Surprise! What did the seller take with them that you expected would stay with the house?

[Anonymous]

I have never taken elfa with me. That sounds crazy.

[Anonymous]

we had a family in our mclean neighborhoo leave and move into a multi-million dollar brand new mansion in mclean.

They dug up all the shrubs in front of the house to transplant to their mansion in mclean. what the f'ck? new neighbors were shocked, just couldn't believe it. We couldn't believe it either, who digs up all the shrubs in the front yard when they move? they struck it rich in the 2000 tech stock runup. yet they were so cheap to stiff someone over shrubs.

and they did it in the nighttime, shrubs were gone one morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we had a family in our mclean neighborhoo leave and move into a multi-million dollar brand new mansion in mclean.

They dug up all the shrubs in front of the house to transplant to their mansion in mclean. what the f'ck? new neighbors were shocked, just couldn't believe it. We couldn't believe it either, who digs up all the shrubs in the front yard when they move? they struck it rich in the 2000 tech stock runup. yet they were so cheap to stiff someone over shrubs.

and they did it in the nighttime, shrubs were gone one morning.

Have you ever imported shrubs? There's your answer. The purchase and delivery of live plants is expensive as fuck. Not to mention the fact that you literally have to wait for them grow to your desired maturity / height.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we had a family in our mclean neighborhoo leave and move into a multi-million dollar brand new mansion in mclean.

They dug up all the shrubs in front of the house to transplant to their mansion in mclean. what the f'ck? new neighbors were shocked, just couldn't believe it. We couldn't believe it either, who digs up all the shrubs in the front yard when they move? they struck it rich in the 2000 tech stock runup. yet they were so cheap to stiff someone over shrubs.

and they did it in the nighttime, shrubs were gone one morning.

Have you ever imported shrubs? There's your answer. The purchase and delivery of live plants is expensive as fuck. Not to mention the fact that you literally have to wait for them grow to your desired maturity / height.

Somebody who would dig up shrubs in the middle of the night knows darned well that they are being sneaky. No way is that o.k.

[Anonymous]

Digging up landscaping is crazy. I don't care if the shrubs are imported and the perfect height. Landscaping is part of the land.

[Anonymous]

Our house has a big LR in the basement. When we toured the house there was a built in bar on a wall, and they had a second stand up bar in front of that. It was a big clunky piece of furniture. They had a sign on the bar that said it didn't convey, which we thought was weird since it wasn't built in... Ok, we thought, we don't want a 70s era bar in our basement anyway.

Well. They had ODDLY carpeted around the damn thing. Why would you do that when it was a piece of furniture essentially? So we had a giant (like 6 feet by 3 feet maybe) section of the basement that was cement. Worst thing ever. We had no $ to carpet so for like 2 years we had it covered with a piece of rug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Digging up landscaping is crazy. I don't care if the shrubs are imported and the perfect height. Landscaping is part of the land.

Unless the shrubs were sentimental or a memorial of sort. But I would expect the seller to be up front about that.

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Anonymous wrote:People really take or swap light fixtures before closing?? As a buyer I would be pissed. Those are part of the features that were included when I decided on the house.

I would as I took a lot of time selecting them and we can reuse them. Its an easy DIY. I'd do it before we sold the house. Same with faucets and there stuff we want to keep.

As long as you did it before you sell/show the house I don't see any issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Digging up landscaping is crazy. I don't care if the shrubs are imported and the perfect height. Landscaping is part of the land.

Unless the shrubs were sentimental or a memorial of sort. But I would expect the seller to be up front about that.

Even then it would be up to you to clearly state that you were taking those shrubs with you and offer to replace or compensate.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from the light bulbs, I bet many of these are the fault of movers wrapping up EVERYTHING they see. I've had movers wrap trash (separately from the trash can), curtain rods AND toilet paper.

Which is not to say an owner can give better direction and management of the move, but if you aren't paying attention, they will box up anything that isn't a wall.

eh, the movers don't unscrew, unbolt and take down fixtures and rods. Nor do they unscrew lightbulbs. That was the owner or the agent, one of the two.

Um, why would an agent ever do this?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aside from the light bulbs, I bet many of these are the fault of movers wrapping up EVERYTHING they see. I've had movers wrap trash (separately from the trash can), curtain rods AND toilet paper.

Which is not to say an owner can give better direction and management of the move, but if you aren't paying attention, they will box up anything that isn't a wall.

eh, the movers don't unscrew, unbolt and take down fixtures and rods. Nor do they unscrew lightbulbs. That was the owner or the agent, one of the two.

Um, why would an agent ever do this?

I don't know. Why would a seller do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:blinds and curtains for every window in the house. They also took the silverware basket from the dishwasher, all of the fire alarms (they were there during our inspection) and all of the light bulbs.

This is crazy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting. It never occurred to me that we would take the Elfa closet fixtures if we sold.

Same here. When we bought our condo the Elfa was there, we assumed it would be and when we sold, the same thing. We had added to it over the years so there was some sunken cost. Never even thought to take it. I guess it technically would count as removable figure because other than the bar, the fixture is not attached to the wall, but taking a custom fit closet just seems odd and cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Digging up landscaping is crazy. I don't care if the shrubs are imported and the perfect height. Landscaping is part of the land.

And the transplanted shrubs probably didn't do very well being transplanted depending on time of year. Our neighbors rearranged lots of shrubs in their yard for "staging" (at least they didn't take them!) and the plants all died shortly after the new people moved in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our house has a big LR in the basement. When we toured the house there was a built in bar on a wall, and they had a second stand up bar in front of that. It was a big clunky piece of furniture. They had a sign on the bar that said it didn't convey, which we thought was weird since it wasn't built in... Ok, we thought, we don't want a 70s era bar in our basement anyway.

Well. They had ODDLY carpeted around the damn thing. Why would you do that when it was a piece of furniture essentially? So we had a giant (like 6 feet by 3 feet maybe) section of the basement that was cement. Worst thing ever. We had no $ to carpet so for like 2 years we had it covered with a piece of rug.

Ridiculous! I would try to get compensation to re-carpet.