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 left stuff in the loft space that was there when we moved in and we never got round to sorting out / throwing out.
i have sometimes wondered what it was and that our buyers would think it was ours.
no police at the door yet so i'm guessing not a body or stolen goods :)

Several pieces of furniture I couldn't get rid of, including a rather nice table ... tried ebay, Gumtree and the lot and they simply wouldn't sell

That said, my purchasers were first time buyers and were genuinely grateful, so not sure it counts as being lumbered

Although I’ve never sold a house, we did leave some junk in the loft and shed of our last rental. The previous tenants did, so the landlord would have no way of knowing it was us.

The house we bought had a few things like this that the previous owners left for us to sort. They had clearly painted over a leak from the bathroom on the kitchen sealing. They had done a pretty awful job of decorating behind furniture, which we obviously hadn’t seen when wardrobes were in front of it. 3 colours of paint visible in some places, as though they just hadn’t moved wardrobes when they’d repainted. It was a bit annoying as the rooms had looked nicely decorated when we viewed, so we hadn’t planned to repaint most rooms for a while.

We didn't leave much for the next buyer to worry about, as it was a small flat... But the sellers of our current house still owe us a karmic debt!

Skiploads full of crap left in the attic, a non-functioning piano to get rid of, mouldy curtains and carpet and a garden that was full on broken down concrete and glass where they'd smashed things up.after the sale was agreed.

We did at least get them to pay us a bit for the skips, but the hours we spent on it weren't chargeable. Nice house now though.

When we bought the house we’re in now, the old owner took the cooker, so the bit of wall where it was was visible, and the tiles looked really uneven.
They had literally superglued them over the electric cable, rather than channel it into a wall. No grout, just glue.

Also, we had to fix a leaky pipe and it turned out they had fixed it previously with masking tape and a plaster.

We bought a house and did our viewings around Christmas. Huge mistake- turns out they’d hidden every problem with tinsel and trees. What we thought was the end of the garden wasn’t- it was actually twice the size but that overgrown and full of shit you couldn’t tell. Wiring was held together with wire coat hangers- no exaggeration. When the wind blew there were such drafts everyone’s hair moved too. Oh and their teenager daughter left her skimpy underwear in the wardrobe not envy! The full house needed gutting top to bottom- ended up beautiful though

I've never left anything bad in a house I've sold, but I did once buy a house only to get there on the day of completion to find that the seller had removed the kitchen units! There was just the one with the sink remaining! The walls where she'd taken the cabinets out were just bare unfinished plaster. Apparently, the kitchen cupboards weren't listed on the particulars, so she took them with her! She was a bit of an odd lady, very unfriendly when we went to view the house.

The front door of the building, I rented a flat in, was very difficult to unlock - you had to jiggle your key backwards and forwards for about 5 minutes for it to open the lock. A lot of the occupants of the other flats had the same problem with their keys, but I found one who didn’t and got a copy of their good key.

My landlord was a real arse when I gave notice so I gave back the original key!

We left a rural property without catching the last rooster

Two things: In the week before we moved the integrated dishwasher died. I bought a second hand one from Gumtree and fitted it in place. The door didn't quite fit as flush on the fixings so I used some No Nails to hold it firm. The boiler use to lose air pressure, found out it was the schrader valve to fill up the bladder that was leaking - not the actual bladder. But you can just replace the valve. I attached a bike tyre pump to the valve to pump it up and realised that leaving this attached stopped the leak. I forgot about it so moved house leaving a bike pump attached to the top of the boiler!

when we sold our childhood home we had intended to have a cleaner in to give everything a good cleaning once all the furniture has been moved (most of it was sold and didn't go with us) and cupboards cleaned out.

Then they decided to try and gerzunder us on exchange day claiming to not have the money so we cancelled the cleaner and 30 years of dust were left there. they eventually exchanged at the agreed price and then within a month of completion had workmen then for a massive extension.

They also got a useless surveyor who didn't pick up on the faulty electrics or the asbestos but tried to claim our next door neighbours MAY have japanese knotweed (there was no knotweed in the area at all). So we didn't get any of that sorted for them either.

They were nightmare buyers anyway and messed us around for months. Two weeks after completing they called us about the electrics. we told them to take it up with the surveyor.

