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!

Gravel off the drive.

Errrrm fixtures and fittings? Come on, light bulbs and ceiling roses. That is really petty (and I thought illegal if it was a stated fixture and fitting)

That’s not a curtain pole without the brackets. It’s a stick 😂

Or... A pole?

I'm pretty sure that digging up plants when you move is illegal.

Not taken but smashed the front bay window to remove furniture!

😂. Excellent point

Three circular paving slabs that acted as stepping stones across the lawn. They dug them out.

I had tenants ask to replace curtains and toilet seat etc. all fine. When they moved out they took everything even the toilet seat that pissed me off a bit

@Icannotthinkofaname you will take tight fittings and curtain poles with you?? What if the windows are a different size?
What a bloody hassle for anyone that buys from you 😂🤦‍♀️

Ceiling roses leaving bare wires, fire grate and every blind in the house that was custom made for the windows.

then got left with a germ fest! Every cupboard looked like it was never cleaned in the entire time the last owners owned the house and the dishwasher was full of food and oven was broken and manky inside 🤢

Someone we knew bought a house from a divorcing couple. The husband tried to thwart the move. When defeated he cut all the light fittings flush with the ceiling and smashed up the range cooker. They arrived at the house with a small baby and couldn’t put the lights on. They sued and won. Horrible man.

Plugs.
As in bath and both sinks. Hadn't noticed and went to have a bath on my first night and had to use a jam jar that I'd used for paint brushes to 'plug' the hole and be quick before all the water seeped out!

Not taken, left! Brought from divorcing couple. She & child moved out week prior to completion, she had been nightmare re viewings. Her hubby, cleaned house & left lovely note, saying had left freestanding cupboard in bathroom & hoped we didn't mind... He hadn't done a fab job, but we appreciated his efforts. I asked DH to get rid of bathroom cupboard, as we had own.... DH was horrified... Behind it, the wall was plastered with used sanitary towels, stuck all over she must have been saving them up🤢. Probably thought her husband would move cupboard. We also found half a car buried at the top of the garden & what we thought was a huge pile of grass cuttings/hedge clippings, was a pile of black bags full of dirty nappies. Covered with a sprinkling of garden waste.

When we bought our last house the owner took the utility room worktop! Absolutely bonkers! Solicitor said it wasn't financially worthwhile going after compensation but was a PITA at the time!

Rehomed the cockerel, yes, it went to Mouseville.

Left, not taken: A skipful of old crap they didn’t want to be arsed dealing with, including a chip pan filled with used, dirty oil.

Very minor compared to some of the things here, but I moved into a house which had a tiled bit beside the bath, and the seller had carefully prised out the soap-holder tile and taken it away, leaving a hole in the plaster where it had been. Finding one to replace it was a complete pain, because it was old and no tiles that colour seemed to be available any more.

They didn’t leave it but our vendors tried to sell us a toothbrush holder for £5 and a toilet roll holder for £10 in the property information form! It just seemed very petty when we were already paying asking price for the house of £500k so it seemed ridiculous if we agreed to it then we’d be paying 500,015 which is so immaterial in the grand scheme of things.

Not me, a friends seller took everything.

Not just the light fittings and kitchen sink, oh no. They ripped out the boiler, the bathroom suite and the flipping cheap white plastic plug sockets too. Technically left the place uninhabitable and therefore unmortgageable. Friend was distraught.

So for those wondering why a buyer might want to check in on a property between exchange and completion…

Slight twist on it. The couple we were buying from held up the sale for 8 weeks because I didn’t want to buy their manky curtains. The woman just kept trying to negotiate £2k for them, they were awful and we didn’t even have an extra 2k.

On the day of exchange I get a call from the estate agent telling me they weren’t going to exchange as the woman had called them. We’d already exchanged, so basically she was leaving us homeless with a 6 month old baby. After frantic phone calls to the estate agent, it turned out she didn’t even own the house her partner did! He went mad, and authorised the exchange.

The day we moved in guess what was there….her fucking manky curtains! Which I took great delight in burning 😁

Not what was taken, but what was left - the loft was full! Sewing matching, car seat, Christmas decorations, suitcase the lot! We had to spend a day clearing it and sorting through it all. Did get a lovely vintage glass jug that I use as a vase though.

Wow! Some people are so petty and some downright weird! When we left our last home, we cleaned it and left the new owners a card and chocolates as a welcome.

The owners of the home we bought left us a filthy mess and hadn't even taken all their stuff - leaving behind amongst many things some dentures and a porno DVD ("butthole babes").

And we still get mail from bailiff companies and HMRC addressed to them 8+ years on.

We had really odd sellers. They took everything from lightbulbs to sockets.... strangely they left us a roll of toilet paper and some hand soap in the toilet along with an aerosol air freshener in the kitchen.

We’ve just moved into a house and the sellers have been complete arseholes. Took the mantelpiece and left a massive hole. Turns out they’d painted around all of their furniture and some how smashed a double glazed window in the weeks before we moved in. Left us a bottle of champagne and a note to say the electric garage door didn’t work 🙃 Didn’t even bother to clean up the mould that had grown on the dirt behind their furniture. We paid quite a bit over the asking price so you think they’d have managed to do that at least.