Should we ask buyers to pay for appliances, carpets and blinds?

[7in1Pond]

We're (hopefully) moving and I've just been filling in all the details about what is and isn't included.

We have a range cooker (10yo but good), very new dishwasher, newish Miele washer and tumble dryer, wine fridge. We also have nice Roger Oates carpets and fitted blinds.

Should I be asking for money for any of this? I don't want any of it (except maybe the washer and dryer if the people we are selling from don't leave theirs). What's the norm?

No . Carpets , blinds etc should be included . Realistically what would you do it them ?
A ten year old cooker probably should be left as well .

the utter misers I bought my house from took blinds that were made custom my living room window and took all the light bulbs. They asked did I want to buy their integrated appliances for the cost of new so I just said no and bought them from new so I could have the warranty. That with the exception of the cooker, they realised they’d have to get it disconnected etc so they came back with a £500 discount on their original offer so I did buy that. Oh, they did leave me a mattress in the loft that someone either gave birth on or was murdered on. That was kind of them, leaving me crime scene evidence to dispose of.
I tend to ask buyers if there is anything they'd like including furniture if it’s been bought specifically to fit a space and blinds/carpet/integrated appliances I leave.

I wouldn’t bother, you might offend buyers and cause them to withdraw, it’s a buyers market now. Would you genuinely want these items of they refuse to purchase? What would you do with them if they insisted they were removed? Blinds/carpets/oven more than likely wouldn’t fit in your new home. What did the property details say, was the oven mentioned? Entirely your call OP, but if I had a committed purchaser in this market I wouldn’t be rocking the boat. Good luck.

This is one of those issues that irks me slightly. Very often buyers buy into the lifestyle and the high end appliances and fixtures are part of that and reflected in the price of the house. If any of those appliances are built- in then no you don’t start charging extra for them. If they were a stand alone item like an American fridge, I would assume that was going.

Reverse. Surely.

Why would buyers want your old stuff?

I once bought a house where the vendors wanted me to pay extra for the shed and the pond.

I told them to take both with them

Jesus.

White good usually go with you. They have standard holes think 23inch which fit standard oven washing machine dw etc

carpets stay

blinds vary - will they fit next house.

curtains - again vary

what does this mean?

No, you don't generally charge for these things, though some people try. My house is about to go on the market. It was a renovation which I did for my family to live in, but following a bereavement it must now be sold. It has brand new LVT, brand new carpets, a brand new kitchen with brand new appliances (they literally still have the labels on them as they have never been used). We have never lived there so nothing has ever been used. They're staying with the property, what would I do with them?

fixtures and fittings, innit

Some of these responses are completely over the top and just showing ignorance of what used to be 'the norm'.

Whereas I know that carpets and curtains tend to be left now, that has come from being involved in other people's house buying, but if the OP hasn't sold / bought in the last 20 years or so, why would they know that ?

If someone doesn't know something, and they come to MN to find out, why is it so difficult to either just answer politely, or to roll your eyes and scroll past the thread.

We moved recently. The fixtures and fittings forms are clear that you can include or not. We included anything fixed in. And of course all carpets, blinds, light fittings etc.
we then emailed buyers via estate agent to offer American fridge freezer, washer, dryer etc that was freestanding for a few hundred quid and our buyers jumped at it.

I had an offer accepted on a house and was then asked whether I wanted to buy the cooker, which was 35/40 years old. I declined as we were planning to replace the kitchen. It will have cost the family (probate property) to travel here and dispose of the cooker, but that was their choice 🤷‍♀️

No one will buy your house if you try to charge for carpets and blinds. They'll assume that you're difficult to deal with and they will walk away.

Charging for fitted carpets is not ok.

charging for a washer and a dryer is ok, if they are not integrated. If they are integrated then it isn’t reasonable to charge.

You left “most” light fittings!

Honestly, the last thing I would want to do when moving is hoik a step ladder round the house sorting out light fittings, were they family heirlooms?

Carpets I would definitely expect to be left. Light fittings up to you but don't take them unless you want to use them at your next place. Washing machine etc I would assume you would take unless there were fitted ones in your new place, any maybe even then. Range cooker I would assume you'd leave unless it was going to fit in your next house.

Please tell us how they emptied the pond bucket by bucket and loaded them all into the back of the moving van! I would have paid to watch that 🙂

It means it’s so ridiculous that the person who started this thread could possibly think they were right, that the assumption is that they are reversing the issue to assume the identity of the buyer. People used to do that on here. Pretend to be the one who is obviously in the wrong, get 27 pages in and then announce it was ‘a reverse.’ Cue everyone who commented being furious.

It would be more of a faff, and will pi$$ off the buyer if you take it all. I imagine the cost of moving the range cooker would be more than it is actually worth. You'd only be able to give it away for free as someone would need a man, van and an electrrician to move and refit.

Carpets and blinds absolutely not, those SHOULD be left. The other things you could charge for or you could not. Bear in mind that if you charge for them, they become optional extras, not part of the house, so if the buyers say they don't want them, they become your junk that you need to get rid of at your expense before selling though. If you don't want that hassle, leave them for free.

I don’t think the OP will be back.

When we bought a house years ago the seller wanted to charge us for the conservatory blinds but we declined. They either had to leave them or remove them and make good on the holes left by the fittings. They decided to leave them for us free, which is what we knew they would do. I don’t think you can charge for carpets, that’s really unusual.