How to track down vendor

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Beth357 wrote: »

I'm surprised they didn't notice the fence and the outside light even if nothing else.

Perhaps it was dark when they inspected the fence.

And daytime when they looked at the light.

googler

Beth357 wrote: »

I'm getting contrasting advice here, some of you are saying they're not legally responsible and some are saying sue them?

You do realise SnooksNJ isn't British, and probably hasn't a clue about the UK legal system, don't you?

googler

Beth357 wrote: »

I had a mortgage valuation and I'm surprised they didn't notice the fence and the outside light even if nothing else.

A mortgage valuation is not an electrical test of every light in the house. It doesn't even include a test of one of them.

It's a check, for the mortgage company's benefit, that the house forms a suitable security for the money they're about to lend you. If it wasn't, they wouldn't lend it to you.

Beth357

But how is it worth what I paid for it if there is work that needs doing?

googler

Beth357 wrote: »

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?

Because implicit in the transaction is the fact that you are buying a used carpet, which has had the previous owner's furniture upon it, probably for a number of years.

To the average man or woman in the street, it would be expected that a used carpet shows some sign of the furniture being upon it.

You weren't buying a new carpet.

DaftyDuck

Look, the kinds of things you have listed are very, very minor. They are all things the vendor has absolutely no reason to correct before marketing the house, and absolutely zero reason to fix after the sale has completed.

{One could split hairs if the vendor was asked and stated fence was new/carpet wouldn't dent/lights would all work after the sale but, realistically... no chance...}

Stop wasting your time chasing shadows and worrying. Fix things over time, when you get the cash. Enjoy your new house. Read up on house buying (stay on the forum a while, that's if you aren't already a regular... ), and chill.

Don't even waste a stamp. They will only laugh at your innocence, I suspect.

Paully232000

WeAreGhosts wrote: »

I must remember to use this post after some of my posts

walwyn1978

Beth357 wrote: »

I was told you only need a survey if it's a listed building and it's not. I had a mortgage valuation and I'm surprised they didn't notice the fence and the outside light even if nothing else.

A mortgage valuation is the simplest survey that literally judges whether the house is worth what you want to borrow on it. It takes no account of any fixtures or fittings and thus the fence/light wouldn't have come into it.

Even a full survey would not have checked every light, and would have recommended that you got a seperate electrical survey done.

For the next time you move, a survey is not essential but is well worth doing IMO unless it's a new build, where you can get the building company to do a snag list.

As far as your situation goes, from your information to date, I wouldn't even send a letter to them. None of it will come back to them legally, and I would imagine they will have no interest in putting it right for you as they are likely to have their own list of things to sort. It's part of house moving.

jackomdj

How is it worth what you paid?...
Because you bought and pad for what you saw.

That was a house with a fence that needed repairing, a light that needs fixing and indentations where furniture has been.

And based on the valuation your mortgage company agreed too.

Paully232000

Beth357 wrote: »

But how is it worth what I paid for it if there is work that needs doing?

It isnt worth it.
I would have taken at least £10K off for the fence issue, and as for the carpet dents £100K, if not more