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What's your bet? - Will the house builder accept my house with damp?
mikki6416
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Hi All,
My husband and I are in the process of buying a new build house from a major house builder. Everything has gone smoothly so far and we should have our mortgage offer tomorrow hopefully.
We are part-exchanging our current house but a surveyor came round yesterday and said that there is damp under the kitchen floor tiles near the front of the house. He said he doesn't know what is causing it and he doesn't think it's urgent but obviously he has to report it to the builder that's buying our house.
What do you think will happen? -
Will the builder not buy our house?
Will they make us get it investigated and fixed first?
Will they drop their offer price?
Will they not make a big thing of it as we're near to exchange of contracts and they want to get the house sold?
Our house is already built and ready to move into. They also wanted everything to have completed by mid-June at the latest.
Thanks for any advice.
My husband and I are in the process of buying a new build house from a major house builder. Everything has gone smoothly so far and we should have our mortgage offer tomorrow hopefully.
We are part-exchanging our current house but a surveyor came round yesterday and said that there is damp under the kitchen floor tiles near the front of the house. He said he doesn't know what is causing it and he doesn't think it's urgent but obviously he has to report it to the builder that's buying our house.
What do you think will happen? -
Will the builder not buy our house?
Will they make us get it investigated and fixed first?
Will they drop their offer price?
Will they not make a big thing of it as we're near to exchange of contracts and they want to get the house sold?
Our house is already built and ready to move into. They also wanted everything to have completed by mid-June at the latest.
Thanks for any advice.
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