Moved in yday, filthy house, took everything, raging!

[Mimmi78]

Don't post a lot, but am awake on a mattress on the floor of my new family home at 5 am, just raging/worries & generally cluttered mind! Completed yesterday
It's taken a year, mostly due to the sellers, they were slow, didn't produce paperwork and refused to have direct contact with their own agent! Then insisted dates etc were all convenient for them & no one else in the chain (4 property)
AIBU, when I walked through the door, I felt a surge of foreboding followed by disappointment. It's filthy. Not just a dust & vacuum required, I mean, never cleaned the shower, windows, vacuumed since showing the property! We asked to view again prior to exchange, they let us eventually, but insisted on not being there and I thought then, this needs cleaning. I asked solicitor to ensure it stated this, he said it always does. There was rabbit pop in the kitchen sink, their bodge a job removers had trailed the whole outside inside (& were there 2hrs after completion as was the owner, who refused to acknowledge us!) they had taken every single lightbulb and ceiling rose (this is a breach of our sale contract!), every pole, not even a big roll, just filth, piles of it, everywhere!! I'm furious, my sold property was left immaculate, little notebook with useful info and a welcome basket. The sellers have only moved a couple of streets away, wibu to trash & discuss their filth with new neighbours, who will no doubt know them and if I see them, call them filthy animals???? Make me feel better so I can get on and make this house a home for DD1 (7) & DS1 (5) who arrive today. Thank you

If it's a breach of your contract I would speak to your solicitor who dealt with the sale. I'm no expert but I believe the sellers would need to put things right. Take pictures as evidence. Keep receipts if you have to buy things to sort it (light bulbs?)

Congratulations on your new home

At the very least in your circumstances I wouldn't be amenable with any post that arrives for them.

Sympathies. Our house was filthy when we moved in too. The kitchen was orange with grease. But what pissed me off more was that she'd dug up half the plants in the garden and taken them with her.

So sorry about this.
Take photos, let your solicitor know. Is there anyone else you can get to help you clean, just to make it faster...?

Bag up any rubbish left and deliver it to their new house. Then draw a line, forget about them and get on with your new place.

Get straight on to your solicitor. Take pictures.

This is a breach of contract and they should at least have to cover the cost of your professional cleaning bill.

Definitely speak to your solicitor about breach of contract. I'm sure it states that they're meant to leave it in a decent state.
And yeah, I'd bitch away to the new neighbours/whoever will listen 😁 We had the same when we moved into ours, only difference is I felt a bit sorry for the lady as she was 80. She'd left her husband so he just moved out and left her to clean it herself, which she clearly didn't. MIL and I spent days cleaning it, PIL even found a cleaner to come in for a day as our house warming present 😂

I’d just forget about them and focus on your new home.

I wonder if you annoyed them somehow.

It seems the condition of the house might have been meant as a big fuck you.

I know someone who did them same as they fell out with the buyers.

Or maybe they are just disorganised and messy.

It doesn’t matter. You can soon clean up and move forward.

I'd be contacting a professional cleaning service today and work alongside them to get it done asap, and bill them for the services. Can your kids go do something fun with someone else today? It's not much fun for children. Massive sympathy, especially after you left yours so nice.

Only rent but had exactly the same situation, took me weeks to clean the previous occupants filth.

I'd save yourself the stress of going to your solicitor/ going to their new neighbours as it unfortunately won't achieve much and try to focus on all the positives such as having a new home for you and your children and how you'll be able to turn your new place in to a lovely environment for your family and will soon forget all the mess they've left behind once you're properly moved in.

I spent weeks feeling bitter about having to clean all their mess up and it achieved nothing other than giving me a headache, some people clearly don't care about others but at least you can hold your head up high and know you're not one of those types!

