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What I find weird about the US
I met with the realtor today to sign the papers.
Well, when we were doing the paperwork, she mentioned the window treatments. She said they had to stay with the house. Whaaaaaaaaaaaat??!
I love most of my curtains. They are standard size and pretty neutral. I could and WILL reuse them. So what if the buyers hate the window treatments? They will throw them away anyway when I could be using them? I put a mention on the paperwork that it would be negotiable. If they really love the curtains, I might reconsider but otherwise I will take them because I don't have the money to redecorate a new place.
In France, when you move, you move with ALL your things meaning window treatments, appliances and light fixtures. Those things are so personal that it baffles me that you have to leave them behind in the US.
I can't help but think about a couple who would research the dishwasher of their dreams with all the cool features and then when they move to a new place, they have this old dishwasher that sucks. MAKES NO SENSE lol.
Re: What I find weird about the US
Yeah, fabric curtains and curtain rods. Blinds I can understand. I have some and I am willing to leave them because they would probably don't fit my future windows. And blinds are pretty neutral.
I guess I'll see with the buyers.
She said I should take them down and I did mention that I was willing to negotiate. So it's all good. But I don't think there should be any misunderstanding. What's personal is not for sale. In France you take your light fixtures but you have to leave the thing to attach a lightbulb. You cannot take something with you that would prevent the buyers from using the house under normal conditions.
The standard here is what the Dutch call "semi-furnished." When we purchased our house, we wrote in our bid we wanted to keep the window blinds because they were awesome!
I think appliances that are somehow wired into the house should stay but things like washer/dryer and fridge can be negotiated. But I'd be pissed if someone took the stove or dishwasher from the kitchen since its not like you can guarantee they will fit into the next kitchen you have anyway. If you remodel a kitchen and sell it with nice, newer appliances it's pretty crappy to remove them all after you sell it. And no one in their right mind would take crappy old appliances anyway, so its really only nice new ones you're thinking of.
Blinds I don't see why you'd take since they were cut to fit the window. Curtains I've never seen left behind unless the person moving didn't want them.
eta: I knew there was something I forgot. Light fixtures I would take unless they were negotiated into your purchase agreement. Our sellers left all of ours becuase, well, they were ugly and old and we had to replace them all anyway. We did make some money off of the one chandelier they left that we sold at our garage sale, though!
FTR, when buying a house I would never assume that the curtains would stay. If I really liked them I'd mention it to the owners and negotiate for it in the sale. To me, curtains are personal property and are entirely different from, say, a refrigerator.