Question for new (or relatively new) purchasers in TV

[kp11364]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

[Bill14564]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

If we had any such items we left them. We wouldn't need them here and there was no reason to toss something that they might find useful.

[villagetinker]

Purchasers of our previous home were a royale pain, constant nit picking, so I gave up and did exactly what was required of me, and never spoke to them directly, they missed out on a lot of useful information.

[Mystwarien]

Our house was 18 years old, so we ended up painting the entire house inside and out, new carpets throughout and refinished our hardwoods so everything was fresh and modern. We didn't leave any of the old paint, tiles etc. We did leave behind, per our realtor's suggestion, our old very nice deck and patio furniture and the new owners wanted it. It was totally worth putting in the extra money of updating the house. I know a lot of people hesitate to do it, but we did it and had 8 offers in 4 days and it went over asking price, so we got the money back we put into it updating prior to sale.

[MrFlorida]

Have an estate sale.

[JMintzer]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

The people we bought from left extra paint for the outside walls and trim, the front door and the interior walls they had painted a different color. They also left extra LVP flooring they had installed... They all came in handy...

When we sell our house up north, I plan on leaving whatever the new buyers want. The snow blower, the extra patio pavers and outside bricks (that we have neatly stacked on the side of the house by the AC units), any extra light bulbs that are specific to the fixtures in the house, leftover paint, AC filters, etc, etc, etc...

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

We took some of the paint with us, some of the "scrap" wood and extra leftover window trim that we'd painted for our bedroom. We also took some old door panels that had been left behind by the previous owners. Extra doorknobs (the house was built in 1958 so these were "retro" and we loved them), and random other things. We left more significant things behind, such as a brand new canvas yard shed that stored our lawnmower and lawn tractor, all our other yard equipment.

We should've given that shed away - the newest google photo of our old home shows they took it down. We paid over $2000 for the thing and we didn't get even close to what we were hoping for on the sale of the house.

We've used most of the things we brought with us.

[bsloan1960]

We hope to sell soon. We will leave paint, tiles, roof slates, yard items like the wheelbarrow, our gas lawn mower, as well as owner's manuals for appliances, and information about the security system- passwords, etc.

[patfla06]

We left extra floor tiles, pavers for the new owners.

Also went through and left any manuals for appliances and equipment being left.

Left the fireplace tool set since we had no use here.

[CoachKandSportsguy]

If you don't know what to do with them, have a free pile at the tag sale. .
You don't have to make the decision, you can let others make the decision for you because you don't know what other people need or want.

Hell, we are leaving the living room, dining room, bedroom and home office furniture, the TVs, the snow blower, the snow shovels, extra full fridge at 25 years old everything except a few very select items. .

We are posting a purchase price and a purchase price with all contents, probably 10K higher. .

If the buyers don't want the contents, we have a simple decision tree:
* Any relatives want any items?
* Large, Individual items on Facebook market place
* Restore/Savers/Dollar/free tag sale
* Dumpster

I have no idea what other people want or need or find valuable, so we will give them an opportunity to buy/take them. .

Did this with my mom in laws barn which was a hoarder's safe from WW2 of interesting items save by her father. . After several years sales, we couldn't give anything away and it was a small dumpster + which we filled

You never know who will buy your house, and what they find valuable or not. .

[Miekies]

We left the tiles, bulbs, filters, spare floor planks, pool accessories, chemicals.. everything specific to the house that we could not use here. No reason to sell, take with or trash.

Heck we even left the formal dining room table and chairs.
A simple kind gesture to the new owners and not worth the hassle

[CoachKandSportsguy]

I always leave a bottle of champagne hidden in the cupboards somewhere

[Maker]

Consider an alternate deal with the sales price. Lets say you sell at $500k with lots of things included. New owner might get taxes based upon that price. Offer to sell at $450k plus $50k for contents. Their tax bill might be lower as a result.
No verbal agreements, put it in writing with a refundable deposit of the full amount. (just in case they try to back out)

[RICH1]

You must be a pretty nice person to consider leaving misc items for the New owner… you may find those items useful but they may find the items “ not useful”. Ask your neighbors up there if they want anything, but don’t bring any of that here.. you may find out, that you brought items to Florida that you will never use..Tip , never bring Lawn fertilizer from up North !

[RICH1]

I always leave a bottle of champagne hidden in the cupboards somewhere
On purpose? Lol we usually make a small gift basket for the new owners ….I love the champagne idea

[carioca]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!


