Fixtures and Fittings Form - Reject an Offer to Buy?

FlorayG

My seller wanted to leave a gas cooker and I said no, I don't want it. My solicitor refused to exchange contracts until it was removed as per instructions

TheJP

FlorayG said:

My seller wanted to leave a gas cooker and I said no, I don't want it. My solicitor refused to exchange contracts until it was removed as per instructions

Why would they move it before exchange of contracts, surely they just needed to remove upon completion.

Silvertabby

A friend was buying a house that had a large, ornate house number and street name plaque by the front door.  Not to my friend's taste, so when the vendor offered to sell it to her - stressing that it was expensive because he had had it specially commissioned by an artist - she refused.  Even though this plaque could only be used on another house with exactly the same number and street name, the vendor took it with him, just leaving the ugly drill holes behind.

When a family member viewed a house the vendor stressed that the master bedroom carpet was brand new and expensive, making it a selling point.  He also made it quite clear that they would be taking the huge triple doored wardrobe with them.  Not a problem, as bro and sis in law liked the carpet and had their own wardrobes.  When they moved in they found that the carpet had been fitted around the huge wardrobe...  .

BikingBud

DullGreyGuy said:

TractorFactor said:

If we want to "sell" our wardrobe (for example) and the buyers say they don't want to buy it, can we leave it any way?

Or will we have to remove it?

Even with my childhood family home the buyer didnt want anything, though was rude about it, and in revenge items were left but intentionally damaged/sabotaged and still never heard anything. 

Next you'll be telling us you sprinkled grass and cress seeds in the carpets 😵‍💫

TripleH

BikingBud said:²

DullGreyGuy said:

TractorFactor said:

If we want to "sell" our wardrobe (for example) and the buyers say they don't want to buy it, can we leave it any way?

Or will we have to remove it?

Even with my childhood family home the buyer didnt want anything, though was rude about it, and in revenge items were left but intentionally damaged/sabotaged and still never heard anything. 

Next you'll be telling us you sprinkled grass and cress seeds in the carpets 😵‍💫

What a fantastic idea.

Our carpets need replacing and it provides cat grass to our 2 boys.

youth_leader

That is a good idea, grass seed could quite innocently be bought in with a pet.  I had a horrible horrible buyer and did speculate about writing a rude word on the lawn with weedkiller, but thought better of it. I did spend a long time looking for a deceased badger to put in the cellar.

FreeBear

youth_leader said: I did spend a long time looking for a deceased badger to put in the cellar.

Doesn't have to be a dead badger - Anybody would do..

Slinky

Silvertabby said:

A friend was buying a house that had a large, ornate house number and street name plaque by the front door.  Not to my friend's taste, so when the vendor offered to sell it to her - stressing that it was expensive because he had had it specially commissioned by an artist - she refused.  Even though this plaque could only be used on another house with exactly the same number and street name, the vendor took it with him, just leaving the ugly drill holes behind.

We took a nice house number plaque we bought in Italy with us when we moved. We removed it before putting the house up for sale - there was also a number on the front door so it wasn't left un-numbered. We put it up on our shed in our new house that was then referred to as 'number 80'.  It's now on the back of our garage as we've moved again. It reminds us of a nice holiday we had.

macman

Surely anything left by the vendors at completion that is not included as fixtures and fittings can be considered as abandoned, and the buyers can do as they wish with them, unless there is a prior agreement to remove them at a later date?
Very often people just don't want to move big stuff, so they can be obtained by the incoming buyers at a knockdown price. Of course, it could just be total junk.

youth_leader

I moved during May 2020 lockdown and the removals company said they weren't essential workers so they couldn't help me. I was selling my house at auction and had already partially moved into a rented cottage in February 2020.   I still had all my large items at the house -  a gigantic Tetrad sofa, double bed, wardrobes, chest of drawers, dressing tables, huge chest freezer, linen press,  kitchen tables and chairs etc.  I still miss my kitchen table.

The removal company said if I managed to get everything into the front room they would collect on the morning of completion - at £50 per item. I had 15 items - and could hardly lift a drawer out of the chest, let alone get a wardrobe downstairs on my own.  I also wasn't prepared to pay £750, I'd paid them £1K for the previous move. They didn't want the job, priced it accordingly.

I told my solicitor I couldn't move the furniture, and my buyer agreed to 'have' it all for free.  He also wanted the extra oil I'd had to order for free - my solicitor managed to reach a compromise for me. 

I had tried to sell him my life size bronze lions for the money I'd paid for them in 2001 - and he waited until the last week before completion (he'd asked for eight weeks) before saying he didn't want them - and he wanted them off the property before completion.  They were twelve foot up on the top of the garage pillars.  Very luckily a builder friend, who also wasn't working because of lockdown, had a friend with a cherry picker and I was able to give them away for free.  

I've always worried about the loft.   I was always too frightened to go up there, but the energy people seemed able to lay the insulation without any problems a few years beforehand.