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Guilty at selling your home?
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Ah but you get them to fix it, and get the surveyor to return and check it out! Money well spent IMO.
What happens if, and its a big if considering the amount of !!!! covering they get up to, he turns around and says the works crap...
More stress and hassle and possible fatal to the whole transaction issues occur...Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.0 -
What happens if, and its a big if considering the amount of !!!! covering they get up to, he turns around and says the works crap...
More stress and hassle and possible fatal to the whole transaction issues occur...
But that's the whole point. Surveys and repairs are done before exchange.
If it's a minor thing, no problem, but big things, big problem, and walk away if not fixed properly.
I suppose in places like London or other areas of high costs etc, some may be prepared to take a chance and wing it. I am talking about ordinary buyers in ordinary areas, not where the price goes up by thousands overnight and you might miss out if you insist on things being repaired.
But it should always be buyer beware.0 -
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I've never heard of a truly full survey; you'd have to take half the house apart. The costs would be incredible.
A basic 'full survey' is a relatively basic piece of paper, absolving the surveyor if any asbestos or damp is discovered, or the house falls over.
If you don't have much worldly experience, it's not a terrible idea to get the roof and walls checked.0 -
Several of the things in the second-hand house I am selling are imperfect.
Everything the buyer asked about I answered honestly and in great detail. The things that they did not ask about, I volunteered no information.
I do not feel guilty.
I got a survey done on the house I am buying. It's come back with a list of minor things that will need doing - e.g. new mastic around windows, repointing of a few areas of brickwork, changing a broken lightbulb, fixing an inoperative extractor fan.
I recognise that I am buying a second-hand house, not a new house. I'm not going to ask them to fix such minor things or ask for a discount- it's not worth the hassle.0 -
If you haven't hidden the truth from your buyers and can genuinely say you're happy living in the house with it's current state of maintenance I don't think you have anything to be guilty about.
For example many people happily live with a slightly dodgy boiler, if your buyer wants a perfect boiler then it's up to them to make sure they get one (e.g. by buying a place with documentation showing the boiler is competently installed with within warranty, getting a plumber in to tell them the state of the boiler or by simply budgeting for replacement as soon as they move in).0 -
Another hand up for leaving a slightly dodgy boiler. We'd also soundproofed the main bedroom and all of the downstairs party wall due to some nightmare neighbours who had moved out a year or two before we put the house on the market - didn't mention that.0
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We were sold our previous house with funny water pressure in the shower. You had to turn the hot on full, then have the cold tap on a certain amount to get the shower to be fine. The vendor left us a not telling us how to work it.
Lived with it for 12 years until we were going to rent it out and sorted it for the new people as we did not want to burn the tenants.0 -
My favourite DIY tool is blu tac, my buyers never seem to appreciate its myriad of uses like I do!
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Several of the things in the second-hand house I am selling are imperfect.
Everything the buyer asked about I answered honestly and in great detail. The things that they did not ask about, I volunteered no information.
THIS... but yes they didn't really ask the right questions. Although it's nothing terrible and it's all much better than when we moved in.
Have you ever had a buyer ask you things after completion about any issues? I'm a first time seller and I already know my buyer is high maintenance0
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