Misery loves company, come and tell me about your house move woes!

[alittlebitannexis]

We moved heaven and earth to leave a clean and empty house and garden for our buyers today. It was no mean feat for various reasons, but - I have always assumed - just the basic level of courtesy that is expected when you sell a house.

The house we've bought is filthy and filled with shit they obviously couldn't be arsed to deal with. A massive water cooler unit, a cupboard of old cleaning cloths and products, a side entrance entirely blocked by rusty tools and buckets and dirty brushes and brooms. Piles of fabric, random items in cupboards and drawers. We have contractors booked to start work tomorrow so DH is spending the night carting loads of this stuff out the house so they can access the areas they need to.

Uuuuuuugh how can people be like this?!

I had the same thing happen to me 18 months ago. I serviced and professionally cleaned all appliances, oiled the hardwood floors and left the house immaculate. Arrived at my new home and spent the first night crying as it felt so dirty. I remember googling cleaning companies at 3am in the morning. They had even thrown the curtain poles I had declined to buy under the decking. It was a seemingly nice family that had moved out so I really didn't understand the state of it.

Ugh how awful.

If you have to get someone to dispose of all the stuff they left ensure their solicitor gets the bill so that they have to pay.

Oh @charabang you get it! That's awful.

Yep @Katherineryan1986 - the estate agent is actually coming round themselves to pick it all up in a big van apparently....?! I get the impression that these vendors have been a pain in the arse to them and they're desperate to be done with this transaction!

We moved just over a year ago. Sold our old house to FTBs and scrubbed the house to leave it beautifully clean and shiny and left them a card, a nice pot plant and a bottle of champagne.
Our vendors left us unflushed splattered toilets, a sink full of ice and bits of food they'd obviously dumped out from the freezer and carpets so thick with dog hair they looked grey and triggered an asthma attack in me.
Oh and the stopcock completely encased in the wall of the garage conversion requiring us to make a hole in the wall to get access. We're still discovering random weird DIY decisions.

Again this was an apparently normal family on what's locally called "the posh estate".

Thanks Adam and Carol you absolute pair of weirdos!

My last move I was up at 4am making sure the kitchen was clean etc.

The place we moved into had leaves in the hallway from where they’d moved out and hadn’t bothered to clean up. Then the bedroom carpets had sand in them. It took ages (and many carpet cleans/hoovers) to get rid of it

Grim, we've had that before. In fact they were still moving stuff out when we had been given the keys by the estate agent. The house was filthy, animal hair, fleas, pet urine stains everywhere. They hadn't even hoovered or cleaned the toilet. Also dustbins full to the brim with stuff that the bin men wouldn't take (electrical and paint cans) and rubbish piled next to them with 2 weeks till bin day.

Buyers didn't have the funds in place. We had a very stressful 24 hours with all of our belongings on a removals van.

I know someone who moved into a clean empty house only discover everything had been piled up in the attic and left. The new owner asked the old owner if there was anything valuable up there cause if not he’d take it to the dump. As you can guess there was a box of jewellery up there.

Id like to say the new owners alerted the old owners but instead they kept it and flogged it off piece by piece. Some of it was very old sadly and probably heirlooms.

I left my house immaculate and ready to go. I think that's what a decent human with a spine does.
The house I moved into was filthy, garden absolutely full of dog poo, house full of hairs and long neglected dirt, kitchen cupboards you stuck to if you touched... And it stunk!
Luckily I had time to clean it all before unpacking thank goodness. Feel sorry for you having contractors tomorrow - so stressful!

New owner gave them fair warning, I think they were right to keep it and sell it. More fool the old owners for being slack and selfish.

I'm amazed the estate agent is doing this! Haven't all funds transferred and they've got the same through anyway... Very decent of them though!

Wheelie bins full to the brim with dog poo and an outbuilding that had been used to breed puppies that had brown grime halfway up all walls. Reminded me of a kill room from a Saw movie. ‘Brand new’ carpets that sellers had refused to lift for surveyor visit that stank of damp dog for months after we moved in. Among other things!