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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 🫣

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PerkySnail · 18/05/2024 17:46

The bins belong to the council regardless of you buying them. I wasn't happy paying for our bin when we recently moved into rental property. Think the last owner took it with them! I waited 16 weeks for it to arrive. We had to go to the recycling centre 3 times a week to throw our rubbish! But when we moved out, we will leave the bin behind!

NZBride · 18/05/2024 17:41

Wheelieusefulbinlover · 16/05/2024 23:19

Not every council provides wheelie bins for free. Mine doesn't, we had to order ours for £50 each! I paid for them, they're mine to take with me like my garden furniture

Yeah I had to pay for mine too!!

HulaChick · 18/05/2024 07:57

Wheelie bins are provided by council for the property, not the owner. They are not yours to take, surely? You'll inherit the bins at your new house and, if not, the council in your new place will provide them.

PumpkinsAndCoconuts · 18/05/2024 07:37

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.

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.

Why wouldn’t you take them in that case?

If your bins are usable at your new property (due to regulations etc), I’d honestly take them.
Not due to a lack of sympathy or general well wish towards the buyers but simply because it makes sense. Why would you leave them behind only to buy new bins for your new property??

(But leave your grandmama and kitty out of it! Although I suspect this was tongue in cheeck Wink )

Sibs10 · 18/05/2024 00:46

Relocate89 · 16/05/2024 23:17

Do people take wheelie bins with them?!

My council expects us to take them with us but nobody does. They do get stolen if the property is empty for one moment though. I need a larger than usual bin due to medical waste and I've moved 3 times in the last 5 years or so. I've had to pay for a new bin as they've always been nicked and all the recycling ones filled up with trash, plus a waste audit and general waste bin replacing with the larger one. £30 for the 4 new bins and £38 for an audit/big bin - each time. Plus all the associated bin stickers. Every time they say to me "you should have brought them from your old house" like I'm going to bring the slimy bins in the moving van!

Calliopespa · 17/05/2024 20:01

TeaGinandFags · 17/05/2024 19:24

Dad did when he and Mum moved. He wheeled tne old ones to the new house to wheel the new ones to his old house.

Bloody hilarious.

Mum almost cried.

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Actually if the move was within bin- wheeling distance I might consider this.

Especially if I were very attached to the comfy, familiar odour of my own.

Hedgeoffressian · 17/05/2024 19:31

It wouldn’t even occur to me to take the wheelie bins 🤷‍♀️

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 17/05/2024 19:29

Nottherealslimshady · 17/05/2024 08:51

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.

Also door handles and garden gates!

TeaGinandFags · 17/05/2024 19:24

Relocate89 · 16/05/2024 23:17

Do people take wheelie bins with them?!

Dad did when he and Mum moved. He wheeled tne old ones to the new house to wheel the new ones to his old house.

Bloody hilarious.

Mum almost cried.

fetchacloth · 17/05/2024 19:13

LittleGreenDragons · 16/05/2024 23:17

The wheelie bins stay with the property. They aren't yours, they belong to the council. Where do you do live if you believe they go with you?

This is definitely the case where I live and I should think is the case elsewhere in the UK.

Calliopespa · 17/05/2024 18:25

Maelil01 · 17/05/2024 16:46

You’re a sad and miserable individual.
Reep as you sow!

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The loo seat has to stay by law unless it was already detached or something along the lines of “ it is agreed that the seller will take their loo seat with them” is specified in the contract. Suffice it to say, it is not in a standard form agreement.

Nottodaythankyou123 · 17/05/2024 18:04

Isitovernow123 · 17/05/2024 17:56

I think £80 for delivery is a tad excessive then - I’d happily collect a new one!

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Oh it is! I appreciate it covers the admin costs of getting new homes set up and registered let’s face it, most councils aren’t known for their cost efficiency!

Woozerbug · 17/05/2024 18:02

I mean more fool you really if you gave a ‘generous discount’ on a house because of a cat flap…

Isitovernow123 · 17/05/2024 17:56

Nottodaythankyou123 · 17/05/2024 07:28

I don’t think it covers the ownership of the bin though it’s the costs associated with delivering a new one. Most councils have small print that says you don’t own the bin, the fee charged covers admin costs of arranging/delivery etc

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I think £80 for delivery is a tad excessive then - I’d happily collect a new one!

SilverCatStripes · 17/05/2024 17:51

You sound like a delight OP!

DinnaeFashYersel · 17/05/2024 17:47

Who doesn't leave wheelie bins? 😳

UnctuousUnicorns · 17/05/2024 17:46

Wheelieusefulbinlover · 16/05/2024 23:19

Not every council provides wheelie bins for free. Mine doesn't, we had to order ours for £50 each! I paid for them, they're mine to take with me like my garden furniture

Ours were provided by our council, but we had to pay for a replacement when a firework zeroed one of ours.

hayleyrabbit · 17/05/2024 17:45

RandomButtons · 16/05/2024 23:19

The wheelie bins belong to the council you realise? They aren’t yours.

This.

mybeesarealive · 17/05/2024 17:39

Whatever next. FTBs will be expecting you to leave the tarmac on the drive, and the fence panels. Cheeky Fuckers!

Fallingforwards · 17/05/2024 17:29

What? Surely you weren't planning on taking your wheelie bins with you? That would be very odd.

TheAceWoman · 17/05/2024 17:14

Leave your wheels bins. Who the f takes their bins?

You taking the light bulbs as well?

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 17/05/2024 17:11

theholesinmyapologies · 17/05/2024 16:29

YOu didn't pay for the bins; you paid for delivery of the bins. They go with the property and will be on the council records as having been ordered.

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no, some councils do make you source and purchase your own bins as stated by several posters on this thread. By source they literally do mean go and find, purchase and get delivered or collect your own bin. Council are not involved until it’s emptying time.

Hoosemover · 17/05/2024 16:59

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.

Something tells me that OP is not from the UK

Maelil01 · 17/05/2024 16:46

Sellthishousetorhosecunts · 16/05/2024 23:47

Lightbulbs and loo seat on the packing list!

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You’re a sad and miserable individual.
Reep as you sow!

cardibach · 17/05/2024 16:45

RandomButtons · 16/05/2024 23:19

The wheelie bins belong to the council you realise? They aren’t yours.

Not necessarily true. My last house you had to buy one if you wanted one. I left it though, because who wants to take a gritty bin in the van?