A very heavy footed/TV blaring/aerobics loving upstairs neighbour.
I don't regret it and I wish I'd done it sooner as she made my life a misery!
Never had a dispute with her so everything I put on the sellers property information form was true.
The people I sold to were very loud themselves and apparently they instantly removed my carpets and put down wooden flooring (very much contrary to the lease). So I don't feel that bad.

Ants. In the kitchen.

Some of the wooden windows were rotten enough to have good sized holes. We stuck in a bit of filler and painted over the patch.

Unintentionally a broken boiler. It was fine when we moved out, then we got a call about a week later from our solicitor asking how the boiler worked. Seemed like a dumb ass question as it was a completely normal set up, very easy to figure out. Then a second call to say it didn't work and claiming we had sold it knowing that. I said it was fine when we left and that was that pretty much that, though the other side did try and push it. They were awful people. They gazundered us out of £10 grand a week before the move. Horrible horrible. Wish we had taken the marble work surfaces, massive oven and mid century light fittings. Ten years on that still rankles!

Crap neighbours!
On the plus side though, when I moved into my place, the previous owner left me so much decent free stuff!
All the curtains, kitchen items, rugs, mirrors, a lovely wardrobe with matching bedside table, garage storage, garden pots and I'm sure there was more! All really good stuff.
When my son visits, he still laughs about it!

Our house was perfect leaving. I scrubbed the fridge, cleaned the cupboard and vacuumed that morning before we left. Ended up last minute having to put all of our stuff into storage as we couldn't get keys. Went by 5 days later when eventually got the keys and the place was filthy, an absolute disgrace. Gone off food in the fridge etc. We still have loads to do to the house because of them.no insulation in the attic, cut the power to the shed, left dog kennels, tyres bar stools, tv table etc behind. No radiator in the sitting room. All the rooms need to be plastered. Floorboards uneven. The list goes on!

Everyone who looked round our old two-up, two-down said they'd move the bedroom upstairs as we had it downstairs. What they didn't know was that something lived in the attic and you could hear it scurrying about back and forth all night.

There was no loft hatch so we could never work out quite whether it was squirrels or rats, or what. Every now and then something would die up there and the house would be filled with bluebottle flies.

With our first house, the sellers actually told us, "We've replaced the wallpaper in one of the bedrooms to make it nice for you!"

How lovely, we thought.

Within a week of moving in, it literally fell off in sheets to reveal an entire wall black with mildew. (The people we later sold to were such incredible arseholes that we forgot to mention the mildew problem. They peaked when they accused the woman WE were buying from of lying about her father's death, and made the EA contact her for proof.)

Our delightful junkie neighbour

And downstairs, something lived under the floorboards. We put poison down a gap in the floorboards every now and then and the scampering would stop. We never saw rats or mice in the house but we weren't the only ones there!

To be fair on my last comment, the girl who bought our house was local so she must have known about the neighbour. We lived in the next town when we purchased the house so had no idea.

The people we bought our home from had left logs piled up between the garden sheds. We didn't look behind the logs when viewing. It took 30 trips to the tip to clear out the junk that was hidden behind. Looked like the neighbours had used that area as a tip also.
Couple of suitcases in the loft, too.

Was pretty cross TBH. Not nice.

The house I just sold wore its shortcomings on its sleeve - it needed new carpets, had some severe scratches on its engineered wood floor, had some water marks from leaky gutters on the walls and the underfloor heating in the back part of the kitchen wasn't working. All noted in their detailed survey. I'd tried to get an electrician to source the part for the underfloor heating thermostat but after a series of naggings gave up on him. The two small surprises is that they would need to re-programme the alarm as I no longer used it and there's a leaky tap in the bathroom.

Despite that I had had the huge double oven serviced and thoroughly cleaned the fridge freezer and kitchen cupboards.

My new place was perfect except they left a wardrobe I said I didn't want which I now need to get rid of.

Oh, and my OH sold his late father's place, which had a useful cellar - only the builders who bought it used the cellar as a dumping ground, somehow split the ceiling in numerous places and basically turned it in to a wreck

I went to view the do-up out of nosiness, and it was all tarted up with cheap grey stuff designed for a quick sale ... and they'd left the cellar exactly as it was!!!

It sold in a day so I can only assume the buyers were so overcome with the "modern finish" that they didn't even look downstarirs. Must have been fun when they eventually did though ...