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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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YoungGirlGrowingOld · 03/04/2016 06:34

No South - I don't think I want it in view of the state of the rest of the house!

We realized yesterday that the vendors have snapped all the lightbulbs off at the base so the bottom part is still in the light fitting iykwim? We thought they had just removed the bulbs (which is pretty tight but not that unusual) but it seems to be sabotage!

I got a fee quotation from a cleaner on Friday and she reckons that it will cost 600 quid just to get the house clean. (Her going rate for cleaning is 12 quid an hour so you can imagine the state it's in...)

I just want to run away tbh.

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louisejxxx · 03/04/2016 06:44

That's just weird about the light bulbs! What on earth could you have possibly done to offend them that badly?! Bonkers!

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YoungGirlGrowingOld · 03/04/2016 06:50

My DH pushed them pretty hard on the price, but the house had been on the market for a year by then and they were desperate to move (according to the estate agent) because they were divorcing. However there was no ill feeling during the sales process - our mortgage took a while to come through but we reassured them that it was because of extra checks required in view of my overseas work and they seemed happy.

Maybe it's that? But otoh why agree to sell if you are so aggrieved? Nuts to agree to sell but then go on a pyromania/turd/destruction fest before vacating?

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Skala123 · 03/04/2016 06:58

When similar happened to us we got a handy type person/Jack of all trades over to quote for all the bits the vendors (and their cowboy movers) had fucked up and sent the quote to their solicitors saying either pay up or we sue for breach of contract and we got a cheque for the lot pretty sharpish.
It's easy to think bollocks to it can't be arsed with the hassle but I agree you need to hunt them down and smother any smugness they may be feeling at their twuntness.

Panicmode1 · 03/04/2016 07:01

We had that with a couple of the lightbulbs, one of which was in the bathroom. The house was absolutely filthy ( they were still moving out when we got here and didn't so much as run a cloth over the kitchen surfaces before they left). I was 6 months pregnant with #3 and had two children under 3, it was December, and so the first thing I had to do was scrub everything before we could unpack or anything. Then wanted to give the children a bath, but of course we couldn't because the lightbulb end was fused into the socket and there was no safe way of having light in the bathroom.

I hope you get redress for your fireplace etc. Some people are just appalling!

Panicmode1 · 03/04/2016 07:09

Oh and in the first house we bought, the vendors seemed really lovely and very religious - they had made the third bedroom into a chapel - and we knew we were in competition for the house with two other buyers, so I stressed we were Catholic and asked about local Catholic schools etc. They also told us about how much time and effort they had gone to redecorating, and we spent ages praising the (vile!) decor and saying that we would keep it all because we wouldn't have any money after the purchase (true) because our first flat we were selling had needed so much work doing to it. They chose to sell to us on the back of all of this even though we hadn't offered the most, so I thought they were lovely. However, when we moved in, they had been hiding a huge hearth sized hole in the sitting room carpet under their huge sofa....so the first thing we had to do was buy new carpet!

WhattaMunter · 03/04/2016 07:21

This is pretty appalling OP.

I admit that I had to stifle hysterical laughter with

They took the fire and left you a turd?

oh, that has so made my day.

But.

Reading your updates has left me feeling rage on your behalf.

Oh my God! Who does this?! What has your solicitor said?! Please don't let it go and chase them until they own up and PAY UP.

Bloody terrible that the law doesn't protect buyers. I'm not the neatest housekeeper in the land but my house will be bloody sparkling when I sell up.

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Roddas · 03/04/2016 07:34

I hope the gas is safe OP.

I want to rename this thread either the Turd Twunts or the Fireplace Thieves,

I cant decide Grin

eddielizzard · 03/04/2016 07:39

i wonder if it's a very angry spouse who trashed the house hoping to annoy ex?

except ex has obvs left!

how awful and i hope you get some redress through the solicitors.

wowfudge · 03/04/2016 07:43

You can try using something like a carrot to remove the remains of the light bulbs from the fittings - turn the electricity off first and jam it into the metal bulb part.

Why did your DH's colleague not tell you about the party before you completed? You could have done something at that point. Utterly disgusting behaviour by the vendors, I feel for you. When we moved into this house it was filthy, missing light fittings so had bare, live wires. Carpets had been removed. The fridge was disgusting and when I defrosted it to clean I found half a bag of oven chips and some choc ices in it (the ice box was solid with ice). There was a greasy black mark on the side of the chimney breast in the living room. It was only a few days later when DP lay down on the sofa with his legs hanging over the end (he's over six foot tall) that we realised the dirty mark was where a previous occupant put their feet on the chimney breast! Ugh.

