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!!

We aren't unclean or untidy by nature, and we hired a cleaning company when we moved out to prepare the place. We had previously emptied and cleaned every one of the kitchen cupboards. The new owners still complained. That said, there certainly weren't dirty skirting boards/paintwork or sticky carpets.

Buy them a bissell wet and dry vac and celebratory drink of choice as a housewarming gifts and let them crack on! The wet and dry vac will be one of the best things they ever receive.
Sadly lots of people are mucky buggers and live in filth 🤢

I remember moving into a house and my removal guys having to help the sellers shift the last of their stuff otherwise we would have been there at midnight.

First job was to chuck the disgusting oven, full of pans thick with fat, into the back garden. A couple of hours later they returned to claim both pans and oven. Sadly they decline to take the (baby) piss soaked carpets.

Point is, we all have horror stories to tell. You can either dwell on them and let them ruin the experience or treat them as tales to tell your grandkids...

Our house was clean and freshly repainted when we bought it ... Turns out this was because they were hiding the black mould that they obviously knew was a massive problem. We didn't realise until two months later when we moved our daughter's got a found a massive thick layer of it behind the furniture on almost all of the walls. £6k later and we have fixed the problem. Really hope karma gets them! At least if they have left it dirty they haven't deliberately tried to hide anything.

End of tenancy deep clean...... the perfect housewarming present!

Disgusting, but that’s how some people live, then moan if you have a dog and that makes me lol.

Get in there, clean it and I’d save the money for new carpets /oven personally! 🤷🏼‍♀️

With our 18-month-old toddler, we once moved into a house where there had been two large hairy dogs. All the remaining carpets were hopping with dog fleas. We eventually called the council pest controllers to get rid of the fleas. They'd taken all the lightbulbs too.

It’s a bit of a shock if you’ve always rented as when you move the place has had to have had an end of tenancy clean so this doesn’t happen

when we came to our house we had bought with our 3 week baby it was the same absolutely filthy

my husband wanted to open a Bottle of champagne to celebrate our new home and I burst into tears saying how I hated the house and we never should have moved

we got a cleaner in to deep clean the place a few days later and everything felt much better then

People can be awful. This has happened to us twice. The last time I walked around the house and went straight back out and bought 6 bottles of bleach, one for each toilet and sink. 🤮 it was vile.
We’re about to move again soon and I have very, very low expectations!

Tbf I think this is pretty standard. Our house was left awfully dirty, I clocked that they weren’t the cleanest of people in our last viewing so booked in a deep clean company to clean the house before we moved in.

My parents moved last October and they were left the house in an awful state. Unfortunately I think it’s quite common.

This is nothing to worry about.

May i ask how dod you faced the mould issue?

Ours was like this too. I don’t think they’d cleaned from the day we viewed it until we moved in. They were still moving out when the house was officially ours so we were cleaning around them. DH was hoovering one of the bedrooms and the cheeky cow asked him to stop because her cat didn’t like the noise of the hoover. Let’s just say that didn’t go down well.

You wouldn’t recognise our house now as the same one we bought 2 years ago.

I think that many people don’t notice things like dusty light fittings and they don’t move furniture to hoover. They become inured to it. If the toilets and kitchen surfaces are hygienic, they reckon that will do.

I say this as someone who’s not super efficient at cleaning myself !

Remind them that they are under no obligation to forward any post that comes for the old owners. Return to sender only ………. though they might forget to do even that for a month or so if they are really busy clearing the muck.

The tales I could tell about our house . A self build that was two years old when we moved in, and it was absolutely rotten . My first trip to the supermarket involved 39 bottles of bleach . It transpired that they had split up and moved out 2 months before we moved in , and both had taken their belongings , left and given the keys to the estate agent . It was horrendous. Mice running everywhere , we had to throw the oven straight out because something was living in it , and we had to bury the very expensive slate floor under 46 bags of cement because of the dog shit that was baked into it, which was unrecoverable. Disgusting fuckers .

When we moved I wanted to clean behind everything after we took the furniture out but there just wasn't time, everyone was nagging me, and the buyer was early and waiting outside! Still, it wasn't that bad, just very dusty.

I don't think they should let it spoil their first days in their new house. It's exciting buying a house and it will quickly be clean again. They would want to clean it anyway, it will just require a bit more elbow grease.

Op, have your son and his partner moved anything into the home yet?

I'm also quite surprised that you're so shocked.

Some people do live in dirty houses and clearly, standards differ massively to what's acceptable.
Your reaction, to me, is a bit over the top, as if it was done deliberately to upset your DS and their GF or cause a problem. The sellers were obviously not bothered about cleaning it but I very much doubt this was done maliciously.

Get your marigolds out and a couple of bottles of Cif and bleach and give the whole house a good old scrub.

You'll be laughing and reminiscing about this in years to come.

I've just been to our new house .I was disappointed in the state it was left in
Dirty cooker, oven, toilet stained all the kitchen cupboards sticky and dirty with bits of food.
Every room needed a proper clean.
I really hadn't expected it from the vendor who obviously has done nothing since she accepted our offer.
I had worked so hard leaving our old house spotless or as near as it could possibly be.
I thought that's just how it was done.
But all can be cleaned and it's better than one house we moved into when no one had flushed the toilets for a couple of days prior to us moving in .
It's always a story and probably makes you determined not to leave any house in that state .
Wishing them well in their new home

It’s awful! The house we moved in to wasn’t as bad, but the shoddy work we’ve found since has cost us so much time and money. First time buyers like your son.

Like a PP said, eventually they’ll sit in the pub and laugh about the state it’s been left in. There’s some dodgy work in our kitchen that’s a running joke now!

I agree.

Also, if they’re an older couple you don’t know what health issues or other difficulties they might have. For example, I am only in my 40s and look healthy but I have complex health needs (lupus, asthma, bladder and kidney issues, all sorts) which means my home isn’t as clean as I’d like it to be. I can’t bend down and do skirting board and scrub things because of joint issues. And I can’t afford to pay anyone to do it either….!

aww how disappointing for them. When I moved out of my previous house I was literally hoovering and dusting on the way out, I'd have been mortified I my buyers thought I was dirty.
Then we moved into our new house. Remember opening the oven to find a grease filled grill pan a the oven door falling off. Sadly not everyone has standards as high as yours ( mine). However well down to your DS for getting on the housing ladder . And well done to the mums you will sort it

@Oldperithia
Less of the animal slurs 🙄

They should have got a cleaner to do it, ready for the buyers. But I think sometimes it’s important to have a bit of understanding for people, as you don’t really know what’s going on in their lives. They could be ill, or severely depressed. It’s a bit of a shame for your son and his girlfriend, but I do think you’re over-reacting a bit.

Just my opinion though.