If you’re buying a home and you write your offer you love the house, the thing that you love the most is that fantastic chandelier in the dining room, and the adorable dog house that looks exactly like the house you’re buying. Make sure you write those things in. Here in central Virginia, our contract actually lists out the items that are automatically assumed to be staying when you buy your house. So they’re automatically in the contract. We don’t need to write those in. They are technically things that are attached to the house, which means fixtures, fans, curtain rods, blinds, dishwashers, microwaves, and stoves. That’s basically it. Now, some of the gray areas can be mirrors in the bathroom, sometimes they are attached. And sometimes they’re not refrigerators. Well, they’re always attached the same way a stove is, why are they not included? I don’t really know. But they’re not. So we always write those in. If we’re buying a home, and you want to keep that refrigerator or the washer and dryer, we’re gonna have to write those in because they’re not automatically included in the contract. But I would go a step further and say, that if you absolutely fell in love with that chandelier in the dining room, and the seller wants to take it, they should have excluded it. But if we know we want to keep it and we know we don’t want any hurt feelings, or kerfuffle, as we go through the process, we go ahead and write that in as well. So to be safe, we’re always going to write in all of those little extras, but probably not the window blinds in the bathroom, and probably not the ceiling fan that’s in the rec room.
If you’re looking at homes online, and you are not working with a realtor, I’d love to help you figure out exactly what you’re looking for and what’s going to stay with that home when you purchase it. So give me a call and let’s chat and I can help you navigate that entire process.