So angry at sellers, left the house FILTHY

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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've cleaned every house I've ever moved out of. But also had to clean every one I've moved into bar 2. One house I bought had bird shit all up one bedroom wall and the only carpet that was left was full of piss and fleas. Some people are just gross. 🤢

What a drama. It hasn't taken the shine off....they've bought a house, that's a great achievement. Unless you're buying a new build that no one's lived in, everyone knows you need to clean.

Our sellers dragged their feet for a whole year! I obsessed daily on the photos of my beautiful new FTB house on Rightmove then when I finally got the keys (exactly one year since I’d first viewed it) and got in I was so upset! It looked like they’d not cleaned for that whole year and it smelt grotty. The toilet was stained with urine. Without all their stuff the house looked so tired.

BUT we moved in, cleaned thoroughly, got all our new stuff in and 48 hours later I was once again obsessed with my beautiful new house, and still am 18 months later. We’ve probably only done 5% of what I thought needed doing to rectify the tiredness but honestly it doesn’t matter to me much at all as it’s MY house and I love it.

When we moved in it took 7 people 3 days to clean it. They left about 10 years of dog fur in the house and we had to replace skirting boards as they was so much fur behind it

Alternate experience for balance. I moved earlier this year, and the house was spotless. Absolutely amazing and clean and shiny as it had been when I viewed. So there are some good people in the world.

When my brother and SIL bought a house the sellers left a rather manky bottle f wine as a gift. We joked they should have left a bottle of bleach considering the state of the place

It’s very common. We left our last house like a show home for our buyers. The house we were buying from people in their late 50s/early sixties (for over £1m) was utterly filthy. I got a strong sense of them laughing all the way to the bank. They were well off and in good health. It was just a transaction to them and they weren’t wasting a penny of profit on cleaning for our young family to move in…

When we moved into our first house, to begin with we couldn’t even get in because the lock was so dodgy - eventually we broke in with a rubber mallet 😂. When we got in it wasn’t horrific but was a bit mank, although we did go upstairs to discover a dead bird in the middle of one of the bedroom floors and a creepy dollhouse that had been left behind 😳. There were also loads of things that didn’t work, and then to cap it all off I also found dead cockroaches trapped in the clock on the oven. Man that was grim.

At the time it was so stressful and we felt like we’d been robbed of this momentous achievement, but now these are all just anecdotes that we can look back on and laugh about, and once we’d sorted the immediate problems, we celebrated!

Bless you for helping them with the cleaning - hopefully you’ll all have quite a fun day of it with lots of music, tea breaks and ending the day with everyone having a good old toast to their success!

Yeuch. When we moved into a new home with a nine month old baby, it was pretty grotty. He was crawling then and I changed him into a babygro for bed and he scuttled across the hall and kitchen floor, and the knees and cuffs were covered in this brown gunge. Some people really do live like pigs.

My sons house was really well cleaned
They moved in and didn’t have to do anything to it

he painted it after a few weeks and put down new carpets upstairs and on the stairs but apart from that the house was like a new build

I cleaned his old flat and he got all of his deposit back
anf his landlord said she wished every tenant gave back a flat as clean 😂

Dads not helping?

Our second house was filthy and flea infested when we moved in, it just spurred me on to get it all freshly decorated. Thankfully the third house was immaculate, which was a relief as I had a newborn by the time we moved. It's grim how some people live.

Back in our late teens my friend's family had moved out of the family home on the Friday, new family moving in on the Saturday morning. We all went dancing on the Friday and my friend used her key to be sick in the toilet on the way home. That was it, no other mess or anything but she forgot to flush. Lots of angry phone calls the next day, everyone calling each other liars. We're in our 50s now and my friend still hasn't confessed 🙂

Grim. Some people have no shame do they. I’d have been mortified to leave my house dirty. When we moved into this one there was skid marks in the toilet and a pube filled sponge left in the bath

I would think an international move was stressful for some time and cleaning was the last thing on their minds. I wouldn't think of it as a fuck you kind of situation, I'd think of it as differing standards and stress.

I totally sympathise OP, we had this buying our house. Divorcing couple and clearly the wife couldn’t manage on her own with two teen girls at home. It was disgusting, thick kitchen grime, filthy bathrooms, cat wee on carpets, heavy carpet moth infestation, stains everywhere, mould on the curtains and blinds. It was horrible and I was heavily pregnant moving in with a three year old. I’m torn between saying they were struggling with MH or just absolutely filthy people.

you sound lovely going to help sort it this weekend, they are very lucky to have you. Xx

Everytime I've moved (5 times!) I've scrubbed my house from top to bottom and left a card and bottle of prosecco for the new owners. When I've moved into my new home it has always been absolutely filthy, like they've literally packed their bags and left. The first time it happened I was upset by the 3rd time I realised it was actually standard. I couldn't imagine having someone move into my old home and think I was a dirty, filthy person for leaving behind a disgusting house. I don't plan on moving again but if I do I would be amazed if moved into a house that has been cleaned! Hope they enjoy their new home!

Name changes for this cos I've told everyone I know this...

The first house me and dh moved into together was filthy. The sellers were still there when we arrived. They asked us to come back in a hour or two which we (very kindly imo) did. When we got back the prick had left a giant shit unflushed in the toilet. When we went to put loft insulation in we discovered bags and bags of actual household rubbish stuffed into the eaves. Then when we went to change the boiler we found stacks of 80s porn magazines.

When we moved into our current house, there was dog shit in the washing machine. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

People have very different standards. I found Curtains glued to the wall with cobwebs, rubbish in bags on top of wardrobes, old carpets in garden. A step up from my parents who moved in to find all electrical fittings removed.
colleague found bins of old nappies and dog *. 🤷‍♂️

I once bought a cottage. When I moved in there were stepladders in the sitting room. On each step a piece of mouldy food had been carefully placed. All around the base was an upended kitchen bin full of food waste. It was disgusting - & deliberate - there'd been argy-bargy in the purchasing so bad feeling all around. I was very surprised to find ammunition in an unlocked gun cupboard upstairs. I called the local Police station for advice. Two Police turned up sharpish. The younger man looked pretty embarrassed. It was the person I bought the cottage from. I chose not to make a formal complaint. I did unexpectedly see his wife in a rural playground 3 years later & she spike about me to her companion. I walked across & said that her husband was lucky I'd not made a formal complaint about leaving an unlocked gun cupboard with bullets in. And, I hoped she cleaned her current house. I'm quite shy & I was shaking. I would never have said a word if she'd not been snipping about it but I'm glad I did

All you can do is clean, (& have a story for later!)

Are the dads helping to clean as well, or do only the mums get to

100%

Get someone in there. Well worth a few hundred pounds

This is pretty standard when buying. I have had to clean filthy places.

This type of thing is commonplace in Gwynedd, Wales. In fact, when I read it, I was thinking it's not that bad really as a result of the houses I've seen as a first time buyer.

You don't see it that often with regular people's houses, but it's not uncommon for many houses here to be empty, having been used mainly as investments, or used as holiday homes since the 90 or 80s. That means that unlike their main residence, they just don't invest the same care into them. They're not heated like they should be (bad idea in a rainy, damp area) and are generally a bit shabby. They just make-do for years trying to get away with not making repairs on them if they can help it.

You should see the places I'm going to view this week :/

The first apartment I moved into had been wanked over by the previous tenant. It stank of old jizz.