What sellers hide!

Silvertabby

When a family member first viewed the house they eventually bought, the vendor stressed that they would be taking the big triple wardroom from the master bedroom with them.  However, they would be leaving the nearly new carpet. 

As the carpet was a good quality, and a nice neutral shade they could have chosen themselves, they were happy with that.

Then they moved in and found that the carpet had been fitted around the wardrobe. 

Whalie

A friend of mine moved in to find most of the previous owners furniture was either in the garage or garden!  She got her solicitor to write to them giving them the 'storage' charge.  They soon collected what they had left!

Greymug

What I'm going to leave to my future sellers:

- a few mould stains that I've just painted over
- quite a few scratches to the wooden floor which I will strategically cover with rugs and plant pots
- I won't mention the junky neighbours and the stench of weed coming out of the toilet's extractor fan. I'll just say they're lovely people
- I won't mention the fat lady living upstairs that stomps about like she's a whale wearing concrete shoes
- a couple of doors don't close, one of which I smashed the handle and just glued the pieces together
- other stuff I'm sure I don't even remember

lookstraightahead

We had the previous owners cat and his mates residing in our house for weeks. They just would come and go as they pleased - usually through the windows. 

When they left they were replaced with mice that had been kept at bay.

TBagpuss

annabanana82 said:

I'd never considered using a second hand oven, but I suppose if it comes as part of a fitted kitchen then your options are a bit more limited. 

Yes, built in ovens both times. 

The oven then broke 36 hours before completion -  I suppose I could have pretended I didn't know and let the buyers  think it died when they first tried to turn it on - they could never have proved otherwise, , but I couldn't bring myself to do that, so I let them know I'd had my repair man out to look at it and his advice was that repairing was going to be more expensive than fixing, and slower as the parts would have to be ordered and would probably come from China, and asked them whether they would like me to arrange for it to be fixed, on the basis that obviously it wouldn't be done before they moved in, but that I would pay, or if we just agreed a discount bearing in mind it was a very old oven. They chose that option - they got £50 and everyone was happy!  Although I did wish I hadn't chosen to have pizza that night, otherwise it *would* have broken the first time they used it instead of the last time I did, and I've have been £50 better off! 

Niv

Whalie said:

A friend of mine moved in to find most of the previous owners furniture was either in the garage or garden!  She got her solicitor to write to them giving them the 'storage' charge.  They soon collected what they had left!

With my previous house the previous owners stuff was still in the house...because they were so poorly organised they hadn't left! We ended up with us moving in via the front door as they were leaving via the back !

Niv

lookstraightahead said:

We had the previous owners cat and his mates residing in our house for weeks. They just would come and go as they pleased - usually through the windows. 

When they left they were replaced with mice that had been kept at bay.

Oh yes, how could I forget. That was another thing the previous owner left for me, her cat! Another thing she couldn't find when she moved out ! 

Louise.H

Recently I dropped a tub down the end of our kitchen units - they have a space at the bottom between the unit and the wall, I got the tub out and then found about 20 packets of wagon wheels, tea cakes etc dated from 20 years ago. Further investigation found all sorts of food stuffs, tupperware and cleaning products down all the cupboards, presumably from the previous owner. I've lived in my house for eight years . Not as bad as when we pulled up the bathroom carpet to find it had been laid over what looked like numerous used bits of toilet roll.

olgadapolga

Louise.H said:

Recently I dropped a tub down the end of our kitchen units - they have a space at the bottom between the unit and the wall, I got the tub out and then found about 20 packets of wagon wheels, tea cakes etc dated from 20 years ago. Further investigation found all sorts of food stuffs, tupperware and cleaning products down all the cupboards, presumably from the previous owner. I've lived in my house for eight years . Not as bad as when we pulled up the bathroom carpet to find it had been laid over what looked like numerous used bits of toilet roll.

We found lots of interesting stuff underneath the kitchen units when we stripped them.out, including plates, parts of tiles, random bits of wood, carpet (some of the carpet was stuck underneath the floor tiles), pens, food wrappers, the list was endless. All pretty disgusting. I really don't know how people live like it. The only thing under the new kitchen units is space.

Slinky

olgadapolga said:

Louise.H said:

Recently I dropped a tub down the end of our kitchen units - they have a space at the bottom between the unit and the wall, I got the tub out and then found about 20 packets of wagon wheels, tea cakes etc dated from 20 years ago. Further investigation found all sorts of food stuffs, tupperware and cleaning products down all the cupboards, presumably from the previous owner. I've lived in my house for eight years . Not as bad as when we pulled up the bathroom carpet to find it had been laid over what looked like numerous used bits of toilet roll.

We found lots of interesting stuff underneath the kitchen units when we stripped them.out, including plates, parts of tiles, random bits of wood, carpet (some of the carpet was stuck underneath the floor tiles), pens, food wrappers, the list was endless. All pretty disgusting. I really don't know how people live like it. The only thing under the new kitchen units is space.

When we replaced the bathroom we found all sorts of builders junk under the bath, behind the original bath panel, lazy sods. Mind you my neighbours who bought their house new told me they had a blocked chimney with builder's crap having been dropped down it from the roof!