote: »

Many people chose to change the kitchen as a priority once they move into a house - so I would be inclined to offer your buyers the cost of a new machine less a 5-year depreciation and leave the noisy machine there.

What would the 5 year depreciation be? I'd have thought with most modern appliances that would have depreciated to 0 after 5 years

Burnside5

Rambosmum wrote: »

Ours was £150 from the local 'seconds' shop and we fitted it ourselves - it isn't difficult.

Having watched our integrated machine being fitted in the 1st place I can assure you it was far from easy, and if the replacement is a different make & model the chances are that the door will also need to be altered or even changed. To be honest with moving in just over a week whilst holding down a full time job with a young family, the last thing I need is fitting a new integrated washer dryer whilst also packing the house up for the move

Scotbot

Morally I'm with Xylophone, I would go halves and leave them a cheque with a note explaining. I would probably not mention anything prior to exchange though as they could be awkward about it and insist on full cost.

Silvertabby

If I were your buyer, I'd appreciate honesty and £100 towards a new washer of my choice.

Burnside5

So update on this, we have looked into getting a used washer dryer installed and have been quoted £250, so have asked our Estate Agent to contact the buyer and inform them of the situation and make the offer of replacing with the used machine or we will contribute £250 towards to a new machine. Waiting to see what they come back with.

TBagpuss

make sure you keep your solicitor in the loop. The agents may be able to negotiate but once they agree, you want it confirmed between solicitors for safety.

i think your offer is more than reasonable.

Last time I moved, my oven died 2 days before completion. My repair guy came out and said it was not repairable, it wasn't physically possible to get a new one (or second hand one) in by completion.
I ended up giving the £50 towards a new one and everyone was happy.

(My sellers, on the other had, did *not* disclose that the dishwasher and the freezer had both packed up, so I got to find out when I tried to use them, which was a lot of extra faff - I would not have been bothered that they didn't work, but I was !!!!ed off that they had not disclosed it or removed the broken ones, as if I'd known I could have got the moving guys to help me get mine in place.