What did your sellers take or leave you with that surprised you when you moved I

[kerrymucklowe2020]

When we moved in we found out that the Sellers pulled coat hooks off the walls, took the bathroom mirrors, every lampshade, the washing line and EVEN the washing line post and prop!!!

A very large (and heavy) leather corner sofa.
I discovered when I tried to get rid of it that it had no fire label.
So no one could take it for donation. 🤦🏻‍♀️

In my house before that, a washing machine with clothes left in it.

The last house we moved into before this one, the woman asked us to pay extra for the carpets. She told us they wouldn't fit her new house but she wanted several hundred pounds that we just hadn't got. She knew we were moving in with a crawling baby but took them anyway. It took us a year to save up for a carpet! She also took every light shade and set of curtains.

Other than coat hooks everything in the original post is their personal property and not a fixture so you wouldn't expect them to stay

Mine left having drained the heating system which we thought was odd. Soon realised the pump for the shower was leaking and they'd made a hole in the water tank when clearing the loft and patched it up with fibreglass which lasted all of 2 weeks before the water tank burst and took the spare room ceiling with it.

The other thing we found upstairs were a few hundred dead flies across the floors of the bedrooms.
That was like something from a horror film.

One lot took every single lightbulb. Hard to understand why, they had emigrated to Canada.

Another lot left us a bed, table and two chairs (they knew we would be camping out in the house for a few weeks until our furniture arrived) . On the table was a bottle of wine, two wine glasses and a nice card.

@IDontDrinkTea

Someone I know moved into a house only to find the previous owners had dismantled the kitchen and taken it with them

Apparently this is pretty standard in some countries! They have freestanding kitchens rather than fitted though.

It’s standard to take curtains unless specifically included in the sale agreement. Same with white goods and lampshades.

We were left a shitload of dodgy plumbing. The previous owner was an amateur who attempted do everything himself.

Ours emptied their freezer into a bin liner and left it outside the back door. By the time we arrived it had all defrosted and there was blood everywhere. They also removed everything, light bulbs, batteries from smoke alarms and ripped some fitted shelves out of the kitchen leaving 6” holes in the plaster.
A few weeks later their cat turned up and the lady who collected him had the decency to blush when she saw the state of the wall they had ripped the shelves off.
They also faffed up their mail forwarding so kept coming back for their post. I hope they were thoroughly embarrassed by the whole debacle.
The only reason we could see for their behaviour was us offering lower than they wanted but they accepted the offer!

Ours left us with a burnt out Land Rover!!

They took every net and curtain, we moved in a week before Christmas and was fun looking for nets 😡
They left a small dusty mouse teddy above the fridge and lots and lots of house spiders 😬

You fill in a form saying what you are leaving and taking and not adhering to that can result in being charged. You are allowed to take soft furnishings obviously as they aren't part of the house!

A fully functioning tacky brick “bar” complete with wall mounted optics that they had built into the front room (that I swung a sledge hammer to 😬)...but not before people came to our housewarming bearing ultra-tacky gifts (red lights saying that the bar is open etc)

Our brick built shed outside was still being occupied by a neighbour weeks later (with a shotgun and aggressive dogs)....he refused to vacate it - until we actually climbed on the roof to start dismantling it from the top down with said sledgehammer.

They left all of their crap that had fallen down the back of the kitchen drawers, which included photo albums of their children, school reports, bills, straws, cutlery. And about a hundred mice who had taken up residence in the detritus. They knew because they had mouse traps in the piles of junk. They also left some questionable debts and we receive their mobile phone upgrades every 18 months, usually accompanied a couple of days later with curt instructions about where to take their phones. I'd tell them to bugger off, but they use our elderly neighbour as a go between, and he's absolutely lovely so don't want to make his life awkward in any way.

We were left with a loft full of stuff including childhood toys, bridesmaid dress, clothes. We also had a table and chairs (still have), trifle bowl and glass dish (still have). In one bedroom there was a bed also.

A lovely layer of his beard hair around the sink and bath.
Accidentally we left our bed base. We got to new house 200 miles away to discover the movers had decided they couldn’t get it down stairs and just left it. 😲

Curtains, lampshades, washing lines etc all leave as standard IMO.

By leave, i mean they go with the vendors, they don't stay in the house

Two cats, which was arranged, they stayed with us for 11 and 12 years respectively, the younger one even moved house with use after 11 years and a bit. They tried to get us to take the elderly and poorly St Bernhard, but that was too much of an ask.

Wooden cross-bow, which we sold when we moved out again. Some other bits we asked for (table that fitted in the kitchen, washing machine and drier). A shed full of small tools, and two barely working strimmers. A few plates and bowls, some of which we still have!

The couple moved to a boat so couldn't take much.

The house we moved to next was empty and clean, there was quite a bit of useful stuff in the garage though, from grit salt, to another ladder, a few tools, some garden lights (which still are in their box).

Think we've been lucky going by the stories I read.

Their son. They sold and didn't tell him, walked in to find the him pissed and asleep in the living room.

They took stuff they said they would leave and left a lot of stuff including nine bags of rubbish. One kitchen drawer was full of all sorts of stuff, completely missed by packers. They sent someone to pick something up from the garden and the cheeky git was trying to have a nosy. They were horrible sellers so when we started receiving vouchers to spend in a certain shop we used them with no guilt. It took years for them to finally remember to change their address for certain things . Huge display of hoovering in one room while the kitchen was filthy and everywhere else wasn't much better.

In our first house we were left a dodgy wardrobe and a bottle of wine. Oh and a slight hole in the bedroom ceiling where they’d removed the light fitting and replaced it with a simple pendant fitting (we knew they were taking this light fitting).

When we moved into this house we inherited:
A wetsuit
A drawer full of framed photographs
A car roof box
A double bed
A single bed
A small dining room table
A solid desk with a leather top
A flimsy desk that wobbled when you so much as looked at it
Two desk chairs
A dresser with a huge mirror
Three free-standing wardrobes

A dodgy chest of drawers
Spare curtain material matching the hideous curtains in the living room/dining room
24 rolls of floral wallpaper (2 different designs)
Two cheap white MDF bookcases
A cupboard with drawers underneath it
An American style fridge freezer
A laundry basket

So not quite the empty house we were expecting!

This type of thing seldom happens where I live in the US because contracts are very specific about what people are leaving. In addition, normally sellers vacate the day before the closing and the buyers do a walkthrough to make sure everything is according to expectations. Having said that, however, we once bought a house where the sellers left a cat. We were eventually able to return said cat to the sellers.

@narcdad45

They took every net and curtain, we moved in a week before Christmas and was fun looking for nets 😡 They left a small dusty mouse teddy above the fridge and lots and lots of house spiders 😬

I had no idea people expect you to leave Curtains??? Surely you have to ask for them?

Curtains aren’t fixtures or fittings. I would never expect people to leave binds or curtains, and I only left curtains once when the buyer negotiated it as part of the sale.

When we sold our house our buyers were so odd. They wanted certain lights, beds and even mattresses (so bizarre) who wants someone’s mattress.