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Here in Georgia, it is quite common to have a house with a basement and have a billiards (pool) table in your basement. They are not very easy to move - usually you hire a professional to take apart the table or move it for you... I've heard of buyers requesting that the sellers leave the pool table. And the sellers get upset because these pool tables cost around $5,000 to $1,500.
I had one friend who said he was in a dispute with his buyers of his house about the pool table. The buyers of his house said that the pool table was a fixture in the house and therefore had to remain in the house. My friend's RE agent advised him that the pool table was a piece of furniture and he was under no obligation. Of course my friend offered to sell the pool table separately to the buyers of his house and the buyers refused. The buyers knew that my friend was moving to a place where he wouldn't have space for the pool table so they thought they had leverage in getting his pool table. Not true, he found a buyer for his pool table, specifically me.
Here in Georgia, it is quite common to have a house with a basement and have a billiards (pool) table in your basement. They are not very easy to move - usually you hire a professional to take apart the table or move it for you... I've heard of buyers requesting that the sellers leave the pool table. And the sellers get upset because these pool tables cost around $5,000 to $1,500.
I had one friend who said he was in a dispute with his buyers of his house about the pool table. The buyers of his house said that the pool table was a fixture in the house and therefore had to remain in the house. My friend's RE agent advised him that the pool table was a piece of furniture and he was under no obligation. Of course my friend offered to sell the pool table separately to the buyers of his house and the buyers refused. The buyers knew that my friend was moving to a place where he wouldn't have space for the pool table so they thought they had leverage in getting his pool table. Not true, he found a buyer for his pool table, specifically me.
I was in a similar situation when I moved across the country. Buyer was interested in the fridge, but wanted it for less than Craigslist prices (he knew I had already moved and was going to have to come back for the furniture I left behind to stage the place). No way was I going to sell a nearly new fridge for $150. I got a fair deal from my grandma who lived nearby to replace the POS abandoned fridge that was in her place when she moved in.
Sometimes buyers think they have the advantage when they fail to see the big picture.
..once you get that thing broken-in just right you ain't gonna let something like a lil' ol' house sale separate ya' from it...
On a more serious note, I have seen a few folks ask for HUGELY expensive changes, like "we don't want the gas boiler and radiators, you think the sellers would switch to forced air for us", or "we like everything about the house except that my dad says we should not get a frame house, do you think we could ask for brick to be installed". Needless to say these 'requests' did not get fulfilled...
Oh, now that's funny! Obviously, they didn't understand that a brick facade is just that...a facade.
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