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If you're selling are you leaving white goods?

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Shesshinysheila · 12/09/2024 06:59

We're leaving everything for our buyers except the tumble dryer. Nothing is particularly new so we're not charging them. This seems sensible since other than the washing machine most items wouldnt fit in the new place. Ie we have a range cooker and the new place has a regular one, we have an American style fridge and new place has a single fridge.
The people we're buying from however have decided to strip out all their white goods even though the house they're moving to has everything I think. I'm obviously not 100% on this but I know they're moving to a massive mansion whose owners are downsizing into what was their holiday home. So seems unlikely they'd be taking everything.
I think they're just doing it to be dicks if I'm honest because we didn't want to buy their 22 year old cooker from them which they kindly offered to sell us for £450!
I really hope they struggle to sell it (which I reckon they will) and end up with a PITA load of kitchen white goods stood in their new lounge for weeks after they've moved. Is that mean? 😂

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TwistedSisters · 13/09/2024 11:23

Definitely not normal to leave white goods!

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 13/09/2024 11:35

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find the 22 yr old cooker still in situ when you move in. We had this and the sellers were hugely affronted that we didn't want to pay for stuff they no longer had need off and abandoned it in the end causing no end of headaches on moving day

ForPearlViper · 13/09/2024 11:41

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 13/09/2024 11:35

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find the 22 yr old cooker still in situ when you move in. We had this and the sellers were hugely affronted that we didn't want to pay for stuff they no longer had need off and abandoned it in the end causing no end of headaches on moving day

That is exactly what I was thinking. If it's gas, they may be surprised at the cost of getting it disconnected and then reconnected at their new place.

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Shesshinysheila · 13/09/2024 11:53

Yeah honestly that's what I think. They will have to pay to get it disconnected and will definitely struggle to sell.at the (mad!) price they want for it. They'll probably have to pay to have it disposed of. We did offer a token amount. Id rather get a new one but thought it would be one less thing to have to do straight away. But they weren't interested. I honestly think their fridge will be the same situation as well.
That's part of the reason we're just leaving stuff for our buyers. They want it all because they're FTB and we CBA to get rid, so suits us.

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OVienna · 13/09/2024 11:59

@Shesshinysheila there are so many stories on here of sellers trying to get you to buy their old tat and then it's left on the day anyway. I bet this is what will happen here. You don't ask, you don't get, I suppose so they thought they could try on the £450 with you.

Arafon · 13/09/2024 12:04

Our kitchen is freestanding so we would but if the appliances were integrated we wouldn't.

Lalalacrosse · 13/09/2024 12:07

Our sellers failed to take their crappy white goods. Had to get a skip to remove all their junk.

if it’s not integrated you take it unless the buyers asked for it and you agreed.

Arafon · 13/09/2024 12:08

Arafon · 13/09/2024 12:04

Our kitchen is freestanding so we would but if the appliances were integrated we wouldn't.

I think I got that the wrong way round 😁

MayFairSquare · 13/09/2024 12:25

Lalalacrosse · 13/09/2024 12:07

Our sellers failed to take their crappy white goods. Had to get a skip to remove all their junk.

if it’s not integrated you take it unless the buyers asked for it and you agreed.

Exactly.

And you can go back to your solicitor and claim the money back for rubbish removal if the house has stuff left in it.

Tupster · 13/09/2024 14:13

Shesshinysheila · 13/09/2024 11:53

Yeah honestly that's what I think. They will have to pay to get it disconnected and will definitely struggle to sell.at the (mad!) price they want for it. They'll probably have to pay to have it disposed of. We did offer a token amount. Id rather get a new one but thought it would be one less thing to have to do straight away. But they weren't interested. I honestly think their fridge will be the same situation as well.
That's part of the reason we're just leaving stuff for our buyers. They want it all because they're FTB and we CBA to get rid, so suits us.

It's actually super easy to disconnect and reconnect gas cookers - it's just a bayonet fitting exactly like changing a light bulb. Technically, yes, you are supposed to get a gas-safe engineer to do it, but these things are engineered to be easy and foolproof and it's a classic example of where lobbying trade associations have managed to get rules in place that protect their members getting easy work that they can charge a hefty call-out fee for a 2 second job.

LaPalmaLlama · 13/09/2024 19:57

I'm leaving American FF, washing machine and tumble drier and wall mounted TVs, all declared on fixtures and fittings forms on an "as seen" basis and agreed with buyer. Basically, they're all quite old, and I want to upgrade to a bigger washer and heat pump drier, but buyer is moving from overseas and is happy to take my cast offs for as long as they last. Last time I moved an American FF it broke 2 months later and the guy said it's quite common with moves as they get shaken about/ dropped in transit.

My vendor is leaving me a tonne of great stuff as they are downsizing. The whole chain is also leaving light fittings and curtains. I have admittedly struck gold with my vendors though- they couldn't be nicer.

Yakoo · 13/09/2024 20:00

Mine left a tonne of stuff, including white goods that didn’t work that needed a skip to get rid of everything, but took the lightbulbs and bizarrely a tap, that was a fun move in day.

good96 · 13/09/2024 20:34

I just can’t believe they tried to sell you their 22 year old cooker for £450 - money grabbers!!

We’ve sold ours and we should be completing in the next 5 weeks, washing machine, dishwasher, cooker and tumble is integrated so we’re leaving them behind - obviously no cost. We are taking our AFF with us though as we only brought it 18 months ago and spent £2k on it!

If the appliances were brand new, then I can expect them to be offered to the buyer at a cost but if they’re used then it’s easier to leave at the property IF of course the new owner wants them…
If they don’t then the vendor of course needs to remove them…
I’ve purchased a property in the past where I’ve expected properties to be completely vacant upon completion and the house was still fully furnished!!! Could’ve claimed from the vendor thru the courts to pay for the removal costs but I ended up selling most of it on FB Marketplace/ Gumtree! Win win!

catswithbowties · 16/09/2024 15:19

Our buyer was a FTB so we asked if they wanted the Bosch fridge freezer and Bosch washer dryer for free. If they'd said no, we would have taken them. Meanwhile our seller agreed to leave the American fridge freezer (we wanted it because the kitchen has clearly been designed with it in the plans!) and the new house had space for separate washing machine and tumble dryer so we wanted that instead of the combined washer dryer. I'd have been annoyed if they left anything without agreement though as we weren't FTBs so had plenty of stuff of our own to move in!

When my sister bought her house, the sellers tried to make her pay £600 for the living room curtains! My sister said no so they took them with, but they're an unusual size fitted to bay windows including one long thin strip of a window so not sure what they could even do with them... Seemed a bit petty imo.

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