Selling a house with knotweed

DaftyDuck

I know I asked it before, but I am seriously interested...

Where do you draw the line between a problem you'd highlight to agent/prospective owner, and one where you wouldn't feel such obligation.

Rambosmum

sxcizme3010 wrote: »

Atleast this way they wont be subject to legal action against them! There is so many dishonest people around! I sincerely hope you do not encounter this sort of thing when buying a house.

As someone who has encountered such a thing it really wasn't a big deal. And wouldn't put me off buying a house with JK in the future.

moneyistooshorttomention

Rambosmum wrote: »

As someone who has encountered such a thing it really wasn't a big deal. And wouldn't put me off buying a house with JK in the future.

Level 1 - injection method. Roots still there. Is it 101% certain they are dead for evermore. I don't think its deemed advisable to dig around freely - else why have I read somewhere it would invalidate the guarantee the firm would give?

Level 2 - expensive job. Everything dug out and organic gardeners happy. Means all contaminated soil removed and disposed of properly and new topsoil needing to be bought.

Guess which one some of us would use. Yep....a level 2 job. Status quo restored, as I understand it.

bris

sxcizme3010 wrote: »

Im close friends

You wont be for much longer, it's none of your business.

moneyistooshorttomention

I think the friendship could be at risk - but because OP will likely wonder what else they might be up to that's not exactly ethical and the trust will go from his pov.

He has already said the house is overpriced by 15% by non-JK standards. It could be priced at around twice as much as its worth courtesy of JK (as that does knock a lot off the price).

Admits, in his position, I would be asking the EA:
a. What the house would be worth normally.
b. What its actually worth now - bearing in mind the reduction in price due because of the JK.

Its clear they are trying to sell the house for at least 15% over unaffected market value plus £10,000 and I suspect the price cut its due to have would be rather bigger than that.

It's hardly the act of a good friend on the vendors part to put OP in this position. I know how he feels - as many years ago a friends husband walked past me with some stolen lead and told me "You haven't seen this, have you?". That was absolutely wrong to walk past an honest person like myself with stolen goods and put me in that position - and the friendship did rather die a death shortly after that.

EDIT; The follow-up to that theft was that husband duly went bankrupt some years later and put their (expensive by that point) house in his wife's name to make sure he got away with not paying his creditors.....:cool:

Mickygg

I seriously don't see what business it is of the OP. If I'd confided with a friend my house had JK and they told buyer or EA, I wouldn't be friends with them anymore!

OP yes it's deceitful but how many people would do the same think as them? Quite a lot of people guaranteed.

The people I bought from were very deceitful with their house and it cost me thousands of pounds to fix, hence my view.

sxcizme3010

Im too honest and I think its totally unethical to lie and defraud money from people (thousands of pounds) safe to say my view of them as friends has dwindled slightly due to this. When they told me I was truly shocked and explained why I thought this was totally wrong and I didnt agree with this 1 bit. Its like selling a car as great condition, no problems when actually the engines broke! Its disgusting and no amount of ''its not your business'' will change that. If you seen somebody rob an old lady in the street - would you still have the its none of my business mindset or would you run like hell after them ! Some people

jimpix12

Ditch the friends as they clearly are !!!!!!. And it doesn't cost thousands to clear.

It is admirable that you are concerned but it could blow up in your face. I'm someone that will interfere in public, cannot abide people who walk on by, but I think this just doesn't concern you and you're biting off more than you can chew.

Mickygg

spunko2010 wrote: »

Ditch the friends as they clearly are !!!!!!. And it doesn't cost thousands to clear.

It is admirable that you are concerned but it could blow up in your face. I'm someone that will interfere in public, cannot abide people who walk on by, but I think this just doesn't concern you and you're biting off more than you can chew.

Depending on the size and density of the JK, it most certainly does cost thousands to clear properly!

jimpix12

Sorry, I meant does* ... as someone said above it costs £400. There is/was a patch of land near where I used to live, the size of a small garden and it apparently cost the council £8000 to clear.