[carioca]

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!

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

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!

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

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!

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

[westernrider75]

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!

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

[MandoMan]

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!

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]

Originally Posted by 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)

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