Unusual items taken/left

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What is the strangest thing you have come across during a house move that has either been left or taken?

Our friends completeted last year and the woman they bought from took the ring squat of vinyl in the downstairs toilet along with the toilet seats - she didn't leave any other toilet seats just completely left the loos bare... I found it so odd so wondered what was the strangest thing you found taken or were left?

Sort of relevant….we sold a house to a rather odd bloke who made endless requests about what should be left and what taken away. We just told him that we would put all the details in the enquiries to contract, which we did. Both parties signed them , checked by solicitors, exchanged, completed.

three days later, our solicitor called and told us that the buyer was threatening to sue us because a) we had had a bonfire two days before we left ( in our very large garden, on the place where we always had the bonfire) 😳

b) because we had taken the fire surround. There was never a fire surround, you could see the fireplace quite clearly on the EA photos. It had a wood burner, which we left installed.

Ii asked our solicitor why theirs would forward this stuff. He said ‘ might as well, he’ll only go to another one’. We didn’t hear anymore

We i bought a house where the vendor took the shed. Just as well, the one they left fell down when DH opened the door. Like, completely collapsed.

She means a

"minging square of vinyl'

Probably put in front of the loo to catch splashes.

MissKittyCat
It was weeks after I moved into my house that I noticed the sellers had taken the house number plaque.

I did this when I sold my late parent's house because I'd grown up there and wanted it as a memento (it was the original plaque from when the house was built).

I did replace it with a snazzy new slate one though!

She means a "minging square of vinyl' Probably put in front of the loo to catch splashes

Yes, but ... if they took it, how did the OP know it was minging?

My vendor wanted me to pay extra for the shed (just a normal shed) and the small pond. I said no thanks, they could take them with them, but they'd have to make good what was left behind. So that's what they did. Who on earth would go to the bother of digging up a pond liner?

That update really doesn't help matters. Wtf is a ming square of vinyl 😂😂😂😂

Presumably she'd have seen it on viewing and in the photos?
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Haha we need a pic of said 'ming square of vinyl'.

At my first house the vendors had taken the living room carpet, well most of it…they had cut out presumably the size they needed for their new house, leaving about a foot around the edges and just the underlay for most of the room. I lived with it over the winter before I could afford to replace it.

We ended up with a pool table and a roll of Christmas paper

Our predecessor took a bit of the plumbing pipework. I don’t think they realised this created a leak. Idiots.

Weirdly I found an air pistol in my loft - it was 40 years old and I think had been used to shoot mice and rats in the loft. No accessories though.

one house we bought back in the nineties, the sellers left upstairs, fitted full width floor to ceiling wardrobes full to the brim with stuff, the kitchen all the food cupboards full of food, hall cupboard full of boxes of stuff, the back garden full width of the house patio full of rubbish and a 4-5 month old puppy yes a real live puppy, i know they were pretty close to losing the house to building society, maybe they thought we would keep the pup but no sorry with three dogs of my own phoned them and said come get poor doggy, they did take some of the stuff they left the next day but it took us three skips to remove the stuff they left and a week of bleaching the kitchen floor under the pissy carpet that was in the kitchen

It sounds like you may have gone to the wrong house! 😂

Yes ming as in minging maybe it's a shortening not many use...?!

I have no pictures sadly only their wording of it, as no pictures on the listing were of the downstairs toilet they said they would have ripped it out anyway because it was filthy but couldn't understand why she had gone to the effort of ripping it out... so it seemed strange. She had clearly had a toilet fetish as she took the loo seats too!

We were just left lots and lots of dog poo some 3 legged chairs, empty gas canisters, and some other absolutely worthless and useless crap!

We found a loo seat in the loft in our new house? No Ming vinyl though 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ve got ‘Ming square of vinyl’ in my head now to the tune of ‘brimful of asha on the 45’

A friend moved into her new house and the previous owner left a life sized plug in illuminated plastic horse. My friend still has it!

The only thing ever left in a house we bought was a tiny cast iron mouse . We kept him. I can't believe people take light bulbs, carpet etc.

Our first sellers left over a hundred cigarette butts on the floor of the airing cupboard.

Our sellers also took the loo seat. Tbh we didn't have much recollection of what type it was but only realised they had fitted a new one (not very well it was wobbly) because they left the packaging behind.

Given the general state of non- cleanliness in the house it was somewhat of a relief!!

Maybe she was embarrassed to leave the minging vinyl. I guess a lot of people have fancy loo seats and forget to replace them in time for moving day. Light bulbs is incredibly though. My first flat had an old fridge and two wardrobes waiting for me. They were crappy but I was very poor so pleased as punch

I don't find that unusual at all, it's very considerate. Hedgehogs are endangered and if anyone is lucky enough to have them visiting their gardens and nesting, the last thing you'd do is remove their nesting/hibernation box. I'll leave mine as fixtures and fittings!

Lucky people that moved in, what a treat.

gold!

@SilentHedges it was the first time any of my team of 5 had seen one listed. We do title checking for at a conveyancing firm so we see lots of forms.