Why are you moving?/Have you ever been burgled?

Leighthal

skintlass wrote: »

Why bother asking if you yourself are going to lie about your reasons for moving? Your area sounds a nightmare.

If your buying then it's upto your soilcitor to highlight any 'problems'(officially reported that is).
If your moving into an unknown area then the internet is your friend :cool: .

PasturesNew

There's a new map being published shortly that will show reported crime on a street by street basis. It's not live yet though, but it will be soon (next month or so/any day now).

ferry

Well ..we're looking to move from a 'nice' area to an even nicer one(just doing a bit of research now) due to the two stabbing incidents at the top of our Crescent(and getting fed up of explaining the Police presence on our street to our 8 year old) within 2 weeks,a sex shop being surprisingly authorised for opening for last 2 years by our local council on our High Street(about 2 mins walk away) and a local major print works(News International ) opening up virtually on our doorstep...plus the area seems to be the natural geographic area on the map for all those intending to move up from the rougher areas surrounding us...a Police presence being necessary in the local Senior schools due to trouble spots....
Ok you're never going to be rid of the problem,thats Britain today,but you try to reduce the risk for those you may leave behind..
....need I go on..?

Cant wait to leave personally a once beautiful and desirable area of East Hertfordshire brought to its knees by underfunding,those undesirables moving into the area and wrecking its immediate potential...
Please dont start me off..our children deserve better..

ferry x

Leighthal

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's a new map being published shortly that will show reported crime on a street by street basis. It's not live yet though, but it will be soon (next month or so/any day now).

Another example how this will be 'different this time'.

LillyJ

Leighthal wrote: »

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That puts students in a bad light,or do you mean the students come and give you advice?

No I am afraid you have twisted my words there! STUDENTS ARE BURGULARY TARGETS NOT THE BURGULARS! I was a student myself for 6 years until last year and have lived in the area for all that time.

It is a well known fact that student houses are prone to being burgled. They have 4 of everything - laptops etc, are away from the house for holiday periods etc.

Why have you picked me up on that for no reason?

mishmash

Hi

I am moving as I need a bigger house. I have never been burgled as such (one of the kids bikes was stolen from the shed as they had left the door open, which counts as a burglary though). The area I live in was for some time a crime 'hotspot' and burglaries were a common feature on some of the terraced houses, due to the alleys. backings and things that were ratruns and get aways for billy burglars. Despite me having shocking security sense, often leaving door unlocked, windows open and the odd occassion keys in the front door. I have never been burgled-suppose I am lucky.

In fact I will be sad to go in a way, it's really quiet with nice people generally, the house has been good to me.

Mish

LandyAndy

LillyJ wrote: »

No I am afraid you have twisted my words there! STUDENTS ARE BURGULARY TARGETS NOT THE BURGULARS! I was a student myself for 6 years until last year and have lived in the area for all that time.

It is a well known fact that student houses are prone to being burgled. They have 4 of everything - laptops etc, are away from the house for holiday periods etc.

Why have you picked me up on that for no reason?

Humour?;) .

boinging_2

ohyespleasethankyou wrote: »

These are the questions I feel I'd like to know the answer to but is it 'bad form' (in which case tough luck - I want to know) to ask or can vendor refuse to answer/lie?

As part of the buying process you can instruct your solicitor to ask the vendors if they have been burgled and if they have any disputes with neighbours.

The vendors then have to put in writing the answers. I believe you can then take action against them should they have lied to these questions.

zebulon

LillyJ wrote: »

No I am afraid you have twisted my words there!

LillyJ wrote: »

Why have you picked me up on that for no reason?

to be fair your wording was a bit ambiguous, I did first thought you might be saying that students were burglers!

m00m00 's explanation was a bit more erg, well explanatory...

yes i completly agree -

even univ. students accommodation here are the weekly tagert of all kind of theft (from bikes to laptops etc)!

dubsey

When we sold our last house (new build, estate still being built even now 3 years later) it was because I hated the area. Loved it at first, but once the estate got bigger we found the people (their kids actually) moving in just got worse and worse. The final straw was a family moving in directly behind us and putting in the most enormous trampoline I have ever seen, which their 13 year old and his mates insisted on standing on so they could lean over our fence! They would throw stones at my children so they could no longer go into the garden and when I went to try to talk to their parents (very nicely I might add) all I got was a mouthful of abuse.

No - I did not tell my buyers any of it, strangely they didn't even seem to notice the trampoline on viewing, but when we went back a few days later to pick up some post she certainly mentioned it then!

The house we are in now we have had two bikes stolen from the locked back garden, but my son left them lying on the grass (didn't learn the first time obviously). Two lovely tall plants in pots either side of the front door taken, pot plants from the back garden stolen and someone has been in our garage, but again we hadn't locked it. We are still very happy here and are not considering moving but we now take security seriously, we've obviously been spoilt before by not needing to. If we were to sell, then no I wouldn't mention it, but we did tell our new neighbours when they moved in what's happened to us and spoke to the other neighbours so they can make sure their homes are secure too.