To not deep clean house before move

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Backstory is our buyers have massively pissed us about. Our place went to best and final offers, the buyers went in really high (over asking price). Estate agent advised they were a good bet, chain free, young couple with small child. We obviously accepted their offer.

They really started dragging their heels, and then 2 weeks before exchange they dropped their offer massively. Everyone was so far down the road with surveys, solicitors etc that we all dug deep to salvage the sale (essentially is, and the two other above us have absorbed their shortfall, which is now leaving us out of pocket).

Basically I feel pretty resentful about it, wibu and very pretty not to do a proper clean of the house? Obviously I won't leave it in a tip, but I feel like I don't want to waste my time scrubbing cupboards for people who essentially fucked us over.

I have never cleaned a house I have moved out of, not mu house anymore.

I wouldn't, they'll say you're scruffy buggers whether you do or not. Just seems to be what people do.

Leave it visibly clean but not deep cleaned.

Yanbu. What arseholes

Frozen prawns in the curtains

Yanbu

Hang on, no one forced you to sell the house at the price they wanted it for!
We were able to reduce the price we paid for our new house by a coup,e of thousand, but only because the survey came back with the value at that price, so we felt we paid what it was worth. When we moved in, the house was disgusting! I was furious! I'd spent ages leaving my old house as clean as possible, and would have been totally ashamed if the buyer thought it was dirty.
The minimum you should do is ensure the kitchen and bathroom is spotless. Leave it as you would like to find it. Not cleaning it because you chose to sell at a lower price is just childish.

The minimum you should do is ensure the kitchen and bathroom is spotless
Why?

I'm an estate agent - it happens all the time.

You'll leave it in a less than perfect condition. The buyers will call the agents moaning about what a state it's in and say that you'll have to pay for a professional clean and time lost that they couldn't move in because of additional cleaning - agent will advise they'll have to go through solicitors for any queries or to settle any disputes which will end up costing them money just to start discussions about it and letters..etc and then they'll give up not wanting to waste time / money and you'll live happily ever after knowing you ruined their moving day and they will for ever be annoyed about it.

Our buyer was insistent on structural changes despite a structural report (which we had to pay as the builders report was not detailed enough) the report confirmed no issues. We asked the buyer to reduce the cost of the offer and do the work post sale, as we had a baby and the property was to be rented as an investment, this was rejected. Agreed we would do the work after contract signed, all dates agreed. Our builder started work and 2 days later , as works were finishing we found out the buyer had refused to sign the contract and was threatening to pull out.

It would be fair to say we looked at our inventory very carefully, anything not listed was removed with minimal care taken, so a fair few holes in walls were left. Peeling painted was actively sought out and brushed over and finally we didn't clean.

This wasn't a lower price based on the survey though, and it was much more than a couple of thousand pounds. They said that they had a ' sudden shortfall', which I think is a total lie because they've subsequently asked the estate agent if the could come around with some builders before the completion date (they want to do an extension).

If we'd pulled out and refused to sell we would have lost out on buying a house we love, aswell as loosing solicitors and survey fees.

YADNBU!

I would take the light bulbs as well.

You don't need to professionally clean unless you stated you would in the contract but it should be clean and carpets should be washed with a domestic carpet cleaner unless very clean already. Most importantly do not leave a layer of grease in the oven - we had a disgusting oven and ended up ripping it out, revolting

We had to scrub our house from top to bottom when we bought it. It never occurred to me that previous owner would have it cleaned. I'd definitely ask next time though.

We had buyers that messed us about more than once. We nearly lost the house we were buying because of it. We didn’t deep clean either but that was because we knew they weren’t going to move in on the day of completion. They were in rented and weren’t moving in for another month or two (if they were to be believed) so I figured they’d have to clean again or had plans to have work done.

I did feel bad when we got to our new house though as it was immaculate. I’d never moved into a house that didn’t require proper cleaning.

YANBU, they have messed you around a lot. Dust and vacuum and they can do the rest.

Carpets washed! Wtf!

As PP have said, plus take the loo roll. I know someone who took plants, dug up bulbs, all curtain and poles, carpeting (as not mentioned in particulars) light fixtures leaving hanging bulbs but no bulbs in - even took bulbs in outdoor lighting and the numbers in the house!

I always leave a house immaculate and unfortunately usually find the one I’m moving into filthy. So I was going to say YWBU but they guzundered you so just take your stuff and leave it, they knew what they were doing when they made the first offer.

I have always tried to clean but never managed a deep clean, events always take over and it's more important to just get out. The buyers will deep clean themselves anyway.

I'm think it's common courtesy to leave the house on a basic level of clean yes.

You could have made a party game out of guess the source of the stain when it came to our bedroom carpets, when we moved in. And there wasn't a room that didn't have tampon wrappers lying around. I was finding them for months.

So your buyers came in with an offer that was really high so you accepted it. Then reduced their off essentially forcing you to accept a reduced offer
Clean or don’t clean it but what you’re really pissed off about it that they played the game and won

Yep that's true @Prestonsflowers and as a result don't feel like extending the courtesy if cleaning. Petty, probably but small victories etc.

Also just feel like you can't be a particularly great person if that's how you go about things.

I'm clearly bitter.