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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glass shelves in the bathrooms (from Restoration Hardware), the lamp post from the front yard, [b]ALL of the paint (which was stacked in the basement every time we were in the house, including the walk-through[/b]...a huge pain because there were so many different colors in the house and we could have used the paint for touch ups...ended up having to paint the entire house due to damage when previous owners removed things from the walls). [/quote]

We had the opposite when I sold our last house.  There was a closet in one room (the old converted garage) where I had neatly stacked all of the paint that we used in the house.  I had labeled everything.  I also left wallpaper remnants.  I left carpet fragment remnants from when we had the carpet replaced just a week before listing.  We had redone bathrooms and there were leftover tiles for the bathroom.  Extra pieces of the hardwood that was replaced a week before listing.  All there, all nicely labeled which room.

The wife did the walk-through that morning and came to closing livid telling me that I had left a closet full of junk.  I explained with the closer, and realtors there that these were the paint, wallpaper, and flooring remnants for all of the materials in the house in case they needed to patch or repair.  She sneered and very pointedly told me that if I didn't come and remove those immediately after closing that she would not close; and her husband agreed with her.  The realtors tried to convince her that she wanted those things.  She said she absolutely didn't want those and didn't want to clean after me (we had professional cleaners clean before the walk-through).  If I didn't agree to remove all those things immediately after closing, she wouldn't sign.  So, after closing, we drove back to the house, I removed all those things and took them to a dumpster (except the paint which took me 6 months before I managed to dispose of it).
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Maybe she wanted to repaint with her color scheme and didn’t want to deal with disposing all the paint you left. [/quote]

yeah. That was my idea. But that could have just been explained nicely.[/quote]

I'm the PP who told the story.  Yeah, she could have said she wanted to repaint.  But she also called the brand new carpet fragments and the extra hardwood boards (brand new) junk and wanted me to take those away.  We got a floating floor so that individual planks could be replaced if damaged.  I'm not sure she would consider those planks to be "junk" if she dropped something heavy on one and broke it and no longer had the replacement planks that she told me to throw away.  Or the brand new bathroom tiles.  But hey, if she wanted to spend an additional $10-20K on flooring that had just been replaced, it's not my problem.  I dutifully threw it away.  But the two realtors agreed with me that she was nuts.  The good thing is after I threw the supplies away, I never had to deal with her again.[/quote]

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