Or they had a buyer for the front door, the gates, and anything else they did take, or wanted to take. I bet your local craigslist, or FB buy/sell page would be interesting.
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Where do screw eyes fit in? Fixtures you leave, or items you take with you? I’ve only moved barns once, and took them with me. The only screw eyes left in the barn I moved into were the ones that won’t budge.
if attached to the structure it a fixed thus a fixture, … if you have a rug screwed to the floor it is a fixture and part of the structure if it just thrown on the floor it is furniture… that was what I taught in commercial law classes
Usually the most common item that was once taken was a classy chandler that was either in a formal dinning room (do they still put those in houses today?) or entrance hall…where a beautiful cut glass chandler was when the house was viewed ends up with a trashy Big Box Store thing hanging there at closing.
So we were always told if it is something the seller wants to keep and is attached or Appears to Be Attached to specifically list those items as not included in the sell
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I go further when advising friends who are selling. I tell them if there is something like a chandelier, or a front door, or anything else that is permanent, but they want to take, then swap it out before the listing hits, and pictures are taken. That way you don’t get a buyer who wants something that you are in love with, and it becomes a negotiating point.
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I loved reading this thread, only because I had such a crazy experience selling my house and renting back for two weeks and I thought it was just me. Good luck and glad it sounds like it’s over.
After I moved out the new owners tried to keep my entire security deposit. Over a small sheet rock hole in the garage that was there the whole time and a piece of dog poop I didn’t see in the yard. I got a 5 page letter telling me I was a disgustingly dirty pig along with a picture of a piece of dog poop…Whew. And they needed a 10 hour cleaning crew. I never once didn’t get a security deposit back from renting. I was so angry I stalled and argued for months. I finally had to get over it, we split the security deposit. It was a large amount. People are nuts sometimes!
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Wasn’t there just a thread about someone moving with rose bushes, and a whole slew of posts regarding whether they even could? Which wasn’t the point of the thread, but… Someone who takes large bushes? Who does that? I do however have apple trees in POTS for this very reason; when and if I move, the great movable orchard comes with :lol: Next year will be peach and probably cherry trees, also on dwarf stock and also in pots. I will specifically rent a uHaul for my trees alone :lol:
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The seller of the house I am currently in took a rose bush because she buried her dog under it. Left the dog carcass, though.
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Id be guilty of taking plants. But that’s because the roses are from my late grandmothers garden, the iris from my grandfather, the pecan tree from my mom, the hostas from my sister, lillies from my aunt…
etc etc
I could see why people would do it.
When I sold my previous house, where a lot emotion was tied up, I had some irrational moments where I seriously contemplated digging up my dead cats in the back yard.
Fortunately, I took a step back & asked myself, “whoa, do you really want to be that person who dug up old cat skeletons?”
So I did not deprive the buyers of those fixtures. And I didn’t have a shovel big enough for the 50’ tree they were under anyway. My truck is a long bed but…
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I’ve lived in the rental I’m in for 13 years, the gardens look amazing, and I fully plan on digging up some of the plants I spent more money on next year when I move. However, the future of the house is uncertain and owned by relatives, so…
I can totally see why someone would want to take parts of their gardening with them.
I can not understand why people would not be honest about this up front and make that information part of the listing so the buyer does not show up to a ruined garden when the garden was part of the reason they really liked the property.
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When we bought our current house about 10 years ago, the sellers almost tanked the closing because they wanted to take the fridge. At least they asked, but I was not buying sentimental attachment to a 1-year-old appliance. I said no, and the sellers delayed the closing for almost 6 hours while they tried to get their lawyer to figure out how they could legally take the fridge.
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After the sellers took the pasture gates, horses still in there that then could get out, I would have thrown such a fit the sellers would have been walking around very, very careful and getting out of there and leaving all else not theirs where it was.
If those loose horses could have been out on roads, I would have the police involved right then and there, to explain to them why that was a very-bad-idea.
The rest is annoying, but survivable.
Turning horses loose by stealing gates, that is criminal.
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6 hours of lawyer time??? That’s an expensive refrigerator.
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My experience with the times I have dealt with a real estate sale was that the lawyer quoted a set price, not an hourly rate.
(Though maybe there was some clause in there about extra for crazy hours.)
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same for us, always has been a set cost
I have no idea what they paid the attorney, all I know is they did not get the fridge.
If I had known how much a new sink cost and how the styles would change I would have yanked the one I put in out. Or bought two and saved about $400 over the cost of a new one, geesh the kind I had has changed style to the farmhouse front and really jumped in price. But only crazy people have boxes full of spare sinks laying around just in case, lol!
But most reasonable people understand they are selling a home as advertised and fit for use. Which includes gates for your pasture that they left their horses in. Hope you are moving ahead and enjoying the place.
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Totally true! If and when I sell, it will definitely be noted that all potted plants do not convey. There will also be a note that if the buyers do not want the blueberries that are in raised beds, the seller would like to take those as well. I have a lot of blueberry plants, some potted and some in beds! :yes:
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