Buyer pulled out of the property purchase last minute - what can be done?

globetraveller

Still, if you have to live in a cardboard box, you must have plenty from all your furniture buying.

Windsorcastle

Gilly_VV wrote: »

No she did not pay no fees and did not suffer any loss as she's a cash buyer! Why everyone keeps repeating something that is not true!!!

The funniest thing about your repeated comments about this poor lady being 'even non EU', shock horror!:rotfl: is that anyone with a slight grasp of linguistics and sentence structure can see that English is not your first language therefore why you are spewing racist garbage about someone else is mystifying. Either that or your literacy skills are appalling.

Windsorcastle

Gilly_VV wrote: »

I ... should go now and give birth under the bridge and live in a cardboard box...

Good idea. Bye then.:wave:

Atomix

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/mortgages/extend-your-lease

Here's a last ditch attempt for you, come clean with the typo, get your solicitor to contact her solicitor with a view of reducing the sale price by 15k which cover the extension of the lease. Then hopefully you will be able to afford / cover it with larger mortgage / other...

Thrugelmir

Gilly_VV wrote: »

We accepted the offer that was below the market value to factor in that she may face extra costs afterwards & the nasty freeholder. The Estate Agents were very surprised that we accepted it.

The EA's believed that the property had 90 years remaining on the lease. So in this context hardly surprising.

ValHaller

Gilly_VV wrote: »

Patricia I do not know now what to think or do.

Probably I (working hard all my life and still struggling to make ends meet) should go now and give birth under the bridge and live in a cardboard box... all for a benefit of a recent migrant. ah this is a recent trend I forgot.
Thanks for the link.

What, in your opinion, is the appropriate way of dealing with someone who sells property to a recent migrant? Bearing in mind there are decent people forced to give birth in a cardboard box under a bridge, who are so easy going that they are not bothered about the difference between 70 and 90?

I know we are not supposed to give medical advice on these forums, and I am not qualified - but I think it is a bad mistake to try and give birth after tying yourself in so many knots.

Mylo_The_Moggy

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've nothing better to do than watch this car crash .... I bet her OH's headed for the pub to get out of earshot.

Well this thread has certainly made my Friday night very interesting. *yawn*..............Wish I'd gone to the pub now lol. :beer:

wannahouse

Gilly_VV wrote: »

Hi All
That is just ridiculous as we were never certain about our lease term and were advised to put something in the description form so we put down 90 years not to leave blank & it looked more attractive to the buyers...
She obviously thinks it is morally acceptable to defraud people like this and ruin other people's lives Can we do just something to try to recover at least a portion of the costs and get compensation for the time wasted etc? E.g. maybe police or immigration police (she's non UK) or put a note on her credit history or blacklisted as potential property buyer, anything? any suggestions welcome.

are you flaming kidding me???
YOU LIED TO HER saying it was 90 years when you had no idea how long it was, and now that lie is uncovered, she doesn't want to proceed, as a 70 year lease is worth alot more that a 90 year one!
it is ALL YOUR OWN DOING!
she should be suing YOU for costs for misleading her as in your own words you said "we put down 90 years not to leave blank & it looked more attractive to the buyers..." so you PURPOSELY put down 90 years to look more attractive for a sale, even though it was absolute baloney!
disgraceful- you deserve everything you get!

[Deleted User]

patricia..xx wrote: »

Stop being childish and racist and be grateful you still have a home you can take your baby back to.

At least for the next seventy years ...

Crystallady

Gilly_VV wrote: »

We did not have any idea what the lease term was. Why should I lie about it? I only know that the extension was very expensive so we did not proceed but this could easily come from the freeholder being mad (we are in a dispute re maintenance costs which are unreasonably high for the service he provides). Whatever we put on the form (which was not a legal document just piece of paper for information & for the survey and valuation process) could easily be a typo - what then?

How could you possibly put down that the lease was 90 years when you knew perfectly well that it was shorter or you wouldn't have asked about the extension. I assume the piece of paper you are referring to is the property information questionnaire in which case I trust you mentioned the dispute with the freeholder on it, or did you forget that too?