You’ve just settled the purchase of your dream home and you’re excited about moving in. Your joy is then dashed when you find that the seller hasn’t left the home with the fittings and inclusions that you inspected.

The cascading water fountain that was in the foyer and constituted an impressive entry statement to the home is gone. The 30 staghorn ferns that were hanging on all of the outside walls of the house under the verandas, creating a leafy rural amenity to the house, have been removed, eaving gaping holes in the walls.

Or perhaps it was the cubby house (now removed) in the backyard that impressed the kids about their new home, or the now-departed garden shed that was going to be dad’s new tool shed.

Some of these problems might seem like “small beer” on paper, but I can assure you that they become very real and upsetting to you as the new owner of the property. [Read more...]