To think if you are moving out of your house you shouldn't leave dog poo in the garden?

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Got the keys to our new house on Friday. Along with filthy kitchen and big holes in the walls there were dollops of dog poo in the long grass in the back garden. They know we have small children. Am IBU in thinking these people are lazy gits?

Yes, they are, but some people just don't care and will leave a place in a dreadful mess.

Sorry you've been left with such a horrible clean up job.

yanbu
filthy bastards
but they might have been very stressed moving and all, so that might not have been a priority at all.

I think that you will find people leave worse than that......

I wouldn't imagine that most people purposefully leave places in such a tip but if you've got children to contend with whilst packing etc....would you really have the time or inclination to do so???

Mind you, having said that, the house we moved into was a total tip and the carpets were so manky and threadbare that they were up and out and taken to the tip within about an hour of us getting the keys.

Out of interest, what was the house like when you looked round it? That would probably have given you a major idea of whether the previous owners would leave it in a grotty/pristine state when they left.

I would guess it wasn't first on their list of things to do when moving house. It's not great, but it's really not a huge deal.

When we bought our house it was a little tired but perfectly serviceable.
It's ex rental & the tenants had left it very clean.

When we got the keys and walked in it was trashed.
We were gutted.
Turned out the owner had got her unwilling brother & mate to come & remove the last of her stuff (knackered white goods we said we didn't want & so declined her offers of paying her two grand for two hundred squids worth of stuff) and they destroyed our home. They had ripped off kitchen worktops & cupboards getting fridge etc out. They had ripped shelves off the walls in the bathroom (but left a cabinet?) and had obviously stood or braced on the toilet cistern cracking the pipes & pulling it out of the wall. They even managed to fuck the fuse box.

So, I can well believe it wasn't like that when you viewed it! Dog poo was the least of our problems but it's still rank.
You'll make it lovely though!

omg bursar

sounds horrible! was there anything you could do? apart from rocking in a corner

I always leave my house clean. But have twice found junk left in the loft when we moved in, it's vaguely interesting to look through former owners kid's school books etc but v tiring having to deal with it.

Also once I refused to up an offer on a house which owners eventually agreed to, and owners removed all carpets and light fittings leaving jagged carpet grip and bare wires . But you are so busy moving in you haven't the heart to report them (light fittings should be left).

Blimey, Bursar what did you do?

OP I think leaving the garden in that state was not on.

But they may have had too much going on and forgotten or they may just be so used to it being that way, it didn't occur to them to clean up.

Or they could just be lazy.

Hope you settle in to your new place. Part of that settling in process is removing all traces of the previous owners ....

Is there anyway one can put some type of clause in a house-purchase contract,to the effect that the house has to be left in a habitable condition, with all of previous owner's 'junk' removed from house/garden/outdoor sheds/garages etc...?

I know that when we moved into our house, some moons ago, there was an old shed just full of empty bottles. In those days there was no house-to-house recycling collection service, so we spent about the first six months there, trailing backwards and forwards to the nearest recycling banks. There was also a massive, defunct microwave up in the loft and assorted weight-lifting equipment - all easy to get down of course !

Bursar, that is just spiteful awful behaviour.

Could you have taken legal action?

I'm moving in 4 weeks (fingers crossed) and am worrying about how to manage one last blitz of house (scared to look under the cutlery drawer! ) whilst managing the dcs and the removal men.

I'd feel so ashamed if the family moving in thought our house disgusting. I already felt so bad about our last house when the family moved in and discovered damp we had not been aware of. We gave them £1.5k back to help sort it.

shoppingbags When we moved into our house there was dog poo in the garden so old that it had mould growing on it. Vile, just vile.

Bursar, that's awful. We had similar, but not as bad. There was a fair amount of dogshit and the smallest bedroom still stinks of dog despite my best efforts.
The most annoying thing was that they had taken down the greenhouse, taking away the glass, but leaving all the bricks in a horrible mess. Two years later, I'm still pissed off about that. They knew I was a gardener, they obviously hadn't rebuilt it anywhere else. We couldn't afford a proper greenhouse especially after paying for a new boiler because there's was 80 years old and I have a plastic B&Q one which I loathe. (1st world problem I know) It was spite because we paid 5 grand below the asking price and asked them to remove asbestos (well our lenders told us to!)

Ay damage after exchange is the buyers responsibly as they should have taken out insurance to start the moment they exchanged. But in Bursars case, it sounds like criminal damage as they could have just removed the white goods. The kitchen, fuse box and fittings would have been cited as part of the sell so i would have thought the seller is liable there.

Did the previous people even have a dog.

What a nightmare!

Our vendors left us one of those big plastic outdoor bins, half full of dog poo along with a whole skip's worth of broken furniture and rotten wood. Delightful. If we ever move again, I'm having a special clause in the contract about leaving absolutely nothing behind, poo included!

How absolutely horrid...there's a huge difference twixt slightly messy/grubby (especially for vendors with children) houses at exchange and those where people seem to think it's 'amusing' or 'acceptable' to leave such revolting legacies .

Yes, indeed, a lesson learned the hard way and one stored for a contractual clause for the next move.....

that's bad we have a dog and even before kids cleared the garden daily. we are moving soon and its something that's on my last minute check list as I'd hate to leave it foe someone else to deal with but then I'm the kind of dog owner that picks up when I'm out and I'm always amazed how many don't!

I left some stuff in my flat when we moved out (not intentional just overlooked).
It was still there when we moved back in 18 years later

I had worse in the house we moved into 6mths ago. We had poo but of the human variety, smeared on the bowl AND the toilet seat. Just vile, i ended up ripping out the toilet seats. The downstairs toilet had carpet which was actually wet with piss, my lovely BIL ripped that up for me as I couldn't face it.

We also found black mould all inside the integrated fridge freezer and the kitchen which was only a few years old had never been cleaned. We found the empty silicon tubes on the top of the cupboards from when it was put in. The tops were also thick with grease.

I did cry that first night at the filth.

We had to scrub everything before painting as it was minging, it was like the previous owners thought sod it i'm not cleaning anything again til we move.

oh and they had painted round the furniture as well, lovely yellow skirting boards were the sofas etc. had been.

As it was just cleanliness we couldn't really do anything but I think it should be in the contracts to get the house professionally cleaned before hand over.

Discovered though that both neighbours on either side didn't really like the previous owners, who had been here 20 years. They like us though, So i've had a good bitch about her to them !

No holes in the walls when we viewed. He has removed wall lights and just left holes with wires hanging out. The house looked lovely when we viewed. I think it's only when a house is empty that you see the build up of grime. But that's why I thoroughly clean a house before I leave it. I also suspect they've neither cleaned nor mowed the lawn since we agreed to buy it. Yuk

I'm so lucky we have 5 days between completing and moving in. If I'd arrived with all my lovely clean belongings on Friday and had to move everything into the filthy house I would have cried.