Companies that can buy your house; are they any good?

richardw

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

The mortgage is outstanding by around £63K.....

How much has a similar one gone for recently?

giddypenguin

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

We bought the house not knowing he was there as previous owner failed to declare on the buyers and sellers form.

What did they fail to declare? Someone running a business down the road? If it was such a problem why didn't you see it when you viewed?

[Deleted User]

A bit of creative problem solving will get around the issue you're having with declaring your complaints.

Step 1. Place house on market
Step 2. Attend viewings with partner not present
Step 3. Segue conversation into "why are you selling?"
Step 4. Explain to prospective buyers that you love the house and love living here but your partner is a nightmare and gets very upset with the mobile mechanic, so much so they've filed a complaint about it and you just want your partner to be happy again so you're moving even though the mechanic doesn't bother you

Then when the complaints are declared during the selling process your buyers will think "oh yeah, that's the crazy partners complaint! Not a big deal!".

Magic.

(note: doing this is immoral and I wouldn't recommend it...)

SPELLKASTER

giddypenguin wrote: »

What did they fail to declare? Someone running a business down the road? If it was such a problem why didn't you see it when you viewed?

We came round and viewed at certain times during the day early evening and weekends.

However as we weren't aware that there was a mobile mechanic, we didn't know what to look out for!!

tim123456789

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

Its a long story so wont go into it but to say the bloke is an !!!!!!!.

Problems with parking being one of them.

We bought the house not knowing he was there as previous owner failed to declare on the buyers and sellers form.

Are you misunderstanding your obligations here?

You do not have to inform the prospective purchaser of any hidden "problems" (unless they ask a specific question), only problems that escalate to "disputes".

tim

giddypenguin

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

We came round and viewed at certain times during the day early evening and weekends.

However as we weren't aware that there was a mobile mechanic, we didn't know what to look out for!!

For goodness sake... are you really serious?!

So if you had of noticed you wouldn't have moved in?

I think it could be you who is the nuisance neighbour...

DaftyDuck

tim123456789 wrote: »

Are you misunderstanding your obligations here?

.................only problems that escalate to "disputes".

tim

Oh, from earlier threads, this appears to have definitely been escalated to a "dispute"..

Ionkontrol

Can anyone reference a court case where a case for non-disclosure of a dispute has resulted in a successful outcome?

SPELLKASTER

Got an estate agent coming out today to value the property.

Basically, yes the vendor should have disclosed about the mobile mechanic 3 doors away, estate agent confirmed vendor should have so we might have a claim for non disclosure after all!!

_Andy_

See also

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4663937