Surely everyone cleans the house they're moving out from?

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Bought a house last week, the sellers faffed around so much on their moving out day and didnt get out for 6 hours after completion, which annoyed me to start off with.

But then I realised that they hadn't done any cleaning whatsoever, it's taken us the best part of three days just to de-grease the kitchen!

Surely you'd leave a house at least vaguely presentable?

I left it ok. Was going to clean it so it was spotless but my buyers were horrible, caused a lot of stress to the whole chain and didn’t deserve it.

I always packed early and got ahead with cleaning beforehand. After the movers packed, a final vacuum and off with the Henry strapped into the passenger seat. The movers usually stop for lunch en route so you can catch up or overtake them.

£350 is pennies in the context of buying and selling houses.

We paid a cleaner to follow us round as we emptied it.

@ CutlaSquid -
My sister bought a house where they had painted round the furniture, (wardrobes and bookshelves) so it all looked immaculate when viewed, but less so when moving in!!

Yes, but your seller was obviously running behind schedule. Let it go.

We had the same, filthy house and water turns off as they’d detached their American fridge freezer with water/ice and couldn’t cap it off. Took a lot of scrubbing..

Sorry you had to deal with this. Some people are pigs in more than one sense of the word.

@sesquipedalian

To be fair, they had redecorated every room with a fresh coat of paint which we absolutely weren't expecting so it sort of balanced out. When we sold, three years later, the floor was still the same (although we did highlight it to the buyers, and left the rug which fitted the "gap"!)

Mine had that in one of the bedrooms🤦

Bought a house whose previous owners were the captain of our local (championship division) football team and his family. It was spotless both times we viewed it. Moved in to a dirty kitchen, bath that hadn't been rinsed out - I guess they'd cancelled the cleaner. They were really snooty too so we were happy to let everyone know.

Another argument for having a register of unreasonable people when it comes to buying and selling houses.

Now with social media I bet no footballer would dare do such a thing I guess.

I feel like most times we were somewhere in the middle. Neither the flat/first house we bought nor the flat/house we sold were immaculate but in all cases everything had been packed up with exception of what it was agreed would be left, nothing weird was taken unexpectedly and clearly things were basically clean and a hoover had been run round/surfaces wiped but if you looked you’d definitely have found some dusty spots or cobwebs up in a high corner or there were some grubby bits inside a cupboard or whatever. The only experience of a house being a bit of a state was our current one. The owners were elderly and going to a bungalow as they were struggling to manage and they were not super organised so I think it was just a bit much for them. The house needed a real deep clean in many places but it wasn’t that massive a deal and we got it done over the weekend after we moved in. It did take me a little while to get over the ick factor of finding toenail clippings in the drawers of the built in desk in the study but honestly it all felt more than worth it as we adored the actual house from the moment we saw it.

Different people have different standards. When I leave a house, it has been thoroughly cleaned, including washing down paintwork and cleaning any fitted carpets. Most houses I have moved into have been distinctly grubby, some downright filthy.

when we moved out of our last home, we had it professionally cleaned after we had also cleaned through so that as the furniture was finally removed all the spaces were hoovered and dated etc. Then the new family were moving in and first they cleaned the house, which had already been cleaned, skirting boards, cornices, walls and hoovered, windows cleaned and dusted - they did the exact same jobs

which left me thinking what was the point?

This. We did our best but there wasn’t room to pack everything ahead of time. Probably wasn’t the cleanest… but then our new place was infested with moths which cost us £1,200 to clean so I guess it could be worse.

Left our place spotless, dusted the last bit of skirting board as a heavy sideboard was moved out.

Moved in to a shit hole.
Caked on grease -sort of grateful the oven was actually broken as it mean it wasn’t in need of a clean because it took 4 hours just to scrub the inside of a couple of cupboards, just so stuff could go in out of the way.
Carpets were full of bits, the kitchen junk drawer was full of junk, the blinds all thick with solid grey dust, black cobwebs everywhere, and the black bin was jam packed full, even though the bin collection had been the day before. He hadn’t bothered to put it out.
The shed was full of old rusty tools and broken kids toys, the attic was full of broken bits of sideboard.
I cried when we first went in. I then posted photos on FB so if anyone knew where we’d moved to and also knew him, they’d know he was a filthy pig!

I've always left our houses immaculate.

Current house - our sellers had barely packed anything the day we completed. We popped in to do a final check and take meter readings on the way to the notaire's office and it was obvious they were nowhere near ready to move out. We ended up letting them stay an extra few days (and they still wanted longer). They left the house an absolute shit tip - they left furniture, white goods (the fridge reeked like something had died in it), half emptied cupboards - she forgot to empty her knicker drawer ffs and I had to box them up and post them to her!

And OMG the outbuildings - a barn hadn't been mucked out in years, a stable full of dozens of old car tyres, a chest freezer full of meat that they'd unplugged but not emptied, I could go on...

Are we related? 🧐

My younger db died last year and for various health reasons he hadn't been cleaning the house regularly. If he'd have asked I would have done it for him. Anyway it was spotless top and bottom courtesy of me, dm and df when the buyers got the keys. I don't even think they were moving in straightaway as it needed modernising but wouldn't havr dreamt of leaving it not clean.

To be honest, we didn't! We exchanged the day before completion which was horrendous. Our sellers' removal van fell through on the Wednesday as they were gazumped by a firmer booking. My buyers faffed around with last-minute demands, despite me pushing for a two-week gap between exchange and completion. We prepped as much as we could in advance but moving day was uncertain and there was a risk the buyers would pull out.

I'd had enough of my buyers so was perfectly happy to leave a house that hadn't been cleaned.

It’s just the right thing to do, one of the things that makes society nicer.
Definitely a proper clean. Though I had someone complain about the cleaning standard when I’d done a clean and also hired an end of tenancy cleaner, it was spotless and they said it was dirty!

Well you would think that but DS took up carpets - fleas

friend of a friend moved and left toe nail clippings all over the place 🤢

The day my mam moved ivy her house she ripped up the piss stained stinking bathroom carpet and cleaned the house. Worst thing is we did a house swap so they walked into a clean house and my mam cleaned 2 that day