We sold our property a couple of months ago to a couple who have been pests ever since to put it mildly.
We knew it was coming when they asked for keys in advance of completion as they knew it was empty and wanted to store furniture.
Of course we refused this.
Since completion they have made the following demands:
Cost for replacing a missing recycle bin.
- we never had this bin and the council wanted to charge us for a new one which we refused to do on principal.
The buyer says that the council have a photo of the bin on the property. So ask for £12 from us for losing it!!
Cost for the loft key.
- again Barratts never gave us a key to the loft when we bought the house from new. We never chased for it as loft access wasn’t important to us. We informed the buyer when viewing that we did not have a key to the loft. The buyer now says we promised to get one for him. He wants to charge us for the new key.
Cost for electrician.
- when viewing the property we informed the buyer that we would be taking the light fitting from the living room.
He is unhappy that we didn’t fit a pendant for them and left wires loose from the ceiling. When they moved in they had to call an emergency electrician.
I have to say that when we moved into our new property, we knew that there wouldn’t be a light fitting so we arranged for an electrician in advance to fit our light on moving day!
Cost for missing towel rails.
- we hold our hands up to this one as we did say on fixtures and fittings list that we would leave him in the house.
In view of our error we have offered £35 to replace the rails.
The buyer is now going legal as he wants us to cover the cost of all the above.
It all feels very unjust to us as we’ve discovered many botched DIY jobs in our new house and have had to pay a fortune to sort it all out. We haven’t approached our seller to cover any costs at all.
Would welcome your thoughts. Thank you in advance.
We knew it was coming when they asked for keys in advance of completion as they knew it was empty and wanted to store furniture.
Of course we refused this.
Since completion they have made the following demands:
Cost for replacing a missing recycle bin.
- we never had this bin and the council wanted to charge us for a new one which we refused to do on principal.
The buyer says that the council have a photo of the bin on the property. So ask for £12 from us for losing it!!
Cost for the loft key.
- again Barratts never gave us a key to the loft when we bought the house from new. We never chased for it as loft access wasn’t important to us. We informed the buyer when viewing that we did not have a key to the loft. The buyer now says we promised to get one for him. He wants to charge us for the new key.
Cost for electrician.
- when viewing the property we informed the buyer that we would be taking the light fitting from the living room.
He is unhappy that we didn’t fit a pendant for them and left wires loose from the ceiling. When they moved in they had to call an emergency electrician.
I have to say that when we moved into our new property, we knew that there wouldn’t be a light fitting so we arranged for an electrician in advance to fit our light on moving day!
Cost for missing towel rails.
- we hold our hands up to this one as we did say on fixtures and fittings list that we would leave him in the house.
In view of our error we have offered £35 to replace the rails.
The buyer is now going legal as he wants us to cover the cost of all the above.
It all feels very unjust to us as we’ve discovered many botched DIY jobs in our new house and have had to pay a fortune to sort it all out. We haven’t approached our seller to cover any costs at all.
Would welcome your thoughts. Thank you in advance.
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