How do you do to move out and in in the same day?

betsie

I always leave the house spotless. I also leave a card and bottle of champagne (if they are the buyer from hell it is just left clean). I would hate my buyers to move in and feel disappointed.
All the houses I moved into have been grubby at best and some filthy.
But I would feel awful leaving my dirt for someone else to clean.
I will say though that slot depends on what your selling. If it!!!8217;s a move in ready house in my opinion it should be spotless. If it!!!8217;s a doer upper than a clean bathroom and kitchen and general hoover elsewhere is sufficient.

getmore4less

My idea of spotless and my mums idea of grubby were not that far apart.

Cakeguts

leon103 wrote: »

Someone needs a !!!!ing chill pill. Most negative poster ever award goes to....

If you are referring to me you need to know that in the past there have been several threads on here about what people should do when they turn up at their new house after completion and find the previous owners still in there packing or removing furniture.

There have also been threads on people moving to a new house and the previous owner keeping a key and letting themselves in to collect items they had forgotten to take with them. The advice given is to change the locks as soon as possible after completion.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5633650

Here is one to start with there are several others.

As I said it happened to us. The previous owner was still in our house moving stuff out after completion.

Slinky

Somebody I used to work with ended up doing a house swap sale, she was upsizing, the other person was downsizing. Imagine how pi&&ed off my colleague was that she'd cleaned her place to within an inch of it's life, and the other party had done nothing, so not only did she clean her old place, she cleaned the new one as well and the lazy mare who left the grotty house got a spotless one in return. My colleague was several months pregnant at the time also.

EmmyLou30

I suppose the TA6 form saying to leave a place clean is open to interpretation. Someone who lives like an animal is likely to think it is clean, whereas someone who has some pride and enjoys a clean house would say it wasn't fit to inhabit.


I'm on the cleaner end of the spectrum whereas most people I know are somewhere in the middle or lower! My mother would also say something was filthy when someone else would say it was clean.


I think a basic hoover and dust would suffice if you're in a hurry as chances are if you're the kind of person to care enough to even think about factoring in time to clean, you're the kind of person who has a clean house anyway.