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

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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

I haven’t yet read the full thread, but please take photos of everything. Missing things, dirty things, photograph them and visit your solicitor ASAP

My parents moved (about 25 years ago) there was rubbish and scrap furniture, graffiti on the walls etc that had not been there prior. Their solicitor got them about £2k to sort the mess which he somehow stopped from the sale money (I think)

Wow Save
I’m gobsmacked that they had the gall to let themselves into your home.

zzzz all houses are NOT filthy when you move in. I moved out on Friday and paid professional end-of-tenancy cleaners to leave the house immaculate, as well as leaving a bunch of flowers, welcome card, all the fixtures and fittings, paperwork, guarantees, and a book explaining everything! It really depends on the person. The house I moved into was perfect too.

I really feel for you op, moving is stressful enough, especially with young dc.

You have every right to feel upset, this is certainly not how everyone finds their new house. We moved late last year and cleaned our old house as each room was emptied. I took pictures of everything to show the condition we'd left it in.

When we got to the new house it was in a similar state (apart from the oven which I immediately replaced) and there was a card and a bottle of prosecco from the sellers.

Congratulations on your new house, enjoy it and maybe see if there's anything your solicitor can suggest.

in our last house, the toilet was so filthy I thought we'd have to replace it! Just took a good soak and scrub with bleach. When we moved out I hoovered each room as it was emptied...we loved living in that house and wanted to leave it a condition that it deserved. I can understand some uncleanliness, e.g. as pp have said, elderly/not able to clean so well. Otherwise just shows a disrepect for the property i.m.o.
Just think how much better you'll feel when you know you new home is clean

I know someone who turned up at their new house in the early evening to find the vendors sitting round the telly eating dinner, kids in pjs, not one thing packed! They didn't realise "Completion" meant that was the day they had to be out!

'Christian' values? Did they treat it like a stable then?

I’ve been here too . Having left behind a professionally cleaned house as I was 8 months pregnant , moved with 4 kids and 2 horses . The sale had taken almost a year because of fannying about by the vendors , and it had been about 8 months since we’d last seen it . As soon as we opened the door the smell hit us . They had moved out , but because the mum and dad were splitting up , they had essentially taken what they each needed , the adult sons had taken their stuff , and left everything else . It was fucking vile. Filth, an inch of flies , all the floors were black instead of yellow stone , and worst of all , the oven was still full of half empty roasting trays . I opened the door and I swear something winked at me . I never opened it again . The first thing we did was order a skip . The second thing I did was get back in the car , find the nearest Tesco’s , and emptied their shelves of bleach . The kitchen floor was irretrievable , and so so disgusting ( it turned out that there was about an inch of dog shit buried under the wooden plinth in the middle of the kitchen floor ) that we ended up having to bury it under 46 bags of concrete . And that was before we discovered the problems with the lethal outside lighting , the plastic pipe work he’d replaced the copper piping with , the second hand and unopenable windows because there were no keys , the boiler wired back to front , and the list went on . Appalling .

@Waitedtoolong so were we! DH and I got back and saw it had gone we rang the decorator, gardener, PIL's, my BIL, my dad to check they hadn't moved it or taken it. We had said they were all welcome to it if they wanted it or knew someone. When nobody said they'd taken it we questioned whether the old tenants had come in but were both like "Noooo they wouldn't do that, would they?!" I went on Facebook to messageher and ask (after all the abusive messages she sent me) and when I went on her not private page saw she'd put a status saying they'd came and collected their property and calling me all sorts because I tried to sell it.

That's when I called the police. Then the estate agent. Then the locksmith!

We still get their post too, had to call a few bailiffs and ask them to stop sending post and one even turned up and I had to get our documents to prove they didn't live there.

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I thought this was a ceiling rose ( see above) and they had chipped or chiselled them off, phew! Glad it was the plastic pendent light fitting. ( missing point of thread).

Our first house we bought from a young guy who had been living there by himself since his mum died and I swear he didn't clean in those 2 years and he had an incontinent cat.

Before he left he had a party - his mates all spilt beer over the carpets and then the house was left for a week, so when we arrived it smelt like a brewery.

However, at least we knew it was manky when we bought it and so it was cheaper. We immediately ripped out the carpets, the oven and the whole bathroom, it was beyond cleaning

What always amazes me is his disgusting habits lost him ££££ in the sale

Our last but one house was horrendous, they’d lived there for forty years and diy bodged EVERYTHING. Random wiring, switches that went nowhere, built in cupboards that just didn’t fit. Downstairs was filthy but bizarrely they paid to have the carpets upstairs cleaned. On completion day. So they were soaking wet when we moved in and we couldn’t put any furniture upstairs.

I will never buy a second hand house again. This move was to a new build and it was a joy.

My sister bought a house from a cat breeder though so basically that tops any horror story ever. She kept her cats in cages in every room. I can’t even begin to describe the smell.

Speak to your solicitor. Previous owners will have to remedy bits. Since they breached contract, I think you are actually entitled to revert the completetion. If needed. But i think you could really just claim for damages. It looks like they didn't want to move, but were forced to tbh.

When I bought my first home, I ended up crying when entering. It stunk, was dirty and suddenly we could see how generally unkept the house was. They ruined my excitement and I will never really forgive them for that.

You will see though. It gets better with every inch which gets cleaned. Now I love my house. Good luck x

they are filthy manky people... forget them and make your home your own..

Totally sympathise at inheriting other peoples filth.
We moved into a rental property....the previous occupiers (for 25 years) were our landlords! It was pretty bad. Dog hair everywhere and the dirtiest shower I've ever seen. Everything was sticky in the kitchen.
I mean I get that people get overwhelmed with all they have to do when moving but if we had left the place like they did I'm sure we would have lost some of our deposit!
In saying that, there are worse things than a dirty house.
Get it clean, take a deep breath, let it go and move on...and enjoy your new home.

I think that I would get the electrics checked anyway OP, if the owners leave the house like that then I suggest that nothing has been maintained to a safe standard xx

This thread makes me never want to move house again.

Glad it was the plastic pendent light fitting.

Er, when this is removed you leave behind bare usually live wires

Filthy bastards. I’d be ashamed to leave a house in such a state. I cleaned my flat from top to bottom before I left it for the new owner. Why would I have left a mess behind for the person who gave me the opportunity to buy my house?

The owner was so pleased she told the estate agent to give me a big thank you as she was so happy to have been able to move her stuff straight in without having to clean a thing.

Go after them OP. I feel angry just reading about this.

When we sold our house I scrubbed everything to within an inch of its life. I left a bouquet of flowers and a bottle of wine in the fridge.

Our buyer was a single parent who had just gon through an acrimonious divorc. The last thing she needed was to do a deep clean.

Some people are the pits. Hope you get it sorted. Good luck in your new home.

Don’t know what’s happened to my e’s!

I cried when we sat in our newly bought home. It looked much worse after the vendors moved their stuff out. The carpets were all greasey so they were ripped out and taken to the dump that day. The fridge was live ( tested with one of those screwdrivers that check for current) the cooker was fed by a gas pipe that came out of the ceiling and was black with filth, that went into the back garden at once, the bath was cracked, piles of rotting rubbish filling up the front garden up to the front window ledges and THEM, they said they had no where to go and could they stay!!!!!

nakedscientist That's awful

What did you say???

I’m sorry this has happened to you. It’s annoying enough to move in and find all the lightbulbs and doorknobs missing without the filth! Go after them OP, but don’t let it spoil your new house for you. Good luck with the clean-up💐