How to track down vendor

marmaruser

Better take the case with DM, they are waiting for content these days. They may write a page about this and you will becoem famous ........... NOT

Jhoney_2

Morglin wrote: »

You'd think so, but maybe not.

I've just taken six months to complete the sale of my dads house with two buyers who managed to lose their own solicitor (stress of them) and reduce me, the estate agent and my solicitor to gibbering wrecks.

They had survey after survey - all ok.

The DG windows were out of guarantee but all in excellent nick. I declined their invitation to accept full financial responsibility for them for the next 10 years.

They knew they were buying a house built in 1901, and wanted that.

They knew the house needed upgrade, and the price reflected that.

After completion, they moaned that not all the walls were dead straight (er, no, they are not usually in old houses, especially those that had been shaken by the Blitz).:wall:

They didn't want any furniture, then they needed to complete within 24 hours, so wanted what was still there, I left what was left and then they denanded, after completion, £800 as they thought all houses came with new washing machines and tumble dryers.:eek:

They also felt I should have bought them a lawnmower, as there is grass in the garden.

All this has come via their gobsmacked solicitor (who is no doubt charging them, for the lunacy.)

I do laugh, and wait for the next burst of insanity, but the frightening thing is that they are newly qualified teachers.....:eek:

OP - if you are not in a wind up, accept that anywhere you live will always need stuff doing, and you will have to pay/do it yourself..

Lin :whistle:

Whilst most of us are famililiar with the saying a fool and their money is easily parted, I think those trying to save a few quid can also lose their minds! The posts/threads are endless...

I didn't have (any/expensive?) survey and the electrics/roof/damp or for prosperity the darn carpet dents, are a problem - help!!!

Naive, paranoid or chancer? I'm sure there is nothing there to impede their jog.

SnooksNJ

marmaruser wrote: »

Better take the case with DM, they are waiting for content these days. They may write a page about this and you will becoem famous ........... NOT

Please do it fast because when The DM discovers Radar Online's exclusive report on how Rob K might not be the baby Daddy to Blac Chyna's baby it's going to be nothing but until the DNA test in done.

esmy

It's threads like this one (and Morglins post) that make me very very nervous about accepting offers from FTBs. Our house is over 100 years old, not a straight wall in the place, ALWAYS needs something doing to it, and, yes, has dents in the carpets.

vuvuzela

SnooksNJ wrote: »

Please do it fast because when The DM discovers Radar Online's exclusive report on how Rob K might not be the baby Daddy to Blac Chyna's baby it's going to be nothing but until the DNA test in done.

I kind of hate myself for actually knowing what you're talking about

Slinky

There are some people who shouldn't be allowed out on their own....

nkkingston

We received the code to log into a local business's HMRC records last week. I appreciate that the former owners used to work for them, but I feel like sending stuff like that to former employees, let alone people who bought their house off them, is a recipe for disaster!

mije1983

clairecymru wrote: »

We had messages left on the answering machine for about a week from his mother asking where he was

Moving house is an extreme way to get away from the mother/mother-in-law :rotfl:

lichfield22

esmy wrote: »

It's threads like this one (and Morglins post) that make me very very nervous about accepting offers from FTBs. Our house is over 100 years old, not a straight wall in the place, ALWAYS needs something doing to it, and, yes, has dents in the carpets.

Mind you, it doesn't need to be a house as old as yours for a FTB to start making unrealistic demands. We all know my situation with my 40 year-old house from my other thread about my FTB, but in addition a friend just about to exchange on the sale of her 10 year-old house has had a letter from her buyer's solicitor to say they don't like the colour of the toilet seat and they're not happy that the neighbour's fence is wonky and would like both those things corrected before they exchange. Yes really.

Slinky

lichfield22 wrote: »

they don't like the colour of the toilet seat and they're not happy that the neighbour's fence is wonky and would like both those things corrected before they exchange. Yes really.

Oh deep joy, I'd be replacing the toilet seat with one of those acrylic ones with barbed wire in it....... plus the fence would be likely to have even more of a lean on it......