Feeling cheated buying a new house

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

You keep saying "it's unsuitable for you". Why is it unsuitable?

Ozzuk

I think you need to just try and forget the fact you felt pressured into buying. Accept that as your mistake entirely (unless they held you at gun point) and move on.

Instead focus your energy on getting the issues fixed as others have suggested.

marksoton

Neverasparename wrote: »

With the Government help to buy scheme I started looking at new builds with my ex and there was a house that at the time seemed nice that was actually already complete.

Is this the elephant in the room?

stator

Are they still selling houses on the estate?
You could always make that a bit more difficult by being creative with your front garden.

KerrBearrxo

I looked at these new houses..I'm sorry but why anyone buys them I have no idea. You can get a very nice older house for the same price. New builds are small, stacked together (which eventually will turn in to an estate. More people = property is worth less.) I went and saw a Gleenson home about a month ago and yes, it "looks" great with all their nice dinky furniture in there but honestly? 2 Bed semi detached for £100k? I couldn't even swing a cat in the living room.

Walk away and do what I did! Buy a proper build where you can't hear everything through the paper thin walls!

KerrBearrxo

Oh crap, I read the last bit wrong.
Yeah, you've bought it. You can't do anything now without spending a lot of money on a solicitor and even then it's a stretch.

They could go along the lines of because you had recently broken up, he wanted the house and when you broke up you weren't in the right state of mind...that's about the only way out of it really.

You should have never rushed in to such a big purchase. You'll have to stay there until your fixed term comes to an end and then sell at a loss.

pinkteapot

I can understand getting carried away while visiting the show-home and talking to the salesperson, and agreeing to a high price on the spot... BUT, you could have then pulled out at any time before exchange of contracts (you might have lost a reservation deposit, but that would be it). You must have had at least a couple of weeks. That was your 14 day window where you effectively had a cooling off period.

Stop looking back. You can't get a refund on the house. You have to accept that and move on.

Either (1) reconcile your feelings and live in the house, or (2) rent it out (though you'd need permission from your lender and not sure if it's allowed under Help to Buy?), or (3) sell it (you will lose a lot of money, but if you can't learn to live with the house you might just want to bite the bullet).

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

KerrBearrxo wrote: »

Oh crap, I read the last bit wrong.
Yeah, you've bought it. You can't do anything now without spending a lot of money on a solicitor and even then it's a stretch.

They could go along the lines of because you had recently broken up, he wanted the house and when you broke up you weren't in the right state of mind...that's about the only way out of it really.

You should have never rushed in to such a big purchase. You'll have to stay there until your fixed term comes to an end and then sell at a loss.

There's no way any solicitor will take on a case based on saying you have reserved, exchanged and completed on a house and a few months later want your money back because you were going through a break-up at the time.

And she doesn't have to stay there until the fixed term ends (not sure where that came from), and there is no particular reason to assume she will sell at a loss when she does sell. Really depends on the market.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

marksoton wrote: »

Is this the elephant in the room?

I presume this is why it is now "unsuitable" but they are not really specifying.

AdrianC

Neverasparename wrote: »

Hi All,

Thanks for the replies and sorry I appear to have offended some people by asking.

You haven't offended people. You might not have had the answers you want, but that's a different thing entirely.

In terms of decorations with the house my examples would be I have now extractor hood in the kitchen still, the sink has leaked ruining the wood of the cupboard underneath, walls for patio doors are not straight and I still have a few areas where the paint is completely wrong (aside from the paint job actually having a lot of problems itself).

That's snagging, not decor. Keep on the developers, and get those sorted.

The actual reason I hate it (but said I completely accept I ended up buying it so would have to live with it) is the actual house is completely unsuitable to me.

And, again, we come back to buyer's remorse...

In terms of asking why I paid it, as mentioned in my first post I feel that the sales person was effectively able to aggressively push me to complete in about 25 days from seeing the house which has resulted me in making the decision.

But it's a decision you DID make.

I make no qualms about a buyers remorse existing - unfortunately this appears to be the only purchase I am unable to go back on changing mind within 14 days of buying.

Ah, the curse of the naive and mollycoddled 21st century consumer... An expectation that they shouldn't have to be held to their decisions, so long as they change their mind fairly quickly. This is a hard way to learn that lesson, but it could have been worse.

marksoton wrote: »

Is this the elephant in the room?

We haven't met her, tbf.