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How to track down vendor

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  • Beth357
    Beth357 Posts: 11 Forumite
    WeAreGhosts wrote: »
    Are you a first time buyer?

    Yes so as you can imagine I don't have money for new carpets etc.
  • SnooksNJ
    SnooksNJ Posts: 829 Forumite
    I always have a $10K emergency fund for things like a furnace that happen to break a month after closing So it sounds like your $9,700.49 ahead of the game.
  • WeAreGhosts
    WeAreGhosts Posts: 3,116 Forumite
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    Beth357 wrote: »
    Yes so as you can imagine I don't have money for new carpets etc.

    What did you think was going to happen when the vendor moved their furniture?
  • Beth357
    Beth357 Posts: 11 Forumite
    walwyn1978 wrote: »
    Ok, one by one:

    Fence : no chance. You saw it and assumed wrongly.

    Outside light: almost certainly no chance unless you specifically asked 'does this light work' and they said 'yes' and there's a written record of that.

    Window keys: does one key do all the windows?

    Carpet: totally normal. Stiff hoovering should fluff it back up. If still 'down' consider renting a carpet cleaner machine as cleaning the carpet can restore bounce etc.

    IMO none of the issues you've mentioned even of you went legal would be ones where the burden of responsiblity falls on the vendor.

    So who's responsibility is it, should my solicitor have found all of this out?
  • Marvel1
    Marvel1 Posts: 7,461 Forumite
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    Beth357 wrote: »
    So who's responsibility is it, should my solicitor have found all of this out?

    Yours

    No you
  • Beth357
    Beth357 Posts: 11 Forumite
    WeAreGhosts wrote: »
    What did you think was going to happen when the vendor moved their furniture?

    I assumed they would leave it in a decent condition. If it's true the dents can be cleaned or hoovered out, why wasn't the seller made to do that before I moved in?
  • Marvel1
    Marvel1 Posts: 7,461 Forumite
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    Beth357 wrote: »
    I assumed they would leave it in a decent condition. If it's true the dents can be cleaned or hoovered out, why wasn't the seller made to do that before I moved in?

    All they do is move out on the day of completion.
  • WeAreGhosts
    WeAreGhosts Posts: 3,116 Forumite
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    Beth357 wrote: »
    So who's responsibility is it, should my solicitor have found all of this out?

    You could have got Land Registry details before purchasing to find out who owned the boundary.
    Everything else is part and parcel of buying a house.
  • SnooksNJ
    SnooksNJ Posts: 829 Forumite
    Beth357 wrote: »
    So who's responsibility is it, should my solicitor have found all of this out?
    Yes totally your attorney's fault. You should call your attorney and ask why they didn't vacuum, check all lighting, and fix a fence before closing.
  • Beth357
    Beth357 Posts: 11 Forumite
    SnooksNJ wrote: »
    Yes totally your attorney's fault. You should call your attorney and ask why they didn't vacuum, check all lighting, and fix a fence before closing.

    Thank you - I think I'll take up the suggestion of writing to the vendor at my address and seeing if it gets redirected and then maybe pick it up with my solicitor if I don't hear back.
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