New house purchase - condition house left in...

clutton_2

why stress over a few holes.... moving house is third on the list of lifes most stressful life-events... chill out everyone...

funds with-held for leaving plant pots in a garden ?????? what Hideously anal purchasers they must have been.......

the world has gone mad......

QTPie

That is interesting.... Don't you only get the keys (so can check the state of the property) after final transfer of the funds?

QT

bryanb

QTPie wrote: »

That is interesting.... Don't you only get the keys (so can check the state of the property) after final transfer of the funds?

QT

True, but some folks have selective memories.

Doozergirl

LillythePink wrote: »

Whilst filler is cheap so is sandpaper etc, it's the principal of the thing!

It would be lovely if people left things in good condition. But they don't. And it is proportionate.

The simple thing is just to get on with it.

You cannot withold funds once you have signed the contract. Even if you pay £10 less on a million pound property you would be in breach of contract. In order to do it correctly you would have to complete and then sue the vendor for being in breach of contract themselves upon completion.

We went through the motions to sue a vendor earlier in the year for breach of contract but had to keep things in proportion. The cost to us of their breach was around £5000. We got £2500 back from them just by having the litigator write letters and we had to pay his fee out of that. If we had gone to court and won back our full costs, his fee would have wiped out our gain - you can't claim costs through the small claims route.

The very first letter would cost about the same as all the materials for filling, sanding and repainting an entire room.

Proportion. The house is worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. If the house is used enough to have rawlplug holes then it probably needs a freshen up of paint anyway - I did our lounge two years ago and it needs a refresh now - if I take my pictures down you can clearly see where the paint is a different colour from being faded by sunlight.

clutton_2

"Surely part of the contract is to make sure that the house is in a good state of repair upon completion?""

nope .... you can sell a house in ANY condition you want to... with no roof if you like or no walls either if you fancy...

buying a house falls under the legal concept of Caveat Emptor... BUYER Beware

its always up to buyers to do any investigations they want to ascertain whether the property is for them or not....

Paul_the_Painter

The fact that you are concerned about rawlplug holes and 2 missing cabinets, and don't have anything to say about .... loads of rubish left in the garden, the garage full of tat, the kitchen looking like they have just finished breakfast, light fittings missing, switches gone, and the oven missing - means that (especially when you take into account that they have already moved out!) you have got a pretty good deal.

I have heard and seen some absolute horror stories, on a scale of 1 - 10, your seller seems like a 9.

PThomas_2

First, may I say thankyou to everyone for there thoughts.

I know this is a minor thing in the scheme of things, and house buying is one of the most stressfull times (Had one of the others recently as well - divorce!)

However, the principal has annoyed me - agreeing to make good in writing to my solicitor (part of 30 odd questions and answers) and then not doing it.......

And removing cheap items that leave more damage to repair than they are worth to replace, especially as he is going into rented accomodation!

I agree, it could have been far worse and we could have discovered this when we actually picked up the keys which would have somewhat taken the shine off....
But I have until Friday, so I am hoping he will see sense in this.

Barneysmom

bryanb wrote: »

My butler insists that the under chambermaid does the sanding, can't get the staff these days.

I thought it said the butler is under the chambermaid.....
I'll get me coat.