Entitled new homeowners complain about being gifted useful household supplies, face petty revenge from vendor: 'I offered to come help clear up some of their complaints'

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Aug 3, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

Few common life experiences are quite as stressful as moving house, especially if you're buying. Packing up everything you own is overwhelming enough, but dealing with all the paperwork, shuttling it across town, and unpacking it all in a different place? It's enough to make a grown man cry.

If you are the person who is selling the place, it's also important to be considerate—not that everybody is going to appreciate that, of course. This is something that annoyed one vendor after the people who bought their parents' house complained that they left "garbage" behind that in fact contained many useful items for the maintenance of the home.

The whining didn't stop there, either, and it set the stage for some pretty dedicated petty revenge. Naturally, Reddit felt like this was the perfect way to get back at these fussy new homeowners. Some people just can't see the benefit in good things.

 

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    Super fussy home buyers lose out on valuable house supplies because they can't be polite.
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    I just sold my parents house. I cleared out everything and gave everything a good clean (it had a professional clean when I put it on the market and nobody was living in it since then). It's 2 days post closing and the new owners blew up the realtors phone with all the garbage left behind, some crack pot rumors, complaints about some things not working, and the dryness of the yard, and some other baseless issues.
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    First, the stuff left behind was house stuff, extra hardwood, extra tile, extra lightbulbs (the house has some fancy expensive lights), there was also the middle section of the dining room table, which stayed), and the custom paint colours for the interior, exterior, and trim (everything was custom when my parents built, so the paint has the specific codes).
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    The crack pot rumors were that I left garbage out side for 3 days and drove away saying "I don't care". I was back and forth to place alot clearing, cleaning. Stuff I couldn't take or sell I put for free on the road (not garbage), and several days before closing I paid my neighbor to remove it with his trailer. I had said to him "I don't care about this stuff, so if nobody takes it, don't worry about it and just take it to the dump and I'll pay for it". When I did my last inspection and cleaning
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    Anything not working had turned up in the home inspection and the buyers were well aware, now they are trying to bill me. As for the dryness of the yard, we live in an arid semi desert. There is not much I can do about it. The yard hadn't changed much between when it was listed and when it closed. Summers are hot here, weather has been in the high 30s (celcius), and there was a fire nearby.
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    Even though I don't live nearby (2 hours away) and have 3 kids, I offered to come help clear up some of their complaints. I made sure I took everything not explicitly stated in the contract. So I took all the bulbs, tiles, extra flooring, and paint codes (no way in heck are they ever going to match properly). I also took a very expensive bbq grill that was hooked up to the natural gas. It's a very nice grill but my currant residence doesn't have a natural gas hookup and honestly I don't have muc
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    Tldr: new homeowners complained about stuff left behind and other things that didn't matter or that were already revealed in the home inspection. So I went and removed everything, including thousands of dollars of extra tiles and hardwood necessary for repairs, as well as a bbq and gazebo. The lack of gazebo will make the house and back deck ridiculously hot. Have fun, enjoy your new home!
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    Edit: I should clarify, they were I when I removed the hardwood, tiles, gazebo and bbq. They didn't realize that's what it was initially. And unless they plan on totally repainting (as opposed to spot touchups) they will miss those paint codes. The biggest petty revenge is the bbq and gazebo as those were sweet little gifts that I know they wanted. The gazebo especially is the only thing keeping the entire house from being an oven in the summer.
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    Mysterious_Ad7461 This reminds me of my dad selling his parents house and the buyers insisting he "throw out those old windows in the attic" he tried to explain that they were the storm windows, and you replace the screens with them in the winter to hold the heat in better, "they didn't care what they were, they were garbage so clean them up." So he threw them all out
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    SnooWords4839 Whelp, they wanted it removed, now tell your agent, you will not accept any more calls involving those people.
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    BuildingOne7379 The house didn't come with rain clouds? You monster!!!
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    Janmcwb Wow, having a wood floor here that I wish the previous owner had left some extra vs the walker in the attic. Nice revenge.
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    TraptSoul148270 Seriously! My old house had a kitchen that had been a custom remodel by the previous owners, and some of the tiles cracked over the years because they did kind of a half-assed job on the floor. Found out how expensive those tiles were, and just left the cracked ones. Hallway wall also had a HORRIBLE patch job done on it that was as big as my then 10 year old son. You could literally see that there was no support behind the drywall patch because the thing would vibrate and shift w
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    callalind LOVE IT. I remember when I sold my first house, the new owners came for their final walkthrough. They complained about everything (like "there was a dust bunny in the corner of the basement closet) and that the stove "seemed dirtier than they remember" and threatened to walk away from the whole deal, and hour before closing They had insisted on keeping the window treatments (fine by me, they were cheap AF). So literally 45 minutes before closing, I had to go to rectify their concerns.
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    andronicuspark I would give a lot to see their faces when they realize the gazebo is gone.
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    psychosis_inducing Now now, sometimes you need to be the bigger person and... I'm kidding. Well done!
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    Successful-Rhubarb34 We just sold my mum's house and left paint, deck stain, extra water filters for the well, all sorts of stuff. Our realtor called us after to say the buyers were very grateful. Your buyers sound like right eejits.
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    chamber_harmful541 The previous owner of my home left hardwood, moulding/trim, paint and laminate in the attic. Very much appreciated.
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    Earptastic I had a similar issue when I left paint. New buyer made a big deal about it like that was some sort of disrespect on my part. When I buy a house I appreciate those types of things being left.
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