Miss sold a house

Spidernick

Sorry, but I'm giggling at the loft conversion defiantly claiming to be a bedroom!

missprice

KOUL wrote: »

Here is what you might do! First of all,in business world today telling lie to someone whom you are selling something is unacceptable.so You have the choice either to make him pay back an amount of money that you think is ok or else you might bring him to justice for lying in a matter of sale. If you let him escape there may be something else wrong with the house.

I think you are HPUSEless.

Do you also know anything about copycat gvmt sites?

lincroft1710

KOUL wrote: »

If you let him escape there may be something else wrong with the house.

This sentence does not make sense! If "he escapes" (whoever "he" is) or not, if there is something else wrong with the house, it will still be wrong.

DaftyDuck

What worries me most about KOUL'S post is that the normally-sane DRP "thanked" him for it.... I must me missing some legal detail or other, or maybe G_M has lent out his mushroom-tasting kit again.

kingstreet

Spidernick wrote: »

Sorry, but I'm giggling at the loft conversion defiantly claiming to be a bedroom!

Yep. If you know "definitely" has no "a" in it, you can't end up typing defiantly by mistake.

DRP

DaftyDuck wrote: »

What worries me most about KOUL'S post is that the normally-sane DRP "thanked" him for it.... I must me missing some legal detail or other, or maybe G_M has lent out his mushroom-tasting kit again.

Sorry but the sheer *wibble* insanity of it made me laugh, hence the 'Thanks'

almooney

Very mixed here I see,

Thanks for the serious helpful replies , as for the others I guess you just have to much time on your hands,

To address the issue , there are no building regs at all for the loft conversion , not just the stairs,

Estate agent that came after we brought it instantly questioned the loft being a room, so other agent really should of done also, as we did,

Estate agents are complete dogs, company removed the particulars from the website as soon as we made complaint, so that it doesn't even have a history listing (covering their tracks?)

What they done used to be a criminal offence, a lot here do not realise what snakes EA are! We found them all sneaky whilst looking for a property, And now we have issues , we also find the ombudsman is not much use at implementing his rules, as when the rules are clearly broken they are given such small punishments it is still viable for them to continue on.

Well house was valued £5000 less then we paid so we feel that amount would be a fair compromise. When you like a house very much the emotion involved can cloud your judgement , estate agents know this full well, they should not be allowed to prey on people in this fashion ,
We have decided to reject their pittance of an offer and if they don't get advised to pay more after full investigation then we shall see what trading standards have to say.

missprice

almooney wrote: »

Well house was valued £5000 less then we paid so we feel that amount would be a fair compromise. When you like a house very much the emotion involved can cloud your judgement , estate agents know this full well, they should not be allowed to prey on people in this fashion ,
We have decided to reject their pittance of an offer and if they don't get advised to pay more after full investigation then we shall see what trading standards have to say.

Seriously good luck to you. I am certain you will get no better offer, but well done for trying.

As an aside I have never been so in love with a house, that I have made silly decisions and not bothered to read all the bumf that came with. Even down to the placement of gas/electric meter, which in the scheme of multiple thousands of pounds, matters little. Let alone a survey that told me something so important.

Soot2006

To address the issue , there are no building regs at all for the loft conversion , not just the stairs,

>> But this is why you pay a lot of money for survey and solicitor. Your survey actually advised that you look into this, but you chose not to. As for your solicitor - did you discuss this at all with them? Have you discussed it with them since?


Estate agent that came after we brought it instantly questioned the loft being a room, so other agent really should of done also, as we did,

>> Maybe they did, but figured they'd chance their luck and attract the people wanting a 4-bed house. After all someone might want to finalise the conversion ... or someone might buy it without caring because they're happy-go-lucky and just want a bigger house. EA usually have watertight disclaimers on their property details. Or maybe the vendor told them the conversion was signed off on, and how would they know it wasn't?


Estate agents are complete dogs, company removed the particulars from the website as soon as we made complaint, so that it doesn't even have a history listing (covering their tracks?)

>> Easy enough to get hold of via cache. More likely they removed it as the property was now sold.


Well house was valued £5000 less then we paid so we feel that amount would be a fair compromise.

>> Did you try to renegotiate after the survey? I can see why you're angry, the EA and vendors must have been laughing all the way to the bank, but ultimately you probably are more angry at yourself. I guess the vendors were better negotiators (and I am not being smug, as I am the world's worst negotiator, I seem to pay over the odds for everything I buy from house to car to fruit from the market - but the reality is with that survey in hand, you were in a very strong position to known down the purchase price)


When you like a house very much the emotion involved can cloud your judgement , estate agents know this full well, they should not be allowed to prey on people in this fashion ,

>> At least you like the house? Don't blame the house -- you will still be very happy there :-) I think house-buying is always stressful, and feeling that you have been mugged doesn't help.


We have decided to reject their pittance of an offer and if they don't get advised to pay more after full investigation then we shall see what trading standards have to say.

>> Good luck with it. Like I say, I can understand why you feel upset and since you have a figure in mind, you might as well go for it. I wouldn't recommend spending any money pursuing this, however, as that would probably be throwing good money after bad. Do let us know how it works out x

MoMoneyMoProblem

almooney wrote: »

Estate agents are complete dogs, company removed the particulars from the website as soon as we made complaint, so that it doesn't even have a history listing (covering their tracks?)

Check out google cache. It might have a copy of it.