Sold house, buyer wants appliances...

robj20 said:
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.
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People owe bills, property doesn't tend to (there may be exceptions, but I can't think of one right now). The previous owners should still be liable for unpaid bills up to the date of completion.

Of course you may need to go to some legwork to convince the collecting company of this, as they don't really care who pays the bill so long as someone does, but legally it's nothing to do with you.
 
Well I just got the paperwork through to state what the folk are leaving and its pretty much everything apart from some really odd looking 1970`s lights. Fridge, washing machine, beds, wardrobes the lot.

Nothing so queer as folk.
 
Uther said:
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.
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If you're selling it as an executor... why did you buy new appliances in the first place? Seems a bit silly considering you're now trying to flog them for probably less than they're worth as scrap.
 
MichaelAwkward said:
If you're selling it as an executor... why did you buy new appliances in the first place? Seems a bit silly considering you're now trying to flog them for probably less than they're worth as scrap.
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Who said the OP bought them? That would actually explain why he's asking for so little as he probably didn't buy them in the first place.
 
Oh, I assumed from the OP that "nearly new" implied you bought them. Either way it's still silly to basically give them away, especially after telling the estate agent that they'd be extra (I assume more than £100...).
 
Hmm an offer isn't binding, nor is accepting it from my understanding. Exchanging contracts is binding.

If you've advertised it and they've only just now asked if the appliances are in the price then it's quite acceptable for you to price up the appliances or say that the appliances are not being left.
 
robj20 said:
Cant do that either, the energy report you get now states what bulbs are fitted, as does the item included list.
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The EPC report is actually valid for 10 years so you could in theory sell using a report you had done 9 years ago and the bulbs could be long gone since then.
 
You were lucky with gnomes - when we put a spade in garden of our first house all we got was dog poo - they did have seven great Danes and bull dog - They were also filthy - all along fire surround was burnt out stub ends - the walls were black up to four foot and all 13 amp sockets were on top of door frames - we did double our money in 4 years though. :)
 
SPG said:
I bought a house years ago and the ex owner took everything, carpets, curtain rails, light fittings, plug sockets, light sockets, loft hatch and a internal door !

He was a very strange man, found a load of gnomes buried in the back garden when we started digging that up.
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I did some work on my garden, found some wine in a bottle in the old shed he had built himself. Opened it our of curiosity. I have never witnessed anything so foul.

Continued behind the shed to level the big hump of ground, a bin was found beneath the soil and rubble. I opened it to find cow manure, imagine the stench of that after a few years contained in a bin and buried.
 
Jeez, three new-ish appliances for £100 and they're arguing? OP, they are your possessions and are worth vastly more than £33 each. You've given them a very good deal and they should be snapping your hand off for them at that price.
 
To be honest I would have asked for £1k and then bargained to about £350-500. Given the prices of fitting a kitchen out, appliances for £100 is a bargain, I just sold my 5yr old Indesit electric oven on gumtree for £50 within 8hrs of putting the ad up! The lad even paid an extra £20 for the job and extractor he didn't even want!......
 
It will cost you hell of a lot more than £100 to replace them if they are nearly new (sounds too cheap to me) Like someone says - they are worth more to you than them (Wanting them for nothing indeed!)
 
robj20 said:
Cant do that either, the energy report you get now states what bulbs are fitted, as does the item included list.
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Just swap out the bulbs for cheap ones when you get the inspection done? I wouldn't be happy leaving £2-300 worth of led bulbs for the buyer's benefit either... (and having the expense of having to buy all new ones for the new house)
 
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