Sold home in Pennsylvania (closed early December 2022) and left all those items you mentioned for the new owners. It was definitely a sellers market and buyers weren’t pushing back on anything. I’d say to leave those things. The prior owners left stuff for me, and I was glad to have most of them because I used some of them.
Good luck with your move, and welcome!

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Oh we also took as many loose bricks from our yard as we could find. We lived in North Haven CT, which was once known as the brick capital of the country. It had several brickyards. The property we lived on used to be a farm and there were outbuildings made from these bricks. Whoever developed the land, left a lot of the debris on the ground. We had a few dozen bricks in our back yard, and an antique enamel-over-cast-iron farm sink, and a whole bunch of other really cool things (plus a LOT of arrowheads - this was Native American territory before the brickyards were built).

I've used some of the bricks to line the flowerbed in my front yard. We left the sink, but I had turned it into a planter on an old wrought-iron and wooden plank bench I rescued from someone's curb on trash day one year.

[Michael G.]

All this what to take and what to leave depends on the age of the new buyers.
We left all our appliances (Oldest one was 3 yrs. old) and the young couple didn't want them.
Also had 4-year-old wains-coating in one room, that was torn out.
Five-year-old kitchen cupboards pulled out, all after 1 year of us moving out.

[GpaVader]

Some people will complain if you hang them with a new rope. I would work through your realtor to see if they new owners want them or just leave them if you don't want them. If people are planning on redecorating as soon as they move in, they may not want anything. If they like what you have they may want to keep it to maintain things...

[Stu from NYC]

Our buyers were very easy to work with so we left them a lot of stuff they had some interest in and we did not need or want down here.

[Altavia]

Our buyers were very easy to work with so we left them a lot of stuff they had some interest in and we did not need or want down here.

Same here, it paid off down stream when packages an mail wetter delivered to the pool address up to two years later. They got the important stuff to use.

[DAVES]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

Our personal experience. I pride myself of being a good judge of people. The purchasers of our home said they wanted. many items with a fair amount of value. Bedroom furniture, an antique clock my work table, about 12 industrial grade shelving systems worth roughly 20-30 each used. I liked them, my misjudgment and I just gave them roughly $1,000 worth of stuff. They are entitled to a final inspection before closing. The wife came looked around and said nothing.
At closing, which was at the buyers attorneys office, I believe tradition is the seller's attorney's office. We arrived at the appointed time to discover the others
were already there. The buyer's attorney was vastly superior to ours. The buyer claimed it was not broom clean and their attorney wanted me to leave $1500 in escrow to cover?????? A broom???? Our Attorney huh is letting them demand this BALONEY without even asking me. So there we were at closing, my wife in tears saying give it to them. I shocked them all and said loudly pretending I was speaking to my attorney. I AM NOT DOING THIS.
I've heard this stuff happens often at closing. Most people selling a home is the largest business deal they have ever been involved with. Not so for me. People are off balance and it is turned against you. At little or no cost. Before closing I would take pictures of everything in the house.
What to sell and what to take. I would get an estimate on a move. We moved several states away. The way it works, they send A SALESMAN over and he lists what you have in his laptop, His program tells him an estimated weight and he gives you a price. He will not tell you this but they have what is called the TARRIFF RATE. It is so much per hundred pounds. If, I recall ours ten years ago was .57 per hundred pounds. Is, it worth paying to move it? Books are heavy. You may find they are hard to give to charity.
Suggested three pile system. Tag sale. We did 4-5 garage sales. I had a lot of stuff. It was a lot of work but I did at least 2-3,000 a day. That is 4-6,000 every two days. A tag sale, implies hiring a, "professional." They will charge at least 1/3 of what they collect from YOUR MERCHANDISE. Not certain but you should find out. If, someone is injured at a TAG SALE, does your insurance cover you? Surely your home is not listed as a business. The trash pile? You will be surprised what people will buy. Garden tools? You will need them in Florida and they cost more than you might remember. A snow thrower, garage sale it-no use at all in the villages. I would photograph everything as you pack it. Otherwise you have no proof that it was in the box and it was not broken.

An adventure. Plan as well as you can and be prepared all does not go as you planed.

