Ok, own up! What did you lumber your buyer with?

[BluTangClan]

Much like an old car, it's got to the stage with our house where we think "do we spend loads of money fixing it all, or bodge it all and try to sell it?".

So here's the opportunity to own up to; the mould you painted over, the crack in the wall that you moved the bookcase in front of, the hob that doesn't work when the oven's on, and the iron mark on the carpet that you put the rug on top of.

We will forgive you your sins without judgement.

We have sold... I think the only thing we are leaving is a slow draining bath and slightly wobbly bathroom taps.
We are also at the end of the main so the water tastes yuck, but the filter tap sorts that.

Am I thehinly person that had to sign paperwork saying appliances were in full working order and we were not aware of any problems throughout the house,?

We received a report like that too from the house we were buying, obviously 200% bullshit because the oven never worked although our solicitor did get them to pay fro a replacement due to the firm they'd signed.

Outside bar built by our scum of the earth lottery winning neighbours

@Dogsandbabies

The flat I sold was great but had absolutely terrible freeholders. Constant demand for money for substandard repairs and never responded to genuine concerns and repairs requested by the leaseholders. I should have guessed when I saw that it has changed hands every few years. But I was naive!

How did this not get picked up by the buyers solicitor's though? When we sold our first flat we had to give a lot of detail about freeholders charges etc?

Some of these are shocking - especially the rat infestation! We are just leaving a bath with the floor seal coming away and an oven that has never had a deep clean in the 10 years we have had it

Our seller lumbered us with a faulty oven, unsafe electrics (didn’t get picked up in the survey because it was hidden) a leaky roof that had been bodged with tar, drain problems, bodged roof on the summer house, a giant rip in the wallpaper which had been covered with furniture, and no guttering at the back of the house. We have sorted it all out and about to put the house on the market, we hope to leave a strange smell that appears downstairs if you flush the toilet and it hasn’t been used for a while, we have tried to fix it but nobody can work out what the problem is! Must remind DH not to use that toilet on viewings days I think bearing in mind what we have had to fix we deserve some good seller karma!

We had a doorway between rooms with no RSJ - it was originally an outside wall.

We got sold our first house, told that there was no issue fencing off the garden, and we had an angry landlord shout at us as soon as we measured up. Anyway we used to park there instead and when we sold gave the buyers a letter from our solicitor saying legally they could do it. They did it. Angry landlord round two. She messaged me asking if I'd go to court with her, I said yes but the LL never took them. Fence is still up now with no issues. Arsehole man.

This house had a piece of skirting board missing where they'd took our a cabinet from the corner. Haven't replaced and probably won't.

We're maybe moving this year and the plan is to rent this place out so we have no choice but to fix everything that's wrong with the house! And there are many things wrong, including a boiler that will have to be replaced soon. Sigh. Losing sleep over it all. However, this thread makes me feel a bit better because if I had the chance I'd sell with many of the cosmetic problems disguised or painted over. We'd still replace the bolier - I'd feel too guilty not to...

Literally nothing!

When we bought our new house though we moved into a broken boiler and no heating or hot water in winter for two weeks with a 2 year old. It was clearly a well known issue as even the neighbours were aware of the dodgy boiler. Basically they just didn’t have much money and didn’t bothered to do general upkeep of the house. We were planning to get the boiler replaced which they knew, but we didn’t think we would have to do it straight away. If they’d have been honest we would have planned a fix, and would have still gone ahead with the purchase. Those were the worst two weeks ever.

Loads of junk in the garden. Carpet/ floor absolutely stinking of dog. We knew when we viewed it that the carpets would need replacing ASAP though.

Personally I would never leave a house in any other state I’d wish to find it in. It’s better to be honest as you don’t know how it will affect the next person.

We left our house in perfect condition. Really loved that house 😩

The house we moved into? WOW. We were renovating a little but it then had to turn into a lot as they had bodged so much stuff that it was unsafe. I remember finding a wax covered Q tip on what was to be my bedroom floor (amongst other things...) but we just got on with it. Anyway - our buyers (who moved into an immaculate home) complained saying it wasn’t up to scratch?! People are really, really weird.

