You cannot take it with you?

Tales of tight-fisted home sellers abound. In this amusing article from the Telegraph, Liz Gill contemplates some of the incomprehensible lengths such sellers have gone to. Examples include:

• A clock taken off the clock tower of a country house.
  
• The removal of ceiling roses from a period property.
  
• The removal of all the brass fittings, right down to the last door hinge, to be replaced with cheap plastic.
  
• A wooden spiral staircase.