Plea to all Vendors with Children

thequant

!!!!!! if you have children and are trying to sell your house, please make an effort to remove any marks or scribbles your brats have made on them walls.

If you expect me to buy your house, please don't expect me to repair the damage that YOUR children have made, and which YOU can't be bothered to put right.

Rant over, Back to the house hunting :mad:

Scudlink

Surely you just lower you offer to cover the cost of said repairs?

[Deleted User]

I've always completely repainted the houses I've bought (ok, just 2)

If you're upset, just lower the offer to include the cost of repainting

giddypenguin

A wipe with soapy water or a lick of paint? Surely you'd be planning to redecorate anyway? Or are you looking for the perfect house already decorated to your taste? When it comes to house buying, there is plenty more to get riled over - this would be pretty low on my scale. Easily fixed.

thequant

Scudlink wrote: »

Surely you just lower you offer to cover the cost of said repairs?

In an ideal world yes, but I very much get the impression a lot of these vendors are completley oblvious to the state of their places.

addyboy1982

Knock them down by £100 for the cost of a few tins of Dulux....

shegirl

A little OTT don't you think?

thequant

giddypenguin wrote: »

A wipe with soapy water or a lick of paint? .

exactly that is the point, something that is something that is quick and easy to fix. problem is that people that can't be bothered to fix these things, means that after a period of living in the property theres hundreds of these little jobs.

of course I would expect to redecorate when I moved in, but I dont want to move in somewhere that I had to redercorate the moment I first set foot through the door because I would be ashamed to invite anyone round while it is in that state.

thequant

addyboy1982 wrote: »

Knock them down by £100 for the cost of a few tins of Dulux....

what about my labour ?

thequant

shegirl wrote: »

A little OTT don't you think?

Nope, one of the recent places I had seen, had mould all over the building in addition to the kids graffiti on every wall.

I'm very tempted to call social services next time I see a place in such a state.

for the record I am looking in "middle class" areas, and not ex council properties. I find it shamefull the way some people in this country choose to live.

thequant

I guess I'm getting very frustated that there is so little on the market at the moment, except all the tosh that has failed to sell in the past year and are now on with about 5 EA's each.

The reason they are failing to sell are because they are over priced in relation to the condition they are in. I.e. the common response is "next door sold for £x, so we want £x". which I would be happy to pay if it was in the same condition, but they never are.