Completion Day - Did you leave anything for your buyers?

[FigandHoney]

We are completing on our house sale tomorrow.
I intend to leave a card for the buyers welcoming them to their new home with a couple of handy tips (bin days, etc).
Did you leave anything else? Is it common to leave some prosecco?

As we have already moved on, I Scrub the place from head to toe this weekend. It's sparkling clean.
Again my husband said I was overdoing it, we have only ever been left dirty houses. Even with our new house (a bit less dirty than the first time but still...)

Our sellers left a card, wine & a nice card with some useful local info
we did the same for our buyers.
I would leave a card chocolates or wine especially as they have been accommodating, your husbands attitude is bit mean spirited though.

To the people who say they received hobnobs, milk, teabags, I think that’s lovely. When I moved into my place, as a first time buyer, the owners had put in lightbulbs for me and painted. I am visually impaired, there were no lights, so I really did appreciate that.

Just a card with a note of the code for the key box. And a couple of traffic cones bagging space for the removal truck.

We left a clean house and a note saying where the stopcock was.

We took the prosecco to our new build which was filthy.🙄

Due to complete soon also and plan to leave a bottle of Prosecco, a card and useful info on the house- bins, neighbours etc. However having seen the comment above about the tea and milk I think il do that too as have a spare kettle that I don’t mind leaving behind!
Our are lovely first time buyers moving from abroad and been no issues with them at all, it’s their first house together so I’d like of them come in and feel happy and excited . We’ve never had that luxury!!I formally believe in life you should treat others how you’d like to be treated and for me kindness is a big part of that.
I had the oven and bathrooms professionally cleaned and the house will be left v clean. Garden has been weeded and hedges etc cut too. I planted some flowers too that are starting to flower now - even tho I knew I’d never see them bloom thought be a nice welcome.
dear knows how our vendor will leave the house ready for us, I’d appreciate a card or any info etc but won’t hold out much hope for it!

Our last buyer (btl) messed us around so much that they were lucky we hoovered. Thankfully we moved to a sparkling clean house with a card, info folder and two bottles of wine.

We left manuals for appliances, instructions to carry over guarantees, and spare tiles, wood and wallpaper to match what was used in case of future damage.

I’ve always left a bottle of Prosecco or wine apart from when our buyer was a pain in the arse. She got nothing.

Bottle of wine,loo roll and soap in loo,bunch of flowers, keys labelled and all the instructions/ bin day stuff. When we have moved it has been ok but no creature comforts and I think it would be nice to have the basics.

Card, prosecco, chocolates and a stash of visitor parking permits.

I just completed and had a full clean done, left a bottle of fizz and some flowers and also a little present for their little girl so she felt welcome too. They were the loveliest of buyers and it’s such a big thing moving home that I wanted to try and make it feel extra special. Hoping we will have thoughtful sellers when we move into our new house in a few weeks time 🤞

We left card, bottle of Prosecco and some flowers for our lovely first time buyers. The people be bought from left 'all the horrible stuff we don't want in our new home' and so much dirt it took a team of 5 cleaners 3 days to clean it to be livable.

Bottle of champagne

We had very lovely buyers so left:
Proper champagne, gifts for the kids and a card. The house was deep cleaned, the hot tub was drained and filled with clean water for them and we left a folder containing guarantees, instructions and manuals for everything. And also left a couple of takeaway menus!

As long as they'd been nice, Id definitely leave a bottle of something.

Happened to me on my first ever house and was such a nice gesture I've remembered it ever since.

No, it’s a business transaction.

Fizz, flowers, takeaway menus, bin details, neighbour’s details, loo rolls and hand soap in each of the loos.
We were left a dodgy boiler, and a steady stream of things going wrong!

We left a bottle of plonk, some flowers and a card as well as a note about bin day and where the water meter was (wrong way round with our neighbours!). Me and a team of friends had cleaned the place to within an inch of its life. I also left the bedroom curtains up as I know what a pain it is trying to hang curtains to get a good nights sleep and you are tired from moving. I asked that the people in the new house do the same for us if they did not need the curtains for their next place.

I think it’s a bit more than that though. When you’re selling a home that you’ve loved and lived in. There are emotions and memories involved. Unless you’re a property developer and you’ve flipped it. Then it’s just business.

Last house, I left... behind all the stress the miserable old cow caused me.

But previous house, lovely buyers I just left a nice card and a bottle of prosecco.

a sofa and a wardrobe.
(in good condition & agreed with thd buyer)

Clean house, instruction manuals for appliances that we were leaving and a bottle of wine from our favourite local wine shop in the fridge.

I think it’s a nice gesture and it’s something I would do and appreciate too. I’ve had a nice card, tips & info left and a mini gift basket with tea bags, sugar sachets & biscuits along with a bottle of wine which was really nice and I’ve done the same since then as it made us so happy!

@MegCleary I’m a sap too 🤣
We did our own viewings and had a young couple come to view the day we went on the market. She walked into my DSs nursery and burst into tears 😳😅 Then proceeded to tell me that they had just found out she was pregnant a couple of weeks earlier and when they seen our house come on the market with her “dream nursery” they had to view it. They hadn’t even told their families yet 🤣🙈
They stood outside after the viewing, phoned their solicitor and offered on the house there and then. Needless to say, it was theirs from that moment 🤣
We’d brought our first DC home to that house and LOVED it. We didn’t want to leave and were only leaving for DHs job so I wanted a family that were going to love the house like us 🤮🤣

We left them all the usual manuals/house info etc and a nice candle and house plant (I’d seen the pics of the flat they were selling so could see that they were plant and candle people) along with a card saying that it had been a lovely house to bring our first DC home to and we hoped it was the same for them.

They sent a really lovely email through our estate agent thanking us

The house we bought was left filthy with not even the basic information 🤣🤣