What state will you leave your house in when you sell it?

bolwin1

What state would you leave your house in when you sell it?

This is a part question, part rant. 

Have just moved into what (for us at least) is our dream home. Lovely large family home in a conservation area. The purchase went fairly smoothly & there were no attempts by me to reduce the price or anything that could annoy the sellers. This is not a fixer upper, it was presented as a family home in good condition in all the viewings. 

The seller had done the absolute minimum to 'prep' the house for us moving in. There was dried cat poo in almost every room, along with a flea infestation. It took a whole day to carpet clean & scrub the floors. Rubbish has been left at the side of the house & a sofa dumped at the front. Various shelves had been removed & no attempt to fill the holes in (& some had been painted around, so look a right mess). The fridge was filthy & stunk - it needed a good scrub. There was thick grease over the hob & integrated oven - the oven was that bad, I've ordered a new one. Multiple lampshades / curtains have been removed, despite the fixtures & fitting form saying otherwise. I'm not going to waste energy claiming for missing lampshades etc. & will just get things sorted. 

Am I being unreasonable ? Our old house will be cleaned thoroughly from top to bottom before exchange, along with leaving a bottle of bubbly, a new home card, some notes on the neighbourhood etc. I wouldn't dream of leaving any rubbish there or deviating from what was said on the F&F form. 

What do you think is reasonable ? What state would you leave your house in when leaving it ?  

GDB2222

I’m sorry that your vendors have acted so shoddily. 

We have had an oven cleaning company in for a rental and they made a filthy oven spotless for £45. 

MFWannabe

In the same state I would wish to find my new home 🏠 
unfortunately not everyone thinks the same 🙄

UnderOffer

We left our home in immaculate condition. I was very proud of it and would have felt ashamed to leave it in any other condition. We filled holes, repainted walls where a mirror had hung and left a square shadow, carpets were all cleaned thoroughly, this was a 4 bed with 5 of us, so not a small area to whizz around. I even added new toilet rolls to all three loos. 

The way you have described the condition of your new home sounds horrible and very disappointing for you. I’d probably not bother with the missing curtains and lampshades as they’d probably be filthy. 

MovingForwards

Some people clean before handing the keys over, others just move out and hand the keys over.

If ever I sell I won't be leaving the property how it was handed over to me:
I had to spend a few days cleaning, over time I've replaced / made good things which were supposedly included in the sale but taken causing damage, cut / chop a load of cut down trees which were just abandoned everywhere. I even had to keep back my own unpacking materials, boxes and things which were no good for charity as all bins were full.
I've still got to fix where their dog decided to repeatedly scratch chunks out of a few areas

What I haven't let any of this do is spoil how I feel about my home.

que-sera-sera_2

We left our house spotless. The bathroom and kitchen was cleaned thoroughly, including the oven and fridge/freezer. Skirting boards were dusted down and every room was hoovered/mopped. We mowed the lawns and ensured the dustbins were not full
to the brim. I labelled all the keys up and left them out on the kitchen side, along with all the instruction manuals. Honestly, our house had never been so clean. I wanted to leave it all lovely and fresh for the new owners.
Our purchase however.....the vendors didn’t even bother to clean up the dog poo in the garden. Ewwww.

Silvertabby

Our first purchase is our forever home - but I know if we did move out then the old Armed Forces married quarters 'march out' mentality would kick in.  

Definite

Some people have not pride. 

Splatfoot

I liked to think I left my house spotless. However, in reality, moving midst pandemic, moving stuff into storage, 5 pets, 2 teens and 2 adults, a 5 bed house with 3 bathrooms was going to be a challenge! I *know* there were things I wanted to do better but just didn't have time. Everything was clean, skirtings, bathrooms, kitchen etc, I did not fill in holes, (there were only a couple and these were in the loo). But it was in move in ready, and ready for another clean I would imagine after the removers had trampled through it. 

davilown

Silvertabby said:

Our first purchase is our forever home - but I know if we did move out then the old Armed Forces married quarters 'march out' mentality would kick in.  

I wish others though the same - nothing like scrubbing the oven or checking for dust above the door frames 

mm1985

We will be cleaning our house top to bottom. I have already emptied our most of the kitchen cupboards and cleaned and disinfected them. Bathrooms will be done closer to our move day which is Wednesday and all skirting boards etc will be dusted down. I’ll also be leaving a bottle of Prosecco. This was our first home and the place we bought our children home to....I’m doing it more for me than the new owners