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House being sold due to conviction of owner

shaggyjh · 2013-01-04 22:06:49

Hi all, Me and the wife are going to view a house tomorrow that has come onto the market due to the previous owner being imprisoned for growing Cannabis at the property!! :wall: Is there anything we should really be wary of or look out for? I think the illegal growing was going on in the shed/outbuilding but there are…

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5 January 2013 at 2:19PM

bigchrissyg wrote: »

We brought a repo that was previously run as a brothel. Their assets frozen and then bank took the house. Solicitor had to apply to remove some legal action held on the deeds. Other than 'not at this address' a bunch of debt collector letters and replacing kicked in doors we had no problems.

No dodgy characters turning up after you bought it then! :eek:

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