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.

We’ve recently sold our house and we did leave it clean - in fact we paid for professional cleaners (we had the time as moved into rented with no forward chain).

The very first house we bought had been professionally cleaned when we moved in and it was so appreciated that I’ve repaid the favour on 2 moves now. I like to hope it’s karma in the bank for the next house we buy!

But in your case nope, fuck’em they can clean up themselves. They’ve already made their karmic bed!!

moral of the story is don't piss off your sellers! Some of us will just be petty, but other people are just spiteful. There's another forum with tales of slightly unscrewing a hidden tap, messing up ever so slightly with the boiler, painting shut the access to the main, or as above, prawns in the curtains but that one is harden to claim innocence for.

Our house was pretty grim when we moved in and I have low standards. Wasn’t really anything we could do either!

I deep cleaned all 3 houses we have sold, but the buyer of our first house, who had no intention of living in it but wanted to rent it out insisted we move out with 48 hours notice or he would pull out. The problem was that the person we were buying off was away for 4 days and we had nowhere to go. Our estate agents were rubbish because they were friends with the man buying, so we had to move in with my parents. I cleaned the house properly because I didn't want to leave it dirty, but my PA sign off was to set the alarm, drop the keys with the estate agents and ask them if they needed anything else from me. They said they didn't, so I didn't leave them the alarm code!

It cost him money for a call-out to reset it!

I felt better....

I wouldn't.
I had to stop my mum sweeping and cleaning our last home on moving day.
Our buyer lied about finances so we took 5 months to move in. She could sweep and clean it herself.
Plus you don't know what state your new home may be in. Save your energy for that!

@jaqueshammer you gazundered!? By £40k.

Yes, gazunder is the thing that guz under the bed with pee in it. Sounds about bloody right appalling fuckers.

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No we didn’t. We ended up paying £40k less than our first offer but it absolutely wasn’t our fault!

Wow! You were given a gazunder of £40k what a gift!

I wonder how many reading have gazundered, and whether they even care!

Given 48 hrs to move out or pulling out who are these dispicables

Just vacuum cleaner the house, wipe the mildew off if there is any, wipe the kitchen work and the cupboards and same for the bathroom. You live in this house so obviously it isn't filthy so stick to general cleaning only.

*Wow! You were given a gazunder of £40k what a gift!

I wonder how many reading have gazundered, and whether they even care!*

Jesus. You know what they say about assumptions...but just to explain.

We offered asking price and asked to be given 4 weeks to complete a second mortgage application as our house wasn’t selling. She accepted. However 2 weeks after she changed her mind and sold at a lower price to a cash buyer.

It all fell through. At this point we had decided to stay where we were.

Another 4 months later she was by now desperate to move and had dropped the price by £40k. We offered the new asking price, however when she found out it was us she believed we should honour our original offer. She ended up selling with very bad grace and damaged the property and left stuff here/took stuff we had bought as a petty act of “revenge”.

So no, I don’t particularly care as we absolutely didn’t do anything even the slightest morally questionable.

YWNBU

I wouldn’t lift a finger for them as they have essentially gazumped the whole chain.

We bought from a woman who changed her mind, pulled out last minute leaving us homeless as we didnt want to mess our buyers around etc. I had a brand new baby and it was awful. Few months later she rang us and begged us to buy after all but price now higher. In the end we did and paid what she wanted.
Told her we didn’t want curtains etc.

Arrived to find the house full of shit she didn’t want- broken appliances, all the curtains which were mouldy, rubbish and old clothes in wardrobes and place filthy. Cost us TWO skips to empty all the crap out.

Condoms in piles under carpets?!? How gross, who even thinks up this stuff?!!

Do what the house-building company did to my friend who bought a new build - nail through a pip somewhere hidden. All fine, until the nail rusts and then the pipe starts to leak.

She transformed her house in two months to be full of two skips worth of crap.

I would at least have veiwed it again and made very high demands re professional clearing and cleaning before agreeing to enter into a deal with such a low life a 2nd time after your burn the first time around.

She was liable for that bill, and more besides.

This is how ppl get away with it, its like meeting blackmailers demands. Just don't.

I suppose you got the house you wanted in the long run, but you gotta be prepared to be cool with all kinds of shit to get in bed with them again.

What's the expression about lying with dogs and getting fleas.

(that was incompetence rather than malicious obviously)

Go ahead and leave it in whatever state yoh feel like OP. Regardless of the fact that they have been cheeky fuckers, I can't imagine who would actually expect to have a sparkling clean house to move into unless you've bought a new build! I have bought and sold 3 properties before and never once occurred to me to deep clean the house before I leave. Equally I expect to clean a new property I've purchased - how could you expect anything else?!

I think vendors should be subjected to conveyancing restrictions to prevent them sinking so low as to leave their properties minging.

If you agree to it, you've agreed so happy, if not walk away. The only thing these fuckers understand.

JacquesHammer "she believed we should honour our original offer."

WTAF?! She was the one who broke that deal!

Hope your £40K cushioned you from her petty spite...

Wtf? I would never wash carpets before J move! Chances are the new buyer will get new ones anyway.

Our purchaser messed us around so much that we did very little, ran the hoover round, wiped out the kitchen cupboards that was about it. We took loads of the plants from the garden, we actually dug up all the snowdrop bulbs as they had come from my aunt's garden.

Many years ago when we were still working with the military in Germany many families were having to move out of their flats which were being renovated. They were told however that they would have to do a full 'march-out', a process only familiar to military families! We once had a 'child in uniform' kneel down in front of the cooker, put her hand underneath and scrape her nails along the underside! 'That needs cleaning', OH offered her the cleaning stuff and she relented. March outs were a thing of nightmares!

Our house was very grubby when we bought it last year. The dog hair embedded carpet had to be fully replaced before we moved in and the oven had to be professionally cleaned, plus the kitchen and bathroom needed scrubbing down. The difference is that we were vaguely acquainted to the sellers and it felt quite awkward that they had left it so dirty.

As your buyers have been pricks I wouldn't go to too much effort.

No. I would deep clean any house i moved into as i would not know what dirt is there. As long as its not a tip when you leave it. I dont understand why someone would not clean before they move in.

I've always had professional cleaners in after I have left. I would make an exception for your buyers, in fact I'd remove absolutely everything not stated in the fixtures and fittings form. And change all light fittings for a simple ceiling rose. And change curtains for ones too short (if they are on the list).

I wouldn't. Not because I'm mean but because I have decided that I don't have time to do everything. This is something that I could choose not to do to make my life easier. I'm sure the buyers will clean when they move in. I've always cleaned a new house when I buy it. Why do it twice?

I'd definitely not clean the house, and I'd take all the bulbs and leave "presents" in every toilet.

But I'm petty like that.