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1. christine
   Comment by christine | 05/02/07 at 6:37 am

   we bought a house in 1996 and the tenants (not the owners,

   tenants in the unit of the multi-family) who had to move out so we could have a place to live took

   the ceiling light fixtures and all the light switches/dimmer switches etc… with them.

   we

   were kind of shocked, because these things ARE nailed down. so to speak.

   we called our

   buyer’s broker who researched it with the seller’s agent. he said that the tenants installed all

   the fixtures while living there, and felt they were their property. the lights BELONGED to them,

   because they bought them and paid for them… AND because we didn’t specify that we wanted to keep

   them in the P&S.

   how they got to review the P&S and discover that we didn’t

   mention we wanted lighting fixtures as the tenants and not the seller is interesting… i think

   they were in cahoots with the seller to find a way to screw us over because they were pissed we

   were making them move out… but they were in the 3bd unit and didn’t want to move into the 2bd

   unit, which we offered to them. We had 2 kids, we needed the 3bd… they were being assy the entire

   time.

   Anyway — by the time we got in there, made this discovery the morning of the walk

   through, pitched a fit and yelled and screamed, the tenants were long gone without a forwarding

   address or location known to the seller. we insisted on money for replacement and the seller

   refused.

   it got ugly. but… lesson learned. we sold that house in 2006 and moved into a new

   one, and everything we wanted (including the woodstove) was mentioned in the p&s.

2. Loukianos
   Comment by Loukianos | 09/03/07 at 9:43 pm

   Interesting…

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