Seller wants to take light fittings and curtain rails?

EmmyLou30

Satansallsmiles wrote: »

Seems a weird expectation that marketing the house should be done on a bare bones basis - Until I sell it, its still my house with my contents!

If you tipped the house upside down, what's attached should stay....everything that would fall out is your contents to take with you obviously, you don't view a house thinking the contents will stay, you visualise the bare bones which includes fixed objects like lights and curtain poles. So you really should have stated that you were changing a 'fixed' part of the house, especially if you made no mention of it on the F&F form. I imagine your buyer was annoyed about it but took it on the chin like we all do and just accepted it as one of those things, doesn't mean it was the right thing to do.

AdrianC

comedyseeker123 wrote: »

My issue is the ceiling is a textured ceiling so removing the fittings will mean the ceiling won't be repaired to the standard as before.
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Good excuse to get it skimmed, and give the whole room a massive improvement, then.

comedyseeker123

EmmyLou30 wrote: »

If you tipped the house upside down, what's attached should stay....everything that would fall out is your contents to take with you obviously, you don't view a house thinking the contents will stay, you visualise the bare bones which includes fixed objects like lights and curtain poles. So you really should have stated that you were changing a 'fixed' part of the house, especially if you made no mention of it on the F&F form. I imagine your buyer was annoyed about it but took it on the chin like we all do and just accepted it as one of those things, doesn't mean it was the right thing to do.

The ceiling light would stand.

comedyseeker123

AdrianC wrote: »

Good excuse to get it skimmed, and give the whole room a massive improvement, then.

I like the ceiling, Im a bit weird like that lol.

AdrianC

...so ask 'em not to fill the holes for the hooks. If you really like the style of fitting, it's not at all expensive to put something similar up.

And, if you don't, you'd be replacing it anyway.

Davesnave

comedyseeker123 wrote: »

I like the ceiling, Im a bit weird like that lol.

Ah, but do you like the fitting?

If it were me, I'd be saying, "Thank God she took that bloody thing with her!"

phoebe1989seb

In our last four house sales we've taken virtually all light fittings and curtain poles. These were either antique, unique and/or just plain expensive

All were subsequently reused in our next home as we tend to buy good quality stuff we love rather than following current interiors trends.

When we sold our large family home to downsize in 2007 our buyers (she had previously been a high end antiques dealer in London) asked if there was anything we'd not be needing in our onward purchase (almost 2000 sq ft smaller) and we did sell them some stuff including a few light fittings that we thought we'd not use again. Later we regretted this as we were unable to find anything remotely similar when we later upsized again

Many of our light fittings were Arts & Crafts/Art Nouveau in style/period. Three house moves down the line we downsized to something even smaller and sold around twenty ceiling, wall lights and lamps to a specialist dealer. We achieved a far better price than selling them to our buyers whose taste was in any case very different.

Our curtain poles are 60mm thick wooden ones with huge 'onion' finials. Very expensive and quite hard to source. Selling them to a house buyer for a few £££ would not make sense imho......

We've always told our buyers on viewings that these items would not be staying and confirmed this on the F&F form.

comedyseeker123

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

In our last four house sales we've taken virtually all light fittings and curtain poles. These were either antique, unique and/or just plain expensive

All were subsequently reused in our next home as we tend to buy good quality stuff we love rather than following current interiors trends.

When we sold our large family home to downsize in 2007 our buyers (she had previously been a high end antiques dealer in London) asked if there was anything we'd not be needing in our onward purchase (almost 2000 sq ft smaller) and we did sell them some stuff including a few light fittings that we thought we'd not use again. Later we regretted this as we were unable to find anything remotely similar when we later upsized again

Many of our light fittings were Arts & Crafts/Art Nouveau in style/period. Three house moves down the line we downsized to something even smaller and sold around twenty ceiling, wall lights and lamps to a specialist dealer. We achieved a far better price than selling them to our buyers whose taste was in any case very different.

Our curtain poles are 60mm thick wooden ones with huge 'onion' finials. Very expensive and quite hard to source. Selling them to a house buyer for a few £££ would not make sense imho......

We've always told our buyers on viewings that these items would not be staying and confirmed this on the F&F form.

That I can understand and these poles aren't unique, She is leaving the oven which is good.

EmKnox

We completed last week and our vendor also took items like curtain rails and light fittings. It’s not uncommon. At the end of the day, you are only paying for an empty shell of a house.

comedyseeker123

EmKnox wrote: »

We completed last week and our vendor also took items like curtain rails and light fittings. It’s not uncommon. At the end of the day, you are only paying for an empty shell of a house.

No we are actually paying for everything inside the house as well.
If the house they bought from left their cutrain rail they could get new cloth curtains the few weeks after they moved in etc. Makes zero sense to me to take the curtain rail.