Would you/did you leave a bottle of something in the fridge for your buyer?

[Sinkingfeeling]

Just wondering - can't decide if it's a bit naff or not ...

No. The fridge was defrosted and turned off.

Yes, we did when we moved to our current home - left a decent bottle of red out on the kitchen worksurface for the new owner of our old home. New owner phoned me to say thank you for the wine and for leaving the house so clean. I cried! - House we'd just moved into was filthy, and the previous owner had also left us a gift - an infestation of fleas in the carpet.

It's lovely now though!

Yes - we always leave a bottle of wine + card (although the last feckers have never fowarded some mail that I KNOW went there in error, despite having our forwarding addresss and phone nos - I would have collected!)

Ah, not too naff then - we'll do it. We've had a few ups and downs with our buyers but we have been extremely happy in our house (and are v sad to leave it!) and we hope they'll be happy here too.

Stuffit, what goes around comes around so I bet lots of nice things happen you in your life if you are that thoughtful. I'd leave the house really clean and leave out a bottle of fizz in the fridge and instructions on how to work the fire etc but I don't think I'd go as far as flowers - as much because I'd be too disorganised as anything else.

Our seller left our house absolutely immaculate with instructions for everything and a bottle of wine. It gave us such a good feeling about the house and our future there so was a really kind thing to do. So, yes, please do it!

It's a great gesture to leave a bottle of something along with instruction manuals and take away menus.

We left a bottle of wine and a letter with information about things like bin day along with all the instruction manuals. I just think it's a nice gesture.

We left some prosecco and a card. Our vendor left us a nice note and had reprinted the sitting room. All very civilised

stuffitunderthebed you sound such a lovely vendor! Shame on your buyer not to say thanks.
When we bought our current house the previous owner left us some manky decaying veg in the fridge, dirty food encrusted foil & baking trays in the oven, dirt everywhere .... I would have rather had a bottle of wine!

We left prosecco and a card too and when we arrived at out new house we found a bottle of vodka and 2 cans of red bull and a card, made us much more inclined to forward mail for longer :)

We took the fridge, so no.
We left a booklet detailing bin collections, local doctors, schools, shops etc. takeaway menus, location of meters, stopcocks etc and boiler manual.
The house we moved to was previously owned by a 94 year old (who died, house sold by daughter), but we did get lots of high quality furniture which we still use.
We have made "our street" booklets for our new neighbours though.

We did, as the people who we bought our flat from had done it too and we had thought it was lovely.

I've left champagne for the new owners before, and some soft drinks for their children. Last time I left detailed instructions for how and when everything worked, a spotless house, and a photo of the house 100 years ago in a frame. I received thanks and forwarded post, all parties happy.

Last time we sold we left a bottle of wine, list of neighbours names and doctor/rubbish collection and general local info - our buyers were nice, flexible and easy to deal with.

This time round we didn't do anything above cleaning the house and leaving the garden tidy - they'd mucked us about so much and wouldn't budge on a completion date even though it meant moving when DS was in the middle of A's, had a wanky solicitor and were generally pretty unhelpful!

I wasn't feeling in the least bit charitable, but would never leave the house dirty, it just wouldn't feel right! (I was tempted this time though...)

I don't leave anything except paperwork but I do always leave the house absolutely spotless. I prefer to keep everything buisness like.

I left our last house( a rental) squeaky clean and the new house we bought was equally squeaky clean. It's so lovely when it works out.
I would have found cards or wine a bit personal but I wouldn't have minded either.

Yes, we did. She was a nice lady, and I have bumped into her several times since (we didn't move far). She always forwards our mail.

Our vendors left a little pot plant and a new home card, and still send us Christmas cards, three years on!

I wouldn't feel so inclined if someone had messed us around, though.

When we moved into our house there was a card and a vase of flowers wishing us many years of happiness and family memories. It was a lovely welcome as we bought it from the family whose parents had bought it from the builders in1933. It felt like such a 'famiky' home.

We left our place spotless, left a card, bottle of fizz in the fridge and instructions for boiler/bin collection etc. Btw we always leave the fridge on as convinced it never smells the same once it's been sitting off and closed.

The buyers of our old house were an absolute nightmare!

She had no less than 11 viewings - she used to come round just to turn on the gas hob or demand that we turned the heating on for at least 2 hours to check that it worked, it was August!

Added to that she used to stand outside my livingroom windows and stare in, I was at home at the time.

On moving day she turned up at 8am with a shopping trolley full of stuff and demanded that we get out of her house - I told her to piss off and come back when the contracts etc were sorted out at 2pm.

Im not ashamed to say that I did minimal cleaning, took all the light bulbs and didn't let her in until 2pm on the dot.

It's crazy isn't it Fluff? We had a couple who stayed for 2.5 hours on the first viewing (and it was a medium sized 4 bed house, not a mansion....), and then came again for another 2 hours for a 2nd viewing and asked the same questions the second time as the first. They put an offer in which we accepted - their surveyor stayed for 8 hours - WTF? Even then we ended up explaining loads of stuff to him about the house. They wanted to move in in one month (from offer to completion) and we pulled out all the stops to find a rental house, removals, etc etc and then they pulled out, one hour before they were due to sign exchange. No explanation, no apology - unbelievable.

I can't imagine the circumstances that would ever make me behave like that, I just couldn't do it.

If I see them again, they will be dead!