Did anything "extra" come with your house?

[Jennasis]

As a kid we got a pool table with our first house.


My current house, I inherited with it:
4 barn cats (two are still alive)
a Tractor
A 4-wheeler
Most of the previous owners garbage that they were too lazy to move out (including food in the fridge).

 

[bettymae1121]

We just found this, and we've lived here almost 6 years now!

DH found an old fashioned Coca-cola bottle opener, the kind that you screw into a wall so you can open a bottle with one hand. Has a touch of rust on it but otherwise it seems to be in good shape. I'm wondering if it's worth anything!

 

[avgeek81]

The previous owners of my friends house left a bed in the spare room. They decided to keep it and thats where people sleep when they stay over. Its a pretty nice bed.

My mom told me when she bought her house the people who lived there must of been mad about moving because they left a dead fish in the sink and a ton of garbage in the back yard

 

[Disneycrazymom]

We got - drum roll please - A Worm Farm! Yes a real worm farm. It was buried near the garden. I had never even heard of one but the previous owner had a beautiful garden. I felt a little bad that we dug it up and put in a swing set where the garden had been. He was so proud of his farm and garden!

 

[kim929]

Bats.... a nice family of bats living in the eaves..... we thought we got rid of them but nope, they are still here.

 

[liamsaunt]

A mason jar full of very old bacon grease tucked way into the back of a dark cabinet in the kitchen.

 

[jen0610]

While I didn't my baby brother did. He was having a really crappy house rental issue going on and he wasn't really looking into buying, but the deal he was getting on the house was sweet, but only got sweeter when he found what all the sale really included.

He bought a 3 bedroom, 2.3 bath home with a pool and enclosed lanni down in Lehigh Acres FL. When the people had the house built, they had purchased 3 adjoining lots and built the house in the middle 2/3rds of the lot and left the other as a huge garden area. The owner was a German couple that was selling their vacation home, due to her cancer. They just wanted to get the place off their hands. DB was the first to look at it, offered them a little less than asking price and they took it.

Only at close, did he found out that the purchase also included the 10 year old car (with less than 30,000 miles on it) and all of the contents of the house. A whole lot of those contents came over from Germany with the family. They left china, silver, crystal, beautiful wood carved furniture that they had purchaed from all over Europe and had shipped it over.

 

[IMissEd]

When we moved in the previous owners had crammed the trash can full of boxes. I know it's gross, but I had to look. I found two boxes of unused canned food (some of it was expired) and two huge boxes of Disney VHS Cassettes. There were over 50 Disney movies in there.

I couldn't bring myself to use any of the canned goods, but I donated the VHS cassettes to my sister's school. They are able to show the G rated movies, and they still have VCRs. The teachers and kids were thrilled to have some new movies to watch. There was everything from Mary Poppins to Pocohantis.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

The rotary phone in the kitchen which would puzzle my kids friends when they wanted to use the phone.

 

[rszdtrvl]

The guy we got this house from left a lot of garbage in the backyard, and a bunch of old paint and other "hazardous waste" stuff.

We wanted to add an ammendum to our signing for the house that all of the garbage would be taken off the property, but our realtor assured us that we didn't need to.

Needless to say, when it was all left, both our realtor and the seller's relator gave us $250 total ($125 each) to haul it all to the dump.

He also left some stuff in the crawl space above the garage - not anything good. And he left a lot of "redneck repairs" for us to do the right way.

We love our house though! It is a great size overall for us, and has a huge fenced backyard for the dogs.

 

[rgf207]

Yes, my house came with an underwater mortgage

 

[Owl's Friend]

house #1 had old newspapers used as a layer in between the floor tiles. We also got a half empty large bottle of booze in the basement ceiling.

house #3 we got some odds and ends (coffee mugs, some oil you burn that smells, and paint). The good thing was they left their swingset.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Our house in MA came with some ancient ladder back chairs, a spittoon and an old rope bed in the attic. They had been left in the house when the original family had sold the place and subsequent families had left them in situ; when we moved, we also left the items in place. As the house was possibly haunted, I would've been more than a bit nervous to remove them.

 

[WicketsMom]

My cousin and her husband bought a house, and when they went in the first time after closing their son burst into tears asking "Where are the doggies?". The previous owners had two dogs and he thought that the dogs were supposed to come with the house!

 

[stargazer2892]

We got a year old stove they caught on fire somehow the (entire back is melted) so the oven controls don't work but the stove works amazing! An entire kitchen full of sticky, dirty, ugly contact paper that took me hours to remove. However in two drawers for some reason theres Cars contact paper in it, I thought it was cute so they stayed but,but only after some 409, and some disinfecting wipes. Also packet of green tea and a mini snickers bar.
They however TRIED to take ALL the light fixtures in the house for their new house. Our realtor was not gonna let that fly and they ended up putting a hideous light in the breakfast nook and two ok looking ones in the library and loft, and put cheap 79 cent bare blub "fixtures". At least it's better then nothing right?

 

[ilovefh]

Our new house didn't come with anything but we left some things to the owner of our last house. We were moving from NH to FL and when we packed up our house we still didn't know where we would live in FL!

Since we didn't have a home in FL yet we left our fishing boat because we didn't have anywhere to put it while we moved. We also left our snowmobile to them. In the house we left a case of water, some cleaning supplies and paper towels. (We knew the people moving in.) We also left a pallet of heating pellets for the pellet stove.

 

[indimom]

Quite a bit actually:
A shed full of junk (and I mean F U L L). We had to dispose of all of it in order to demolish the shed and build a garage.
A wringer washer in the cellar. Sold.
A huge wash tub. Probably worth money to scrap, but way to heavy to move out of the cellar.
Several nice area rugs. Sold.
Three window AC units. Sold (We put in new heating/air).
Ceiling tile, flooring, shingles and other items. We used most of it while renovating the house. Woo hoo, didn't have to match a thing.
A rotary phone. We kept that since it could still be useful if the power goes out for any length of time.
Another pleasant surprise. There was an old pump-style well on the property we planned to fill in order to build our garage. The contractor opened it up and discovered it had already been filled. Saved us a nice amount of cash.


The only thing we left in our old house was the riding mower (we were moving to a much smaller lot).

 

[Disney Doll]

An old falling down aluminum shed with a bunch of not really good garden stuff in it (cracked flowerpots, rusted tools).

Some decent tools & stuff in the basement. DH was happy about that. Some pictures of the house when it was first built.

 

[nicj8506]

Our house came with ugly curtains in the living room, dining room and all 3 bedrooms. We took them all down except for the living room, just because we haven't gotten around to getting new curtains yet, and have lived here for almost 2 years. We also got a kids log cabin in the backyard for our daughter to play in. So we tell everyone we got 2 houses for the price of one!

 

[englishteacha]

Our house came with a giant chicken barn and all the junk of 30 years of storage. Blech. We also found a Christmas ornament hanging in the dining room (goes on our tree now) and the sellers left a drawer of misc. tools in the kitchen, anything you'd need when moving in. That was nice of them. It had a hammer, wrench, screwdrivers, scissors, etc. Basically what you might need when you're assembling stuff or whatnot.