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Cleaning house for closing day!

annoyedgal · 2018-02-16 21:34:39

This might sound odd but I'm wondering how clean should a house be left on closing day before I shut the door and hand over the keys. My plan is to leave it clean of course but just curious as to whether people scrub oven doors, tile grouting, that sort of thing or is it more just a general good once over! Remember having…

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#32 18-02-2018 2:37am
fg1406

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annoyedgal wrote: »

Thats really awful. Did you have any clue from the house viewings that the owners were so messy? Just curious! It's not a nice way to start off in your new home. Our solicitor arranging a walk through before closing. Maybe should be standard practice, would give an incentive to leave the place decent!

The house we got is not the house we viewed. It was like they stopped caring about it once they had gone sale agreed. We had been held up for 8 months by January our solicitor was just doing everything to get them out of the house as we were effectively homeless which is why no walk through was done.

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#33 18-02-2018 10:45am
annoyedgal

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That sounds so stressful, hopefully karma will come back to bite them in the ass.....

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