House Buying Nightmare

Propertyfan

tenants that refused to leave and that had to be both bribed financially and evicted......

Blimey! Isn't 'bribing' (or bribery, I guess that's the right word!) a criminal offence? Not sure that's the route to go to get people out of properties. Best to keep that secret and not mention it! :eek:

"'Ere, you see these 50 quid notes? If I give you a sackful will you !!!! off out of my property?"

DRP

Propertyfan wrote: »

Blimey! Isn't 'bribing' (or bribery, I guess that's the right word!) a criminal offence? Not sure that's the route to go to get people out of properties. Best to keep that secret and not mention it! :eek:

"'Ere, you see these 50 quid notes? If I give you a sackful will you !!!! off out of my property?"

only if you're bribing some kind of an official, i presume.

On this occasion it is just an incentive.

ognum

OP many thanks for your fascinating tale of house buying.

The problem I think lies in you not jumping ship. Was there really nothing else in your budget that you would have bought during this 11 month saga of woe?

Buying with your heart will often result in problems, I know it's hard to but I do think you should have walked away!

phoebe1989seb

DRP wrote: »

only if you're bribing some kind of an official, i presume.

On this occasion it is just an incentive.

I have to say the guy we bought from was a real dodgy character - I'm surprised he didn't send in the guys with baseball bats tbh.......and he insisted that we (well my dad actually, as he stumped up the cash ) contribute to the *incentive* :mad: OTOH, not that it makes things any better, but I think the tenants demanded money from him in order to leave. This was 15 years ago btw........

emmalouise1777

Thanks everyone for your responses; I'm glad it's been interesting for some of you to read my story. It;s also very interesting to me to see that the tenant issue is something that appears to happen quite frequently... not something I'd even considered when I made the initial decision to buy a house!

@ognum - In part, I agree with you. My head did rule my heart a little, as did my stubborness to get what I wanted. I guess I had a little 'I've come this far...' about me. I would definitely do it differently next time, although I'm glad I persevered as we got the house we wanted. Regarding other available properties; the area is small, properties rarely come on the market, especially first-time buyer suitable! I still check Rightmove weekly (force of habit) and since we made the offer (Aug 2012), there have been only three properties for sale in our price range, all sold within a week of being on the open market.

House buying = stressful stuff!

egoode

I'm glad you ended up with the house you wanted. It gives me a bit of hope I might finally have my purchase go through! I had an offer accepted on a 2 bed flat in London back in March but I didn't know until about 3 weeks later that when the owner converted the loft he hadn't bought the leasehold of the loft space so he can't sell the property until that has been sorted out and as the freeholder is the local council it seems to be taking forever for them to sort it out.

The good thing I found out today is that building control had inspected the place during the build so the building regs should be able to get sorted as well.

The reason I've stuck with this purchase is there aren't too many other places with the layout like I want it and also the rooms are quite big compared to everything else I've seen. Also the London market is just insane and even getting an offer accepted is hard enough I'd already been outbid on several others!

jules888

We are never moving again for a long time.Didnt go smoothly for us,hardly any viewers,low offers,accepted an offer,ours accepted ,then got gazumped!
House we were buying had shale,found out our house had shale too.
Sales went through though.Hubby decided to hire a van and move ourselves,wouldnt recommend this if you have much stuff.We were knackered.
Six months on its a distant memory.We"ve done some house improvements,got some new furniture and are very happy and cant beleive we own a 4 bed detatched and are mortgage free.Especially as we both grew up in old street terraced houses and my husbands parents got reposessed twice!