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 we took the kitchen when we moved out
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I think you can blame it on Ikea and modular cabinets.
The practice doesn't seem to have hit the Pacific Northwest yet. I can't say that I've seen people take their cabinets with them yet.
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we took the kitchen when we moved out
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We are better consumers, so we want new stuff when we move. We buy another house, and likely as not will throw out the last occupant's appliances because it's the wrong color, and buy new anyway.
Home ownership is really expensive in Europe, so the majority of people rent all their lives. If you are moving out of a rental, you take everything you bought with you. I'm told Europeans like click-plank flooring, because they will even take the living room floor when they move.
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we took the kitchen when we moved out
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You haven't been in enough foreclosures. I've seen doors and windows removed and furnaces taken. One house, a very angry individual that took a chain saw and removed the exterior wall of the bathroom, seems the bathtub wouldn't fit through the door.
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we took the kitchen when we moved out
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Raymond's and my experience are similar. The kitchen is always gone, plumbing fixtures, carpet, hardware.
I've even seen them take the copper out of the walls.
European kitchens are entirely different than ours; they snap into tracks, and are intended to be removed.
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I lived in Germany for 4+ years, I don't know about the kitchen thing (my focus in life was elsewhere), but none of the houses had closets because taxs we in part based on the # of rooms you had and a closet was considered a room.
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I learned about all that in language school and I'll be damned if I can remember the details 30 years later. They even have a specific term for it. What little I do remember is that you can purchase or rent homes two ways - with or without fixtures and wardrobes.
When you think about it, from a landlord's perspective it's a good deal. You aren't responsible for the cabinet door that falls off because the hinges are worn; that ceiling fixture that gets broken isn't your responsibility, the kitchen stove that fails isn't your responsibility to fix, etc.. Renters move out, they sweep it out, you come in prime and paint it with white paint and the next guy in is welcome to paint it any way he wants and decorate it any way he wants. No security deposit disputes over worn carpets, etc.. Same for a builder - the builder doesn't have to listen to a persnickity wife complain about the choice of electrical fixtures, faucets, etc.. You sell them the home and they're presented with a blank canvas to create whatever they want.
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