[ryandrake]

Less sentimental, but just as infuriating (to me): My last house we bought had an old hot tub out back from the early 90s. My agent said don't price that POS into your estimate of the home's worth--it's probably never worked. We bought the house and lo and behold it did not work, but I carefully rehabbed it, replaced the pumps and sensors and cleaned everything up, made a custom topper for it, and went on to enjoy 8 years of fun in it.

Came time to sell the house, and I told the buyer, the hot tub is great--we'd love to keep it--if you don't want it, we can negotiate that, and we'll arrange to actually move it to our new home! They didn't respond and bought the house anyway. I find out from my next door neighbor that the first thing they did when they moved in was demolish it and haul it to the dump.

Hey, it's their house, but some people are just wasteful.

[saalweachter]

When I bought a house, the prior owners requested I return the front door to them within N days, the contract had a section keeping $500 in escrow to be returned to me upon receipt of the door (by the shipping company, I believe).

My realtor was like, "this basically means the house costs $500 more", but I went ahead and returned the door.

If you're faced with that situation in the future, you could try including a clause like that in the contract; the $500 wasn't really the motivation for me to immediately replace the door and pack up the old for shipping, but putting a little money on the line might motivate the buyer to at least value the feature you'd like returned if they don't care for it.

[bombcar]

It’s fine but I’m just laughing at “the front door doesn’t convey”.