Plea to all Vendors with Children

notanewuser

My daughter's room is soft marshmallow pink with white furniture. Stunning. It's the smallest room - even if/when we move her into one of the bigger rooms I'll probably paint it marshmallow pink.

We didn't paint it when she was born - it was just boring magnolia. But i took the opportunity to paint it when her cot came out and bed went in when she was 21 months.

I did spend a lot on furniture - £400 ikea wardrobe, £750 single trundle bed and £150 custom made roman blind - but her room isn't big enough for anything toy wise - she's only allowed soft toys and books in there. :-)

Robisere

Think it was the comic Jack Whitehall who came out with this one: -

Next time we move house, I am going to put up some really horrible, objectionable wallpaper in the main bedroom. But before I do that, I shall paint underneath, in bright red, dripping paint and shaky, capital letters - I WILL KILL AGAIN!"

Should give rise to more anxiety than some childish scribble.

Treadmill

It's their house, they can let their kids do what they like to the paintwork. If you don't like the house or think its overpriced or in bad condition, don't buy it. It's a buyers market. They will work it out when the house reminds unsold.

alta

thequant wrote: »

!!!!!! 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:

If the color of the walls and the scribble on the paper is all the OP can see, then maybe he should not be buying a house. More importantly he should be looking to see if the structure of the property is sound, layout is right for him, the area is where he wants to be, and if he can afford the property.
Very few people who buy a property don't change the decor with-in a few months, your buying bricks and mortar, not other people decor.
It is disrespectful to make judgments on the way people live, a clean tidy home does not mean the owners are "alright", just as people who live in local authority properties and any different than those that live on upmarket roads.
If you don't like the property, then just leave and move on to the next, if you think the property is over priced, then don't buy it! Nobody is forcing you to buy or repair their house, maybe as a FTB you are looking for more then you can afford, it often is the case.

Mozzanov

thequant wrote: »

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.

What's wrong with ex-council properties? Some of them are very nice, some aren't, but it's the same with any area. Private, council, ex-council, housing association, etc.

Kids like to paint and draw.. they will end up doing it on their bedroom walls and maybe even other parts of the house. It's part of life when you have a child. Avoid family homes if those things bother you so much.

I hope you were joking about calling social services. It's wrong to stick your nose into a situation you don't understand and also waste the time of such services. For all you know, they could be the happiest kid in the world with the most stable family life.

As for the mould - ask about it! Don't be afraid, they won't bite, mate. It's a chance for you to negotiate and knock the price down.

ruggedtoast

The worst house I saw was £30k over our maximum budget, and due to a misunderstanding with the super keen EA girl was the final in a morning of viewings. She seemed to want us to see it anyway and we were at a loose end til the first afternoons viewing (the house we now live in), so we duly followed her there. We had seen some nice houses in our budget so were genuinely interested what kind of pad an extra 30 big ones would get.

The first thing I was greeted with was a wrecked Peugeot 206 in the neighbours front garden, which had been filled with their rubbish and junk. The house we were due to see wasnt much better. They'd put a shed in their unattractively paved over front garden, the roof of which was their repository for unwanted junk.

Inside we were ungraciously greeted by a dour woman in a track suit who was obviously desperate to smoke. She could have lit up in her dingy dirty kitchen if she wanted but she chose to mope in her dingy dirty front room, muttering about how she had to go out.

This house was meant to be 'special' as they'd extended it, actually by adding a small wedge onto the side that did nothing to augment the existing rooms, and had merely created a hive of useless narrow rooms.

We saw their horrible bedrooms, the "master bedroom" which they had given to their son so he could put fake (probably man stained) black satin sheets on his bed, alongside his Nuts posters, aftershaves and weights. Their bedroom, which sucked, another bedroom which was too dark to see, and another bedroom which had been turned into a "games room" to showcase a prized artefact of a fruit machine.

Not a nice collectable fruit machine, one with the flashing buttons like you'd get in a pub. The plug had been torn off, it was dusty like the carpet that had been torn up when their son dragged it in from wherever he had stolen it.

On the way out the eager EA girl eagerly asked me what I thought. I thought she was joking and pointed at the trashed car.

"Yes but you could move in anywhere and have bad neighbours move in next to you." She proffered, as if I had failed to understand the simple logic of this fact.

I pulled a face and we drove off, slightly annoyed with the world.

TheKeymeister

We went to view a house yesterday that looked alright from the pictures, but something didn't look quite right. It was right at the top of our budget and I expected it to be immaculate for that money, and the estate agent assured me it was a "beautiful house"

Instead we were greeted with an ex-rental house, one of the main selling points was the absolutely hammered "newly refitted kitchen" that looked like a B&Q bargain basement special, all the flooring was damaged throughout the house, the walls and floors were filthy, there was rubbish and broken furniture everywhere, and the tiling looked like it had been done by a blind person.

Oh, and all the rooms were tiny, and you might just about fit a Mk1 fiesta in the garage it was so narrow. She even reckoned someone had put an offer in that morning so if we were interested the office was open all day....

thequant

TheKeymeister wrote: »

We went to view a house yesterday that looked alright from the pictures, but something didn't look quite right. It was right at the top of our budget and I expected it to be immaculate for that money, and the estate agent assured me it was a "beautiful house"

Instead we were greeted with an ex-rental house, one of the main selling points was the absolutely hammered "newly refitted kitchen" that looked like a B&Q bargain basement special, all the flooring was damaged throughout the house, the walls and floors were filthy, there was rubbish and broken furniture everywhere, and the tiling looked like it had been done by a blind person.

Oh, and all the rooms were tiny, and you might just about fit a Mk1 fiesta in the garage it was so narrow. She even reckoned someone had put an offer in that morning so if we were interested the office was open all day....

Me thinks it's time to start naming and shaming these filthy !!!!ers who keep wasting our time.

Rightmove links please! :beer:

TheKeymeister

thequant wrote: »

Me thinks it's time to start naming and shaming these filthy !!!!ers who keep wasting our time.

Rightmove links please! :beer:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40190120.html

Although it looks much cleaner in those pictures!

piglet74

When I was a kid I was allowed to have my room painted any colour I wanted, so ... I did.. It was a right assortment of colours down the years

Black.. Then Pink and black... U get the idea..

Now I let my daughter have hers wotever colour she wants... And she does.. Purple... Raspberry.. Teal.. Etc

Its a big bad world out there... Rape.. Murder..drugs.. Credit crunch.. Dole Qs..

Puts the colour of 4 walls into perspective!