Guilty at selling your home?

Davesnave

I felt slightly guilty because the buyer's solicitor slipped up, so instead of granting us a temporary free supply of water to the plot of land we retained, they promised this in perpetuity. We didn't point this out.

It was ridiculous. First, their solicitors told us "This is unacceptable, you must obtain your own supply."

Then, when we replied, "No sale without temporary services for us," they just caved-in and forgot to time-limit the supply to a max of 3 years, as we'd suggested.

The purchasers trusted us and we stuck to our word, removing the clause when the land was sold. I even went back, terminated the supply at the fence and gave them a nice outside tap. I did the same with the electric, leaving a handy outdoor socket, as we'd had that too for things like cutting the hedge and power tools, but that was on trust, not part of the legals.

The house was OK....well, mostly!