Seller taking important item from property!

PasturesNew

I have an external one... that's quite cheap.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VonHaus-Lockable-Wall-Mounted-Steel-Mail-Post-Outdoor-Outside-Letter-Box-Black/302199783032

Annoying, but if that's the only thing then you got off light.

In my house they'd removed ALL the floating shelves, leaving all the holes.... all five of them. And the coat hooks. And there was no lightbulb in the living room at all (special ones you can only get by mail order at £10).

There will always be something that was important to you, that sellers do that is annoying.

quantumlobster

babyblade41 wrote: »

...and there was me thinking I had problems with our vendor taking the fitted wardrobes!!!

Wait what.

What do you do with a not-fitted-at-the-moment wardrobe that was fitted into a different house?

I mean, apart from pile it up in the garage for a few months or years, before taking it to the tip?

People are weird!

ETA: We would have been delighted if our seller had taken the lights. Pretty much every downstairs room was infested by a huge brass'n'glass chintzy monstrosity. On the plus side, there are fittings in the downstairs rooms capable of supporting quite heavy pendants - every cloud

AdrianC

Quite a few places round here just have the postie leave post in the unlocked porch, or have something as simple as a plastic crate at the gate.

Our postie often simply opens the door and puts stuff inside, even though we have a letter box - larger items get put through the catflap.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have an external one... that's quite cheap.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VonHaus-Lockable-Wall-Mounted-Steel-Mail-Post-Outdoor-Outside-Letter-Box-Black/302199783032

That's the one that I put at the gate when I'm selling stuff in summer.


The one on the doorstep is a home made effort constructed from old offcuts!:rotfl:


Doing Neighbourhood Watch, there's two houses close by with cat flaps for letter boxes.

kerri_gt

PasturesNew wrote: »

In my house they'd removed ALL the floating shelves, leaving all the holes.... all five of them. And the coat hooks. And there was no lightbulb in the living room at all (special ones you can only get by mail order at £10).

5 holes or 5 shelves? I swear I must have removed and filled nearing 100 rawl plugs and associated holes from shelves / blinds from our sellers by the time I'd done them all in our house. That said they were brilliant at everything else (house was spotless) so can't really complain.

G_M

quantumlobster wrote: »

.... On the plus side, there are fittings in the downstairs rooms capable of supporting quite heavy pendants - every cloud

Did you mean to say 'pedants'........ :rotfl:

quantumlobster

If I had a pedant suspended from the living room light fitting, it'd make quite the conversation piece.

datostar

We once moved into a place where the previous occupier had taken all the shade rings from the pendant light fittings. Most annoying and I had to replace all the complete fittings as I couldn't find anywhere selling shade rings separately (before the days of online shopping).

robatwork

Tiglet2 wrote: »

Not physically attached to the property = not a Fixture or Fitting.

Sorry - just buy a replacement

Nah - can't agree. Garden pond and trees I wouldn't expect to be taken either, nor shrubs or a garden wall.

If you turned his house upside the letterbox wouldn't have fallen out, therefore it's a fixture.

Having said that, I wouldn't spend more than 3.7 seconds worrying about it, just replace with another and hope that's the worst surprise left. As others have said it's amazing what people will take - blinds that are cut to size and have 0 chance of fitting exactly in a new house, fitted wardrobes and other nonsense.

Takmon

robatwork wrote: »

Nah - can't agree. Garden pond and trees I wouldn't expect to be taken either, nor shrubs or a garden wall.

If you turned his house upside the letterbox wouldn't have fallen out, therefore it's a fixture.

If it's not physically attached to the property what exactly would stop a freestanding postbox from falling out if the house was turned upside down?

Carlos77 wrote: »

On our way out we noticed the letterbox was missing, its an external one, not physically attached to the property.