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!

That’s honestly so horrific. Wow.

Lightbulbs too, except they didn't even remove them properly, just snapped them off leaving them dangerous in the fitting. There was also spaghetti bolognaise all over the kitchen walls. It was 2 days before Christmas, and dark by the time we arrived

I can understand the house sign as it may be personalised and have specific memories or attachments.

Is it a special toilet or something?

I don’t understand how them taking their curtain poles is an issue?

Mine are heavy, match my decor, and cost probably close to £600 pound for just the main downstairs rooms.
I’m wouldn’t even consider leaving them 🤷🏼‍♀️

My parents moved from Hounslow in West London to Hook in Hampshire in the mid 80s. They took the water softener off the taps in Hook.

All the plants in the garden (as well as all the lightbulbs and anything else that wasn't screwed down).
We were moving from abroad and were so shocked as it was before the big DIY stores and was an early closing day (remember those?) so couldn't get bulbs until next day. Any we had weren't UK spec so didn't fit.

Lightbulbs and some very narrow shelves that had been carefully cut to fit a space and fixed to two metal uprights. No idea why they took them. They wouldn’t have fitted anywhere else. Annoyingly, I’d actually admired them when we’d looked round. Perhaps that’s why they took them 🙄

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Argh our vendor took their plants when they moved. It would have been fine if we had been told / the holes where plants and in our case trees had been were filled.

We moved in with a pair of 2 year old I was 8 months pregnant, boiling hot day faced with an unsafe garden.

We ended up paying less than 1k to temporarily sort. Would have happily paid that to rve owner to rectify prior to completion. For context our house is a 5 storey Georgian house in Central London.

They literately took the bannister rail, which meant when we finally moved (6pm at night for constant delays) it was a nightmare going up and down stairs because there was nothing but glass on the other side, no top to it either as it went fully up to the height of the ceiling, and no rail to hold on to! I don't think DP is over it even now

Dining room curtains and replaced them with curtains that were only half the length of the window!

Weirdly, they left all the beautiful cast iron fire pokers, forks, ash bucket and shovel. They moved in to a house with an open fireplace so they’d have needed it.

They also took the door knocker, off the front door... not even an elaborate one, your standard one from screwfix. But it left a full hole through to the inside of the wooden door, as someone clearly didn't buy the right length screw

Currently in the process of selling my house and this all seems so bizarre - I’ve had to sign to say what I am leaving - including light fittings (states must be left with ceiling rose if taking fittings) and also window dressings and fittings- I’m taking my bay poles and curtains but leaving the fitted blinds.

door handles, doors, plug sockets, light switches and taps were also on the F&F list . I do find it odd that people might take those items with them.

oh I have also had to state if I am planning to take the radiators with me? Who takes radiators when they move!

We moved into a house years ago with a ten month old crawling baby.

The owner wanted us to pay 100s of pounds extra for the lounge carpet to be left, but we genuinely couldn't afford it. She'd already said she wanted to sell it to us because it wouldn't fit her new house, but ripped it up anyway leaving us with a bare floor and carpet grippers across the doorways. Also took all the lightbulbs and batteries out of the alarms/door bell. Cow.

When I moved in to this house the owner kept on and on about me buying this horrible old cooker (we were replacing kitchen anyway)and awful gas fires x2 - wanted £1000 for the lot (this was in 2004!) for months I stated I didn’t want them and she was welcome to them .

Come move in day she had left the lot but had taken all the little screw on sleeve bits on the light fittings so we couldn’t hang any light shades .

A lot of people have complained about curtain poles and light fittings but I've debated taking mine and I think that I will.
I splashed out on middle range ones and they have big diamonds at the end. It isn't to everyone's tastes and the chandeliers definitely aren't. I've splashed out on these and they won't raise the asking price of the house. It will be the same with or without them, so why should I lose out by having to buy new ones? I've invested a lot into my flat that I won't get back and will just lose out if i don't take them with me.
Plus the curtain poles extend and the chandeliers will probably be binned. I'm taking them rather than risk it.

The loft insulation. We moved in in November. No wonder we were fucking freezing.

Bastards.

Our sellers took all the rose buses and most perennials from the garden. They did however, leave a big bag of vibrators and dildos in the attic.

I’ll be taking my curtain rods, they’ll be replaced with standard ones. They were a fortune, I’m not leaving them! Also, 2 light fittings, one’s a Tiffany style, the other is just unusual and I love it. The bulbs are like £40! I won’t leave bare wires.

they left the place filthy,very posh people very clean on looking round, they picked very cheap solicitors , who dragged it out for 8 months no chain just me and them,made me wait 4 hours for the keys. the place was filthy i was fuming

The loo seat. They did replace it with a cheap plastic one - leaving the wrapping on the floor which is how we knew they'd taken it as neither of us could recall what was so special about the one they took.

With hindsight they did us a favour because, unlike the rest of the house, at least it seemed clean (although we did wipe it).

Are you sure you can do this?

I wouldn’t be impressed if I’d viewed a house with a lovely bathroom suite and then there was a crappy cheap plastic one there when I moved in. I’d have factored the nice bathroom into the price!

Not a problem if you say so in advance. Our sellers took their fancy poles, but it was specified in the fixtures form they filled in and they had to "make good" and had out up cheap rails instead.

Not taken but definitely petty. We bought a house from a couple who'd split up. She left him so he was the one clearing the house from the sale. He left everything she'd ever touched - glasses, crockery, TV, fridge freezer (freezer full of food), side board, etc etc. Unfortunately it was our second house and we couldn't move in because there was so much stuff. She and her dad came round immediately and apologised when the estate agent told them and asked us if we'd be ok getting rid. She was so devastated by his petty we said yes. She'd clearly loved the house so most of the stuff was really nice and we were able to pass on to family and friends. Who were really grateful.