Seller wants to take light fittings and curtain rails?

BikingBud

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wish more kitchens were removable and gone

I dislike the choices others have made in their kitchens, especially with any built in appliances.

Give me a free standing kitchen, with just a sink standing, and that's ideal.

Have lived in rented accommodation in Germany and was left with:
Stop taps for hot and cold water and a drain pipe stuffed with a rag and a cooker outlet in the kitchen. No cupboards, no sink ,no cooker.

Every light fitting removed and the wires just splayed at 120 deg.

It's the norm.

You can agree what to buy as extra items from the previous tenant but when you are likely to be there long term, none of this UK renters are second class citizens crap, you invest in your home.

prosaver

Did he take the wallpaper too?

seven-day-weekend

We said we were leaving curtains, curtain poles and blinds.

However, the curtains in my sitting room were William Morris by Sanderson, and very expensive to replace (even though we'd got them for £4 from a charity shop ).

We took them and their pole, and left different, perfectly acceptable curtains and a wooden pole.

The buyers never questioned it, but if they had I'd have said we had left curtains and a pole exactly as we said we would. Nowhere did we say we were leaving William Morris curtains and a brass pole.

Curtains and pole now in the bedroom of our bungalow and our buyers still have the curtains we left, four years later .

walwyn1978

Reading this thread and agreeing with much of the sound advice on it has reminded me of where. We viewed a house which was clearly the pride and joy of the owner doing the viewing. Got to the dining room/lounge area and the carpet was absolutely gopping, clashing colours (red, green, black) and really (to our eyes) would have been a negative not a positive.

Vendor turns with pride and says ‘obviously I’m prepared to sell you the carpet, but it would be an extra £1.5k as it’s a Axminster (or whatever the hell it was, I was still reeling from how ugly it was) and I’m not just throwing it in with the house’

Us: yes, well, erm, right, we’d have to talk to you about that if we made an offer

Her: don’t you like it? It’s magnificent

Us:

Her: I’ve had every buyer who came compliment my carpet

Us: yes, well, thank you, we’ll be in touch

The EA rang the day after and said the vendor had told him she was refusing to entertain any offers from us because we’d not taken her carpet seriously.....people do get attached to their possessions and things!
(We’d already decided it wasn’t for us anyway)

trickydicky802

pinkteapot wrote: »

Your solicitor should ask her solicitor to remind her that: (1) where lights are removed, they must be replaced with a standard ceiling rose and pendant light fitting (they can't be left as bare wire) and (2) wall must be repaired and paint patched if curtain poles are removed.

I doubt those are legal requirements that can be enforced. I agree about not leaving bare wires, but that can be achieved by various means compliant with wiring regs and not nececessarily a ceiling rose and pendant fitting. Walls need not be repaired and painted - if that was the case I wouldn't have had to replaster whole rooms where the plaster was falling off!

The real point is that when sold the property must be in the condition as it was presented during viewing. Any deviations must be duly recorded when contracts are drawn up so that the buyer is fully informed of everything before exchange.

Thus, if a curtain rail is not to be included in the sale it must be duly recorded as such (standard forms are used for this sort of thing). If the wall is damaged during removal and that is also duly recorded then the buyer will have to either accept the damaged wall or negotiate accordingly. Only if a damaged wall was not visible during viewing or was subsequently damaged and not notified before exchange of contracts would the buyer have any recourse.

zagubov

We moved into the previous house before our current one.

BIL gets weird feeling leaning against wall. Puts a bulb against tear in wallpaper, and yes, it glows.

They'd removed everything from the wall lights except the mains wires.

Probably illegal. And although we had to put it down to experience, it's something that could literally have gone bang in the wrong circumstances.

[Deleted User]

The lady I bought from had left the horrible paper lampshade covers that her seller had put up instead of his lights.
I know it's super annoying, but there will be holes all over the place!
I'd just replace the light fitting as others have suggested, pretend it was something horrible that you wouldn't have kept!

eddddy

walwyn1978 wrote: »

The EA rang the day after and said the vendor had told him she was refusing to entertain any offers from us because we’d not taken her carpet seriously.....people do get attached to their possessions and things!

I guess this demonstrates how petty disputes can get blown-up out of proportion, and derail sales.

This is why I would always try to get the EA involved in resolving them. They're supposed to be professional negotiators, and should have experience in 'calming-down' irrational buyers and sellers.

(As an aside, it's also why I generally prefer to do viewings with an EA rather than a seller - I don't have appear to be interested in anecdotes, admire dodgy choices of decoration and botched diy, etc.)

Waterlily24

Smodlet wrote: »

"Hubby said, "No"? Waterlily24? Perhaps your standard-issue sign stating the obvious was lost in the move? You know, the one that goes, "The views of the husband are not always the views of the management".

I suggest you replace it, and the Golden Rules, a.s.a.p... Wish I could find my copy of the Golden Rules but OH has them pretty much down by now.

lol I like it.


Well we've been married for 48 years and it's still working, so I think things are OK.

Penelopa.Pitstop

I took lamp fitting from bedroom, I think I mentioned it on the form. It's now hanging in my third place in bedroom. It has sentimental value and I do not plan to part with it. If I buy expensive chandeliers, I plan to, I will take them with me too or just sell after the house sale.