Selling house, after 1 week... Uh oh.

C22DTJ

EDIT: Probably best if this thread is just removed.

Lokolo

From what I've read on this forum, you'd only be able to sell to cash buyers as most mortgage companies require the property to have been owned for at least 6 months previously.

PancakeP

No house is perfect though is it? Owning it for a week seems a bit hasty to be deciding there's nothing you can do with any of these faults that could make the property work for you.
Fwiw, I've had my house for less than a month and didn't walk in to that on day 1 of ownership and think "wow" either, but it's coming together with a small budget and a lot of man hours.

mrginge

I think you need to get a grip

skint_chick

The smoke smell will fade if you open all the windows and doors, take down any curtains/blinds left behind and get some air fresheners/freshly cut fruit in all the rooms. If there are carpets you might want to consider hiring a carpet cleaner. For the kitchen is there anywhere you could remove a wall and base unit at the end and get the worktop cut off to add a fridge freezer - or you could talk to a kitchen planner in a diy store about how they would resolve the issue if you were buying a new kitchen (even though you're not IYSWIM)

The bins issue should be easily resolved by introducing yourself to the new neighbours and asking casually if people usually leave their rubbish right outside your gate because you'd like to use it - maybe they just left it there because the house was empty. Are the flats going to be too much of an issue - apart from the building noise during weekdays - which is ok if you work regular hours - will you be any more overlooked than you are now? Are the holes in the living room floor that big? Usually a resand will produce woodshavings which can be mixed with glue and used to fill any holes as necessary - talk to a joiner about options open to you because it might be possible to match in reclaimed timber to the floor as well.

I spent 24 hours sobbing after I bought my current house thinking the world had ended because it had so many issues to deal with that I mostly knew about - but then decided that since I'd spent my deposit on it I was going to make it the best home ever. It took a few months to properly feel like home though so don't make any decisions yet. Plus as Lokolo says resale within 6 months is nearly impossible with a mortgage lender so you'd need to find someone with £170k cash.

C22DTJ

mrginge wrote: »

I think you need to get a grip

I think you need to reconsider posting such useless responses.

If you don't have anything meaningful to contribute, I'd rather you didn't bother. By all means criticise my decisions, tell me there's little choice, but to simply suggest that I 'get a grip' is quite rude.

Thanks to others.

I must admit, the general consensus from friends and family has been to look for the brighter points and work on the negatives. It's just incredibly difficult to not feel like I've made a £170K mistake.

Jenny.W

yes, agree with the others...

No house is perfect and can take months/years to make them your own.

OK, so you feel you have some problems but some can be easily fixed.

The smoke will go. Remove any fabrics that you can and get the carpets cleaned. Painting walls will also help.

Kitchen - again can be fixed when you have the cash. You'll just have to make do for now. You obviously saw the kitchen prior to the offer so the layout cant have been that big a problem?

Holes in the floor - wouldn't bother me, I'd just get them repaired.

The bin issue - is this some covenant the neighbours have or do they just do this out of habit? Either way, leaving them out a week prior to collection is a bit off. Our rubbish is put out the same day or the evening before. Trying a nice friendly approach to see if you can change things.

the planning application - you'll be able to view this on the council website. Have a look at what's proposed. Things may not be all that bad. We lived in a flat which had a real awful ugly building oppositive. We were so relieve when planning was granted for apartments.

R_P_W

C22DTJ wrote: »

I think you need to reconsider posting such useless responses.

If you don't have anything meaningful to contribute, I'd rather you didn't bother. By all means criticise my decisions, tell me there's little choice, but to simply suggest that I 'get a grip' is quite rude.

Thanks to others.

I must admit, the general consensus from friends and family has been to look for the brighter points and work on the negatives. It's just incredibly difficult to not feel like I've made a £170K mistake.

This is a public forum, you cannot control who responds or what they say.

I have to agree with the poster. You have probably built up in your head over recent weeks your perfect house. Houses are not perfect.

I did same last year bought flat in London, first few weeks after we moved in it didn't seem quite like I remember it. Carpets stank, walls were grubby etc.

Give it some time. Decorate, make it feel like home!

Talking about selling after one week is madness in my opinion

bretts

I don't know if this helps but you could really take this as an experience.

If I was you I would get a few friends and may be one or two builders and get a quote for work done and also get some ideas from them as to how you could make it better.

Maybe one of your friend and you can do some DIY and get to add value to the house.

No house is perfect, but I think you can work on it a bit and make it your perfect house.

I hope I did not offend you, I am FTB too and just exchanged and working on it to make that place my home and it needs a lot of work but not giving up on it.

C22DTJ

Ok thanks guys, guess I'll just have to deal with it.

Charliezoo

I've been in your shoes before so have sympathy I regretted buying our house soon after we moved in, it didn't help that it was in worse condition then we realised and improvements we wanted to make were going to be far more costly than we thought. We also suddenly had an offer accepted 2 days before completion on another house we liked more but had been turned down for a few months earlier We've had a similar planning issue arise at the back of our house too which has been upsetting.

We're still in the house 3 years later and have grown to love it. It will never be perfect and we only have ourselves to blame but its a perfectly nice house. We're looking to move sometime in the near future, hopefully to our 'forever house' and this experience has taught us a lot.