Buyers want wheelie bins included.. after discount

All my neighbours have bins, but we've all bought our own. There's no bin bags strewn around. As we've paid for them we all label them with our house number and street name 😂

Who takes a bin when they move? Dread to think what other unreasonable requests they’ve had?…. For you to leave soil in the garden 🤦‍♀️😂

Weirdly the house bins in my experience stay but the garden waste. Not in my area. My dh had to wheel our garden bin from the property we sold to our house because the council said we should of taken it with us.

The amount of people that made funny jokes while he was walking it here…

No.

You're supposed to leave the bins. Are you sure YOU aren't the awkward ones?

I'm not sure you can get them here but in Germany we used to be able to buy some transfers for the bins, the whole thing could look like it had flowers growing up it and they looked far better than the black plastic sides though then there weren't the multiple bins there are now.

I live n a row of terraced cottages. They just have a small yard out back and an alleyway for access. When I moved in, I had a carpenter knock down a bit of the wall and fit a wider, non-standard gate, so I could get my motorbike in and out. So I had a spare gate. And my neighbour didn't have a gate, for some reason. So I knocked on her door and said, you are welcome to that gate in my yard if you want, and she muttered that 'someone will be round to get it'. and a couple of days later they had a nice gate fitted. Well I'm sure posters can guess where I'm going with this: yes, when they moved (property is owned by a rental agency, and there's been a steady stream of tenants), they took my bloody gate with them!

'Modernising' ruins a lot of things, I recall my Dad putting flush panelling over the thirties' multi-panelled doors which are now often considered very desirable. I've heard of Minton tiles in a hallway being covered by fitted carpets.

Our estate agent left a card and a tea towel.

Our neighbour moved here from London and brought her wheelie bins with her. They are completely different colours to the ones we use in this county, so the bin men don't know what do do with them, and she has a total of six wheelie bins on her drive now because the family she bought the house from left the bins behind like normal people.

My neighbours had an extra bin for ages, no idea idea where it came from but they were mighty pissed off when the bin men took it away one day as apparently you are only allowed 1 rubbish bin per property

What an awful man, brilliant that your mum and dad found something even better under the carpet though, I love that.

I’ve never heard of anyone taking their bin , you are being ridiculous

The wheels bins don't belong to you - even though you may have paid for them - they belong to the local council. I have no idea why this is the case, but it is.

So leave them the bins and make money from it...

@cwoffeee I wonder why the estate agents don't leave bloody pressies for the seller! We pay their fee!

We got one on our last move but it was a very cheap brand. 😤🤣

When my mum and dad moved 40 years ago the seller asked if they wanted to buy the hall carpet for an extra cost. They said no, and he then threw something on the carpet which ruined it! Under the carpet was a beautiful parquet floor that they restored and proudly displayed the whole 40 years they lived there!

I've self built a property and still didn't have to pay the council for a full set of brand spanking new wheelie bins and food recycling container. Took them an age to actually deliver them because they couldn't work out how to add our property onto the waste department database but that's another story!

Anything attached to the property, like doorknobs, can only be taken if agreed in the sale contract or if detached before the house is offered to the buyer.

But honestly who would arrive at their new house trailing their wheelie bins: you’d look like travelling rats. 🐀

The more I read Mumsnet, the more I realise what an utterly wonderful, reasonable and lovely first-time buyer I was... yet the fucking estate agent didn't leave the customary(?) champagne for me!

Still angry about that 😂

OP YABVU, I've never heard of anyone taking a wheelie bin with them. Most of them have the house number on them apart from anything else. And taking light bulbs is extremely petty. I feel sorry for the buyers.

Hang on - you are calling buyers "cheeky" for wanting to keep something for a) AREN'T YOURS, b) came to you with the house c) came to you free d) you don't need?!! You are rude thieves, your buyers aren't cheeky.

Such a strange thought. But maybe a form of OCD ?

Not read all the comments but where I live everyone gets one wheelie bin for rubbish from the council, if you need an extra bin (large family etc) you have to get 'permission' and pay for it, so that one belongs to us as not everyone is 'allowed' 2 bins! We took our extra bin with us when we moved, as wasn't going to pay another £50 to get another one!

Only if the owner has painted it on. It doesn’t come numbered with property