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Did you clean up for the mortgage valuation?
RoxieW
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Evening All,
Had a phone call today booking in the mortgage valuation for our buyer for Weds. Great - all is moving in the right direction. However, I run my own business and I am so busy and on deadline this week - therefore the house has suffered a bit. The last time it had a good going over was last Weds. Is it expected to be as 'show home' as it was when showing potential buyers around? What will the valuer be looking at?
I'm a tad concerned as I think we have secured a good price for our property at £140k. Next door sold for £115k a couple of years ago, and from the outside the houses look identical. However, the difference is that our house has been completely re-furbished last year, whereas, there's still has the original kitchen, bathroom etc - basically untouched since built 20 years ago. I obviously want to show off what they are getting for their money, but I literally have no time to get it so it's shown in its best light. Do I really need to pull an all nighter cleaning, or does it not matter that much?
Had a phone call today booking in the mortgage valuation for our buyer for Weds. Great - all is moving in the right direction. However, I run my own business and I am so busy and on deadline this week - therefore the house has suffered a bit. The last time it had a good going over was last Weds. Is it expected to be as 'show home' as it was when showing potential buyers around? What will the valuer be looking at?
I'm a tad concerned as I think we have secured a good price for our property at £140k. Next door sold for £115k a couple of years ago, and from the outside the houses look identical. However, the difference is that our house has been completely re-furbished last year, whereas, there's still has the original kitchen, bathroom etc - basically untouched since built 20 years ago. I obviously want to show off what they are getting for their money, but I literally have no time to get it so it's shown in its best light. Do I really need to pull an all nighter cleaning, or does it not matter that much?
MANAGED TO CLEAR A 3K OVERDRAFT IN ONE FRUGAL, SUPER CHARGED MONEY EARNING MONTH!:j
£10 a day challenge Aug £408.50, Sept £90
Weekly.
155/200
"It's not always rainbows and butterflies, It's compromise that moves us along."
£10 a day challenge Aug £408.50, Sept £90
Weekly.
155/200
"It's not always rainbows and butterflies, It's compromise that moves us along."
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Surveyors do not value the property on the basis of a clean kitchen! They are more interested in the roof tiles, insulation, cracked walls etc.0
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I'd make sure they have access to the loft space if it is currently blocked - and clear the floor elsewhere so they can walk around.
Otherwise I agree with G_M.0 -
Thank you - you've put my mind at rest. The floors are clear lol it's not that bad!MANAGED TO CLEAR A 3K OVERDRAFT IN ONE FRUGAL, SUPER CHARGED MONEY EARNING MONTH!:j
£10 a day challenge Aug £408.50, Sept £90
Weekly.
155/200
"It's not always rainbows and butterflies, It's compromise that moves us along."0 -
Thank you - you've put my mind at rest. The floors are clear lol it's not that bad!
Agree with the above. This kind of survey is quite brief and intended to assess the risk to the lender. Unless something looks to be obviously wrong its just a short visual inspection of the key factors that might affect the selling price like subsidence, rising damp, leaky roof, old wiring.Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0
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