Failing to disclose on buyers and sellers form - help please

SPELLKASTER

It is by law you have to disclose if there are any problems.

We simply would not have bought knowing this mechanic was 3 doors away.

Errata

Perhaps they didn't declare they had problems with the neighbour because they didn't? Seems quite straightforward.

SPELLKASTER

G_M wrote: »

What about the postman who lives 4 doors away? He gets up at 4.00 every morning and his bicycle squeaks cos he never oils it.

Does this have to be declared on the form? Even if you sleep through the squeaking? Just in case the buyer does NOT sleep through the squeaking?

!!

If the people who sold to you had no issue with the mechanic, why should they declare his occupation?

You need to focus on the mechanic, not your long-gone sellers!

* operating a business from residential property (or is it a designated garage? In which case you must have seen it when you viewed the property)?

* obstructing the Highway

* Noise polution

* Parking on the pavement

* Peope power (get a residents association together....)

I think everyone is missing the point; He has no garage, he services vehicles on the side of the road.

My local Council has said she will speak to the Highways regarding this matter, due to the environmental damage he is causing, along with everything else.

Its just a pity if we had known before moving in or we would have pulled out of the purchase of the property.

The other trouble is that other residents in the street use him for car servicing!!

We just moved away from a problem neighbour; we didnt expect another one!!

LogisticsGuy

If no-one else has complained, and they are happy to use him for car servicing etc. sounds like he's not the problem neighbour...

outdoorcjc

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

It is by law you have to disclose if there are any problems.

We simply would not have bought knowing this mechanic was 3 doors away.

If the issues are as bad as you say, how did you not notice it when you viewed the property.

You only need to disclose disputes, if he had made the complaints to the council etc that you have it might have been expected to appear but if he didn't have an issue why would he declare it?

olly300

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

I was told by the local Councillor that the Council cant do anything because it is not on his property.

However because he is doing it on the side of the road that falls into Highways.

Councillors don't always know everything. I contacted a local councillor about my noise problem and he didn't have a clue about how to get it dealt with.

1. Go to the Neighbours from Hell website and read up. Even sign up and post if you can't find something similar to your case by searching.
2. Contact your Environmental Health Officer over the phone and have a polite chat. S/he will be more likely to direct you to the correct people to raise a complaint if they can't help you themselves. (Their number will be on your council website.)

However you still must make the nuisance diary.

Also if you see cars that are for sale take a note of the registration numbers and the mobile phone numbers on the adverts.

When you talk to the Environment Health Officer or whoever don't make accusations like he's probably on benefits etc as they aren't interested.

Your problems are:
1. Noise
2. Pollution
3. Obstruction

Errata

Nobody is missing the point. If the vendor didn't have a problem with the neighbour they can hardly say they did, can they?
The form under discussion is the vendor's experience, not the councils or the UN or anyone else.

bclark

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

It is by law you have to disclose if there are any problems.

We simply would not have bought knowing this mechanic was 3 doors away.

Not quite true. You have to disclose if there have been any formal disputes, you don't even know if your vendors werw mildly ticked off about it.

JQ.

bclark wrote: »

Not quite true. You have to disclose if there have been any formal disputes, you don't even know if your vendors werw mildly ticked off about it.

and from the sounds of it the other neighbours are happy to have a cheap mechanic on their doorstep, perhaps the vendor was the same.

I'd also be hacked off if cars were being dumped on the street outside my house and a neighbouring house was being used as a business, but I wouldn't consider it the vendors responsibility to inform me. Every house we've ever bought we've visited numerous times prior to purchase at all times of the day and night and spoken directly to the neighbours to ask about the street and the neighbours. I see it as part of the buying process.

DRP

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

It is by law you have to disclose if there are any problems.

We simply would not have bought knowing this mechanic was 3 doors away.

1) This isn't true.

2) How do you know they had problems?