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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine is a flip...something I left but was ordered to take.

When I sold my house, I picked one storage closet and I carefully labelled and left a lot of odds and ends.  The paint cans for all of the paint used in the house, so that someone could touch up or repaint areas that needed resurfacing.  I know that many people will change colors, but sometimes it's not in the cards to do it right away and you might want to touch up an area until you get around to repainting.  There were a few areas that had some wallpaper.  I left the remainder of the wallpaper for the same reason.  I left unused hardware for things installed in the house, that could be used for simple basic repairs if needed.  I left some carpet remnants for the new carpeting that had been installed after we moved out.  Etc.

The buyers came in and the wife was LIVID.  She called me actually angry and told me I had left a closetful of junk in the house and that I needed to come over that day to remove the junk.  I explained what this was, things to repair and touch up things in the house until they were replaced.  She told me that she didn't want any of that trash and that I did not do a good job cleaning and that she was going to try and charge me a cleaning fee (we had already closed, so this was not going to happen).

I finally figured the best thing to do was just to appease her.  I took a big box, went to the house (we had only moved 2 miles away) and I tossed everything that I had carefully labelled and stored in the box and put it out to the curb.  I sent a text to the husband to let him know that I had done as his wife instructed.  I went by there the next day and noticed that the box was gone (but trash pickup was still 2 days away).  I assume that the husband realized that he was going to need this stuff and found someplace for the stuff.[/quote]

You can assume that they're not going to put paint out with the regular trash. [/quote]

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