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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It its a fixture attached to a wall (closet fixtures, wall sconces, towel bars, curtain rods)  it goes with the house unless you exempted it in the contract. That's real estate law. If you take stuff like this you risk negating the sale. [/quote]

DC law? Or NOVA law?

Drapes are not attached to the walls. The rods are but drapes are not.[/quote]

NP. With rods--they often are bought to match the owner's taste. Posters here all seem to assume rods and blinds are plain and generic (and cheap enough to just leave behind without caring). Do people really want some previous owner's rod with fancy glass finials or "wrought iron" designs on the ends or whatever if you're only going to replace those quickly? Our living room rods are wooden and inexpensive but match other pieces of our furniture and yeah, I'd want them. They're not some bare-bones generic metal rod. If we sold the house I guess I'd have to stipulate that curtain rods don't convey. Blinds can stay if you mean basic white mini-blinds. But do you really want my specific, colored, pricey honeycomb blinds that match the paint in the bedroom that you'll probably change? I would stipulate that those won't convey either because guess what, they can be altered to fit my new windows. If you said you need blinds in the contract, I'd tell you I will install the plain ones (and they'll be the most basic Home Depot blinds) for you so you have something in the windows, but my pricier color blinds will come with me if I plan to use similar colors in my new house.

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Our closet organizers are fixed with a few screws.  Same with rods.  Its not something permanent.  A toilet, yes, a curtain rod, no.[/quote]

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