[Misc] Moving out of a house - fixtures and fittings

[sams dad]

The simple answer is that before you completed you would have filled in a fixtures and fittings list via your solicitor. Everything you put on that list as staying should stay, anything not on that listed should be removed. As it's a legal document the buyer 'technically' can make subsequent claims against you for loss of things removed that you said were staying and the cost of removing and repair for things you said aren't staying but were left. I say 'technically' because I doubt that any buyers bother with such claims in reality.

Is the correct answer.

 

[Wardy's twin]

That, and selling hundreds of millions of records...

there are quite a few people who earn a lot of money and then loose it , look after the light bulbs and the pounds will count themselves...

 

[BN9 BHA]

This thread reminds me of a story I heard from a London agent who sold a property belong to Sting a few years ago , the house sold for £6.5 million in London and when the new owners moved in they found all the lightbulbs had been taken from every room . Reliably told that Trudy told her moving company to take them all down and the removal company were too scared to question her .

Put on the red light...... oh hang on

 

[Live by the sea]

I’m sure the solicitors will be delighted to add £160 to their invoice, for sending a three line e-mail about a £20 TV bracket.

Take it down, or leave it. Either will be fine.

Lol i understand where you are coming from but most decent conveyancing solicitors include these types of e mails on their initial quotes . Certainly they should .

 

[Madafwo]

To be fair I'm taking the light bulbs when I go, spent a load of money changing them all for Hue ones so I'm not leaving those behind.

 

[neilbard]

Hi all. I have googled this but it doesn't bring up anything as useful as real humans responding on NSC.

I'm moving house soon and want to make sure the buyers find it the way they expect to. All shelves etc are staying up, but there's a big TV bracket currently up.

Do I:

a) Leave it up - I'm not planning on mounting the TV in the new place and the buyers may use it?

b) Take it down (leaving quite big holes in the wall)?

c) Take it down and polyfil the said holes?

There's nothing in the contract and I don't really want to get into a discussion with the buyers about it.

Cheers all!

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Jesus, if that's all you have to worry about you're a very luck human being.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Jesus, if that's all you have to worry about you're a very luck human being.

What a strange reply. Who said I was worried about it? Asking a bit of advice from a source I know will be helpful.

If you want to know the main thing I'm worried about, it's my seriously ill elderly father in Ireland that I can't go and visit due to Covid. But I still need to get this done properly in the meantime.

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[neilbard]

What a strange reply. Who said I was worried about it? Asking a bit of advice from a source I know will be helpful.

If you want to know the main thing I'm worried about, it's my seriously ill elderly father in Ireland that I can't go and visit due to Covid. But I still need to get this done properly in the meantime.

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Sorry to hear about your dad mate, but you clearly are worried about it because your asking for advice of NSC.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Moved in 18 months ago and had a hole in the wall with a football in it. Leave the bracket

 

[dazzer6666]

Moved in 18 months ago and had a hole in the wall with a football in it. Leave the bracket

Ulloa’s penalty finally landed ?

 

[raymondo]

Ask the buyers what they prefer

 

[Bodian]

Leave them the telly - they won't notice the bracket.

When I moved into my current house, first thing we had to do was pop down the hardware store as they'd taken all the light bulbs. And the dog grate, which I was even more annoyed about. And the door bell of all things!

 

[maffew]

So I see someone mid sale has had a piece on done on their wall by Banksy. Thats an interesting problem to have! Leave it up? Take it down? Sell as before?

 

[spongy]

So I see someone mid sale has had a piece on done on their wall by Banksy. Thats an interesting problem to have! Leave it up? Take it down? Sell as before?

If you take a Banksy down without his consent its worthless. Dont know what that will do the valuation of the property though.....

 

[wellquickwoody]

Can’t give you an answer to that one but your thread has reminded me of a story on one of Danny Baker’s radio shows about Ian St John and moving house.

A caller rang in to say his parents bought a house off him and when they got to moving day they found he’d taken the skirting boards and light bulbs with him!

So on that basis I say take it, take it all. Rip up floor tiles etc. Fill your boots.

My best mate, RIP, moved Jimmy Melia back in the day, he also took the light bulbs with him!

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

Absolutely not - do not get involved in these types of discussions with your buyer - it often leads to trouble . Leave all communication to solicitors .

You get your solicitor to ask them.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

I'd just leave it.

There is enough to do when moving out, why give yourself another job ?

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Can’t give you an answer to that one but your thread has reminded me of a story on one of Danny Baker’s radio shows about Ian St John and moving house.

A caller rang in to say his parents bought a house off him and when they got to moving day they found he’d taken the skirting boards and light bulbs with him!

So on that basis I say take it, take it all. Rip up floor tiles etc. Fill your boots.

That's weird. A friend of mine bought St John's house from the people who bought it from him. One strange thing was that in skirting board, there was a little hidden safe left by him. Neither the previous owners nor my friend have managed to open it.

 

[zefarelly]

When I sold my old cottage in 2003 the buyer had been such a right royal pain in the arse we removed all the lightbulbs, and a few other bits and bobs. nothing illegal, just enough to piss him off and make his day as awkward as possible, turned off the water, gas, drained the heating down ( just in case ;-) )

I had a drink with the estate agent afterwards, we both agreed he was a complete c**t

 

[mr sheen]

I have also just bought a house with a locked safe left in it. Not a little hidden one, big ****er that would need craning put the loft. **** knows how it got up there.