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To think that these vendors are utter twunts?

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YoungGirlGrowingOld · 31/03/2016 15:02

I don't think IABU but wanted to vent and ask advice.

Completed on our new house yesterday. Was in London for work so went there today to find that before moving out the vendors have dragged all their old mattresses into the garden (along with some - now smashed - glass items) and set fire to them. I would post pics but I am not clever enough...

I started cleaning up all the other shit they left behind and realized that there was an entire fireplace missing. It's a funky modern ish gas fire thing and I clearly remember it and liked it. Despite ticking the "leaving gas fire" box on the SPIF form they have removed it and replastered the fucking wall. Have just gone back through the estate agents info and the SPIF from the solicitor and there was no mention of them taking it.

I was willing to overlook the massive turd upstairs in the bathroom as an aberration, but I really think they didn't like us! Grin

Anyway I have photographed everything and emailed the solicitor and I know I have legal redress, but AIBU to feel aggrieved that I have to share a planet with these utter cunts? I mean seriously, who does this? I know it's a first world problem and I am lucky to have a house and legs etc, but c'mon - it's really very twattish, no?

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thecatfromjapan · 31/03/2016 17:10

That's horrible. Someone we know moved in to their home to discover that - astonishingly - between their viewing (and offering) and their moving in, there had (apparently) been a break-in ... in which all fireplaces had been removed.

Sure.Hmm

Some people are truly vile.

I suspect the neighbours will be grateful that you're OK. People who behave like this are rarely great neighbours themselves.

Littletabbyocelot · 31/03/2016 17:11

Crabbitface, I was also going to post about my first house where the vendor left a porn stash behind (home made). What is wrong with people.

They seem absolutely awful. I want to say with the poo that could be accidental. Last time we moved, twice one of the removers asked to use the loo and both times when I went in there were skid marks. Fortunately I checked. However, people who could burn mattresses in the back garden of a house they'd sold are pretty much capable of anything

Tanith · 31/03/2016 17:14

My mum was once contacted by the people she'd sold to because the house had been stripped - carpets and all.
Turned out it was the thieving next door neighbours who'd been over the fence and stolen the lot Angry

thecatfromjapan · 31/03/2016 17:19

Tanith - that's terrible.

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YoungGirlGrowingOld · 31/03/2016 17:21

There's more...

I went back to the house to take more pics at DH's insistence of the crap vendortwats left behind. I cannot believe I didn't notice this before but I was so distracted by the turd that I failed to notice that they also TOOK THE TOILET SEAT!!!! Fuckers.

To think that these vendors are utter twunts?
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MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 31/03/2016 17:22
Shock
thecatfromjapan · 31/03/2016 17:24

OK. That's just plain weird.

Poor you.

On the plus side - you're not moving in next to them! Hurrah!

Crabbitface · 31/03/2016 17:24

Young I am so feeling for you. It's heartbreaking. I know moving is supposed to be stressful but it's also supposed to be happy and exciting and these utter fuckers have completely tarnished it. Flowers.

I wonder if they took off the toilet seat before or after doing the jobby???

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YoungGirlGrowingOld · 31/03/2016 17:26

5.24pm is the cocktail hour somewhere right? I'm opening the Wine

Thank you all for cheering me up (although sorry to hear this is not uncommon!)

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DixieNormas · 31/03/2016 17:31

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hefzi · 31/03/2016 17:36

Was there some novelty loo seat or something? And was that hideous tree there when you looked round? That should have been your clue, OP, that these people were not civilised [bosom hoick]

I know I shouldn't be surprised by people's odd behaviour, but I really am: what on earth makes a grown adult think, "I know: let's have a big bonfire in the garden of all the shit we don't want to take with us and can't be arsed to dump!" ? Presumably the sort whose partner would respond, "Great! I'll be right there after I've removed the fire and taken a dump in the sitting room" Hmm

hefzi · 31/03/2016 17:36

Oh - and OP? Wine Wine Wine

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 31/03/2016 17:41

Do not let this lie.

They are utter arseholes.

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YoungGirlGrowingOld · 31/03/2016 17:44

Thank you Hefzi

Pretty sure I would remember a novelty loo or even an absent loo seat - the only thing I remember clearly is that the loos were all full of Harpic when we viewed. As you do with a viewing really. They seemed so nice and normal!

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GinIsIn · 31/03/2016 17:45
Shock

Oh YoungGirl - what utter cunts!! The world is essentially split into 2 types of people when it comes to house moves - the kind who leave you wine, and the kind who leave you a turd.

The utter arse vendors who sold us our flat quibbled over everything, demanded a grand for the white goods, all of which were broken when we moved in, left the floors covered in broken glass, broken wardrobes in the bedrooms, no light fittings at all, and they TOOK THE WASHERS OUT OF THE TAPS. Who does that?!!?

MaryPoppinsPenguins · 31/03/2016 17:46

That's rubbish OP... Definitely drink All the wine!

When we moved into our first house we discovered that the vendor had not only had some kind of bonfire right across the lawn, but they had been hiding some massive cracks and holes in walls, with pictures and furniture. Our (rubbish) survey didn't pick them up! It was a house of horrors...

We're completing on our new house in two weeks, I'm hoping for no drama!

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YoungGirlGrowingOld · 31/03/2016 17:50

Fingers crossed Mary Poppins - solicitor has notified the vendors' solicitors so we are waiting to hear. Not holding my breath.

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DartmoorDoughnut · 31/03/2016 17:53

What the actual fuck?! Shock really hope the solicitors can get some financial recompense for this, hope it hasn't taken the shine off your new home too much Wine

TattyCat · 31/03/2016 17:55

I think I'd be grateful that they'd taken the toilet seat! I always buy new anyway when we move - makes me feel much better for some reason!!!

But they're just plain scabby for these antics.

TobleroneBoo · 31/03/2016 17:59

We have not long moved house and the vendors contract they had to agreed that they would leave the house and garden etc in a good tidy condition. Might be worth seeing if their is something similar in yours?

They sound like twats

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YoungGirlGrowingOld · 31/03/2016 17:59

I know what you mean tatty but I was hoping to whizz over them with Zoflora so they would last a few months until our finances recover from the move. Had they expressed a lasting attachment to the loo seat I would have told them they could have it anyway - it's just the general twattishness that is giving me the rage.

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BustingOut · 31/03/2016 18:00

Think I would be glad they took the toilet seat, wouldn't want to plonk my ass down on anything they sat on!

Maybe you will get a ransom note for it soon?

Jollielolly · 31/03/2016 18:24

Was there any loo roll down the toilet with the turd? If not I'd be concerned about where they disposed of it after wiping. Mind you they don't sound like the type of folk that would wipe...

Youremywifenow · 31/03/2016 18:26

"The world is essentially split into 2 types of people when it comes to house moves - the kind who leave you wine, and the kind who leave you a turd."

Excellent summary of humanity in general from Fenella there.

OverScentedFanjo · 31/03/2016 18:42

Maybe the loo seat is in the garden bonfire remains?

How horrid for you. 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