If you were paying more than 20k over the asking price for a house...

[Brummiemummyof2]

... and the vendors tried to charge you for curtain poles and curtains, how would you feel? 🙈

I know they're well within their rights... but a bit of good will wouldn't go amiss here!

I’d feel pissed off, especially over the curtain poles! (I’m unlikely to want someone else’s curtains long term anyway).

Call their bluff and ask them to remove them before completion. I bet they end up leaving them for free.

What @Bodgejobvendors says, call their bluff

They’re taking the mick! Do what @Bodgejobvendors said and enjoy choosing your own curtains if they take them.

I would definitely say you don’t want the curtains and poles and then see what they say.

Definitely chancers. It'll be more hassle for them to remove the various fittings and make good the damage as a result, not to mention what are the chances they'll all fit the new house? If you're really not bothered, ask them to take them all down and see what they say.

Out of principle, I'd never pay asking price let alone above asking.

Tell them to take their curtain and poles and stick it.....

Agree with the above posters, say you don't want them. Remind them they have to make good the walls if they're removing the poles as that will likely cause them enough trouble they'll leave everything.

I’d be majorly pissed off.
Though we always make our offers on the basis of keeping curtains & blinds if we like them

@KandN i presume you haven’t tried to buy a house in the last couple of years then

Tbh depends if I wanted the curtains or not and if getting new curtains was something I would be able to prioritise financially when I moved in

Well the last purchase was in 2016. And I only got about £8k off the asking price. Couldn't get a better price as the flat was only a few weeks/months on the market.

I only started looking recently so not sure how the market is at the moment in Kent.

People are greedy. I never pay extra for furnishings. People end up leaving a lot of stuff anyway once they realise what a hassle it is packing everything. Especially curtains that might not even fit their new house.

20K over asking doesn’t mean anything. The asking price is arbitrary and Basivalky made-up. You are paying what the house is worth. It’s obnoxious for the sellers to try to charge you for the curtains and poles but that’s not related to the asking price.

I agree with a PP, would never pay over asking, we moved last year in crazy Covid times. Very cheeky of them to charge for fixtures, tell them to take them, but they must fix and repair damage by removing them, they sound CF’s and will probably leave them, the chances are they won’t fit the windows in their next property.

I'm another for not paying over asking . Esp with the shift in the market round by me . Not much selling and lots being reduced .

I wouldn't pay extra for them. I doubt they'll take them unless they're absolute weirdos but you never know.

(Fwiw - I payed £15k over asking for my current house. If I hadn't I wouldn't have got it, and I really wanted it. It's all well and good to never pay over asking as a principle if you're willing to let a house go for the sake of the principle. Personally I take the view that ultimately a house is worth what someone will pay for it - not an arbitrary asking price which has been chosen by one estate agent of many, most of whom disagree with one another by 10s of thousands)

The price paid doesn’t matter (we paid £75k over and still very pleased with our purchase). BUT just say no thanks. Are they really going to take them all down and take them with them to their new house where they won’t fit?

Our vendors (who were lovely btw) offered to sell us some things: granite troughs in the garden, some granite gate posts, a metal gate. We said no thanks. They left them for us anyway as couldn’t even lift the damn things!

Seldom worth paying for what is, in effect, second-hand stuff, unless they are selling it very cheap.