Comedy Enquiry Responses

Tiddlywinks

unrecordings wrote: »

The vendors are trying to be clever and, I think you have a fairly simple clear cut response: Reduce your offer by £1000 to have the manure removed from the loft and a further £500 to retrieve the bins from the chimney

... or the OP could just stop asking silly questions and just get on with the purchase.

Excited13

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

... or the OP could just stop asking silly questions and just get on with the purchase.

Is it them or their solicitor who has decided the questions?

chris_m

ElkyElky wrote: »

I'd sue after moving in. When you discover there isn't any manure in the loft despite the vendor declaring so on these important documents, you will of course be disappointed. :rotfl:

Especially as you were planning on starting your own little mushroom business upon hearing that the loft was already prepared for it - weren't you?

G_M

I haven't seen the forms for awhile but these Qs are probobly standard Qs on the form solicitors routinely sent.

paddedjohn

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

... or the OP could just stop asking silly questions and just get on with the purchase.

Not really a silly question if the house was at the end of a narrow lane and the bins need to be dragged 200yds every week.;)

ndf9876

G_M wrote: »

What would worry me is not the answers given to those two questions.

It is the indication that other answers may also be inaccurate/unreliable.

As Herbalus says above, the vendors seem to think it is a game.

Yes. Very funny. But there are £100,000s at stake.

If a vendor (understandably) thinks a Q is banal/obvious/whatever,it is easy to just repeat "The purchaser should rely on his own investigations" to each irrelevant Q, whilst answering other Q.s honestly/helpfully.

Not take the p*ss.

I'd be tempted to walk away, but of course you'll have too much emotion/£ already invested in the purchase.

This echoes my feelings on the matter completely.

That, and I would absolutely go back, and very seriously, ask whether the bin collection from the chimney will involve noise nuisance from a helicopter, and whether the vendors experience unpleasant smells from the manure in the loft. Two can play at being facetious ;-)

Dan-Dan

i wouldnt have thought , with how long these things take at the best of times , that it`s a good idea to be fannying about back and forth with meaningless games

moneyistooshorttomention

Though there is a serious side to this and its got me thinking how rubbish gets collected from the house I am buying considering the neighbourhood layout.

I wont ask a question specifically about this though. I've figured out how the Council probably does it at the moment and that it may need for them to change their procedure and, if so, what they will need to do so instead.

DRP

unrecordings wrote: »

The vendors are trying to be clever and, I think you have a fairly simple clear cut response: Reduce your offer by £1000 to have the manure removed from the loft and a further £500 to retrieve the bins from the chimney

This is exactly what I would do.

Make sure the vendor knows that legal documents are not the place for silly jokes! (assuming they are just jokes :eek:)

ValHaller

paddedjohn wrote: »

Not really a silly question if the house was at the end of a narrow lane and the bins need to be dragged 200yds every week.;)

Very good point. We assume so much and most of us don't live anywhere where these considerations apply. It is far from a silly question

G_M wrote: »

What would worry me is not the answers given to those two questions.

It is the indication that other answers may also be inaccurate/unreliable.

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I'd be tempted to walk away, but of course you'll have too much emotion/£ already invested in the purchase.

I agree with the idea of walking away. As things are currently, if OP accepts the form, I think there may be very little legal comeback on any other answer if they swallow those answers.

I also like the idea of dropping the offer to allow for removal of manure etc. This I think would be the basis of my response.

I think OP really should crack the whip here and not accept these answers. I suggest going through the form with a fine tooth comb and identifying absolutely every unsatisfactory answer. Then through the solicitor dropping the offer by £5,000 to cover removal of manure and arrangements to deposit the bin by the chimney. Advise that the offer will be reinstated, provided

• the manure is removed from the loft, and insulation provided to current Building regs (sting in the tail?)
• the vendor renegotiates the bin arrangements with the council
• all other unsatisfactory answers are addressed
• the form is resubmitted to reflect the work done

It might be funny for vendor to do this, but it will waste most of 2 weeks. OP should not accept the form as it stands.