AIBU to want payment for fitted items left in my rental?

I rent but ai am also a landlord. The negotiation for payment should have been with the landlord. If he didn’t want them then you should have removed them. It’s absolutely nothing to do with the new tenant. I am surprised the landlord didn’t tell you to remove them, although he has now asked that you do.

You added a toilet? To a rental property? An actual new toilet? 🚽

My head can’t make sense of this! 🤯😂🤯

And now you are expecting the new tenant… (not even the landlord whose property you added this new toilet to!) but the NEW TENANT…to pay you for the toilet (and other things that you added, that the tenant knew nothing about, and doesn’t own!)

You are truly mental!

I don't think you can expect them to pay

So just wondering if we go with the op for a sec, what might be an acceptable cost for the items - bundle discount? A literal BOGOFF where you buy the wardrobe and curtain rail and get the loo for free??

Or, if almost new, 80% of cost price (?+ Labour costs) or if lightly used maybe half costs? Or full total value spent (inc delivery costs per item? ) Does the size of the wardrobe matter in the cost? (Single, double, room for accessories?) [The wardrobe in my new flat came with pet moths for free. No charge there, phew. ]

So many variables. Used toilets are never on vinted which is the extent of my knowledge on second hand purchases.

Dont be daft. You made a choice to install them. They didnt request them. Why should they pay for a silly choice you made in a rented house?

But the new tenants are renting, why would they be paying for fitted wardrobes, curtain rails or a new loo (this is utterly bizarre) when they are just renting the place? If you were going to negotiate payment for these things you should have spoken to the landlord BEFORE having any work done. If you didn't negotiaite with the landlord at the time well it's on you to absorb the cost of the work you chose to do.

I imagine the landlord just wants the place back in the condition you rented it in so would prefer you remove and put right at your own expense. A toilet and custom made fitted wardrobes will probably take a bit of ££ to remove and return the place to it's original condition. You should be happy the landlord isn't charging YOU to put the house back to the original condition.

It's not remotely the new tenants' fault, and sorry, but they don't owe you a penny.

Why on earth did you go to that level of expense for someone else's house?

Of course the OP isn't going to return. His/Her work here is done.

Don't be ridiculous. The contract is between the tenant and landlord - they pay rent for the property as it is, they have no obligation to pay you for anything!

If I was the landlord I would charge you for the removal. You installed a loo, did you apply for and secure building regulations!!!!!

It's the way it goes. We moved just before the covid lockdown with a very small window to do everything and we're moving 360 miles away. We had to leave expensive curtain rails, lovely blackout curtains, and a 6 month old shed because we quite literally had no time and no one to help us.

This is the only answer needed. If you don't own the house, you don't do any kind of work that you can't take with you.

You decided to put permanent items in a house that wasn't yours. Take them or leave them, it's nobody's job to give you money for your daft decisions.

Wtf have I just read? It was your decision to put fitted wardrobes in.

Its the landlord you should have got compensation from. Before you did the work. Nothing to do with the new tenants, not their property.

Should have had landlords permission to put anything in or change anything. And the landlord would be who would compensate you if that was agreed. Why would you have put an extra toilet in a rented house?

Inside one of the fitted wardrobes. It's a lucky dip when you open the door as to whether you find a load of great outfits in there or somebody dropping the kids off at the pool.

At best, you can leave an unflushed monster 'protest jobby' in the retro-fitted loo; that's about your limit for reparations, though.

It wasnt your job to put a toilet in to a house that wasnt yours, that was up to the landlord!

Are we gonna get billed for their work?

This is a reverse, right @Maurit?

But it wouldn’t have benefited the ll?

I asked my buyers if they wanted certain things, they moved from a small flat to a 3 bed house. They wanted the dining set, study table, filing cabinet, garden table (regretting that, it was a pretty mosaic table), wheelbarrow (another regret). Conversely, my vendor asked if I wanted the massive stone water troughs (no) but took the ruddy woodburner! Who does that? I obviously left mine, it’s part of the house. Apparently they will have broken the seals, whatever that means. Need to get round a man to fit a new one.

I can’t imagine adding a loo, how interesting!

You want them to pay you for the loo? 🤣🤣

So rentals charge you for leaving stuff behind. And let's be honest it wouldnt be cheap for you to remove that and put the room back the way it was before.

Either take your stuff or dont. But you arent entitled to money for stuff you chose to abandon

the that the cost to you of removing these things (presumably you’d also have to refit a toilet given there was one there when you moved in) is really not worth your while so you are not negotiating from a position of power here.

You can't expect anybody else to pay for them, and I'd imagine the hassle of removing them and restoring everything to exactly as it was before is not going to be worth the time and cost. If the landlord now has new renters, I would say your opportunity for doing this has also passed - it would be unfair to disrupt them now.

What a ridiculous notion. Of course the new tenants aren't going to pay for those things. What was the agreement with the landlord when you put them in? It would either be you leave them when you leave or you pay to remove and make good. But as PP said, don't in general make expensive alterations to a property you don't own.