Buyers' solicitor arguing over blinds

getmore4less

How on earth did 3 sets of blinds come to £1k you could do a 3 bed house for that.

Time2go

We exchange last week and complete Friday we asked for £100 for cooker in f and f. Asked solicitor today what happened to f and f discussion on cooker to find out no discussion was ever had and therefore looks like purchasers are getting it for free as I'm not paying £50 to get it disconnected.

This amongst other errors will go in my complaint letter after we complete

[Deleted User]

Hi,

sounds like an English thing, do you still remove the light bulbs when you move house?

So you remove the blinds, they don't fit your new house, and you bin them, happy?

glasgowdan

£500 for old carpets, £100 for an old cooker? What on earth!? Just sell the house, be glad to be able to leave things you don't need and would have to dispose of otherwise. Don't wring the wallets of the buyers for goodness sake!

moneyistooshorttomention

I expect it happens across the country frugal:(.

Some of us CBA to argue about minor points and others do - even if it "cuts off their nose to spite their face". The commonsense view is that "if it's attached to the house it comes with the house anyway". Some of us chuck in bits that very clearly dont "come with the house" (my expensive plants and plantpots:(:(:().

Basically = what's the point of trying to take things if they are obviously specifically for that particular house?

'Twas ever thus.....:cool:

Surrey_EA

[Deleted User] wrote:

Hi,

sounds like an English thing, do you still remove the light bulbs when you move house?

So you remove the blinds, they don't fit your new house, and you bin them, happy?

It's a greedy person thing. Not a trait exclusive to the English.

googler

Time2go wrote: »

We exchange last week and complete Friday we asked for £100 for cooker in f and f. Asked solicitor today what happened to f and f discussion on cooker to find out no discussion was ever had and therefore looks like purchasers are getting it for free as I'm not paying £50 to get it disconnected.

This amongst other errors will go in my complaint letter after we complete

I'm tempted to suggest you hired your solicitor to carry out your conveyancing, not as a broker of your second-hand goods....

Seriously, as per my post above, why on Earth don't you agree this upfront? Why do buyers and sellers in E&W wait for weeks or months to agree on what's included with or excluded from the sale, and even to agree the contract terms which will apply?

Why don't you agree on an offer which includes the specifics of what's included in and excluded from the purchase price, and which outlines the contract terms which will apply?

Margot123

As I have already said, but some have failed to read it before commenting, I am an EXECUTOR of a deceased estate. Yes, a minor beneficiary, but not of the property.

As I have to realise ALL monies available, then I have a duty to the beneficiaries of the property to realise those monies.

On this occasion however, as it has caused so much wasted toing-and-froing between solicitors, then I have gone against the wishes of those beneficiaries and provided the blinds free of any charge. I will probably end up paying the money to them myself but heyho.

Red-Squirrel_2

harrys_dad wrote: »

We exchanged contracts, not including carpets, but they still acted as If I would just leave them by default. The evening before we moved, with an almost empty house, I paid a carpet fitter friend £20 to lift and roll the carpets, which were duly moved and placed in the cellar of my new house awaiting a use. Three years later the smell down there left me the job of removing said rotting carpets to the tip.

Was I being small minded? Probably.

Probably because it IS the default for a seller to leave carpets! What was achieved there? Oh, you lost £20 for no reason, they had to get all new carpets even though the previous ones weren't needed or wanted by you.

What pleasure do people get from being so petty?