Witzend
*BeverleyJB*, the woman we bought our house from decades ago, was so incensed with dh for negotiating the price down, she took all the screwed in curtain rails down, plus virtually every light bulb out. Even though she knew I’d be moving in on my own with a very young baby, and I’d allowed her to stay 4 days after completion, since her next, bigger house, wasn’t ready.
My solicitor had a pink fit!
She had been in a hurry to move, and knew that dh was working in the Middle East at the time - her reaction to his reasonable enough offer was, ‘You are not in an Arab marketplace now!’ (Pls imagine a German accent.)
He said, ‘Well, take it or leave it.’
She took, and evidently seethed!
Witzend when we moved into our first house the vendors had removed all the light bulbs except for one outside, even removing the ceiling roses leaving bare wires hanging down in a couple of rooms.
They'd also removed all the flower bulbs from the garden, the neighbour saw them digging them up at 5 am one morning. They hadn't even planted them, it was another prospective buyer who asked to plant them but the sale fell through!
Curtain rails? Not a single one left. They'd have taken the kitchen sink if they could.
We paid full price too as they wouldn't negotiate!
Stealing the coffee is way too sadistic, anyway!
