Surprise! What did the seller take with them that you expected would stay with the house?
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Walked away from a house we were due to close on within an hour, after we realized that the seller has switched the stainless kitchen appliances with appliances that didn't match the kitchen color scheme. Our contract stipulated that all stainless steel appliances were to convey as well as other items within the house.
Imagine his surprise and that of his wife, when we sat down at closing and told them the deal was off due to the breach of contract. The sellers were closing on this house on Friday after having closed on their new house the day before. The wife was livid, calling us all the names in the book, and screaming that we were out to ruin their life. She claimed she didn't know that the items were removed from the house, but was willing to have them returned that afternoon. We kindly declined and kept walking. Our agent provided the list of items that were missing. Turns out we only saw the missing kitchen appliances before calling breach of contract and walking away from the deal. Our agent insisted that we go to closing to confront the sellers personally as our agent had compiled a comprehensive list of all the items that had been removed that should have conveyed; - Central vacuum main unit - Toto bathroom fixtures - swapped the hardwood interior doors for hollow builders grade junk and flimsy hardware - removed the plantation shutters - removed washer and dryer Within a week of this debacle, our agent found us a much nicer house with a retired couple that was a joy to deal with. |
Anonymous
| Good for you pp! The sellers sounded awful. |
Anonymous
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Our sellers left the Elfa.
Previous house, I'm fairly certain the seller swapped out their dishwasher with a bad one that we noticed wasn't working on the second wash. Irrelevant now since it was years ago, but just curious if anyone knows - is there any recourse when a seller does this? |
Anonymous
| No recourse, be thankful that seller's are willing to entertain your offer in this seller's market |
Anonymous
If it worked the first wash probably nothing you could have done since things break all the time. If it wasn't working from the get go then yes you would have had recourse. At the time of move in/closing everything needs to be operational condition unless it was previously disclosed. |
Anonymous
Are you the one who has been commenting on every thread bashing all buyers? Sellers have to disclose if things are not working properly. If it broke afterward then that is a different story. If it was already broken than it was the seller's responsibility. |
Anonymous
I don't leave toilet paper. I leave wine though. |
Anonymous
| Mirrors in all the bathrooms. And the ones that were there originally weren't exactly anything nice. |
Anonymous
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God ppl are such jerks.
Even though we moved to another state, I later shipped manuals, water filters, etc even though it wasn't asked for. |
Anonymous
Poor baby. I feel so bad for him. |
Anonymous
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Our seller swapped out the stove for a Craigslist 1970s special. I couldn't prove it because we had looked at so many houses, and there weren't pictures of the original stove.
Later I found the manual for the stove they took. |
Anonymous
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I bought one house and it was stuff he left that surprised me.
He left fridge full of food and food in the kitchen cabinets. The other thing he did not leave me was alarm code. In fact he did not tell me it had an active alarm. My wife set it off after four months living there and cops came. OMG the nut had a siren in the unfinished attic that was blaring like crazy. He had a battery back up so I killed power kept going. Finally a volunteer fireman got it to go off. He actually had a dummy box and a real box so when we first cut wires was for dummy box. He also had it wired to keep calling 911 and Firedept from a phone line he had that ran from attic right to telephone pole. So if you cut phone line it also kept going as had its own line. The whole neighborhood was out front, and cops, firetrucks and ambulances. Turns out he disconnected it for the doors windows but did not disconnect for the one smoke detector attached and when my wife burnt something BOOM> The food I got nothing for from the small amount I had in Escrow. We filled up three garbage bags and put to curb. Lawyer was like you know I can only ask for the cost of three garbage bags. So that was weird but no big deal. |
Anonymous
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What is wrong with leaving the cat?
My house for sale I have a stray cat that showed up two years ago. It wont leave my yard and sleeps there. I stopped feeding it for a few months and it still sleeps here. I called animal control but it is a "catch and release" cat. Meaning it was caught neutered, ear clipped to show neutered and released back as stray not adoptable. So shelter does not want it. Cat will not let me touch it and will always stay a few feet from any human. My wife started feeling bad for cat and only if we have leftovers, food being thrown out, steak bones, pieces of chicken, freezer burnt food does she feed him or her. Hey I cant take it with me. New owner can feed it, ignore it, or trap it and release it. BTW the cat is cute, the kids call it mittens as all black with four white paws. Not a scary cat at all. |
Anonymous
A clip ear cat is different. He's a noted stray, and it would be nice to mention that to the new owners. Giving your house cat to the neighbors or otherwise leaving him/her behind is cruel. |
Anonymous
| Noted stray would be helpfu I’m keeping mice and rats away too. |