Sold house, buyer wants appliances...

[Shoza]

If it is integrated then it will form part of the sale price otherwise it's covered by the fittings & contents form and a price can be negotiated.

Carpets and curtain rails are usually where the biggest arguments happen. I'd rarely accept having to pay for carpets but have paid for curtains before although again i'd not really accept paying for cutain rails/hooks.

 

[joelk2]

my neighbours removed the light bulbs when they sold their house lol

As for your buyer, no these do not come with the house. In Holland they even remove the laminate flooring and light sockets but then that is normal over there and the buyer negotiates if they want to keep them.

i believe they cannot do this. i know from reading all the stuff with my sale i had to ensure there was a ceiling rose + bulb in all lights

 

[Kimi]

You can replace your light fittings with anything you want. Surely youve got to leave a bulb tho lol. When i move im taking all my LED GU10s with me, ill replace with standard halogens.

 

[Raymond Lin]

i believe they cannot do this. i know from reading all the stuff with my sale i had to ensure there was a ceiling rose + bulb in all lights

Despite it being in the schedule and annoying as it is, a light bulb is hardly reasons enough for an argument after you got the house.

I'll be likely to replace all mine with low energy ones anyway.

 

[Maccapacca]

this is the first house I have sold

I'm going to make some assumptions. Being the first house you have sold it's the first house you bought. You were a first time buyer. The house is a typical FTB house. The buyer is a FTB. They are probably stretched financially and thinking they will have to spend £500 on appliances is one step to far.

Maybe, maybe not.

 

[Steampunk]

There have been court cases, because you seen/been sold a house with certain fittings, but when you get the keys and find the kitchen/fireplaces/bathroom have been stripped out, that's basically a bait and switch, and could cost thousands and a lot of hassle to put right.

There was one where the seller stripped the plants from the garden, and was successfully sued as the buyer liked the house because of the nice garden, was sold the house with the garden, and arrived to find it gone.

 

[OracIe]

When we moved in they took the light bulbs! (In 2010) - but strangely left us a card saying good luck in your new home!

 

[tom_e]

When we moved in they took the light bulbs! (In 2010) - but strangely left us a card saying good luck in your new home!

What they meant was "Muahahaha, good luck not falling over in the dark!!"

 

[Rids]

When we moved in they took the light bulbs! (In 2010) - but strangely left us a card saying good luck in your new home!

When a friend of mine sold his place he switched out all the energy saving bulbs for cheaper ones to take to his new place.

 

[llamadal]

my neighbours removed the light bulbs when they sold their house lol

As for your buyer, no these do not come with the house. In Holland they even remove the laminate flooring and light sockets but then that is normal over there and the buyer negotiates if they want to keep them.

same in Germany, quite common to take the entire kitchen with them!

 

[robj20]

When a friend of mine sold his place he switched out all the energy saving bulbs for cheaper ones to take to his new place.

Cant do that either, the energy report you get now states what bulbs are fitted, as does the item included list.

 

[dr_volki]

same in Germany, quite common to take the entire kitchen with them!

germans don't often have an "einbaukueche" don't know the English name
guessing it would be a "fitted kitchen".

 

[Randomface74]

Tell them the price goes up £100 per day until they agree. They'll agree on the spot, problem solved.

 

[EddScott]

Not here. House has been on the market for 3 weeks and not 1 viewing yet (admittedly the estate agents seem useless at their job)

Depends a lot on where you are.

I'm in West Wales and small £100-150K houses tend not to hang about. £250K+ houses take forever as there isn't the income locally to support the mortgages.

Plus with the refineries closing, this has actually had a negative impact on house prices. I paid £180K for my house 2 years ago and only got £190K from a surveyor (who was being generous as we knew each other) when I remortgaged.

When I moved into this house I did a deal with the sellers on most of the furniture and the appliances. The final price was a bit more than we originally agreed but wasn't enough to be worth complaining.

 

[Uther]

I'm going to make some assumptions. Being the first house you have sold it's the first house you bought. You were a first time buyer. The house is a typical FTB house. The buyer is a FTB. They are probably stretched financially and thinking they will have to spend £500 on appliances is one step to far.

Maybe, maybe not.

Nope, selling it as an executor, it's a 250k detached house. I offered all three appliances (fridge,freezer,washing machine) for £100. More than reasonable I thought.

 

[joelk2]

man i wish i could get a 250k mortgage

194k for me/the mrs combined. on 45k combined income (wife only part time) does that sound right?

 

[nightwish]

Why should buying a house be anything but a normal transaction. We even argued that we wanted the current years land charge paying £5.

A normal transaction? That's the equivalent of arguing over a penny on the price of your takeaway pizza. I'd tell you to stop wasting my time and unless I was desperate myself, I'd be tempted not to sell to you on principle tbh.

 

[robj20]

A normal transaction? That's the equivalent of arguing over a penny on the price of your takeaway pizza. I'd tell you to stop wasting my time and unless I was desperate myself, I'd be tempted not to sell to you on principle tbh.

Good for you. Yet 99% of all shops/takeaway would demand that 1p. Why should i offer free money when spending so much. Your principle then what percentage are you willing to give away free? At what point is it too much, when i buy a 100k house would giving them an extra 1k be too much?

 

[nightwish]

Good for you. Yet 99% of all shops/takeaway would demand that 1p. Why should i offer free money when spending so much. Your principle then what percentage are you willing to give away free? At what point is it too much, when i buy a 100k house would giving them an extra 1k be too much?

A house doesn't have a fixed price - only what the buyer and seller agree to. You're not offering free money and I'm not giving anything away for free - two parties are trying to come to an mutually beneficial agreement. That agreement is under threat if either party starts taking the mickey.

 

[robj20]

I agreed a price, then a month later it turns out they haven't paid bills that were due, why should i pay them for them.