New Neighbours

[customersruinmylife]

These guys are technically customers, so I am putting this thread in here.

We love our next door neighbours, so we were very upset to learn that they were selling their house and moving away to be closer to the rest of their family.

They had sold the house and were all ready to go. It was literally a couple of days before they were due to move, when they got a call saying the people who were planning on buying their house had dropped out. Their reason was that "they didn't think they could afford it anymore." Something that should have been worked out before they even agreed to buy the house!

So the next door neighbours were understandably annoyed. They had literally packed up everything they owned, and didn't have a scrap of food left in the house (we had to give them some of ours to see them through a few days). They put the house back on the market, and waited for a new buyer.

Three months later (now) they get a call. The original buyers have decided that they can afford the house now afterall, but they would like to come and have another look around. As soon as they get in the house, the new neighbour lady pipes up.

NNL: Those aren't the same curtains you had the last time I looked! Where have the nice ones gone?
ON: I took those down. They are my good curtains. They are coming with me when I move.
NNL: Well, I wish you'd said! You know, I think you should knock another £1000 off the asking price! It's only fair!

Old Neighbour agreed. The only reason she agreed was because she is now at a point where she desperately needs to move. They have a new house that they are paying for that is empty, and they really want to move into it.

NNL wandered around the house, commenting on everything.

NNL: I am going to knock this wall through, it's horrible...
NNL: All of this is getting ripped out.
NNL: I can't wait to get rid of this wallpaper!

ON couldn't take anymore.

ON: Could you please keep that to yourself? This has been my home for 30 years. I don't want to imagine it getting torn apart.
NNL: Hmph!

NNL looked out into the garden.

NNL: And I hope you are going to leave me those nice lawn orniments!

Later in the day, ON came over to my house with a massive box of lawn orniments and told us all about it.

ON: I was actually going to leave these behind when we moved, but I want to make sure that bitch doesn't get her hands on them. I want you to have them.

I thanked ON a lot, and then gave her an evil idea.

Me: Make sure you take out every single lightbulb when you move, and the curtain rails.
ON: I love it! Yes, I will definately do that!

These jerks are going to be my new neighbours

[LillFilly]

They sound horribly thoughtless and just...plain horrible! I hope they simmer down once they move in, for your sake.

How much you want to bet they accuse you of stealing 'their' lawn ornaments!?

[Teskeria]

1000 pounds off for Curtains? were they woven with genuine gold thread? Old Neighbor should have said they were being cleaned. It was none of the bitches business where they were. unless the sales agreement stated all curtains were being left, old owners had no obligation to leave the house anything but bare (except for the stuff in the sales contract of course .)

[AccountingDrone]

I love the house porn on HGTV, but there is a reason I refer to the shows as Entitlement Whores US edition, Entitlement Whores NY Edition and Entitlement Whores International ...

I swear, they are being shown half million dollar resort properties in beautiful tropical islands, or upscale houses in the US and amazing flats in Manhattan and the litany is amazing - the rooms are too small, there is no walk in closet/the walk in closet is too small, I neeeeeed granite counters and stainless steel appliances in the kitchen, and the 2 complaints that baffle me - the watercloset and or laundry are off the kitchen/in the kitchen [laundry] and it is unsanitary, or the watercloset is off the living room [eeewwww?] or the laundry is upstairs near the bedrooms [and not 2 flights of stairs down in the hellhole/basement?]

As an aside, why would laundry in the kitchen/in a closet off the kitchen unsanitary, and it is better slogging bins of laundry up and down stairs instead of going into the hallway and washing it near where you dress and undress? and where the fuck are you supposed to put the little washroom that is for visitors and people down away from the bedrooms?

And the way they describe things ... these asshats were shown a historical property in Nashville, in pristine condition, with ORIGINAL light fixtures in the very formal dining room, and the first thing that pops out of their moths is that they would remove the fixture

[Sliceanddice]

ugg i hate that too infact i once was watching hidden potential and started to feel sad when they went to think 100 year old Victorian that was justifiably weird and the buyers where really raging on it quirks. though the architect did a good job with the remake even if i did think he went way way too modern in the kitchen (this one i understood, the only way into the kitchen was through an awkward hallway/bathroom) but he redeemed himself by giving them a very nice french style boduie (sp?) style master with a dressing room and updated heating system.

but it makes me sad that people want to guy everything.

[Raveni]

When I bought my house, the previous owner took all the light bulbs, ceiling fans, switch covers, everything. I suspect that he had played too many video games:

Take everything that isn't nailed down. If it is nailed down, solve the "removing nails" puzzle to proceed.

[chainedbarista]

wow, what a beeyotch. take a thousand pounds off for curtains? no, cheap bitch, they're mine, pay the original price and consider it an apology for leaving us hanging a while back.

definitely take what you can, hell, donate the appliances too, if you can.

[sweetj82]

<MR SNIPPY WAS HERE>

And the way they describe things ... these asshats were shown a historical property in Nashville, in pristine condition, with ORIGINAL light fixtures in the very formal dining room, and the first thing that pops out of their moths is that they would remove the fixture

OMG I know what you mean......Oh the master bath is sooooo small....what do they want for $200,000

[42_42_42]

OMG I know what you mean......Oh the master bath is sooooo small....what do they want for $200,000

Well, we only paid $175k for our house and we have a huge master bath and walk in closet. Our house is right around 3,000 sq ft. Home prices differ GREATLY depending on where you are. (And we're only 30 min from Atlanta and live in a great sub division and have an acre and a half lot).

[sweetj82]

I guess i was a Sb(sucky buyer)
When we looked at the house we bought the washer and dyer were knew. when we went for our final walk through they were something very old.

My realtor did get us an extra $3000 at closing b/c of this.

[Marmalady]

When I bought my house, the previous owner took all the light bulbs, ceiling fans, switch covers, everything.

Where I used to live, when our next door neighbours moved out they even prised the flagstones out of the lawn where they had been set in to make a path down the garden. The next owner told me that there wasn't a door handle left in the place, let alone a light bulb.

(I found out later that it had been a case of the building society foreclosing on the mortgage, so maybe they thought they might as well take what they could..)

[Zellie Crescent]

When I'm finally able to buy a house I am not going to complain and nitpick, I'm gonna be happy that I'm gonna finally own a home.

[MoonCat]

WOW. I thought I'd heard everything. Taking off door handles and light bulbs??

[protege]

I know when my parents bought their current house they were told that all the existing appliances were to be sold with the house. Imagine their surprise on the day that they officially took possession of the place to discover mis-matched and beaten up everything! Oh, and the nice shiny new hot water heater that had supposedly been installed the month before they bought the house? Gone too, and in it's place was a rusted hunk of junk.

That would have been enough to allow them to get out of the deal....and probably opened up the prior owners to a possible lawsuit. I don't know about you, but I'd have sued their asses, and probably the realtor as well.

[bainsidhe]

Wow, some of these stories are awful. And I feel for the OP's original neighbors. A good friend of mine was moving from East coast to West coast to be with her military husband. She sold the house, it was supposed to close by X date. After two months of stalling and after my friend was already 2000+ miles away, the new buyers fessed up and said they weren't sure they could afford the house anymore. Meanwhile, my friend was still paying taxes, mortgage, upkeep, etc. She finally threatened to sue. Another two months and she finally sold the house.