Oh and there was so much junk left in the garden, garage and cellar (none of it useful) that DP spent three hours filling a skip we had to hire.

JeVoudrais · 03/04/2016 07:49

Did you get an electrical safety check done? See boiler service paperwork? I would get these done ASAP they sound like right bastards/cowboys...

Gobbolinothewitchscat · 03/04/2016 07:59

Ours were terrible. Ripped fixtures from the wall and left huge holes.

The place was filthy. Crap in the toilet too

The mother is a perky Boden type so I was rather surprised at how minging the place was.

They also didn't bother redirecting their mail and I dutifully took piles of it around to the estate agent monthly for about 6 months - no thanks for that. Then told him that I would be writing return to sender on everything (which is also a ball ache). About two months later, I got a panicky letter through the door saying a tax disc had been sent to us and could I please forward it into them in the enclosed envelope. Could I also call or text them to confirm I had done it.

Unfortunately I had sent the tax disc back the previous day. I just binned the letter and didn't bother texting etc.

We still get some mail 8 years later

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YoungGirlGrowingOld · 03/04/2016 07:59

Turd twunts works for me! Grin

If it had just been one or two things then I would probably have just let it go, but it's the glass/metal bonfire remains + need for house clearance/skip + new light fittings + new loo seat that makes me want to try to extract damages plus I had to deal with their giant turds. It is breach of contract - they were supposed to provide vacant possession and leave the house and garden clean and tidy - so I suppose I could take it to small claims if they won't pay up.

DH is very deflated and heading off to B&Q when it opens to buy some brackets to reattach the kitchen cupboard doors, most of which are also hanging off! (To be fair we knew the kitchen was a bit "lived in" so not griping too much about that...)

Ironically, my tenant vacated this week - I have a (tiny) house purchased when I was in my 20's and she has been living there for 2 years. She is a LP with a toddler and a FT job, and she left the place absolutely immaculate. Not a thing damaged or out of place. The Turd Twunts had 4 able bodied adults in the house and couldn't even be bothered to flush the toilets!

They have a business which involves working with children so I am really surprised that their hygiene isn't better.

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SquareDolphin · 03/04/2016 08:11

Do you have any feedback from your solicitor yet?

AyeAmarok · 03/04/2016 08:15

This is horrifying!

Poor you OP.

BoboBunnyH0p · 03/04/2016 08:23

OMG some people, I really feel for you OP. I remember my Aunt moving into her new house after her divorce, I was a teenager and there was filthy underwear under the kitchen sink, it was rancid I nearly hurled.

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YoungGirlGrowingOld · 03/04/2016 08:35

We heard from the vendors on Friday - just to say that the fixed fireplace was excluded from the sale (it wasn't) and they had replastered "out of consideration for the purchasers".... Confused Funny how all the other things they ripped off the wall with our agreement have left honking great holes in the plaster with no re plastering attempted! They were trying to cover their tracks.

They have agreed to pay 25 quid to get the prehistoric washing machine removed and told us to get a "sensible" quote for clearing the bonfire remains, although they also told us that we should simply use the twisted metal and broken glass as "the base for our next bonfire". No, I am not making that up.

We only just noticed their little trick with the lightbulbs but the carrot tip above is a great idea. Will try it and report back. (This is why I love Mumsnet...) Flowers

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CruCru · 03/04/2016 08:40

OP - you need to pursue this.

YourLeftElbow · 03/04/2016 08:46
Shock What complete and utter nobs! You absolutely have to go after this, esp. the fireplace. No way you'd lose in a small claims court.
silverdrawers · 03/04/2016 08:52

Make sure you chase them for the cleaning cost too, if they were meant to leave it clean surely they're liable for that too.

tibbawyrots · 03/04/2016 08:56

Why isn't your solicitor dealing with all contact via their solicitor?

Karoleann · 03/04/2016 08:57

We almost left our new buyers a dead mouse. TBF, there had been a bit of an odd smell in the lounge (we think it must have been under the sofa) but why the removal men didn't either say something or just move it, I don't know.

Luckily DH went back to the house to check everything and disposed of it! He did leave a bottle of wine, but no turd.

Nanny0gg · 03/04/2016 09:00

Please pursue this to the ends of the earth. They mustn't get away with it!

Oh - and change the locks. Just in case.

DartmoorDoughnut · 03/04/2016 09:01

So sorry OP Sad def pursue them for all costs - new light fittings, new turf, skip, carrots used to try and remove light bulbs, loo seat, fireplace, plastering etc etc

toastyarmadillo · 03/04/2016 09:07

Take the fuckers to court, totally unacceptable behaviour!

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