AIBU to actually want to physically murder the previous owners of my house?

[lacroixsweetie]

So my DH, DD (1.5 yrs) and I moved into our new home two weeks before Christmas (2.2 family with two cats moved out)
They left us with:

• a broken boiler - it thankfully was repairable but coincided nicely with a cold snap
• utterly (squalidly) filthy house - weeks of scrubbing required.
• a flea infestation

The two cats went with them but the fleas are still here and 5 weeks of sprays, hoovering, carpet and clothing washing, and bombing is making little difference. I am being eaten alive and our toddler has a nasty selection of bites and is developing a keen interest in any black speck she sees. I can't invite anyone to the house, especially anyone with a child in tow. I have their address, they live about 6 miles away and I could cheerfully murder them (or kidnap their cats so they can appreciate the full effect of a cat less, flea full house). Suggestions that will a) cheer me up and b) won't put me in trouble with the law gratefully accepted.

You should order them A LOT of pizza.

We got:
the hall wallpaper painted with gloss paint. It was the days before that tough finish emulsion, and they had 3 children, 2 dogs and a cat, so need wipeable surfaces. We had to use a blowtorch paintstripper gun to remove the paint before we could remove the paper.
The bathroom tiles round the shower stuck on with paint, not grout and tile adhesive.So they lifted off with damp behind them

And letters re debts.Didn't get as far as baliffs, but pretty frightening.

duckdodgers a 35 year old dope smoking tramp. Even thinking about it makes me sick and her disgusting daughter. However Karma did catch up with the bitches.

Oh God, we move at the end of the week and I am worried now! I have spent the last couple of weeks scrubbing our house from top to bottom and have a bottle of wine ready to leave our buyers.

We are moving into a 'project' so I doubt it will be very clean but I am now worrying about a whole host of nasties that could be waiting for us! It all seemed fine when we viewed it but judging from this thread that may not matter!!!

Our neighbours moved a few months ago; the new ones came knocking on our door two days after they'd moved in asking if we had contact details for the old ones.

The old neighbours had left all their unwanted junk in the attic, then nailed the attic door shut...it was full to bursting with old furniture, dirty clothes, unwashed cloth nappies and used cat litter.

They'd also left the kitchen in a filthy state; the oven had to be replaced as they'd apparently never cleaned it, and there was a baking tray welded to the bottom.

They had also abandoned their old car outside the garage, it had no engine.

On the day of completion i was about 8 months pregnant. The young couple were supposed to get the keys at 4pm. She turned up at noon and i hadn't finished packing up the, thankfully, tiny, kitchen. She was a nice girl but wouldn't leave!! I was naive and now would tell her to do one and come back. I wanted to say goodbye to my house without her and her dad hanging around! We left it immaculate.

We moved into the house we had bought from my parents and there was A PIECE OF TOAST in the middle of one of the bedrooms. This was my own parents Since then we have been told more than once that electrics in the house could have blown us to kingdom come, upstairs and downstairs. My dad is someone who has never liked to get anyone in to do jobs he's convinced he can do himself (badly) The kitchen alone has taken forever to do up, the different layers of wallpaper he's papered over. It was like a trip back in time when i recognised the one from 1973.

Still, at least no fleas or a dead dog in the freezer!

We bought our house from two very grand middle aged ladies. They were obviously too posh to clean because the place was a bloody disgrace - I am not a clean freak type but my god.

The kitchen was so filthy and old we had to rip it out the afternoon we completed (I was 8 months pregnant and we had toddler).
Carpets that smelt with fleas in them.
Boiler that was leaking carbon monoxide.
Inexplicably knickers pinned neatly on the washing line - red lacy thong which didn't match with the sellers at all.

Loads of crap in the roof. Grrr we left ours looking like something out of a magazine I had cleaned it and we got in cleaners to make sure it was really fresh for our buyers sadly we weren't shown the same courtesy...

Reading all these stories makes me thank my lucky stars that the worst we had was that the new carpets we had viewed were ruined by the time we moved in.

OP YANBU.

Cheers ladies - I still hate their guts (more than I thought possible) but you've made me feel much better !