Buyers want wheelie bins included.. after discount

The people we bought our house from took the wheelie bins, curtain poles and a device connecting the gas cooker to gas cylinders. They probably expected us to buy them off them for more money, but f that. I’d be tempted to take at least the bins if we moved, as we had to pay the council for them, but probably wouldn’t if our new house already had bins.

@BatshitCrazyWoman I live near Bromley Borough and know a few folks that live that side of the border.
Yes - no bins provided.
I'm gonna be honest but the streets often look a right dump with bin bags everywhere.
It's really weird they haven't entered the 21st Century of rubbish collection 😂

Bins belong to the council. You leave them when you move and get others in your new home.

Before councils obtained wheelie bins, you took your bin with you when moving

How weird. Council usually provide bins. That’s what CT goes towards

What area do you live in that doesn’t provide bins ?

Often my food bin gets dumped by dustbin people by road and found smashed /run over

I just email council and they send another one free

Why is it obvious if Op bought them & there aren't any where she is moving to?

Tbh if there aren't any where you are moving to why not take them or sell them to the buyer?

Here they belong to the house.

If that's not the case with you them you don't have to leave them.

Magnastorm · Yesterday 23:22
Who the fuck takes wheelie bins with them when they move?

Probably the same weirdos who pay to get them cleaned, I guess”

Hi @Magnastorm , Weirdo in chief here. We’re moving soon and arranging to have the bins cleaned before new owners take them over. Too ashamed to leave them as they are 😁

Hilarious 🤣 obviously you leave the wheelie bins 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My council doesn't encourage wheelie bins, either. All bins are emptied into huge wheelie bins that fit on the back of the lorry.

The only bin we took was the garden waste bin as we have to pay extra for that to be emptied and the bin is provided within that cost.

So new owners would need to opt in to the garden waste service and be provided with a bin

When I sold my late mums house last year, the bins were included on the long list of items that I had to say were being left or taken in the pre contract enquiries along with light bulbs and other fixtures and fittings, and I assumed that was standard.

During the last few months that my mum was at home, I had asked the council to remove all of her wheelie bins except for the general refuse one because she had severe dementia and couldn't understand what went in which bin and the refuse collectors understandably wouldn't empty the recycling bins when they were full of mouldy food. The solicitor told me that I should get the council to replace the bins that had been taken away when the sale was completed, which of course I did.

@Ginmonkeyagain I know someone who found the freezer had been buried in the back garden when they moved in - complete with some food still in it 😱

Why on earth did you give them a discount for the cat flap and how much was the discount??
Should have told them to jog on at that point.

As for the bins. The bins stay where they are. Why the fuck would you want to move bins with you in a removal van anyway? Bizarre. I've never taken bins with me ever.

Like many of my neighbours, I have marked my wheelie bins with number stickers, to make retrieving them after collection day easier - not much use at a different address.
You might even find that the "colour code" is different at your new home; this is certainly true of the London borough adjacent to mine.
And as many PP's have pointed out, they are commonly the property of your local council.

This is missing the point of the OP, but it makes me sad how normalised accepting less for more has become. Council tax has gone up and up and up, higher than inflation in some cases (certainly in previous years when inflation was lower) yet many areas are now expected to either buy their own bins or pay an additional fee for one of the services the council tax is purported to cover. And this is on top of reduced service - fortnightly collections instead of weekly.

We're going so backwards in our living standards, this is just one tiny example among many 😔

Why did you give them a discount for a cat flap?

@HouseofPies yes I wondered that too.

I know it will blow some people on this thread's minds, but you can clean a bin.

This is what I thought too! That they belong to the council and stay with the property. I have never taken bins with me and moved quite a few times!

Our wheelie bins belong to the local council and remain with the property.

Our council cheats, the bins are provided free but you pay a hefty delivery fee to get one

This is what I was wondering too!

So the discount is for a feature in the house that lowers its attractiveness to the buyer; pretty standard. Why do you think it's so significant that they found out about it before they asked to negotiate over it? How else could it have come about? You could have declined to sell if you thought you'd get so much more from someone else...

And for this you want to take the wheelie bins? Who the hell takes the wheelie bins with them when they move?

Is this your first house sale? When you bought the house, did the seller act as weirdly as this? What makes you think you're acting normally?

Would this work only if the council in your new area used the same sort and size of bins?

The bins, light bulbs, toilet seats stay. Also, taps, carpets, doors.

We had a seller say he was taking the boards up out the bloody loft once, pathetic.

I've never even considered what I would do but thinking about it, we paid a lot for an extra refuse bin and a larger recycling bin so I wouldn't want to fork out for them again if I moved. But otherwise, I'd certainly have left them with the property.