Buyers want wheelie bins included.. after discount

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Our lovely FTB 🙄have requested wheelie bins be included after generous discount… many unreasonable requests met!

AIBU to leave dead nan ashes under the floorboards & take the wheel bins as a summer plunge pool for the kids 🫣

Who doesn't leave wheelie bins? 😳

You sound like a delight OP!

I think £80 for delivery is a tad excessive then - I’d happily collect a new one!

I mean more fool you really if you gave a ‘generous discount’ on a house because of a cat flap…

Oh it is! I appreciate it covers the admin costs of getting new homes set up and registered let’s face it, most councils aren’t known for their cost efficiency!

The loo seat has to stay by law unless it was already detached or something along the lines of “ it is agreed that the seller will take their loo seat with them” is specified in the contract. Suffice it to say, it is not in a standard form agreement.

This is definitely the case where I live and I should think is the case elsewhere in the UK.

Dad did when he and Mum moved. He wheeled tne old ones to the new house to wheel the new ones to his old house.

Bloody hilarious.

Mum almost cried.

Also door handles and garden gates!

It wouldn’t even occur to me to take the wheelie bins 🤷‍♀️

Actually if the move was within bin- wheeling distance I might consider this.

Especially if I were very attached to the comfy, familiar odour of my own.

My council expects us to take them with us but nobody does. They do get stolen if the property is empty for one moment though. I need a larger than usual bin due to medical waste and I've moved 3 times in the last 5 years or so. I've had to pay for a new bin as they've always been nicked and all the recycling ones filled up with trash, plus a waste audit and general waste bin replacing with the larger one. £30 for the 4 new bins and £38 for an audit/big bin - each time. Plus all the associated bin stickers. Every time they say to me "you should have brought them from your old house" like I'm going to bring the slimy bins in the moving van!

So mumsnet has spoken, I’ll leave the bin. As people have suggested, we live in an area which do not provide bins and we’ve purchased it. Our new property doesn’t have one either.

Why wouldn’t you take them in that case?

If your bins are usable at your new property (due to regulations etc), I’d honestly take them.
Not due to a lack of sympathy or general well wish towards the buyers but simply because it makes sense. Why would you leave them behind only to buy new bins for your new property??

(But leave your grandmama and kitty out of it! Although I suspect this was tongue in cheeck )

Wheelie bins are provided by council for the property, not the owner. They are not yours to take, surely? You'll inherit the bins at your new house and, if not, the council in your new place will provide them.

Yeah I had to pay for mine too!!

The bins belong to the council regardless of you buying them. I wasn't happy paying for our bin when we recently moved into rental property. Think the last owner took it with them! I waited 16 weeks for it to arrive. We had to go to the recycling centre 3 times a week to throw our rubbish! But when we moved out, we will leave the bin behind!

@PerkySnail nope. When the council tell you to source and pay for your own wheelie bins, they are most definitely yours and not the councils. If they provide them and ask you to pay an admin and delivery fee, then that is very different. Unfortunately not all councils operate the same way, consequently mine go with me when we move.

We have to pay similar for ours but still the conditions are that they don’t belong to you and are kind of ‘rented’. They have to stay if you move

Haha I'd take them with if these people have really annoyed you but bear in mind they take up a huge amount of space so might require a bigger removals van?

My friend’s just bought a house and I was very bemused (and thought immediately of this thread) that sellers have taken bins with them! Well… they’ve taken 2. The third one (brown so I assume garden stuff) as I pointed out, they have converted into a water butt, complete with tap 🙄

Edit: Brown is for recycling there! I guess water collection kind of counts as recycling!

Fit nicely and brilliant transport and storage for tall plants. Went in the car.

The wheelie bins are not yours. They belong to the local Council. They are also part of the property you are selling. They stay with the property.

Nobody takes the bins, they are owned by the council!

No the OP bought them - they aren't provided by her council

Eh, I would never think of taking a wheelie bin when I moved house, do people do this?