Help! Offer included all fixtures and fittings but curtains aren't included?

dunroving

I wanted to include the white goods and all carpets and curtains in the house I just bought. So the contract specified the list of white goods and the list of rooms with curtains and curtain rails. I figured, Why not be specific?

dunroving

saajan_12 wrote: »

It doesn't really matter whether the legal definition of Fixtures & Fittings includes curtains, as nothing is legally binding yet. The bottom line is
* You based offer assuming curtains included
* Seller accepted your offer assuming they take curtains

(Atleast) one of you has to give in or you look elsewhere. Options are:
* Reduce offer to how much you value the flat without curtains - (if you've already applied for mortgage etc this may add some work)
* Vendor increases asking price to how much they value flat including curtains (may have to notify / reapply for mortgage)
* Keep same price and insist vendor includes curtains
* Keep same price and give in (buy your own curtains)
* Walk away..

Or the contract can include a rider that the curtains will be sold at a price of X as part of the house sale (but not in the mortgage, keeping things simpler, if the OP has the spare cash). I did that with some of the furniture in the house I just bought.

PasturesNew

Two king sized sheets and some sticky tape will cover large windows that'd need two 90"x90" curtains (238cm x 238). Leave them up a month and the neighbours might have a whip round.

Smodlet

Sorry for the tangent, all. Dunrovin' how's it goin'? Hope you are settling in OK.

dunroving

Smodlet wrote: »

Sorry for the tangent, all. Dunrovin' how's it goin'? Hope you are settling in OK.

Am loving the new house (see my couple of threads about getting workmen in the "Is this quote right" forum). I'm really missing the hiking and biking in the wildies, but loving being close to old friends, the soft Brummy self-deprecating humour, being called "Bab" multiple times per day, great new neighbours, everything within a short drive, etc. I am busting a gut to get all the work done so I can move in on July 3rd.

House sale is plodding along slowly (see my posts recently about building consents). It'll get there, eventually, and I am nowhere near the trials and tribulations I see on the Waiting to Exchange thread..