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Buyers want wheelie bins included.. after discount

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Sellthishousetorhosecunts · 16/05/2024 23:09

Our lovely FTB 🙄have requested wheelie bins be included after generous discount… many unreasonable requests met!

AIBU to leave dead nan ashes under the floorboards & take the wheel bins as a summer plunge pool for the kids 🫣

OP posts:
crumbpet · 17/05/2024 07:42

How much was the cat flap discount?

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 17/05/2024 07:41

StormingNorman · 17/05/2024 00:17

Don’t forget to dig up the plants either.

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I dug up a plant from DM's garden when we sold after she died. I'm glad I did as it's still going strong in my garden years later and the new owners dug up all the plants in the front garden. There's a couple I wish I'd taken from the back garden as well as they dug up everything in the back garden as well (it sold again on Rightmove, I didn't go and check!)

cuckyplunt · 17/05/2024 07:41

Wheelie bins belong to the house.. who wants the expense and hassle of moving a wheelie bin?

PurpleChrayn · 17/05/2024 07:41

senua · 16/05/2024 23:18

Leave the bins, as requested. But take the wheels.Grin

Or, even better, one wheel.😈

This is so ridiculously petty.

PurpleChrayn · 17/05/2024 07:40

Were you honestly planning to schlep grotty bins with you? That's madness.

diddl · 17/05/2024 07:40

If it's actually your bin then I guess you can do as you like!

How much do they cost?

pilates · 17/05/2024 07:39

You need to let it go op but leave the bin.

ComtesseDeSpair · 17/05/2024 07:39

This thread has opened my eyes to problems I never knew anyone could have.

PrincessTeaSet · 17/05/2024 07:38

So why agree to the cat flap discount? Presumably only for a couple of hundred quid anyway? It's not really fair to then remove all the useful stuff in revenge. You either agree the discount or you don't, surely. I don't really understand the issue here

Mercurial123 · 17/05/2024 07:37

Have you sold a house before because you're being weird. If you didn't like their offer, you would have refused?

mitogoshi · 17/05/2024 07:35

I've bought and sold multiple times and you always leave bins, they are supplied buy your council free in most places in England. You had the option to walk away if you felt that they were unreasonable.

listsandbudgets · 17/05/2024 07:35

They are anxious FTB who dont know that the wheey bins should be left behind anyway as they belong to council not you. They're just trying to cover all the basics

SnakesAndArrows · 17/05/2024 07:34

FTPM1980 · 17/05/2024 07:16

You only pay for replacement or extra bins.
The initial bin was always free and should still be going strong.

If you move into a new property in my council and there’s no bin you have to buy one. If your bin is stolen/set on fire etc. you have to buy one. This is for all bins. They are not council property.

I will leave all the bins when I move - not least because the bins are different in the area I will be moving to - but if moving locally I would take my garden waste bin because that’s an extra paid for service and not everyone has a bin.

ForAPicnic · 17/05/2024 07:34

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PinkSparklyPussyCat · 17/05/2024 07:34

We pay to have our garden waste removed by the council, £40 per year, but that doesn’t give us ownership of the bin.

I had to buy my garden waste bin from the council and there's a £65 a year fee to have it emptied. As far as I'm concerned that one is mine

Edit: whether I took it with me would depend on whether my new house was
under the same council and the attitude of the buyer.

babyproblems · 17/05/2024 07:34

Surely people don’t take their wheelie bin when they move.. I would have just assumed that everyone leaves wheelie bins where they are!? I think it’s a bit petty to take the bins personally..

Boogiemam · 17/05/2024 07:33

I read your OP thinking you were laughing at how daft a request was to leave the wheelie bins, because what dickhead loads stinking, filthy, full of rubbish bins into a van and moves house with them??
Oh, that would be you.

What is missing in your life that THIS is how you passive aggressively try and "get even" with those who have wronged you? (Even though you could have said no to the negotiation in price).

Mostlyoblivious · 17/05/2024 07:33

You don’t have to sell to them if you feel this strongly

TellMeWhoTheVillainsAre · 17/05/2024 07:33

Would you not contact the council and ask them what the procedure is?

HaudYerWheeshtYaWeeBellend · 17/05/2024 07:32

FTPM1980 · 17/05/2024 07:16

You only pay for replacement or extra bins.
The initial bin was always free and should still be going strong.

Let me blow your mind! You are incorrect!

Some councils charge for bins or you buy them from Amazon.

Councils differ in their policies and procedures!

Citrusandginger · 17/05/2024 07:31

Needmorelego · 16/05/2024 23:29

I do remember passing a house on my way to work many years back that had one with "Property of Bradford City Council" printed on it always sat out by the front door.
I didn't live in Bradford 😂

That reminds me of the time I was cleaning a hospital bed between patients. The pillow was marked QE2 Mortuary. Not only was the ward very obviously not the mortuary, but the hospital wasn’t the QE2.

BirthdayRainbow · 17/05/2024 07:31

Are you serious?

No one said about the ashes as that's ridiculous and irrelevant.

The bins stay, the light bulbs stay.

ItsAllMuchofaMuchness · 17/05/2024 07:29

Beautiful3 · 17/05/2024 06:23

You're being massively unreasonable. I've moved a few times, and you leave behind the bins! Unless you paid for a second bin, then take the spare.

This 100%

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Sellthishousetorhosecunts · 17/05/2024 07:29

So mumsnet has spoken, I’ll leave the bin. As people have suggested, we live in an area which do not provide bins and we’ve purchased it. Our new property doesn’t have one either.

maybe this is a massive drip feed but the discount is for a cat flap that can be seen in pics, seen in person and was negotiated after a survey (which didn’t show much!)

so maybe I’ll leave them nan & the cat.

OP posts:
ILikePistachios · 17/05/2024 07:28

MrsApplepants · 16/05/2024 23:17

Don’t wheely bins belong to the council and stay with the property?

Pretty sure this is true.

Even if not, leave them and just request new ones for the new property

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