What was included when you bought a house?

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Not sure what is reasonable to expect.
Did your vendors include things like made to measure blinds or charge for them? What about built in appliances? What about curtain rails?
Our vendors have made it clear that they don't want/need blinds and appliances but want well over £2000 for them. Is that normal?
We (selling) have included all fitted appliances and fitted blinds and curtain rails (all are made to measure or cut to size) but have taken curtains as we like them. Should we have tried to chisel every last penny? Are our vendors being greedy?

I would say your vendors are being greedy. You could buy all that new for less, why would you buy second hand, possibly broken, possibly dirty, possibly not your taste when you could save money and buy new? We have just moved. We left all curtains and oven, in the new house all curtains and appliances were left. Nobody charged for these.

What did you base your offer on? Mine have always included fixtures and fittings (just to be sure), carpets and curtain rails.

Your vendors are ridiculous. Our sellers tried to do that years ago ~ we told the, to remove the lot.
We sold our house with Venetian blinds, Roman blinds, curtain poles, carpets, white goods, wall mirrors and wall cabinets. We just included in the sale - never discussed it. I mean, you can't cut these things down to size for another house.
Let them take them, it will irritate them more than you.

Ditto what autumnleaf1 said.
It’ll cost them more to move/dispose of everything so they’re definitely being greedy. Unless they are some super fancy pants blinds.

When we moved, made-to-measure Venetian blinds were left - on every window. We didn't want most of them (some were PINK metal), so I spent most of a day taking them down and filling/painting over the screw holes. No curtains were left, and various light fittings were removed and replaced with bog standard pendant fittings.

We were left integrated appliances and large freestanding wardrobes in each bedroom.

This was all as stated in the fixtures and fittings form, so there were no unpleasant surprises!

Built in appliances are fixtures and should be left. Otherwise let them take their blinds if they want them . Blinds aren't that expensive.

I would have thought the fitted appliances would be included in the house price, the other things curtain poles etc I would say you don't need them and they need to be removed by the sellers, if they don't want or need them they are just being awkward

Nope they're being CF's, I've just sold mine including all carpets, curtains, blinds, all white goods, and an entire living room/dining room of furniture for the full asking price!

Yes if they don't need/want them but want to charge you a lot for them, make them take them! I bet you'll soon see the price come down!

We had someone try to sell us his bespoke Swedish wardrobes for £600. Erm - no, I don’t want your IKEA shite for about ten times its worth, thanks.

Our house came with curtains and blinds and fitted kitchen including cooker but not fridge, washer or dryer. And of course the bathroom!

As she was downsizing and we were moving from furnished flat she sold us her goo& quality bed, bedside cabinets, dining room table and chairs and drinks cabinet for £200

Just say thanks but no thanks I wouldn't even ask them to remove them as Chances are they will
Leave them because in the hell of house moving you realise this so yet another job you would have to do. I have always left made to measure stuff because unless you are lucky it is unlikely to fit or match the new decor.
I once sold a wardrobe to the buyer separately to the sale for £100 cost £350 and they asked me if I would leave it not build in, I was happy to as it would have been a mare to dismantle to get down the stairs and for them the reverse applied getting a new one in.

Holes, everywhere.

Apart from that, they've left all the kitchen appliances, blinds and electric fire complete with birds nest under and behind it. A loft full of crap.

Taken lightbulbs and shades, curtain poles and curtains.

If they don’t want them, they’d have to pay to dispose of them. At £2000 you’d be better off buying new.

I’d tell them you don’t want the stuff, they’ll probably leave them.

Taken lightbulbs and shades
What is wrong with people?

When we bought our house all the fitted appliances were included, but not the freestanding ones (like washing machine and dryer). There were fitted wardrobes in every bedroom, which as a rule are meant to be left as they are fitted. They did want us to pay for all the matching bedside cabinets - they CFs wanted £200 per cabinet. Total they wanted would have been £1400. They were old and quite battered, so we said no thanks as we were planning on pulling the wardrobes out anyway. When we moved in we found that they’d left them anyway (probably because they were old and crappy anyway!)

Our seller left us all his curtains, carpets and a very hefty set of faux mahogany bedroom furniture, we didn't want any of it and he hadn't said he would be leaving it, I would've made a fuss, but he also left his washing machine and ours fell apart in transit so we added them to the skip and used his washing machine until we could get a new one. We took our fridge freezer and (broken) washing machine, left the oven and asked the buyer if he wanted the curtains and blinds he did so we left them, they would've been far too small for the new house so we didn't charge anything

When we bought our first house we asked if the seller would be leaving the blinds and we told no, not unless we wanted to pay extra. We said no, but when we moved in the blinds were still there, so I'd say turn them down. You may find they leave them anyway and if they don't you could get new for that anyway.

Pubes in the bath 🤮

They also took the bulbs out and the bolts from all the doors? Like they left the door locky part but took the metal bolts.

I think your answers will depend on when people last moved.
I only found out (on another MN thread, as it happens) that people are more likely to leave things like carpets and curtains nowadays.
Last time we moved (and the time before that, and the time before that) you only bought the 'bricks and mortar', as it were. All carpets, curtains, etc., were property of the vendors. Sometimes they would offer them for sale, and sometimes they would take them with them, but it was very much what everyone did.
When we bought the house before this one, we paid a little more than the actual worth for the carpets and curtains, so the vendors got an amount of money (in total) they were happy with, and we kept the buying price under the value for stamp duty. I know that practice went out the window once house prices shot up. However, you may well be buying off someone for whom that was very much 'usual practice' last time they moved, and they might not be a MNer to be kept up to date with changes in practice.

We will be taking our curtains as they are not made to measure, just ikea shop bought ones. We will leave blinds and curtain poles though.

Im planning on asking our vendor for a price for some of their furniture (they are downsizing) and no idea what to expect!

BackforGood
No I think they're in their 30s.

I know what you mean though. I remember DM paying a ridiculous amount for disgusting brown nylon for fitted carpets back in 1980.

When we bought our first house they left us a step ladder and 2 clothes horses all of which were great quality and have since moved with us a few times.

It's a thing estate agents encourage. Our actually said "I aim to cover your solicitor fees with fixtures and fittings". So we ended up putting a fair price on things like built in shelves, shed, freestanding appliances etc. Of course nobody who already has agreed a mortgage budgets for extras so it just becomes a point of bad feeling over measly £500-£1000.

My first flat they took the bedroom door (wtf?), but left a spade.

Now this was a third floor, tiny London flat. No garden at all. What they might have needed a spade for gave me the heebie jeebies.