So angry at sellers, left the house FILTHY

[Oldperithia]

I feel so sad for DS and his GF. They’ve saved and sacrificed so much for 3 years to scrape together a deposit on a house. Finally were able to buy a small 3 bed semi. Viewed it, offered 5% under asking and it was accepted.
They’ve been no trouble during the process whereas the older (60’s) sellers (who are apparently moving to Spain) have dragged their feet throughout the whole process to give them as much time as possible.

Well, DS and GF finally got the keys yesterday and were so excited but that soon turned to dismay when they got there to find everything really dirty, like they’ve not cleaned for months.

Carpets, skirtings, blinds thick with dust, walls all grubby and marked, light fittings greasy dusty, light switches black with dirt, the kitchen thick with grease and food stains and spatter over cabinets and cooker. Wasp nest in the roof.

Floors are sticky and grimy, the whole house is just dirty.

How do people live like that and how do they think it’s acceptable to leave like it for the next person.

We will all muck in and help clean and decorate but I feel so sad for them, it’s really taken the shine off the whole thing.

I know that they are fortunate to be in this position but it’s still made me so angry. If you know of an older couple moving to spain soon know that they’ve lived like dirty pigs and they’ve no thought for the people they’ve sold to. I hope karma bites them!!

Surely it didn’t get like that in the period between viewing and moving in?

When we sold our home it was pretty clean anyway as that’s how I like to keep it , but in my opinion there is always dust and marks once all your things are moved out .
I had a professional come in and do a post move clean for the new owners

More than £200 to deep clean it in that state, I bet!

One house we moved into they left their elderly cat and a house full of fleas. We had to get the exterminators in on day 2 🤮 🦟

This is not a thing! I work in conveyancing, 40 years experience, it really isn't a thing. Property has to be emptied of rubbish and that's it from a legal perspective. Whenever I personally have moved I have cleaned my home for the buyer and hoped my new home has been cleaned but it's certainly not a given.

WITH THEM definitely. For gods sake. Do you think they’ll be standing back watching while we clean? It’s just family mucking in and helping out!

It absolutely is a thing. It has been a contractual obligation in every contract for sale I have signed in the last 35 years. I would not exchange without it.

I moved into a house once, it was grubby. Then I discover every light bulb taken, bathroom fitting (cabinet, mirror. Roll holder) taken, Kitchen tool rack, built in spice rack, curtain rails/poles. Absolutely everything they could was taken

Except for a new build house years ago, each house I've moved into has been less than clean. To be honest I think this is normal.

Some people simply have no shame. Bought a house many years ago. We moved in. The seller had taken ALL the light bulbs!

I honestly think house buying/selling is one of the most soul destroying things you do in your life. I've moved a lot and not once have I arrived to a house that was left as I'd leave it. You spend hours leaving your last home clean and then start all over again. What I've found is you progress the renovation far quicker a result. A carpet you may have put up with for a while doesn't stay if you find it filthy. It spurs you on and that's part of the fun in owning your own home!

Well done on supporting them and all mucking in. Of course that's what you do, you're their parents.

From what I could gather,they knew each other from school and got chatting

Realised they could swap and didn't see each others houses until the move-I know my friend had friends with the same layout houses on the street

I did say that she should have gone round to view it but for whatever reason,she didn't

But nobody deserves to walk into a house that is an inch thick with dog/human shite and grease pouring off that wall

The fallout that happened at school was so bad,the 'dirty' mother moved away not long after

If any of the neighbours say hello , make sure they drop it into the conversation what a terrible condition the house was left in and isn't it terrible that 3 adults couldn't have kept it clean.😡 it's surprising how things can get back to them even if they have moved.

I do think you are taking this way too personally though. One person per room will make a huge difference in one day.

I also think that it will actually do them good to see all of the house up close and personal through the cleaning process and it will help them feel it is much more their place.

This might be cultural- in Germany they take the kitchen!

Well, you said Us mums are going there the weekend armed with cleaning supplies and we will clean the place to within an inch of its life

So I took what YOU said as what you meant 🤷🏻‍♀️.

they might have been working, packing up their things. Whatever.

lol 😀. no - she was just incredibly tight!

I hardly think bitching and moaning about people that are likely to be their friends is going to build good relations with the new neighbours 🙄

Ffs some people pick at anything. Our Mums would be just like you! Hope once it's spic and span they remember how much they love it.

I am so sorry they experienced this. Sadly we did too. Moved house at 7 months pregnant. They guy we bought thr house off knew I was pregnant. He lived there with his two teenage sons and I have never seen a dirtier house. I scrapped the grease off the kitchen walls. There were pubes in the fridge. It was truly vile so I sympathise entirely.

If you know where they’ve gone to or have a forwarding address, I’d drop them a line saying you’re really not happy with the filthy state the house was left in, or go through the solicitor or estate agent. If nothing else it will hopefully shame them. Let them know you had to get an army of people in for a couple of days to get it to a decent standard. My parents did when their house was left in a state. They also returned the 2 wedding dresses found in the loft, several old Christmas trees and a stack of ‘gentlemen’s’ magazines!

When we moved to our second house it wasn't filthy but certainly not very clean. And the dining room had a funny smell, we eventually tracked it to the carpet so got it professionally cleaned. The smell came back so we had to lift it and put it outside for the council to remove. Neighbours noticed it and we got talking, apparently the sellers had tortoises and kept them in that room over the winter and they reckoned that was the smell. Anyway it became someone else's problem as when we got up in the morning it had been nicked!

Every house we've moved into has been disgusting. Our current home was the worst of the lot, the vendors left loads of stuff including their washing machine (which stunk), a dishwasher (that leaked all over the floor) and a shed full of junk.

Every house we've moved out of has been left immaculate, we've sorted out all the bodge jobs, and dodgy DIY, and left homes we're proud of.

OP it's just one of those things, it'll be clean in no time, and be a story they tell whenever someone moves. Most of us have been there, so we know how they feel.

May they make many happy memories in their new home.

Its a shame and should not happen- but on the other hand, their first experience in their new home is the support of their family, which is lovely in a way.

But that's in contract 😁
As are some other interesting things sometimes from that I heard