So sorry to hear about your situation,last thing you would want. in your position, with children arriving today, I would get onto the phone and see if a company could do a last minute deep clean. Photograph everything before,take the kids out for the day and then take the previous owners to the small claims court of they fall to reimburse you. If your in Facebook a post on your local neighbour hood page usually brings cleaning companies up. Good luck and congratulations.

If they have breached the contract, , , find out the cost of a professional deep clean and get your solicitor to extract the cost from them.
Enjoy your new home, you must be shattered. Try not to brood over them being squalid home owners.

This happened to me. The solicitor said, is it worth anymore of your money after a stressful move to go after them. We couldn't afford it, and to be honest it wouldn't be worth it. Just face it there are scumbags like them and nice people like you.
If you can hire one of those cleaning firms to do a deep clean so you don't have to do it, might help you to erase the memory of the awful sight.
In the end the house was worth it, and it has just now become an anecdote. Have a lovely life in your new house, its yours now.

I moved 2 weeks ago and it's the same.

My solicitor is dealing with it. I don't imagine there is much you can do about the dust etc.

But my vendors broke the meter door and didn't replace it. Took curtains and curtain poles that were part of the sale, didn't leave until 4 hours after the agreed time, wages walls when taking shelves down, removed one door and some door handles off other doors.

The day the moved out, I came round one hour after the agreed time and the mother of the woman that sold the house was hoovering. The house was still full of stuff. I didn't want to call out with anyone so asked, really nicely, if she knew how long they would be. The mother gave me a right mouthful, about how they could take as long as they wanted etc. I asked her why she was being so rude and she just carried on. I left my phone number and asked her to ask her daughter to call me. The daughter didn't bother.

My solicitor had to phone theirs and remind them that they were in breach of contract. 3.5 hours after The time we were meant to leave I went back. The vendors weren't there but the rude woman and her husband was and a calmly but firmly told them to get the rest of the stuff asap and get out of MY house before I brought legal action and their daughter and them.

They disappeared pretty fast.

Vendors like these are why I like buying new build. It's taken to such work to make the house feel anywhere near nice to actually live in

I would contact your solicitor. Take photos. See what they say. Vile humans.

This happened to my sister, she had a 13 month old and was 8 months pregnant with twins. Luckily she knew the owners of a proffesional cleaning company and they came out straight away, solicitor chased and retrieved the cost off the cleaners for her.

They are horrible and vile, you're exhausted not a good mix. You've every right to be livid!

I hope the sun is shining, when you get up open all your windows and get the gloves on. Anyone who visits give them gloves and cloths.

It will get done and then you can enjoy your new home and they'll still be miserable buggars!

🍷 tonight!

Some people never cease to amaze me in how badly they treat others!

They took ceiling roses? That's bizarre. Definitely chase with solicitor and if the subject comes up with new neighbours, I would be honest.

@zzzzz my house was immaculate when I moved in, I can honestly say that there was not a single thing I could clean. The vendor got it professionally cleaned when he left. He left a book with all info i needed.

I was gobsmacked at the kindness! Don't know where he moved exactly but if I had I'd of taken him a gift.

I've had exactly the same before. I found it horribly upsetting - more so even than seems justified now - and it actually took me a while to get over it and started loving the house.
Any chance you can get some one off cleaners in to help you?
I agree - take pictures - people need to stop getting away with it.
Big hug.

Get pictures, and contact your solicitor. The sellers did the same to my parents when they moved in. Lightbulbs, curtains, carpets, even the inside door handles. Ridiculous.

Sympathies to you OP but the only thing you can do is take a deep breath, get your cleaning stuff and set to. When we moved in to our house, there was human faeces on the kitchen floor, blood in the showee, a pile of fag ends and empty booze bottles on the living room carpet. The list goes on...Focus on the fact that it's now your home to be nurtured back to a lovely place to live.

Im so sorry, how disappointing in a new home. There are lots of vile and manky people who do this. Seek legal redress. Next time you move assume youre buying from vile pigs and insist on evidence of professional pre clean. Good luck youll love your home soon.