Bought a house, filthy stuff left in loft

Haggisman said:
The woman we bought our house from did this.

Well, actually she didn't. Cheeky cow turned up half way through us unpacking and asked for it back as she'd accidentally left it in the fridge :mad:
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Should have cracked it open already, and said you thought it was a gift.

Besides, unless she moved 3 doors down, who drives the X miles and wastes the ££ in fuel to get a £15 bottle of champers back.
 
Semple said:
Should have cracked it open already, and said you thought it was a gift.

Besides, unless she moved 3 doors down, who drives the X miles and wastes the ££ in fuel to get a £15 bottle of champers back.
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It was a pretty nice bottle tbh, more like £50-60, and she had only moved a couple of miles away, but yeah, still a bit of a **** thing to do! We were still on a high from getting the keys to our first place though, so just ended up giving it back. :o
 
Mate of mine moved years ago and apparently most the furniture was left (not wanted) including a wardrobe full of clothes. The house had belonged to an old couple, he had passed away and the wife (a few years later) had decided to sell up and move closer to family / smaller house etc.

Apparently it was 'a bit of a dump' inside but a nice house in a nice area. Day 1 the skips started and they started to strip the house top to bottom. Curtains, carpets, furniture, white goods, the lot.

They couldn't being themselves to skip the clothes so bagged them up and a charity shop took them. Several weeks later - strip out and deep clean almost complete my mate was painting upstairs, turned round to see the little old dear behind him ...

"Oooh, you haven't hung about have you! I've just come for the rest of my clothes I left in the wardrobe ".....

:D:cry:
 
{SAS}TB said:
Mate of mine moved years ago and apparently most the furniture was left (not wanted) including a wardrobe full of clothes. The house had belonged to an old couple, he had passed away and the wife (a few years later) had decided to sell up and move closer to family / smaller house etc.

Apparently it was 'a bit of a dump' inside but a nice house in a nice area. Day 1 the skips started and they started to strip the house top to bottom. Curtains, carpets, furniture, white goods, the lot.

They couldn't being themselves to skip the clothes so bagged them up and a charity shop took them. Several weeks later - strip out and deep clean almost complete my mate was painting upstairs, turned round to see the little old dear behind him ...

"Oooh, you haven't hung about have you! I've just come for the rest of my clothes I left in the wardrobe ".....

:D:cry:
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Oh my, really want to know what her reaction was to what had happened to them!
 
Maccapacca said:
It’s probably more normal not to leave a house sparkling.

Our house was disgusting, cat hair everywhere, looked like it had never been hoovered in some rooms. Odds and sods in the loft. Garden a mess etc.[/USER]
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Rroff said:
Sometimes you massively underestimate how long it will take and run out of time - my last move we only got half the cleaning done we'd intended before we had to vacate though it was generally clean and tidy anyhow so not too bad.

A previous move my mum was rushing around last minute still trying to clean everything to perfection and we had to drag her out saying she couldn't leave it in that state - by that point the house wasn't even hers any more.
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OK, I accept that 'sparkling' probably isn't normal but then neither is 'absolute **** hole'. It was clear when we moved in that the previous occupants hadn't done any cleaning since they accepted our offer — so however many months the conveyancing took. Not only that, they appeared to have made an effort to vandalise anything that they hadn't take with them, and they left a lot of their **** as well.

Haggisman said:
The woman we bought our house from did this.

Well, actually she didn't. Cheeky cow turned up half way through us unpacking and asked for it back as she'd accidentally left it in the fridge :mad:
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That is both hilarious and a bit sad. I hope you bought/had a spare so you could still celebrate. :D

{SAS}TB said:
"Oooh, you haven't hung about have you! I've just come for the rest of my clothes I left in the wardrobe ".....:D:cry:
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Christ.

A mate of mine bought a house and the previous owner was a proper hoarder — like something you'd see on a TV program. The property had a number of garden sheds/outbuildings (all full of stuff) along with the loft and pretty much every other nook and cranny. My mate was far more forgiving than I would have been, he kept it all and let the old boy come back every so often to collect more stuff. The only thing was, the guy had a very old Renault 5 (or similar) so each trip he only took a handful of stuff at a time. My mate has since sold the place but that was the only reason the guy finally finished clearing it all out!
 
I also thought this was a thread about sex toys left in the loft so that's disappointing.
Honestly that's pretty tame...most UK lofts have general *** dating back decades. I found newspapers from the 70s in one of my old houses lofts.
 
Our seller left a piano as well as loads of crap in the attic as well. House needed loads of work doing to it any ways so tat went into the 6 skips we had in the end and managed to sell the piano for £150 but it was a pain to get out the house.
 
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