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!!

I have told this story before. House looked pretty good until we moved in.
We thought the bathroom ( tub, basin and toilet) had a mottled grey and brown carpet. Not hygienic so went to pull it up. It was a matted mess of pubic and dog hairs! Must have taken years to accumulate.
Curtains in the sitting room fell down when we went to pull them and when we removed the rug in the utility room we discovered that dog urine had rotted out the middle of the floor as the dogs were shut in when their owners went to work.
Some people are just disgustingly filthy.

@Comedycook I've always left a bottle of wine and a bunch of flowers. Just a gesture. The people who moved out of the house I live in now did the same.

You buy them a gift?! Why?! What's the point??

We did too, a card, champagne and chocolate. Because they seemed like lovely people when we showed them the house, because they made us a decent offer and didn't muck us about or cause us a minute's stress, and because it's nice to be nice.

Agreed!

Our sellers did this to us. Filthy carpets, not a bulb in the house, sockets hanging off walls, holes in walls where they're removed items. it was our first house and we thought this was normal. Thankfully we'd taken a month off work to redecorate throughout anyway...we're not beige people. We'd planned to replace the upstairs carpets...we extended that to downstairs too. We replaced the oven. Lots of cleaning, scrubbing, filling and painting later and we could finally move in. Took 5 weeks. 18 years later we still have mostly the same carpets we put down back then. While it still grates that the sellers did that to us, we made it into an opportunity to really make this place ours!

It’s two years since I moved out of my house and the new owner texted me the other day to say DD’s contact lenses had been delivered there for some reason. She arranged to pick them up. But basically it’s nice to be nice

We were left a bottle of wine and a card when we moved in. It didnt mitigate the annoyance I felt about the huge nails in every wall in every room. Who puts pictures up with huge nails?

People who are hanging huge pictures/ mirrors? I have an original picture rail in all downstairs rooms, but it’s nowhere near sturdy enough to take the weight of some of the things I have hanging up. Which yes, are on substantial nails, hung by a guy who hangs for two of the local galleries.

Well these were everywhere in the house .

We found c10years worth of toenail clippings under the bath of the first house we bought. We laugh about it now but it was a grim find at the time .

In our present house there was a lot of boxing in of pipes, all over the house. It appeared to have been a speciality of a previous owner. Probably for that reason, we didn't really register the presence of a funny little box high up on the kitchen wall all on its own. Eventually we had work done in that room and the builder dismantled the box. Inside there was a cold chisel with its blade stuck in the plaster. We could only conclude that the previous owner who liked boxing in had been unable to get the cold chisel out so had decided to disguise it. I wish we'd taken a picture of it but it was before the days of camera phones.

Sorry that happened to them 😢 When we bought our first house, we’d been left with a flea infestation and the whole place stank of dog piss. We realised that’s why they’d had so many glade plug in’s when we came to view 🙄 We actually had to replace the carpets because of the fleas and the stink. Plus they nicked the curtains which were included as part of the sale. Wankers.

We’ve just got back after being there all day. It took 5 hours to do the kitchen alone. The oven needed to be completely dismantled to get into all the crevices as it was thick with food build up.
Every cupboard and drawer was full of food detritus, dust, we’ve found greasy baking trays pushed into the back of the drawer unit, dog shit on the kick boards, the fridge seals were disgusting and the fridge caked in food splashes and mould.
The whole house has hair, dust, splashes of god knows what up the walls. The bathroom panelling is held on with silicon that is bowing out and the floor tiles are cracking as they are walked on. Pubic hairs and grime everywhere, the seal on the shower door was green with algae.
Every window is mouldy and covered in cobwebs.
Had to get an exterminator in as there are wasps in the cavity walls.
Urine soaked wooden floor in the downstairs loo, with every job looking to have been done themselves with rough looking silicon sealant everywhere and any fitting held on with luck (toilet roll holder just pushed into a hole. The sinks and loos are not boxed in and pipes running everywhere that are caked in dust and grime.

Sickening really, we have worked out that the previous owners were only there 3 years and I’d make a guess they’ve not cleaned the place apart from running a vacuum around in that 3 years.

Privately I’d have never have bought the house but DS and DIL are young and inexperienced and clearly didn’t look too far at much.

What a nightmare! Good job you’re all mucking in- literally!

To be honest it sounds more like 10 plus years of neglect rather than just 3 years.
It's really bad luck though, I'm sorry you've had to go through all this.

That really is beyond disgusting.

I hope they can manage to get repairs done to the worst of it.

They have new carpets measured up and we will help paint it first.
Theyll have to live with the bathroom but we’ll make it as clean as possible. The downstairs loo and hall flooring is appalling, wood floors that’s all scratched, swollen and just filthy with really dirty, grimy skirting boards.
Every socket and light switch is wonky and the central heating pipes appear to have a weird plastic wall plate on them as they come through the wall - these are all filthy. They’ve not taken any care with painting - they’ve painted over light switches, onto window frames etc. Place needs gutting and doing from scratch.
Huge hole in the carpet in the lounge that they had covered with a rug.

They'll get there. It's awful now but they've got lots of help and support. It is bloody shocking how some people live though.

This is absolutely awful!! I’d be heartbroken but they will get there.

my sister had some spare laminate and my dad and DH have spent all afternoon trying to lay it. This house is a bloody shambles but thankfully apart from the oven and bathrooms was left clean but just completely shoddy and covered up. Our stairs weren’t safe!

We’ve done the bedrooms now, just need new carpets. Then to do the bathrooms, hall and lounge. I’m moving before we do the kitchen. They’ll get there eventually. DH has lost his job and I’m on mat leave so it’s up shit creek at the moment. But we’re trying to do bits like the laminate in the porch that don’t cost.

Sorry to hear you are also dealing with a house that unexpectedly needs a lot of work. Good luck for a change in your fortunes soon x

It’ll come. It has too.

keep us updated on how they get on!

John and Leigh Sabine? She ended up killing him you know 😂 There’s a documentary called ‘The body next door’ 😮

Thank god your son and his partner are young. They will need the energy! In the end, they will have a lovely home, it just might take a bit of time.

Yet as 1st time buyers they were able to purchase a 3 bed semi, so, not all bad news. Some people can’t afford a 3 bed semi until 2 or 3 stages up the ladder.

Our first house went through probate it was very old lady living alone who had died. It was so run down and dusty it had been lightly vacuumed and all the things removed but every carpet, soft furnishing, all wallpaper/plaster/electrics had to come out immediately as well as the kitchen being thick with residue - at the time I wasn’t angry because I was sort of expecting it but I do next stand what you mean. If two able bodied people were still living there I would expect at least a polish and hoover of all the rooms etc. we left ours as clean as we could bearing in mind the tight turn around time.