[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]

Originally Posted by 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!

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]

Originally Posted by 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!

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]

Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

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