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!!!

[WellTidy]

A pulley maid thing that you dry washing on that attaches to h to e ceiling and you pull it up and down on a pulley system

Washing line

Recycling crates and big bin (the type that the local authority provide)

Light bulbs

Curtain tracks

[ILovemyCatsSoSoMuch]

A gun box.

And a small amount of police tape. Sadly related to the gun box.

Thankfully nothing else.

[Panicsettingin]

We left a spotless house, a bottle of fizz and flowers. Our seller left............. filth. Every room, cupboard, corner was disgusting and the wheelie bin was stuffed to the top with everything from milk cartons, food, plastic toys, cardboard and takeaway boxes and wasn’t due to be emptied for 12 days.

[nannieann]

A note apologising for the fact that the oil tank was filled with diesel instead of kerosene. Apparantly an unfortunate error by a delivery driver. Needless to say the oil boiler was wrecked and had to be replaced!

[Spudlet]

We were left a bucket full of dog shit - literally packed full and put in the wheelie bin, which made the bin so heavy that the bin men wouldn’t take it. DH then found the bucket among all the other junk the vendor had left for us and took it all to the tip - during a summer heatwave I might add - only for the tip staff to refuse the bucket and make him drive it home again (which he described as ‘a bit of a low point’)! I had to call the council and beg them to take it away - which they did, fortunately, and gave us a new wheelie bin.

Oh, and a sausage. At the back of the oven. DFiL found it while cleaning the oven for us (the entire house was in a revolting state so we had all the family over helping us to sort it at various times) and came into the living room, bearing it before him.

It’s a nice house now, but I can’t tell you how many times I cried at the state of it - it had been let go to wrack and ruin between offer and moving. And I was pregnant. I got a chemical burn on my arm from the oven cleaner (PiLs had to go home so I was finishing the job). There had been dogs left locked in while the vendor was at work, we had to rip up the flooring where the underlay had soaked up urine... it was grim.

[SunshineCake]

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow

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. 😲

Did you make them go and get it?!

[NoraEphronsBoltintheNeck]

@Findahouse21

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.

You really must not pass on those mobile phones to them. It means they are still using your address for credit purposes.
If they default it will be you who is chased for the money owed. You will not be able to argue that they moved out years ago because you have allowed them to use your address to receive mail.

[Mycatismadeofstringcheese]

We completed at midday and we’re given keys by Estate Agent then realised the sellers hadn’t finished moving out. They didn’t finish until 7pm and even then we ended up getting a skip to clear it out the house and attic, and another to clear the garden including an entire packed shed.
There was so much crap, mostly broken kids toys and rusty garden tools.
The garden was so overgrown between offed and completion that we didn’t realise there were two massive paddling pools in the grass (and it wasn’t a huge garden). House was filthy, it took me three full days to get the kitchen clean.

God knows where it all the crap came from as the house was tidy when we viewed (wonder if they had maybe put it in storage for viewings, but then they would know how long it took to pack and move it).

Tried to get them to come back and get everything but radio silence. It was all junk so not worth salvaging.

Can’t decide which is worse, house and garden full of crap, or stripped so bare its hostile.

[Tricerapops]

Not us but new neighbours arrived and all curtain poles had been taken and the burglar alarm and cameras! Sellers had told them they'd leave instructions for these when they viewed but we saw a guy up a ladder removing the alarm the week they left. They were weirdos to be fair.

[RunningFromWaterGhoul]

I’ve always left curtains / had curtains left for me. Don’t particularly like the ones I’ve inherited this time but they’d be really expensive to replace and I plan to move on in a year or so.

[Strawberrycreamsundae]

A corn snake, loose in the living room
2” thick layer of cat hair everywhere
The glass door from a music centre cabinet
The filthiest bathroom ( I don’t think anything had been cleaned for months) and kitchen I have ever seen- inches of rancid fat on everything (the cooker hood literally dripped fat when switched on)

[ancientgran]

Bought our first house from an elderly retired doctor. Loads left including a frying pan with rancid fat in it, kitchen cupboards full and a side board in the front room with old medical records of his former patients.

