Light fittings and window dressings

ironlady2022

On my fixtures and fittings, I've put £100 if they wish to keep the bespoke blinds. There are 10 in total, excluding the curtain rails (which are included).

I've charged £5 each for 3 light fittings if they wish to keep them.

I've charge £30 for an integrated washing machine. 

Is the above likely to get on the wrong side of my Buyer?if they refuse, I was going to leave them anyway.

First time selling house, not sure if i should have included it. 

user1977

Had you told them you were planning to charge extra? Bit pointless charging for stuff you're leaving anyway, especially if bespoke to that property. 

gwynlas

Better to say blinds and light fittings included. You won't make hardly anything from them and you do not plan to take them, Second hand goods household goods have littlre value.

Flugelhorn

I think I would assume that an integrated dishwasher would be included, might negotiate over a freestanding one but not a fitted one

re light fittings and blinds, just leave them - if they don't want them you are going to have to replace the light fittings with a standard fittng and that will cost ££

Domaco16

I heard that if they decided they didn’t want them you couldn’t leave things that you wanted paying for.
we’ve left all our blinds etc:. And not asked for any extra as we can’t use them so would just get wasted anyway. 

I would expect the dishwasher to stay so that would get my back up abit x

housebuyer143

Integrated appliances are kind of expected to be included... Just leave it. 
Bespoke blinds, what are you going to do with them? Just leave them. 

Are you really going to quibble over a £200 max you would make on them? They are spending hundreds of thousands on your house.  If they are nice light fittings you want to reuse them take them.

If they refuse you then can't really leave them. 

MaiTai

The integrated (fixed) appliance should be included in the agreed sale price for the property unless otherwise agreed with your buyer.

Incredibly cheeky to ask for additional funds for items which you have no intention of removing anyway.In the interests of relations remaining amicable between both parties I would advise just including them.

Whilst monetarily a trifling amount it’s the little things along these lines that can sour relationships within a chain.

Petty but it does happen!

Debbie9009

Why are you charging for items you will be leaving anyway, i’m wondering if someone has told you it’s normal to do that, it’s not, and I would also expect integrated appliances to be included, so it would really annoy me to see that on the fixtures and fittings form, 

If you haven’t already sent the form off I would remove those costs, as others have already said it can sour things.

Just as an example the seller of my previous house tried to charge me for the very old freestanding gas cooker, I declined and said I would be purchasing my own, so she would need to make sure she took it with her, so she ended up paying a gas registered person to disconnect it, which I believe cost her more than she tried to charge for the cooker.  I was lucky I knew a gas registered person who connected my new cooker for a couple of beers.

mojo293

I have also included the blinds and curtains/curtain rails, as they wont fit the next house anyway along with light fittings and shades, which may not go with decor. Only Appliances I am taking are the freestanding ones (Washing Machine and Fridge/Freezer) nothing built in/integrated.

Our vendor is taking curtains and rails from two of the bedrooms and the lounge (over french doors) of the house I'm buying. I guess they know they can use them, but the two bedrooms are their kids, so maybe thats why they are taking those (leaving main bedroom curtains). It's no big deal though, and I can get blinds ordered online and delivered quite quick anyway.

theoretica

If the buyer says no and you leave them anyway they may not be grateful and would be within their rights to insist you come back and remove them neatly - and pay for disposal of the washing machine.  Which would be a nuisance for you.  You want to leave them, just say they are included.

UnderOffer

I’ve always left our bespoke blinds, they are never going to fit anywhere else. Lighting I’ve also left, feels cheeky to charge for items that have been up and used for past 8 years. Buyers always seem grateful and makes it feel a good gesture.