Vendor mis-representation

MistyZ

According to a bloke in the pub who knows everything about house buying, you are legally entitled to insist that the vendor comes to live in your garden shed & does all the gardening for life. Or maybe it was 20 years .... anyway, the law's on your side!

Riggyman

MistyZ wrote: »

According to a bloke in the pub who knows everything about house buying, you are legally entitled to insist that the vendor comes to live in your garden shed & does all the gardening for life. Or maybe it was 20 years .... anyway, the law's on your side!

I can't believe SOME of YOU aren't taking this seriously and helping me. It's not nice buying your dream home and then finding you have to spend every weekend fighting a jungle. SHE has a lot to answer for!

Davesnave

Riggyman wrote: »

It's not nice buying your dream home and then finding you have to spend every weekend fighting a jungle.

It happens all the time.

Following property, I've watched cheap, Welsh smallholdings sell, and then, a couple of years later, return to the market, when their owners with little practical ability or inclination to work, discover the Good Life is really their personal living hell.

Land of almost any kind is expensive, so it has desirability. However, land takes much looking after, implying hard graft, or deep pockets to employ others to do that. The work is much easier if someone enjoys it.

Even a modest, 'English style' garden of 1/4 acre can take a day a week to maintain, spread unevenly through the year.

If that's too long, put most of it down to grass and buy a ride-on.

Penelope_Penguin

Riggyman wrote: »

How much did THEY say the garden wouldn't take to maintain?

I suspect you won't get change out of a Thousand Pounds :money:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wY6oDAzZUqQ

Enterprise_1701C

Maybe it was an average of once a week throughout the year. Or it could simply be that they allowed the grass to get to a different length.

And common sense dictates that you have to weed a garden, there is not a garden in the country that does not need some sort of maintenance that way.

If you want to avoid weeding get some ground cover plants, no idea of what soil you have so go into a local nursery and ask.

Seriously though, if this is your only problem with the house, then I think you got a very good buy.

I suspect we have neighbours like you. Their grass gets to about 6 inches long then the father comes along and mows it.

Seriously, if you do not want to do any gardening then you should not buy a house with a garden.

TBagpuss

Seriously, if this was an important issue for you why would you not do your own research first?
How often you mow the lawn depends on the weather and on how long/tidy you like your grass. I've had to cut mine more frequently this year than last as the weather has been different.

Similarly with weeding etc. depends what you grow, the weather, and how picky you are about how it looks.

Cakeguts

You don't HAVE to mow it at all if you don't want to. Your vendor chose to mow it once a fortnight. You are choosing to mow it once a week. My advice would be to get a better mower one that can cope with 2 weeks of grass growth.

NYM

Loving this thread...:rotfl:

theGrinch

is this a wind up?

sheff6107

I can't fathom how someone who is flummoxed by grass growing managed to earn to the money to buy a house.