What's the most petty thing a home owner has taken with them?

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We completed on our house yesterday. Sellers have been a nightmare, very difficult and tried to increase price by £12k the day before exchange. So we knew they'd probably screw us over and we haven't been disappointed. Lightbulbs, toilet roll holders, some handles from cupboards etc... but the most petty thing has to be the clock. They had one of those god awful clocks where you stick the numbers to the wall then screw in/add the arms. They've left the numbers, but removed the arms and taken them with them!

All the curtain rails, light bulbs, and the plugs (and chains) from the bath, washbasin and kitchen sink. I was newly-married, it was our first home, and I thought it was what everyone did!

Mine didn’t take but left;

• tonnes of rubbish (we are on our 7th skip! Albeit we also have a lot of land and most of it was on the land)
• Giant fishtank, it’s about 5 foot and fixed onto a shelf, no idea how we’ll ever get rid of it
• rusty dishwasher
• more rubbish

Infuriating and our solicitors weren’t remotely interested about the lack of ‘vacant possession’

I haven’t had a seller take anything odd, but the last one left us a bottle of holy water. Given the position it was left in, I don’t think it was left accidentally 😳 They were a very ‘God bothering’ family according to a neighbour. The neighbour was herself who was/is big on telling anyone who would listen “I’m a Christian”. She was horrified when she asked what I did with it and I told her I had poured it down the sink 🙄

Various parts from the boiler and oven ensuring neither would work and they left a really ugly, brown, heavy wardrobe on the top floor and for some bizarre reason took some floorboards. I don't hold many grudges but if I ever saw him again I'd have a word.

Told us when we viewed how great garden was, plants grow all year round, stunning display, pulled up moving in day, they had dug up all the plants, they were on the back of their trailer, also took all light bulbs.
But we've had, sheds full to the brim, left with 30 tins of half used paint, bags of concrete, roller to flatten grass ( weighed a ton), broken garden equipment etc etc. When they returned after the move to collect post, I asked them did they also want the paint tins, their response, "thought you might want them to touch up". Errrrrr no... I wanted to say, we've had to gut the place.

Tried to take the letterbox off the door.

Oh and I moved into a house that was disgustingly filthy even though they'd promised to get cleaners in on moving day. The cherry on the icing was finding a hole in the garden with a bucket in it filled with dog sh*t.

I know someone who stripped a house bare. Ripped out stuff like wired in alarm, leaving bare wires and wall damage. All the stuff they took, they chucked away with the deliberate intention of depriving the buyer of the stuff, rather than taking it with them. They also broke little bits around the house before leaving.

You may think that it was a vindictive action. But it was a chain of 4 and the buyer in question held the entire chain to ransom at exchange. The other 3 clubbed together to meet the financial demands of this one, very nasty, buyer - who made the financial demand deliberately at the last minute because they could, knowing that all the rest of the chain were desperately trying to get the whole thing done.

The people who stripped the house bare are people I have known for a long time. They aren't bad people. But they paid a bad buyer back for being a bastard.

A small slatted shelf from inside a waist-height built-in cupboard and the bolt from the bathroom door. I wasn't surprised - as this was my starter house (bought in the 1980s) and they'd tried to charge me £350 to leave the small wooden garden shed (cost about £150 brand new). I refused to pay that - so they took it. Also I own one of those 1950's freestanding floor to person height kitchen cabinet things, as it was agreed that would be left - and they stole it when they left. They also tried to charge me for the bathroom carpet (ie cheap bathroom quality carpet fitted to run up the side of the bath - though that was old-fashioned already back in the 1980s) - luckily they did leave that, but they stole the cheapie old-fashioned carpet from one of the bedrooms. Couldnt believe the level of meanness - as they'd decided they could afford to have two children and done so and he was a bank manager (therefore would have had access to very cheap rate mortgage perk) and yet they didn't have a mortgage on that house (despite having only had it 7 years). So they were a lot better -off than single/poorly-paid little me with the huge mortgage I had to take on.

They took the gas cooker! Literally a vast space in the kitchen where it was!

Omg that's fucking awful.

When we moved into our house the previous owner turned up the following day and asked for the lock from the bedroom door and they had taken all the flowers from the garden, I don't mean plants or trees that could have been given as presents but standard flowers.

Walked into the kitchen to find a big hole - in the countertop where the hob used to be 🤬. To compound it - there was no oven either.
Far from ideal.

They took the loo as in the actual thing you sit on... all of it just holes on the ground. The wooden downstairs flooring, the kitchen (cabinets), the metal parts of the old fashioned fireplace. We could have taken legal proceedings but didn't have the time due to work, children and having to sort the mess out that they had left.

When I moved into a house there was a note saying not to turn the water on as the waste pipe had broken when they disconnected their dishwasher. Basically the little taps that stop the individual pipes under the sink had broken one off meaning turning the mains on would leak. Annoyingly I had paid for a plumber when we lived out of our previous house as there was also an issue with the washing machine being disconnected and we didn’t want to leave it in a mess. So that turned out to be 2 plumbers we paid for that day.

I left all my lovely lights from Next,a kettle,toaster and microwave and a shed full of garden tools.Also the cooker and fridge freezer and washing machine,the young first time buyers were delighted.Karma has paid me back several times over.

The griddle fitting from range cooker, the laundry dolly( both of which they pointed out as being included) they also took down fitted shelves.
Bastards did leave me with mouldy cheese on toast in grill ,which took a while to find plus a loft full and crawl space of all their junk.
They also left a wardrobe full of black mould and a massive crack inside it,which surveyors failed to see ( as full) all the window reveals were soft as they hadn't put heating on much ( tight arses) and first time went to loo,looked up to see ceiling sagging.
They failed to leave forwarding address and the mingers were senior teachers with a second home. 😡

Outdoor tap

oh god! I hate those clocks

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Fish tank is likely worth a fair bit, get it sold.

Our was £200 and nowhere near that big, sold instantly on facebook when we put it up.

Some of my curtain poles are worth hundreds of pounds and my curtains into the thousands, I certainly wouldn't be leaving them behind!

Your seller is a strong contender for a Darwin Award!

We paid the full asking price for our house and the spice rack was taken off the kitchen wall leaving the raw plugs etc where it had been. I can understand taking the spices/herbs but not the rack itself.

😂 The toilet seat, toilet roll holder etc was a present apparently! Also took every light bulb where just the old cheap ones for a pound or two think there was also a light fitting but they replaced with a cheaper one.

The lightbulbs - yes, every single one!