House Delayed Again

GDB2222

It's not a 10% cancellation fee. It's a 10% deposit. The original contract still stands, so the OP loses the deposit and gets pursued in the courts for the balance of the seller's loss.

FraudBuster

Caveat Emptor.

rugbygirl27

sunshine20 wrote: »

We have purchased a house on the Heronsbrook development in Swansea. Apparently this delay is being caused by the construction company being delayed with building the pumping station and the electrical station. I just hope we're in by christmas!:mad:

Ah, so you're not going to be our next door neighbours then. Ours is delayed because they've laid of brickies!! Would have been nice for them to keep enough on to finish our house on time! :mad:

rugbygirl27

FraudBuster wrote: »

Caveat Emptor.

How helpful.

Davesnave

rugbygirl27 wrote: »

How helpful.

Nil carborundum!:rotfl:

sunshine20

Hey guys, just thought id post an update for you.

After sending two nasty letters to Charles Church's head office and waiting two weeks for an answer, they sent us a letter offering us £1000 to spend in their catalog. You would think this was brilliant but everything in their catalog is ridiculously priced.

Nevermind though we got some free flooring and fencing out of it all. Just a note to people buying new builds; make sure you can get in writing exactly what is included in your build as half way through the project in Swansea all fences were downgraded to just posts and wires instead of the standard wooden fences. They also made gates and outside taps non-standard. I love Charles Church:mad:

rugbygirl27

sunshine20 wrote: »

Hey guys, just thought id post an update for you.

After sending two nasty letters to Charles Church's head office and waiting two weeks for an answer, they sent us a letter offering us £1000 to spend in their catalog. You would think this was brilliant but everything in their catalog is ridiculously priced.

Nevermind though we got some free flooring and fencing out of it all. Just a note to people buying new builds; make sure you can get in writing exactly what is included in your build as half way through the project in Swansea all fences were downgraded to just posts and wires instead of the standard wooden fences. They also made gates and outside taps non-standard. I love Charles Church:mad:

Well at least you got something out of it I guess. Ours has now been delayed from October 2008 to at least March 2009! We're trying to get out of the contract but I don't think it's likely.

Glad you've had a bit of good news.

Davesnave

Charles Church and I had a race in 2006. They were building a 3 storey detached house next to the little retirement bungalow I was renovating and selling. Originally, the site of this house had been an open space on their plans, but they altered them, bunged up a couple of notices on lamposts, put an ad in the paper and it went through planning 'on the nod.' Most of the neighbours were in their 80s, so it's doubtful if they even knew there'd been a change, and I was living in another town.

Anyway, Charles Church won & got the house up before I sold, but thanks to some leylandii, it couldn't directly overlook the bungalow or garden. The poor old dears next door weren't so lucky; the way large detached houses were placed behind their little bungalows, facing directly into them, was criminal.

Just anecdotal really, but anyone who gets anything out of CC is doing well in my books. I got asking price for the bungalow, so this isn't sour grapes, just a rant about the way they treat people - in this case really elderly pensioners.