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what is the cheekiest thing you have taken when moving house.

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Bignosenobum · 22/02/2019 16:30

We are moving next week and we are planning to dig up a tree and take it with us, plus other stuff. Did say we would take one or two setimental plants...
What have you taken and what happened. Funny stories please.

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PCohle · 23/02/2019 00:30

But the buyer has paid for the tree as part of the purchase price. So the OP is basically nicking it from them.

mustdrinkwaternotwine · 23/02/2019 00:36

I always find these threads really bizarre. Why would you be so mean and petty? The OP knows she is being disingenuous as she's changed her story during the thread.
My first house, the vendors left a bottle of wine, a packet of naice biscuits, a welcome to your new home card, fresh loo roll & a new bar of soap in the bathroom as well as the wardrobes, chest of drawers & IKEA chair that they'd offered me as they didn't need it for their new place and knew how little money you have moving into your first place. They also left all of the instructions & warranties, train & bus info, takeaway leaflets & mobile numbers for the upstairs neighbour and a mate of theirs who happened to live around the corner, knew the house well so could be someone to call if I got stuck doing something (I was never quite sure what they meant by this but appreciated the gesture). I've always done the same.
The place we currently live in the vendors decided to have a finally family lunch there so we didn't get the keys for an hour after we should have done which was annoying but I didn't think making a fuss would achieve anything.

BrizzleMint · 23/02/2019 00:53

But the buyer has paid for the tree as part of the purchase price. So the OP is basically nicking it from them.

Not if you do as we did and specifically exclude the item from the sale when you fill in the fixtures and fittings form. Alternatively, you remove it before the house goes on the market and put it in a large pot.

PCohle · 23/02/2019 00:59

Yes of course. No one saying there's any problem if you properly and clearly state what the purchaser will and won't get.

The OP has told the buyer she might take "One or two sentimental plants" and is actually taking four plants and two trees.

SpunBodgeSquarepants · 23/02/2019 01:05

I'm going to need a photo of said tree.

LilQueenie · 23/02/2019 01:33

I lived in the middle flat. When my pain in the ass neighbour moved out she cut the electric wires which also cut the electric to my property. To top if off DD was only a couple months old and it left us without electric for 2 days while they tried to find and fix the problem.

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Bignosenobum · 23/02/2019 04:24

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius
That is hilariousGrin.

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Bignosenobum · 23/02/2019 04:27

SpunBodgeSquarepantsI will post pic tomorrow. I may have to disguise it so the buyers don't click on to this. Grin

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Bignosenobum · 23/02/2019 04:28

MyNameIsArthur ding dong. I neverthought of that

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C1rrus · 23/02/2019 06:32

Your glee at deceiving your buyers is odd, to me. Would you want your sentimental reasons associated with this unkindness?

Why don’t you just clarify with the buyers that you’re taking the tree?

HotChocolateLover · 23/02/2019 09:00

I was really annoyed when we moved into our new place and the sellers had taken the curtains even though they were in the contract as being ours. We were told that our only way of getting them back was the small claims court! They weren’t exactly expensive but it’s the annoyance that they had nicked our property 😂

thecatsthecats · 23/02/2019 09:40

Our vendors filled in their property information form nothing short of bizarrely.

Stated there were no shelves where there were shelves, ditto curtain poles etc - we could see where they were in photos! We didn't care whether they took them or not, just wanted to be accurate.

Then they said they'd leave a kitchen picnic bench - nice bonus, we thought, we weren't going to ask or pay for it. Then gone on moving day.

They're very nice women actually, and I'm still in touch, but their form was just weird.

Nodancingshoes · 23/02/2019 09:47

We didn't take anything cheeky but the people we bought from took the fitted oven, dug plants up from the garden, the gate to the back garden, the shed... We only knew about the oven

TildaKauskumholm · 23/02/2019 10:21

Not cheeky but.. One time we were moving out (in another country) and I had prepared a box file of all instruction books, manuals, local information etc. Then we had a call from the agent to say the buyers were on their way to inspect the house - apparently was their right to do so WHILE moving out was going on. We were furious and found it really added to the stress to have this horrible pair standing in the house to oversee everything. I could not bring myself to be civil to them, and the box file went into our van and was then binned. Wish I could have done more as it annoyed me so much!

