Light fittings and window dressings

SaverRate

If I was the buyer I would seriously be annoyed at this. I mean charged for an integrated appliance - really?!
If you were going to leave the blinds etc you should have included it in the sale price imo.

Ksw3

Sounds a little opportunistic. Given the other thread regarding light fixings, I do wonder if this is genuine...

Waunakee

Asking for money for a built in appliance is plain ridiculous.
It forms part of the (I presume) fitted kitchen.

This would seriously wind me up and would make me wonder what other stunts the vendor was likely to pull during the conveyancing process.

Comptoncare

ironlady2022 said:

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. 

Hi I appreciate that this is your first time as a seller and some of the other comments don't seem to have taken this into consideration. 
My advice to you is to leave the blinds, if they are bespoke to that house they are unlikely to fit anywhere else and if your purchaser states that they don't want to pay then you are going to leave them anyway. So make the decision now and just leave them, save all the hassle. 

Light fittings - leave them, its going to cost you more than £5 to get an electrician in to remove them - again not worth the hassle. 
Integrated washing machine - please review the marketing material for your property if the integrated washer is mentioned you should not be charging extra for it. As its integrated this is part of the fitted kitchen. I am currently selling my property the kitchen includes a built in Bosch dishwasher, oven, microwave, and hob ... I am not charging extra as they are fitted.

Don't get off of the wrong foot with your buyer, and if they are FTB they may appreciate this stuff. Hopefully when you buy you will get the same treatment. 

I always remember when I was a FTB in the early 90's and excited to move into my first home when I got the keys and went to the house me and my friend were astounded to find that they had removed all light fittings, leaving bare wires and the bulbs from the bayonet fittings in other rooms. It was Jan and dark early on, the first thing we had to do was go to Great Mills DIY and get some bayonet fittings and bulbs so that we could see what we were doing. Luckily for me he is also a electrician. This always stayed with me and I would never want anyone to receive such pettiness from me on my sale. 

koalakoala

Never heard of anyone being so petty tbh. 

ironlady2022

Comptoncare said:

ironlady2022 said:

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. 

Hi I appreciate that this is your first time as a seller and some of the other comments don't seem to have taken this into consideration. 
My advice to you is to leave the blinds, if they are bespoke to that house they are unlikely to fit anywhere else and if your purchaser states that they don't want to pay then you are going to leave them anyway. So make the decision now and just leave them, save all the hassle. 

Light fittings - leave them, its going to cost you more than £5 to get an electrician in to remove them - again not worth the hassle. 
Integrated washing machine - please review the marketing material for your property if the integrated washer is mentioned you should not be charging extra for it. As its integrated this is part of the fitted kitchen. I am currently selling my property the kitchen includes a built in Bosch dishwasher, oven, microwave, and hob ... I am not charging extra as they are fitted.

Don't get off of the wrong foot with your buyer, and if they are FTB they may appreciate this stuff. Hopefully when you buy you will get the same treatment. 

I always remember when I was a FTB in the early 90's and excited to move into my first home when I got the keys and went to the house me and my friend were astounded to find that they had removed all light fittings, leaving bare wires and the bulbs from the bayonet fittings in other rooms. It was Jan and dark early on, the first thing we had to do was go to Great Mills DIY and get some bayonet fittings and bulbs so that we could see what we were doing. Luckily for me he is also a electrician. This always stayed with me and I would never want anyone to receive such pettiness from me on my sale. 

Thank you for your understanding. On the back of this thread, I've emailed the Sol to change it. 

Marky4040

ironlady2022 said:

Thank you for your understanding. On the back of this thread, I've emailed the Sol to change it. 

Lol, i did have a laugh reading this, talk about tight. No buyer would pay you for these items and you would seriously p** them off for even suggesting it. If it were me i'd say take everything, knowing full well its of no use whatsoever in your new home. 

TheJP

For me its only acceptable to charge for certain items if you made it clear before offer that they weren't included. Blinds are pointless in charging for as they are bespoke, integrated appliances can be retro fitted in your new place but that's if you have checked and again only charge if they are pretty new and you could fit them in the new house.

Light fittings, you can take the fancy ones but you need to replace them. Not a big job but its arduous (replaced one today and it took me 45 minutes). 

All in all if its easier to leave said items then let sleeping dogs lay. 

Soot2006

When we sold our EA advised we present the house as close to what we were selling as possible and for every room, he asked about specific items if they were saying or going (blinds, curtains, etc).  We had wanted to take our beautiful and extortionate blinds and one of them would have been a nice fit in the new house, but EA advised it was the sort one things one left with the house. We had never sold before, so we did as we were told. No regrets, although I was a little bit sad when I drive past a yar later and the blinds were gone!

Equally, when viewing, EAs occasionally pointed at specific light fittings to state that wasn't included in the sale. All very helpful to be transparent. None of these things have any real value in comparison to a house, so it's all quite literally window dressing. But it is nice to know where you stand.