To want to take vengeance on the horrible cow who is buying our house

[pennyapples]

she has waited until two days before we are due to exchange to decide she isnt prepared to pay what she had offered, she's reducing the price and we have had to go with it because we are so far committed.

The estate agent shared her reaction, she was basically laughing at us. Clear she planned all along this last move.

Feel gutted and a bit shocked that somebody can have no morals whatsoever. I know it's business but honestly what a cow.

Should let it go of course but just consumed by anger at present and keen to trash the place before she moves in. Bad idea though right?

Yeah I think they are very funny

People are just joking and being supportive I think

But I apologise, I will grow up and stop it

That's me told...!

some of them read like jokes. Some of them read like nasty vindictive people getting their kicks, and since the evidence from other threads is that lots of people are both nasty and vindictive, its not much of a leap.
Perhaps some of it is lost in translation though.

Strip the place and don't do any cleaning now.

Have a takeaway and leave the containers strewn all over the kitchen.

Trim your pubes in the bathroom and don't tidy it up.
If you can produce a skid mark in the loo all the better.

Don't do anything that will inconvenience the tenant just her.

does anyone think the suggestions are actually funny?

Yes. Obviously.

How is working out how to avoid the same thing in the future going to help with this sale? It won't. Not at all. Not one single teeny tiny bit.

Fantasy revenge, OTOH, may work wonders.

with this sale - you call the EA, as I said up thread, saying you has changed your mind.

I would say we 'had done the sums and we just could not afford the loss, is there anyway the buyer could see to meeting the original price?'

We have some buyers trying it on with a house at the moment, and they have just lost the entire contents (which they needed, as it is to be a second home). It's all going to charity. Now THAT is having the last laugh.

...and if the buyer rejects that you can 'see if you can borrow some family money but its going to be really difficult etc etc etc'

....do you see how this works?

Erm I think they're quite funny...

says someone who has negotiated countless deals both personal but mostly professional and always gets carried away on revenge fantasys when stitched at the eleventh hour

Yes. I think the suggestions are hilarious . A

And seeing as OP hasn't said she is a BTL'er or someone that flips houses for a profit, rather she is someone moving in to and staying in her new family home, why would she be looking to avoid the same thing? She might never move again.

I'm buying shortly. Not only will it be our first owned home, it will be our last. If our seller does something wankbadgery to us I'll be looking for revenge ideas too (will probably employ Stratters to come up with something inventive!)

A litre of bath foam in the toilet cistern is entertaining.

Just saying.

We got driven out of our house by the upstairs tenant who wanted to move into our much nicer and beautfully decorated rooms.
We painted really really bad portraits of ourselves with huge cheesy grins and hid them under proper pictures so that he would have to redecorate. Then we waited until he was away for a weekend, got the electric and gas turned off, and moved out.
Revenge is sweet. It really is.

op, i will leave you to your revenge fantasies good luck with your move

Well i found the suggestions funny. i've been sat chuckling.....especially at

strip it like a fucking termite

If you happen to be leaving a dishwasher (why would you?!), shove some washing up liquid in the bottom where the filter is.

If she is buy to let she must advertise somewhere, probably on the internet.

As renter I would want to sign a contract with someone so underhand. And as this is true and documented she has no redress if you stalk her around the internet telling potential tenants what she is like.

Is she buying any other property in the area? Again nothing to stop you putting 'beware this buyer' notes through doors of houses for sale in the area.

Actually quicker and cheaper to contact the local rag and have the sad face picture and the sob story of how unfair it is and how you wish someone had warned you about selling to X and you hope it doesn't happen to another.

How well do you get on with your neighbours? Loud music or swearing and shouting every time someone tries to look round.

Do take anything that wasn't mentioned in the contract OP, make her life a bit awkward! She might think twice before trying to rip someone else off.

And maybe just a quarter of a tin of tuna under the floorboards? It will lend a room a subtle pong that will be very very hard to track down...

remove the bath panel and chuck some fresh fruit like lemons or oranges. It will smell like a clean bathroom until it start rotting.

Peppi

1. People are joking

2. Most fixtures and fittings aren't automatically included in the sale unless you specify otherwise. There is no definition in law and the list you get when negotiating isn't always comprehensive. Therefore, if an item is not specified as being included in the sale you cannot argue it is theft.

Is your home nicely decorated ready to move in? Take a single strip of wallpaper off each room.......

And if you rub the paper bread bags onto a wall, the wax sticks to the wall and will repel emulsion paint...........just saying..............

In a house I rented there were two very similar rugs
unfortunately we trashed one
so showing the agent round to get the deposit back, she saw it in the bedroom, did not notice it being thrown out the window and saw it again in the lounge

You poor thing. Go over your paperwork and strip everything out which isn't in writing. Carpets, curtain poles, light fittings (you only have to leave a bulb on a flex), full in all useful holes (for cursing rails) don't fill them for non-useful holes. Don't clean, switch everything off, cancel internet and phone, leave outdoor bins full. Don't leave helpful instructions or forwarding address. Only leave one set of keys for each door/window.

Make sure you set up postal forwarding.

More marvellous responses all making me feel considerably better, childish or no!

I can leave some nappy sacks out too right? Haha

In the stress of moving you're bound to forget some...

As she's btl you could try starting a rumour about the house that would make it difficult for her to let it out! In honour of Halloween approaching how about a good old fashioned ghost story. Go round and tell all your neighbours how glad you are to be moving out because the house is haunted and you sense the presence of great evil there. Post a lot of stories on the Internet forums about strange phenomenon that will come up if someone googles the address. Scatter ashes on the carpets and wipe them across the walls and write red rum in lipstick on the bathroom mirror. If anyone asks say it wasn't you and must be the ghosts. Write scary messages on fogged up windows that will only be revealed when the windows fog up again...