I agree with Ceri

Especially if they are having your cat..how nice of them !!plus I think you should always put yourself in that situation and how you would feel...!!

When we moved into our house the dirty buggers had not even cleaned their oven....eeekkkk grease or what !!We found fag butts in our bathroom cabinets..nice !! so for me I think leave it how you would like to find it yourself.!!!

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We had a chat through the agents with the people who were taking the house. Let them know what we didn't want any more - they really aprreciated it as were moving from a flat to a house and didn't have much furniture. For some of the better pieces we were even able to get some cash! Its really worth having a chat with them.

every rental I have been in in Aus in the past years ( we're in our own built home now), when I first moved in ... yuck!!.

now I know I am abit of a "cleanliness" freak.. but really!

kitchen Cupboards were never ever clean.. just emptied, toilets - well> I always used to change the toilet seat for a new one when I moved to a new rental (didn't like the fact I don't know who's dirty big butt was there last ..lol) , and it was never, ever clean behind the actual toilet (out of sight out of mind I suppose.. but I hate toilets!)... ovens.. never clean.

I always ended up going through gallons of bleach to clean the place before I unpacked ( maybe it's just me being too fussy)

Had one house back in Sing ( and it was a right "posh" house too, houses are posh in Sing... they are not cheap!.. most people live in flats or conndo's) and that was the worst for "cleanliness".. it came partial furnished... well the mattress had all these suspicious stains over it... it was minging ... so out it went.. ( not that I fancied sleeping on someone else's mattress anyway). But that house .. who ever lived there before was a right dirty Bugger aye.. cockroach prob as well, there were a load of them under the sink nesting ( they are the same big brown ones we get here - the Asain cockroch.. but these were bigger)

cheers

I could have cried when I got the keys to my house. It took us a long time to clear out all the unwanted stuff they left. We couldn't make them pay as they had not left a forwarding address with their solicitor. It makes life difficult for the people moving in , please have some consideration.

Arlene - you win with this one defo.

We moved onto this house & they had left boxes & paint & stuff in the garage, & more boxes in the loft. Also left the shed - which we said we did not want - in the end we sold it for £50 so that was not too bad!

There was enough stuff left to fill a mini skip - spoke to the solicitor & he said that we could charge them for a skip but we could not be bothered with the hassle. But the annoying thing was they took all but one carpet. They had wanted to charge us £5,000 for the carpets & a few bits of really old, tacky MFI furniture ( 2 chests of drawers & a wardrobe) We said "no thank you" & the buggers took the carpets - they were very krass & not what I would have wanted (certainly did not want to pay for the things) but would have OK to get us started - but instead we had to go around covering all the gripper rods & walked around on the underlay - which did not last long before it gave up the ghost!! No carpets for 18 mths - tight sods!
I would try the free to a good home tac tic first - pockygoes

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Deal with it yourself and definitely don't leave it! I was disgusted when I moved into our home. The place was left dirty and they had left an array of their (no longer needed) possessions also. It took us two days to get it acceptable enough to live in and another day disgarding their unwanted stuff - very poor form in my opinion!

We moved in August last year and the previous owners left it absolutley immaculate. it made the whole moving experience an absolute joy (well almost!!!). Seriously it made all the difference being clean and sorted. I would definitely recommend the clean and tidy option.

Des,

Just do what my vendors did.

Hide the bloody stuff in the loft! It was three months before I bothered to go up there :mad:

Seriously, H went round the place like a woman possessed.

I'm sure it was appreciated but hey they got a good deal on the place. A quick sweep up and wipe with a damp cloth should do the trick, sorry bloke talking here.

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Yep, my brother has just had a similar experience. Having spent 3 days attacking their (rented) house with bleach and a steam cleaner to make sure they got their deposit back, they were a little peeved to find that their new house (purchased) was absolutely, disgustingly filthy and full of junk. So they spent another 3 days out with bleach and steam cleaner and my brother had some very choice words to say about the people they brought the house from. Clean house and champers is a much nicer idea

i win i win i win

arlene

I wouldn't say that to Des, Arlene, or you might find yourself cleaning on your own!

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Arlene you are!
reason - because you are a woman!!!!!


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:D :D :D ;)

Phoenixuk2oz

says he needs pressure to get him going WHAT

how much pressure does the man need two weeks to go until the shippers arrive, i call that pressure

arlene