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New owners after competition, wanting us to pay Out more

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Pringlemonster · 10/09/2020 07:56

Completed yesterday, have the money
Relatives house ,I’m trying to keep on top of situation ,but I’ve a difficult home life ,and I don’t live anywhere near the sold house.
They got us down £20000 of the asking price,
Elderly relative in rest home ,needs money to pay for care .
Cleared out relatives house as best could ,left some rubble in garage, due to Covid no one would remove .not a huge amount.
They are asking us to pay for a skip to remove rubble
Dh says I’m giving relatives house away as it is and he reall y disagrees if I pay for a skip for them.
It’s a huge plot of land ,and I too feel annoyed they pushed the price down.
AIBU to not pay for a skip

OP posts:
IncandescentSilver · 10/09/2020 07:59

I think it's quite reasonable for them to ask for that. Who on earth wants to buy a house with a garage that can't be used due to rubble?

And how much does a skip cost compared to the cost of a house?

HasaDigaEebowai · 10/09/2020 08:00

You are supposed to leave the house empty so yes of course you should pay

AriettyHomily · 10/09/2020 08:00

Sorry for your situation but yes I think you do. A house is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and presumably there were no higher offers.

Flynn999 · 10/09/2020 08:01

I would be annoyed if I had bought a house to find the owners junk in my garage. I understand you live far away etc, but still annoying for the owners. Unless you included ‘rubble in the garage’ to be left in the inventory you should remove it.

How much stuff is actually in there?

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 10/09/2020 08:02

No one made you sell for less- yabu thinking they should pay to remove the rubble sorry

WiserOlder · 10/09/2020 08:03

Oh hang on. I voted yanbu but then i saw the shed is full of rubble!!
I asked vendor to clear the shed when i looked at house second time and she emptied everything in the shed and put it behind the shed. I did think to myself "wow, seriously"

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 10/09/2020 08:03

So the house belonged to your relative? Do you have power of attorney or did the relative negotiate the sold price?

You can't complain they "forced you down 20k" as (1) it's not your money (2) whoever accepted the price could have declined and waited to see if they could have got more.

You are supposed to leave the house empty. Yabu.

Yesyoudoknowme · 10/09/2020 08:03

left some rubble in garage, due to Covid no one would remove .not a huge amount.

This is rubbish! (pun intended) - we have had a 'man with a van' take our rubbish away - all the local tips are open and you can socially distance - so YABU to use that as an excuse. When we moved in to our house the previous owner had left a load of crap she 'thought we might want' Confused. You accepted the price, don't moan now.

Hoppinggreen · 10/09/2020 08:03

You have completed, it’s now their house and their garden.
You don’t have to hire a skip for them, presumably they saw the rubble when they viewed the house

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 10/09/2020 08:04

Hoppinggreen

Wow.

Ohtherewearethen · 10/09/2020 08:04

It's s out £250 for a skip and if sounds like they're prepared to do the hard work in shifting the rubble so I think you just need to pay it. We had to sign something to say we would leave the house clean and empty, did you do the same? If so, you don't really have an argument I'm afraid. It's so annoying when previous owners leave all their junk in a house.

seayork2020 · 10/09/2020 08:04

Yes i believe you need to pay the sale cost does not come into it as i beleive they are 2 separate things

Potterpotterpotter · 10/09/2020 08:05

Yes you should pay. You are lucky they ain’t asking for you to actually remove it as well as that shouldn’t be their job either! Bloody cheek!

The house was meant to be left empty. Not with rubble in the garage.

It was your choice to accept 20k less. That’s not their problem.

Petitmum · 10/09/2020 08:05

It was your responsibility to clear the house, you have not complied with the terms of the sale and are responsible for the cost of clearing the rubble. This is nothing to do with the sale price!

Neron · 10/09/2020 08:05

Yes get the skip and remove the rubbish.

Was leaving the rubbish there a fuck you because you're salty they got the house for 20k cheaper (which you agreed to BTW). You could get skips, we got 3. You just didn't want to.

Ohtherewearethen · 10/09/2020 08:06

*It's about £250

Lurchermom · 10/09/2020 08:06

When selling you have to declare anything you plan on leaving at the property. If you declared a pile of rubble in the garage, and they didn't quibble it then no, you don't need to pay for a skip.

If you didn't declare it, then yes you need to pay and they could go through solicitors to recoup the cost if you refuse.

weaselwords · 10/09/2020 08:08

@Hoppinggreen

You have completed, it’s now their house and their garden. You don’t have to hire a skip for them, presumably they saw the rubble when they viewed the house
I think @Hoppinggreen is right. Sold as seen.
Tappering · 10/09/2020 08:08

Did you agree with them that you'd leave the rubble behind? IWAs it noted on the fixtures and fittings and contents form that you filled in? f not then you need to pay for the skip to clear it. Which is entirely reasonable really, because they could insist that you do the labour as well.

Agreeing £20k off the price has nothing to do with rubble in the garage. If your H was so against taking money off the house then he shouldn't have agreed to the reduced price.

GolightlyMrsGolightly · 10/09/2020 08:08

In theory they could pursue you for cost of removal...but they probably won’t. Just stall till exchange. Only saying this as you sound stressed to the eyeballs.

Upstartcrones · 10/09/2020 08:08

they can instruct a solicitor to start proceedings to recover costs against you if you don't remove the waste. I once left a really expensive amazing climbing frame at a property I sold as they had kids of the same age and I thought they'd really like it. I was very wrong and my solicitor advised me they could seek costs if I didn't remove it as it wasn't included in fixtures and fittings list. So I had to pay someone to go and remove it.

You have to remove the rubbish or it could get very costly for you.

Tappering · 10/09/2020 08:09

@Hoppinggreen that's not correct. If the OP didn't put it on the form they filled out to say that they were leaving it - and the buyer agreed - then they are obliged to clear it. Otherwise the buyer would be within their rights to have the rubble cleared and then pursue the OP for the costs.

Potterpotterpotter · 10/09/2020 08:10

@weaselwords That’s not how it works 😂 no wonder you have people leaving piles or rubble and crap in houses when there’s people like you about 😂

cornflakecritter · 10/09/2020 08:11

The skip and reduced cost are two separate issues. Unfortunately you need to pay for the skip.

RiftGibbon · 10/09/2020 08:11

You need to take away the rubble, or pay for it to be removed.

When the people next door to me moved last year, they wouldn't have a removal van (they were moving locally) but it took them all day - from 7am to 8pm to get their things out of the house. The removal van for the new owners was sitting waiting and eventually had to start unloading.
Original owners had to put everything outside on the lawn overnight. And then it took them another fortnight to collect everything and empty their sheds and garage.