TildaKauskumholm · 23/02/2019 10:25

Slightly off topic, but one country I lived in, when you went to look at flats to rent there would often be no light fittings, no taps, no door handles, exposed wires everywhere... (this was the lower end of the market)

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Bignosenobum · 23/02/2019 12:41

so in the sales contents booklet. We stated we weretaking some plants. We are however leaving extra like all the expensive blinds. Plus all expensive curtain poles. They know about the plants. in fact they dont want the plants at all. They are going to relanscape the garden to a very minimalistic syle. we know them you see as we bought the house from them. They are nice and we get on with them.. However, I was wondeing who else has been cheeky when moving?:

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C1rrus · 23/02/2019 12:45

Why be “cheeky”?

Why not add “tree” to the list of items they are not purchasing?

The items you are leaving might be seen as a bonus to you but not to them, they are irrelevant to the fact that you are trying to steal a tree.

PCohle · 23/02/2019 12:57

But if you think you've done nothing wrong why are you using the word "cheeky"?

There's nothing at all cheeky about taking away exactly what you have said you will take in the docs. Even if that is 40 trees and all the light switches.

It is cheeky to intentionally mislead the purchasers by saying you're taking a couple of plants and making off with several plants and couple of fecking great trees. If you're so sure the buyers won't mind then just tell them.

themoomoo · 23/02/2019 13:24

I don't believe you told them about the trees at all otherwise why is it cheeky?
I think you've realised you posted that you were going to do a very unpleasant thing and now you're backtracking

AGHHHH · 23/02/2019 13:29

we know them you see as we bought the house from them

I'm confused, you bought it from them and now they are buying it back?

CheddarAndCrackers · 23/02/2019 13:45

Love an OP backtracking when their tale doesn't quite get the reception they hope!

Here's History. Meet your editor. Wink

NeopreneMermaid · 23/02/2019 14:11

We brought three trees/plants with us when we moved but I had said during the viewings that we would be. One was our Christmas tree which we bought for our eldest's first Christmas and replant every year; one was a rose with sentimental value and the last was a plum tree that my late grandfather had grown from a stone and given to us as a sapling on our wedding day. There was no way I was leaving any of them. I don't think it was cheeky though as we had been up-front about it.

I also buckled to pressure from the children and brought the fish from the pond and then had to dig a bloody pond at our new house.

BipBippadotta · 23/02/2019 14:23

The people we bought our house from took all the light bulbs, cat flaps (leaving gaping holes in the doors) and the plugs for all the sinks and the bath. They left us their horrible brown corduroy blackout curtains and a massive heap of rubbish in the garden. Twats.

tinysnickersaremyfavourite · 23/02/2019 14:42

The house we bought has borders all around the edges of the garden.
The borders were formed by railway sleepers. They matched the raised beds, also made of railway sleepers.
The CF took all the railway sleepers from the borders, probably about a grands worth.

flirtygirl · 23/02/2019 14:50

I would always take things that are important to me so light fittings, some blinds and curtains and even some door handles but it would all be detailed on the fixtures and fittings list that I would replace with like products, so a curtain track or a standard white lamp holder would be left with bulbs etc.

I even swapped out the expensive flat stainless steel electrical fittings in my last house and my solid freestanding kitchen but I made these changes before I put the house on the market. I put in a nice ikea kitchen brand new and new worktop instead and standard white electrical fitting throughout.

I also did all the viewings myself poiinting out which curtains were staying and that I would be taking all light fittings except the bathroom and the one on the loft stairs. I let them know at viewing and I also put it in the paperwork.

There is nothing wrong with that as I don't want to live with other people's style and why should they live with mine? Also when they get round to decorating or changing things I hate the thought of the things I love being skipped or sold.

In Germany even kitchens are removed and are not sold as a general part of the house.