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First Time Buyer - help! Estate agents putting on pressure
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Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »Gas and electrics aside, are you aware of the potential issues buying a tenanted property, and does your solicitor know that that it's not owner-occupied? You will not be able to complete without vacant posession. If the agents are already being difficult, you can assume they will lie to you about the tenants' departure.
the tenant has already vacated (even took the light fittings), but we have no legal forms to say the property is being sold as vacant - one of the things our solicitors is chasing0 -
Every survey you ever have will recommend you get the gas and electrics tested, the surveyor's are not qualified to test these items. therefore it will always be a recommendation. It will be in the T's and C's you signed that they don't test these. There is no legal requirement to have the electrics tested to let out a property, but there should be a gas safety certificate. If the property hadn't have been tenanted it wouldn't have had to even have to have the gas safety.
Are you sure the whole house isn't earthed? Often in slightly older properties that haven't have new wiring done (say 60's build ish) you can't use metal light fittings due to lack of earthing, but it doesn't make it un-inhabitable. Similarly, a new fuse box is part and parcel of buying an older property that is always going to need on going maintenance.
Either you want the property and are willing to pay the money to sort any issues, you try to negotiate a reduction or you don't and walk away.0 -
Communicate and take advice through the solicitor. This is what you are paying for.
We're buying a house and haven't spoken to the sellers EA in weeks - all comms is through the sols so there is no ambiguity or misunderstanding. EAs prey on the FTBs who don't know the process so just refer them to your solicitor. You are free to make whatever demands you want to or walk away for any (or no) reason at all.Thinking critically since 1996....0 -
Thank you all for your help, this has been invaluable. House buying is a minefield!0
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