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

Sistergold

Angela_D_3 said:

Interesting because i've just spent £900 on light fittings and blinds to sell the place so it looked pretty.   Do you think I could take these with me or offer them for sale.  Hadn't really considered that before ?

REALLY? What a thought! 

Scotbot

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.

I  ca sort of understand someone taking that as a keepsake but you think they would replace it with a standard sign, they only cost about £25!

lady1964

When my parents bought their last but one home years & years ago, they received a letter from the family they bought from stating he had left a ‘bag of semen’ in the garden that he’d like to collect. We eventually realised he’d left a bag of cement 😂

kangoora

When we moved into our current house the previous vendors left everything in the garage extension including a full rooftop extending ladder (hung outside), 1000's of screws, nails, woodworking tools (dozens), spare locks, garden tools etc - you name it and it was probably there, it was like a mini B&Q. After 20 years in this house I've probably put a dent into less than 10% of it. It was, however, a friend of my mums whose husband had died (he was an ex-Clerk of Works for a council) and she was downsizing to a small 2 bed bungalow.

eve824

YBR said:

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!

This reminds me. The buyer of our last house was a nasty piece of work, and on the day of completion he turned up at the EA at 11am (completion and key release wasn't until 2pm) and was shouting / swearing in the EA office that the house was his and he wanted the keys. At that point the movers hadn't even finished so we couldn't even hand keys over early. I had numerous calls from the EA in tears that morning. So just before we left, I took the Tupperware of perfectly labelled keys for the house, and cut every single label off   I had great satisfaction imagining him spending hours trying all the keys. Served him right.

ClaretHead

A cat. They said she was old, and wouldn't adjust to life in their new home

annetheman

ClaretHead said:

A cat. They said she was old, and wouldn't adjust to life in their new home

That makes me really sad

pimento

When we moved recently we left an American fridge freezer for our buyers.  They did us a favour really because we were going temporarily into a rented place.  The vendor of our current house left us a broken lawnmower and a wonky whirlygig washing line.

KPyro

Our vendor is downsizing so we occasionally get calls from the EA asking if we'd like them to leave bits of furniture, so far it's a wardrobe, washing machine, and bookcase. They've also included the carpets, blinds, and garden furniture - never asked for a penny for any of it though.

Jamaicanmelaff

God, reading this makes me even more grateful for the seller I have. Not only is she super patient and really nice, but she’s also leaving me her 2-year-old American fridge freezer and double range oven, plus her garden swing cos she heard me say I liked it during the viewing.