[DAVES]

Our house was 18 years old, so we ended up painting the entire house inside and out, new carpets throughout and refinished our hardwoods so everything was fresh and modern. We didn't leave any of the old paint, tiles etc. We did leave behind, per our realtor's suggestion, our old very nice deck and patio furniture and the new owners wanted it. It was totally worth putting in the extra money of updating the house. I know a lot of people hesitate to do it, but we did it and had 8 offers in 4 days and it went over asking price, so we got the money back we put into it updating prior to sale.

Selling a home, buying a place to live, moving etc. I had it all planed. I figured, it was almost ten years ago. I figured six months to sell. It sold in two days, full price and a cash deal. Great, just not as I had planed. Finding a mover. I was still packing while they were loading the moving truck. Funny now. The moving guys. The salesman for the moving company told us they only use company people. I did a beautiful careful job painting the rail going to our second floor. The moving guys, they may have been company employees, they were nice guys but they had no idea how to move stuff.
My armoire. Like most large furniture, comes apart for moving. They tried to move it in one piece and discovered it could not make the turn at the top of the stairs. They had to carry it back, damaging my beautiful paint job AND THE FURNITURE to then take it apart. It was a long distance move. Arrival in the villages, a new home not a resale.
Same driver but different crew doing the unload. On this end. Same piece of furniture.
On this end the crew dropped it through the bedroom wall.

An ADVENTURE.

[La lamy]

I would ask the purchasers what they want from those extras you're talking about.

[midiwiz]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

typically you leave those spare items with the home. garage, attic, etc.

[westernrider75]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?


Many thanks in advance!


We left behind things that specifically went with that house that we wouldn’t need going forward. Why move it?

[MandoMan]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

Definitely leave all that sort of thing for the next owners. It might in fact, help you get a sale.

Don’t waste your time with a “red tag sale” or a garage sale. You are only going to be making a dime on a dollar, probably, and yet you might end up with a lot of things unsold. If I have furniture or appliances I don’t need, I offer them free on Craig’s List or something like that. They disappear fast and go to homes where they are appreciated. There are also places where you can donate nearly everything, and usually they will pick it up.

Many of us recommend not paying to bring THINGS here. Most of us live in houses that are 1100 to 1500 square feet without basements. Leave that old furniture behind. Leave all those sets of china and all those towels and all those clothes and most of the tools and Christmas decorations. If you can live with it, try to make a deal to buy your house here furnished. I did. I brought everything in an 8x10 uhaul truck, and I am still trying to find room for some of it three years later after giving away even more. There are several good used furniture stores in the area where you can find better things than what you own now for decent prices. Or here is your place to get something new. If you look at a hundred homes for sale here on Zillow, you will discover that antiques really don’t generally fit well with Florida decorating, and those fake antiques you bought ten years ago as a bedroom set are even worse, impossibly heavy-looking and dark. Very few people who move here do anywhere near as much entertaining as they expect to do, so they don’t need a dozen place settings of anything.

I have a friend who is caring for a woman who has a house packed with stuff, but she has no family, broke a hip a couple weeks ago, is in terrible health, and is unlikely to ever return home, as she can’t care for herself. All her stuff will be disposed of somehow. How much better to have a few nice things, but no more than you need,
.

[Nell57]

Lighten your load my friend.
If it’s specific to that house, leave it.
If you have time, sell it on Craigslist or Marketplace.
Give family things to any family member in the younger generation who wants it.
Your old “stuff “ will look out of place here. I have friends who have paid on two storage units for 14 years.
Don’t be that person.

[Haggar]

Consider an alternate deal with the sales price. Lets say you sell at $500k with lots of things included. New owner might get taxes based upon that price. Offer to sell at $450k plus $50k for contents. Their tax bill might be lower as a result.
No verbal agreements, put it in writing with a refundable deposit of the full amount. (just in case they try to back out)

Tangible personal property when sold with a house is subject to sales tax.

There is a $500,000 exclusion on the sale of a residence when the house has been your primary residence for two for the past 5 years.

There is no exclusion for the sale of personal property at a profit.

Would the buyer pay any different property tax if the appraisal was the same selling the house for one price or selling it with the furniture listed separately?

