Curious - what did your seller take or try to sell to you?

kasqueak

When I bought my first house years and years ago the sellers took everything. They also took the loo roll (which to me is just courtesy to leave 1 ready!) but they also took all the door handles off the internal doors! Literally had string left on them to open them! Was gobsmacked but when questioned they said there was nothing saying they had to leave them and they’d been expensive. 

I’m in the process of selling and moving now and I’m leaving the blinds at no cost as they won’t fit my new place, leaving the light fittings and I’ll even chuck in a loo roll

MaryNB

kasqueak said:

When I bought my first house years and years ago the sellers took everything. They also took the loo roll (which to me is just courtesy to leave 1 ready!) but they also took all the door handles off the internal doors! Literally had string left on them to open them! Was gobsmacked but when questioned they said there was nothing saying they had to leave them and they’d been expensive. 

I’m in the process of selling and moving now and I’m leaving the blinds at no cost as they won’t fit my new place, leaving the light fittings and I’ll even chuck in a loo roll

What is wrong with people?! All they had to do was just put in some cheap door handles and take the expensive ones. Taking the door handles without replacing them is really bad form.

Scotbot

When I lived in Aus the buyer had to do a final inspection day before completion and sign off on the property before completion took place. As a result houses were always spotless and nothinbg untoward was missing.  I  wish this was the norm here.

GaleSF63

Our sellers took the stair carpet - they were moving to a bungalow. 

pumas

I left all fixtures & fittings and extra lightbulbs, new toilet rolls, kitchen rolls, kettle, coffee, milk, all manuals, certificates, useful info, candles, fuses etc., etc.. 
After all that, the EA rang next day, buyer wanted to know why I'd taken the aerial! Bewildered, could only assume it was a never connected socket in a bedroom.

Caramac

It was thirty years ago but our sellers wanted us to buy the gas fire, and the only carpet they didn’t take was the one in the bathroom.

YBR

Our sellers were really good and left the place immaculate with loo rolls, hand towel, curtains, light fittings (except one which we knew about), light bulbs, various manuals and other paperwork. We bought the oven (wider than ours in the old place), and they left a couple of other things by agreement. The unexpected thing was a spare door handle which they'd not got round to replacing an old stiff one.

Consequently we sold our old oven to our buyer, and left curtains, light fittings (except one) by agreement. We left loo roll, light bulbs (including any spares not appropriate to the new home), and manuals etc. Loads of keys - all labelled!

All things considered it was a very well behaved chain!

Silvertabby

Friends were buying a house that had been fitted with an ornate house sign, which showed the street name as well as the house number, and so would have been useless to the vendors in their new home.

Nonetheless, the vendor wanted a ridiculous sum for it 'because it was a specially commissioned work of art'.  My friends refused the offer, as it wasn't to their taste.  They moved in to find the vendor had indeed taken the sign with them - leaving 4 unsightly holes drilled in the brickwork at the front of the house.

Marvel1

Wardrobe, I declined as I had my own, it was left anyway, and I still have it 12 years on, my old one still at my parents, saved me moving a wardrobe :-)

eidand

Silvertabby said:

Friends were buying a house that had been fitted with an ornate house sign, which showed the street name as well as the house number, and so would have been useless to the vendors in their new home.

Nonetheless, the vendor wanted a ridiculous sum for it 'because it was a specially commissioned work of art'.  My friends refused the offer, as it wasn't to their taste.  They moved in to find the vendor had indeed taken the sign with them - leaving 4 unsightly holes drilled in the brickwork at the front of the house.

wow, just wow ....