It is bonkers how crazy and money grabbing people get. The level of pettiness is shocking. I’ve had five houses. I always leave appliances and curtains, curtain poles, light fittings, carpets etc. At no stage would they have fitted or even suited the new property.
Folks just don’t see it as something that’s win win. They view it as every man for themselves. We’ve also had bulbs removed , no loo roll in th house, taking the scraps, and we had a wood burner taken too which was down to be left.
We had one buyer who just kept asking for more and more. I’m quite flexible and easy going and like to meet folks in the middle, but it was like she thought she was buying a new build and wanted a hundred year old property made to new so she’d never have any expense ever. Things that were not needing doing and down in the survey as fine for at least ten years she asked for renewing,
Eventually both myself and the estate agent had enough, he called me up and apologised and said she wants x now. I said, yeah that’s enough, tell her we’ve pulled out and put it back on the market. He said I agree, this is crazy. Strangely enough, she then with drew the latest request, made no more requests and went to completion like a little lamb.
People are total chancers, will abuse your good will and take you for every penny they possibly can given a sniff of an opportunity, it’s appaling. I’d rather lose a little money and maybe be a mug, than fuck over a stranger and be a complete and utter .....I just can’t understand why you have to be either though, why some folks make it like this.
I mean, taking thr fitted carpets, burning furniture rather than let someone have it for free, digging up plants from the garden. Just awful.