To the people who owned a house AFTER me, I'd like to confess and apologise for...

[Tinker]

...hiding a damp patch on a wall with a big book

getting the boiler "fixed" so that it limped on for another month or so apparently

leaving a garden table (because we were being so kind!) because the 4th leg was just propping it up and broken.

Anyone else want to, ahem, get anything off their chest?

LOL at casually draped tea towel

Moving dd's cot in front of a very damp wall and then putting her down to sleep five minutes before the surveyor's appointment.

He took one look into the room and said, "Oh, I'll not disturb the baby."

Result.

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fircone, nice one

Oh god yes, the neighbours The main reason for moving.

Also, he wanted to pay me for stuff I'd probably have just left anyway again and again. He as lovely and naive but so was I once.

The colours!!

We did go a bit mad but, in my defence, after living in magnolia rented houses for 10 years I needed some colour on the walls.

Other than that I don't think I have any apologies about that house.

Our first flat - positioning microwave over gap in worksurface where original boiler chimney had come through and we'd replaced with a wall mounted one !

That the weekend you viewed the house the neighbours had removed their hideous, oversized caravan from the front drive. Hope you saw it and realised it was normally parked there before you agreed to purchase...

I came across this thread on a search and just had to bump it.

I would like to confess to not having cleaned the oven before we left. We had 2 days between exchange and completion and there just wasn't time. It still haunts me.

Anyone else?

leaning my ironing board against the wall, over the damp patch in the kitchen, oops

the permanent marker squiggles all over the walls that DD (then 2) lovingly drew everywhere whilst 'helping' us pack...we did try to remove them with hairspray but didnt work

the big bald patch of dirt grass that was left after we removed our rabbit hutch and run...

think thats it!!

Not telling you the kitchen roof leaked in heavy rain (in fairness I thought the surveyor would pick it up)
Leaving the very large very ugly plant in the hall.
Not telling you the garage door needed a twist and pus to open.
Painting a lovely Mickey mouse mural on the wall of DSs bedroom.
Failing to Notice the large scrape the movers left on the wood floors as they moved the sofa out..
Karma bit us in this house though two moves later.. they took the light bulbs and every light fitting.. first night in the house lamps and candles.. Everything that wasn't nailed in gone... even the kitchen

I've never left a house/flat in a state and not hidden anything untoward. However, I did sell 2 sofas to a buyer because I couldn't get them back out of my flat - they'd had to be winched up and windows removed to get them in.

nothing at all you pair of thieves

I'm actually starting to wonder what is under the huge rug in the kitchen of the house we're buying. It is odd to have a rug in the kitchen isn't it?

And I've been around a few times and the vendor always stands on that rug...

For the cold.

Or more specifically, for running a million electric heaters before each viewing, then hiding them before everyone arrived, so our freezing cold barn of a house must've seemed lovely and toasty.

G'wan, tell us the story SPB.

for leaving a slightly manky carpet that DS had vomited on at least twice and it never quite recovered. But as they've rebuilt the whole back of house, I suspect it isn't there anymore anyway.

I just want to apologise for the pink bathroom. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

NoseyNooNoo - will you be going around again at all? Just say "What's the floor like under the rug?" and whip it up.

We couldn't afford to change the kitchen in one house so we filled in the recessed handles and painted the doors and drawer fronts, then put on lovely long brushed steel handles. It was only afterwards that we realised that we couldn't properly open the corner drawers because the handles got in the way. [dim emoticon] We never mentioned it to the buyer and she never noticed. I wonder when she realised.

For not telling you there was a big gap in the laminate floor under the desk in the study as we ran short !!

For telling you the area was lovely even though we were burgaled a few weeks after you viewed the house

Dont feel bad (not that you are!) this makes up for the fact that when we sold our flat (newly decorated etc) to a young couple who were buying their 1st house together they turned out to be a pair of twats.

I left them a bottle of champagne, take out leaflets, 2 glasses (for champagne), teabags, coffee, milk, biscuits and loo roll and a new home card.

They returned the favour by trying to get us to place the wardrobe doors on the fitted wardrobe (which were broken when WE moved in) and replace the entire cooker because a button was melted (again by people BEFORE us). Oh and they didnt keep any mail for us.

So actually I apologise for thinking you were decent human beings rather than rip off merchants who caused us weeks of bloody stress!

glossing over the noisy 6 am deliveries to the bakery downstairs, claiming that the lunchtime school kid crowd was far more disturbing

Bran - we should go round again shouldn't we. We're about to exchange though.

It's laminate anyway - it would be on my list of early changes.

Waitingforbedtime - what nasty pieces of work. When I sold my first flat I had the bottle of wine ready and sweet note for buyer. I was actually moving out on the day of exchange and at 4.45pm they tried to pull a fast one - so the champagne and letter didn't get left behind!

If you're going to change it anyway then it's not a big issue. If the vendor is standing on it then at least it's solid, it's not as though there is a hole there. It's probably just some water damage or a gouge.