[MidWestIA]

We had moved - got a offer from a guy then he came over and a garage trim was a little soft so he ripped it off and threw it on the driveway. There was a down spout and hose under the deck because low spots by the house left water pools by the house from the gutter - he dragged them out and threw them out in the yard. At the closing he started to rant but then his wife said he are not doing that now and he shut up. He got zippo. All other house sales were great and I left everything that fit the house - no good to me when I left

[Bbrant]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

I am a realtor, only leave those items if the buyer wants them

[Regorp]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

If the buyer is nice, leave him lots. Our buyer paid cash $40000 over asking. We left him snowblower, lawnmower, wheelbarrow, lawn tools, fans, much more, and even canned food we could not bring. We still text/speak with him and he loves the house. Good luck!

[jparsoneau@aol.com]

I have always left any leftover material for the house such as paint, flooring, siding. I don’t understand why people would want to take a half gallon of paint of a color they’ll never use again unless maybe they’re trying to use the same color and then all you Gotta do is take the numbers. But leave it for the new homeowner in case they need it.

[Stu from NYC]

Selling a home, buying a place to live, moving etc. I had it all planed. I figured, it was almost ten years ago. I figured six months to sell. It sold in two days, full price and a cash deal. Great, just not as I had planed. Finding a mover. I was still packing while they were loading the moving truck. Funny now. The moving guys. The salesman for the moving company told us they only use company people. I did a beautiful careful job painting the rail going to our second floor. The moving guys, they may have been company employees, they were nice guys but they had no idea how to move stuff.
My armoire. Like most large furniture, comes apart for moving. They tried to move it in one piece and discovered it could not make the turn at the top of the stairs. They had to carry it back, damaging my beautiful paint job AND THE FURNITURE to then take it apart. It was a long distance move. Arrival in the villages, a new home not a resale.
Same driver but different crew doing the unload. On this end. Same piece of furniture.
On this end the crew dropped it through the bedroom wall.

An ADVENTURE.

The old saying about lawyers applies here, how do you know the moving sales rep is lying? His lips are moving.

We used a national moving company to come here. Turns out they advertise the move and a driver who reps for them will bid and take the job. The driver will hire a couple of helpers on both ends of the move.

First group was great and did a good job. Local ones damaged a few items and placed them where we could not see the damage.

Overall went ok but not an industry that is exactly trustworthy.

[meme5x]

Sold house in pristine condition.. then new owners totally redid the whole thing.. would never put money into existing house to sell as long as everything was pretty much updated, clean and neat!
Donate to Goodwill if new owners don’t want!

[jimjamuser]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!
If I were in your shoes/position, I would make sure that I could take (and enjoy) the INCREDIBLE Florida heat that you will encounter in the SUMMER (plus hurricanes some years). Personally, I would look into living somewhere near the research triangle in North Carolina.
......As to other advice regardless of where you move to.........sell all the heavy furniture that you have and in general sell stuff rather than shipping it south or renting a U-Haul. You can go to garage sales or thrift stores here or anywhere and get small items. And get new furniture to suit your new location.

[wamley]

I wouls leave anything that is part of the finishes in the house your selling for the new owners. Small number of parts are of no use to anyone else usually.

[Accidental1]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

We left just about everything you mentioned. The previous owner had done same for me so I just followed suit (no conversation with realtor or buyer). Also sold most of the furniture, lawn equipment with the house.

[Larchap49]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

Yes Yes Yes of course what the h else would you do with them. Common courtesy

[AKKlein]

Not a realtor but have bought & sold several homes. You are supposed to take your stuff with you, all of it. Only leave appliance booklets.

Courtesy is to ask buyers if they want certain items and if they do leave them. If not then dispose, sell, donate or take them with you.

I do leave a roll of toilet paper in each bathroom along with hand soap, a sponge, dish soap, couple dishwasher tabs, one roll of paper towels and a couple garbage bags in the kitchen.

I always had Happy Buyers - to not walk into a bunch a stuff left for them to decide what to do with it….and household items they likely need within 30 minutes of arriving.

[defrey12]

Hi all,

Not able to move to TV yet, but I have a question for those folks that have moved down recently.

When you sold your non-TV home, did you leave "spare items" such as extra bathroom/kitchen tiles, lighting fixture accessories (like glass shades), exterior siding, paneling, pavers, external bricks/tiles, and paint for the new owners?

I have a "tag sale" category for some items, "definitely toss" for others, but stuff like this I'm not sure of.

Was this a discussion with the new owners? Did the realtor offer suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

Besides our “main house” we had rentals…that kind of stuff is specific to that house. Leave it. New owners can toss it if they choose. It’s the nice thing to do as well.