We put a sideboard in front of the damp wall, which was caused by damp cavity wall insulation :-/
The freezer didn't work, but we did tell them that in advance.

Ours was new build and had no issues. I felt guilty leaving them with the bodged paint job in the master bedroom which was covered with the wardrobe!!
The one we bought had so many issues, all small but annoying considering they pushed us for full asking price due to it being in "great condition" and "extremely well looked after" according to the estate agents.

We’re buying right now, and I’m now going to check all of these things

Our flat is old... the hallway needs redoing but the committee are slow, the kitchen tap needs a wiggle to have full flow, the toilet isn’t properly sealed down for some reason... that’s it; and we’ve been honest about it all (minus the tap; so far)

The house we’re buying has a mouldy cellar, and at least one dodgy floorboard upstairs.

Hopefully this is all going to equal out and the move will go fine 😬🤞

It's terrifying how many issues apparently aren't picked up in the building survey

When we moved in we found lots of random wires. They all seemed to be safe but just a lot of them poking out of holes! The guy was a BT engineer I think. Also lots of small dog biscuits in the gaps under skirtings. But the dog was very cute (he didn’t come with the house sadly)

We left our last house and garden pristine and even paid for cleaners post move too.
We moved in to a house with a leaking roof, several rotten windows, a basement which flooded due to failed downpipes Most of which wasnt picked up on the expensive survey.
I would never leave issues for buyers, its just not fair.

I sold my first house with some furniture included. I was only young and didn't think twice about sticking some drawer handles on with double backed sellotape. Think the washing machine was on its last legs too.

The house itself was in good nick though.

@InsanelyPregnantAndSore OMG LOL

Oh and a subsequent house had a leak in the roof that left water marks along the ceiling and top wall of a bedroom. It only ever appeared if it snowed and then melted slowly. We had had several roofers look at it and try to fix it but in the end we resorted to putting an ice cream carton under the bit that leaked. Presumably any water collected, dried up over the summer because we never had a problem again.

So to the person who found a strategically placed ice cream carton. Sorry. We really did try to fix it.

I left a sofa that was too big to move out of the living room. It was delivered in pieces, built and then the leather hand stitched together.

Also, the overflow pipe on the bath was not connected to anything. 104 flats in the building and all had the same issue.

Still, the buyer failed to send the money on the day we were set to exchange/complete - 3 times. So my husband also left a poo unflushed.

We left some surprises for the next tenants. Admittedly they were surprises left for us by the tenants before. The bedroom hooks held on with wall filler and sheer will power. The curtain rail was the same but worse. The hole our youngest made in the plaster too. We went in one morning and there was a literally hole all the way to the neighbours brickwork!!!apparently the old masonry wasn't up to much and our child took full advantage. So I filled the giant hole, smoothed and sanded it and turned it into a beautiful sage green feature wall. It looked so much better than the weird lumpy white wall we had before.

We also super glued the loose tiles on. But the dodgy bathroom got gutted when we left so that was ok.

We left to a place we owned and have found a few little surprises left by the last owners, nothing too scary yet. They thought the place had a damp problem but they just didn't know how to look after victorian houses. So winner winner there, I bet they were thinking we'd be gutted when winter hit instead it's all gone.

I left a bed in the loft room of my flat when I sold it. My df was in hospital jn a coma and I clean forgot to remove it before completion (i had a six month okd baby and had been renting the place out so wasn’t living in it). They did call me to ask me to deal with it. But I didn’t.

We are buying at the moment and I am terrified that we will have to fork out a lot of money to fix things.
I am going to check out some of the things mentioned in this thread

I had a house with failing plaster. A hole appeared in the hall. I put a cornflake box inside and covered with Polyfilla. Walking past after I sold, the front door was open and I saw that the first thing they had done was replaster the hall. I hope they enjoyed finding the cornflakes box.

I am peering at all the crappy boiler leaving people wondering if you were my last seller. It literally stopped the day we moved in after asking and asking during the sale if it had been serviced as it is in a childrens bedrooom (and shocked that people would have an unserviced gas boiler in a kids room).

We werent best pleased.