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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So none of you had a walk thru before closing?

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[Anonymous]

Bathroom mirrors. Really annoyed but was too overwhelmed with moving and 3 kids under 3 to even put up a fight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So none of you had a walk thru before closing?

+1

I had a rent back after closing. And then after the rent back, the owners left EVERYTHING. It was such a mess. There was a full garage worth of junk, old fridges in the basement, 20+ gallons of old paint, mattresses in every room, several full sets of furniture (all their dining furniture, couches, office furniture). Sigh. We actually moved in the day after they moved out and didn't know what a disaster it was going to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So none of you had a walk thru before closing?

+1

I had a rent back after closing. And then after the rent back, the owners left EVERYTHING. It was such a mess. There was a full garage worth of junk, old fridges in the basement, 20+ gallons of old paint, mattresses in every room, several full sets of furniture (all their dining furniture, couches, office furniture). Sigh. We actually moved in the day after they moved out and didn't know what a disaster it was going to be.

1-800-got-junk and deduct the fee from the security deposit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So none of you had a walk thru before closing?

+1

I had a rent back after closing. And then after the rent back, the owners left EVERYTHING. It was such a mess. There was a full garage worth of junk, old fridges in the basement, 20+ gallons of old paint, mattresses in every room, several full sets of furniture (all their dining furniture, couches, office furniture). Sigh. We actually moved in the day after they moved out and didn't know what a disaster it was going to be.

No walk thru after they moved abd before you have them their security deposit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had just painted and I was planning on leaving a can of each color for touch ups. I was disposing of other old paint from the sellers before us and asked out agent if we should leave the newer cans. She said no and that all paint cans must be removed so we dumped it. One week before closing got a question from the buyers on what paint colors we used in case they needed to do touch ups. They would have liked to just have the cans. Oh well.

We left the Elfa because I didn't want an issue but I really, really wanted to take the drawers. We had rods already in the closets and would have left the attached rods and shelving.

Why on earth would Elfa convey?

We have no plans to sell, but when we do, you can bet I will take all the Elfa with me.

[Anonymous]

For everyone saying they would take their elfa because its expensive and not attached to the house, so are most refrigerators and other appliances - but people don't usually take those. Its one thing to remove the shelving and replace it with something less expensive but functional when you show the house, but its another to market the house with it installed and then remove it before closing (unless you have been up front about it in the list of conveyances). We sort of split the difference, we took out all the really expensive elfa components (drawers, sliding shoes racks etc) and left the more basic components before listing the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had just painted and I was planning on leaving a can of each color for touch ups. I was disposing of other old paint from the sellers before us and asked out agent if we should leave the newer cans. She said no and that all paint cans must be removed so we dumped it. One week before closing got a question from the buyers on what paint colors we used in case they needed to do touch ups. They would have liked to just have the cans. Oh well.

We left the Elfa because I didn't want an issue but I really, really wanted to take the drawers. We had rods already in the closets and would have left the attached rods and shelving.

Why on earth would Elfa convey?

We have no plans to sell, but when we do, you can bet I will take all the Elfa with me.

You're going to leave bare closets with holes in the walls?! Closet systems convey. You'd better write in your listing that Elfa doesn't convey. I wouldn't go to closing if I went on a walk through and all the Elfa was gone. That could easily be 10k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So none of you had a walk thru before closing?

+1

+1 Over the years, we've bought 7 homes. We've never experienced a previous owner unexpectedly taking anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had just painted and I was planning on leaving a can of each color for touch ups. I was disposing of other old paint from the sellers before us and asked out agent if we should leave the newer cans. She said no and that all paint cans must be removed so we dumped it. One week before closing got a question from the buyers on what paint colors we used in case they needed to do touch ups. They would have liked to just have the cans. Oh well.

We left the Elfa because I didn't want an issue but I really, really wanted to take the drawers. We had rods already in the closets and would have left the attached rods and shelving.

Why on earth would Elfa convey?

We have no plans to sell, but when we do, you can bet I will take all the Elfa with me.

You're going to leave bare closets with holes in the walls?! Closet systems convey. You'd better write in your listing that Elfa doesn't convey. I wouldn't go to closing if I went on a walk through and all the Elfa was gone. That could easily be 10k.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Unreal. They were dishonest and thieves, and I think you're very fortunate to not have closed because possibly problem issues were not disclosed by them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They had marked a bar (was not original to house) to take. I thought it odd as it looked like a piece of furniture so why would they not take it?

Well found out why. They had carpeted (wall-to-wall) around it! So when it was removed there was a giant rectangle of cement, middle of the damn room. Who does that??!

So sorry!! That's unreal.

[Anonymous]

We were buying from afar and had to trust our realtor for the walk through. Big mistake.

Probably the weirdest thing they took was the beat up old mailbox with this house number on it. Why??

[Anonymous]

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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.

I have some plants that were my moms, that I transplanted from her garden when she passed away.

I would dig them up and take them with me If I were to sell, but ai would let the buyers know before the sale.

My sister had just purchased a very large lilac bush for a good chunk of change the year before they listed their house for sale. She specifically put in the listing documentation that the lilac bush did not convey (but all the rest of the landscaping did and there really was a ton of it). Apparently the people they sold to were still mad that the bush was removed and tried to make it an issue at closing, even though it was right there in the documentation that it did not convey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had just painted and I was planning on leaving a can of each color for touch ups. I was disposing of other old paint from the sellers before us and asked out agent if we should leave the newer cans. She said no and that all paint cans must be removed so we dumped it. One week before closing got a question from the buyers on what paint colors we used in case they needed to do touch ups. They would have liked to just have the cans. Oh well.

We left the Elfa because I didn't want an issue but I really, really wanted to take the drawers. We had rods already in the closets and would have left the attached rods and shelving.

Why on earth would Elfa convey?

We have no plans to sell, but when we do, you can bet I will take all the Elfa with me.

I left the elfa because it was sized for that closet and because it was a selling feature. At a minimum, you would need to take the Elfa down and put up something else BEFORE marketing the house to not be a jerk.