Emergency Advice!

Adam86_2

ruggedtoast obviously isn't reading things properly lol

Adam86_2

In fact ruggedtoast, why don't you come rond and dispose of the concrete then? haha

hcb42

OP, you are buying a house from a deceased person, or her estate, and you have two minor issues to deal with. What about YOU doing the compassionate thing here and not worry over it. Do you not think they have had enough to deal with? I bought my first house at 18, moving is stressful, that will not change, and we all need to deal with it, FTB or not.

I will come up and change the darn lock myself if it helps

People leave houses when they are alive and well and do not clear them properly or to our liking. This is a fact of life. You will not change that, and I will not change that. By the time you have sold this house and bought your second you will understand this is par for the course. You have opened a thread asking for emergency advice, but there is no emergency here.

You say you understand my post; but then say that is no excuse. So you don't understand.

You know what you have to do, either push it, in which case you risk THEM calling it off (I would) or accept it. The only one who can decide is you no matter what anyone else thinks what they would do/have done in the past.

They might actually be planning to sort it. They just might not see it with the same urgency that you do.

MrandMrsB

Hello hcb42

The OP does not run a charity to help distressed folks who are selling deceased people's homes! It's the vendor who is at fault for not having sorted those two problems sooner. I do know that it can be upsetting. A house that had been owned by our family for a 100 years was sold recently, which even brought back memories of my grandmother who died when I was 14 yo (she was in her 90's), and I started grieving for her again. We were honest with the buyer: pointed out all the faults that we were aware of, and even had a kitchen range removed in case it was dangerous (it was!). Basically we had to say that it was "sold as seen" since we were not aware of all the faults.

As for Adam86 my thought is that the vendor left those two jobs undone because there was a problem rectifying them. Somebody mentioned using a sledgehammer to break the large block, well maybe they were afraid that they would damage the garage floor if they used that method. And maybe that is the only way to dispose of it if nobody can lift it. As for the door, if it's a "plastic" one they are very difficult to repair I believe, and as I mentioned before, a friend thought a minor repair was needed on her door, but because it was very slightly warped the whole door needed to be replaced.

They have promised to rectify the problems, so they obviously should do so or reduce the price. It's a buyers market, so the seller is not going to withdraw the sale because of that, unless of course they are looking for an excuse to withdraw.....

Flyboy152

So, Adam, what will you do when the vendor doesn't do as you ask?

martindow

The reality of buying houses is that almost invariably odd things are left that should be cleared and there will be door that stick and the like. These should be fixed as something in the contract stipulates this. This is the theory.

The practice is that items like this will cost more to make a claim than they are worth. It is easiest to accept this and just sort minor things yourself.

Annoying as it might be, try not to get worked up and spoil the pleasure you should be getting moving into your new house.

Doozergirl

MrandMrsB wrote: »

They have promised to rectify the problems, so they obviously should do so or reduce the price. It's a buyers market, so the seller is not going to withdraw the sale because of that, unless of course they are looking for an excuse to withdraw.....

On the contrary, the vendor is saying that they aren't doing anything about it...

About 3 people offered the same advice as you before you did, but most of us can see the practicality of just grabbing hold and sorting it out yourself instead of getting the solicitors arguing over tiny issues. No one denies that it would be just dandy if it was sorted by the vendors, but most of us can see that it isn't really worth getting stressed about.

The OP can kick up a fuss and insist it's done, negotiate the price down or just deal with it. His question is whether the seller should be doing something about it and the answer to that is simply that the law doesn't provide a great deal of support in minor matters like that post exchange because solicitors are expensive. The vendor has signed something which is not yet part of a legally binding contract, so that point is moot if they are now saying that they can't. It's just easier to do whatever is easiest - and for me, it isn't insisting that the vendor does it via an argument between the solicitors when they've said it's not possible for them to do it.

The concrete got in there, so someone must be capable of getting it out again! How ridiculous to say that it can't. It makes a lot more sense to me that it's just inconvenient for people to be making minor adjustments to a house that you don't live in. They have lives to be getting on with as well and it probably doesn't rank all that highly and they're trying to sell it as seen, which is fair enough. Some people have to.

58 posts about a lump of concrete and a sticky lock.

MrandMrsB

How are you getting on Adam86??? Surely you weren't born in 1986 were you? If so, my son is older than you. Must say that you seem very mature. Everybody seems to be younger than me!

Flyboy152

MrandMrsB wrote: »

How are you getting on Adam86??? Surely you weren't born in 1986 were you? If so, my son is older than you. Must say that you seem very mature. Everybody seems to be younger than me!

Have you been reading the same thread?

Adam86_2

MrandMrsB wrote: »

How are you getting on Adam86??? Surely you weren't born in 1986 were you? If so, my son is older than you. Must say that you seem very mature. Everybody seems to be younger than me!

We got a call from the Estate Agents yesterday and advised everything would be sorted by the vendor. We have been up to the house today and all is perfect.

Everything is on for tommorow.

And for everyone asking what we were going to do if they did not sort this, and who seemed to be under the impression that we would pull out, you are completely wrong. We wouldnt pull out over something like this. These were points raised weeks ago to vendor and nothing seemed to be said about it till now.

The point for the topic was to see who was liable.

And yes I was born in 1986!