[ElvisPresleysSideburns]

My first house was probate. The sellers left every single thing belonging to the deceased, including a full set of dentures. The house was literally stuffed to the rafters, there was no room for me to move my things in!

[Tricerapops]

Oh and the sellers of our first home left the lovely light fitting in the living room...because they had obviously learned it was a fucking pain in the arse. It had about 7 balls that lit up and we rarely managed to have all 7 working at the one time, partly as you needed to have won the krypton factor to get the new bulbs in. It looked like a countdown on the crystal maze.

[KoalaRabbit]

I've always had curtains left and left curtains and bathroom mirror.

[Lurchermom]

Ours left a big old wardrobe, a gigantic rug wrapped in the attic, their Masters dissertation and some portable telephones. In fairness we used the telephones for about 6 years! The rest went in the tip.
About to move (fingers crossed).- we are leaving most of the curtains apart from two sets downstairs, all the kitchen goods as they've paid for them and if all goes well a bottle of bubbly.

[NothingIsWrong]

An eclectic selection of gentleman's literature in the loft, and a wide ranging variety of DIY bodge jobs we had to fix...

Second house we got the keys to find the owner hadn't moved out. Luckily we weren't moving straight in, it took three days to dislodge him. He was very elderly and I'm not sure understood what was going on, his children had arranged sheltered accommodation so we let them get on with it and sucked up an extra few days with the in laws.

[FTMF30]

I would just leave some cheap curtains as a coutesy. Nothings worse than just moving in with darkness creeping in and feeling very exposed whilst being new to the area.

[GameSetMatch]

The sellers left us with a garage full of crap, old paint tins, wood, general rubbish, old carpet, you name it they kept it and we had to get rid of it.

[Jamhandprints]

Took every single curtain rail...or never had them but I'm sure I would have noticed when we looked round.
Left an old mattress in the garage despite being told 3 times that I didnt want it. Its still there 3 years later.

[kerrymucklowe2020]

@HappyDinosaur

I thought you were supposed to take lampshades, mirrors, washing lines etc. Ours left loads of rubbish - 2 broken wheelbarrows, a sledgehammer, a broken hedge trimmer, cans of coke and more, mostly rubbish but they did leave carrots growing in the garden, which I've enjoyed. The house was so filthy with spiders and cobwebs everywhere that it felt awful when we first came, I cried as I was so worried we'd made a mistake, fortunately it's becoming home now!

The mirrors were the ones screwed to the wall in the bathroom- only £15 from B&Q - I left the bathroom mirrors at my old house and the washing line and the pole and the post...........and I didn't leave a broken paving stone step which nearly resulted in a nasty injury ............

[Fairymaryprincess]

They removed the coals from the fireplace and the pole to pull the loft ladder down 🤔

[ThePinkGuitar]

2 ride on lawnmowers

[Ideasplease322]

@FTMF30

I would just leave some cheap curtains as a coutesy. Nothings worse than just moving in with darkness creeping in and feeling very exposed whilst being new to the area.

I do make it clear on the form that I am taking curtains. But no one in my family have left curtains - or gone out and bout cheap contains for the new owners?

I have always worked on the basis that I will have to sort window coverings myself.

I thought everyone in the UK filled out the forms to say what they were leaving and taking. So you should know in advance if you need to buy curtains?

You are all very generous - or I am an asshole😳

[changed4good]

moved last year and our buyers were young first timers just had a baby and had been renting.We left them the sofa , all curtains, large four door wardrobe and all the appliances as wouldn't fit new house. Also left a folder with all the instruction manuals , boiler maintenance agreement, etc. as well as a case of beer and some wine.
We moved in to seemingly all the furniture dismantled and put in the loft and a shit load of hidden diy