Vendor mis-representation

DaftyDuck

sheff6107 wrote: »

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

That's pocket money for you.....

maninthestreet

Sounds like the OP was led up the garden path by the vendor....

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!

maninthestreet wrote: »

Sounds like the OP was led up the garden path by the vendor....

Maybe I have been lead up the "garden path" but how is this fair? The vendor assured me that the rest of the garden TAKES CARE OF IT'S SELF :mad:

Penelope_Penguin

Riggyman wrote: »

Maybe I have been lead up the "garden path" but how is this fair? The vendor assured me that the rest of the garden TAKES CARE OF IT'S SELF :mad:

That's what plants do; nature innit :beer: The plants will happily "look after themselves" - grow, set seed, grow a bit more, die, and so on.

If you want to tend the plants, that's called "gardening". There's absolutely no need for you to do that, unless it says so in your lease, or the neighbours successfully complain to the council.

Simples

moneyistooshorttomention

Guess the gnomes and fairies at bottom of the garden moved out with the vendor then?;)

Now if you've got a grabby type neighbour next door you could, of course, drop into "over the garden wall" type conversation that you aren't really sure whether all your garden actually belongs to/is properly Registered to your house (as you'd thought it was theirs really) and sit back and wait and see if your fence mysteriously moves and you spot the neighbour out there with their lawn-mower doing the mowing.

There is a downside to that - a probable "adverse possession" claim coming through some years down the road - as they try to grab ownership of it....:cool:

But, in the short-term = they do the mowing instead of you.

EDIT; and for information. www.justsaygnome.net/general-gnome-and-garden-gnome-information.html

or I do have a new friend that assures me that gnomes really do exist - as they've seen one (no - I don't theeenk they ever took drugs). I could ask them to send one along to do the gardening for you then......ahem..

FBaby

Maybe I have been lead up the "garden path" but how is this fair?

Have you really gone all your life with fairness ruling your life. Gosh, I think I discovered that it wasn't when I was about 3, my sister got the cola lolly and I got the orange one even though I wanted the cola one and my parents said I'll get it next time. I didn't manage to get my parents to give me compensation for it and I learnt that life isn't fair, but you live with it and make do.

Enterprise_1701C

I consider that my garden "takes care of itself". Of course this means the plants do not need much maintenance, it does not mean that weeds will not grow. I do a bit of weeding now and then, frequently rather than large amounts.

Of course if you are desperate not to have to mow the lawn you could always have artificial grass put down. Some can look quite realistic.

kerri_gt

I'm not entirely sure how you didn't manage to draw your own conclusions about the garden on viewing I.e the size of the lawn, type of planting etc. Perhaps the gass can need mowing once a week, perhaps the vendor was happy just doing it every couple of weeks, it's all rather subjective.

I have no idea if there is any legal recompense but if you're that unhappy with the garden I would look at how you could redesign it to suit you, especially if this is otherwise your dream house as you said and unlikely to move for some time.

Davesnave

kerri_gt wrote: »

I have no idea if there is any legal recompense....

Really?

Just for your benefit, then, I'll reiterate that there are no standard questions before contract on garden maintenance, nor has the OP stated that these were added to the TA6 or made part of any other documentation.

All the purchaser relied upon were some throwaway comments from the previous owner. Such reliance on the veracity of casual statements is not recommended. Checks should be made, or specialist advice sought.

Most of us here think this is a light-hearted thread, maybe with a more serious message buried within: 'Do not covet thy neighbour's large, colourful, well-manicured plot, especially if one is not up for some physical labour and a certain amount of drudgery.'

Here endeth the lesson....:A

moneyistooshorttomention

...and, then again, there are houses that are advertised as having gardens that are "easy to maintain".

Now that part of the description of my current house I soon read past. I've realised that EA's use that phrase to mean "concrete patio flags"/concrete/tarmac and even gardens like that do need some maintenance work (all the weeds that come up in between the concrete patio flags for instance).

Anyway - I soon translated that personally into "Right - that means a lot of work (and expenditure) coming up to turn it into a proper garden then....."

Personally - I'd have been glad if all I had to deal with was the garden basically being a large expanse of grass to start with....