How to track down vendor

Lazarus_Blackstar

Oh dear, first world problems!

I could understand if you'd been electrocuted if you'd turned the light on and it had gone bang, or the vendors cat had left you some nice smelling presents on the carpet!
Just suck it up and get on with enjoying your new home, it's not worth kicking up a fuss tbh.

anniecave

Window keys were mentioned earlier. I moved into my current house and there was 1 window key for the entire house. However if the locks look the same, the keys are likely to be the same (try the same key in multiple locks to see!). There aren't that many types of window lock. Spare keys are freely available over the internet.

Have a look at the below website, they show lots of different types of locks and the key names, then you can also search on other websites if you want for the same keys.

http://www.handlesandhinges.co.uk/window-handle-keys/

I got six window keys for less than a fiver over the internet (and most of the time I don't use any of them!)

Hasbeen

Best wind up post I have read in a while!

Is there a record on how many pages/replies these get?

ElsieMonkey

Beth357 wrote: »

I didn't have a survey because the house is only 30 years old. I can't believe the vendor wouldn't be liable for some of the issues. For example, there's a fence that needs replacing which I just assumed belonged to the neighbour as I didn't think the house would be on the market with a rotten fence but now I discover the fence belonged to the vendor. There's an outside light that doesn't work even with a new bulb, not enough keys for all the windows and a carpet that looked ok when I viewed the house but there are dents where the furniture was. I just wanted to move my stuff in and enjoy my new house but now I'm going to have to get all these things sorted and I do think the vendor should have offered to put them right, none of this was mentioned in the property form.

I'm not going to belittle you by saying that I think this is a wind-up.

Honestly, I would expect the above. I'm buying a house at the moment, and completely expect, once people's furniture etc. is moved out, and you see a place in its full glory, it will always look far worse than you imagined.

Dents will eventually come out of the carpet, just spray them with some water, try and fluff up with your fingers and hoover a few times. Gradually the fibres will relax.

You should have been aware of who looks after which boundary during the purchase process. But replacing a fence panel really isn't a big deal.

Not having enough keys for all the windows will only annoy me if the windows were locked.

If you knew the outside light wasn't working would this have been enough to make you not buy the house?

I do feel you're being highly unrealistic. The points you have mentioned are very minor and expected to a certain degree. There's no way on earth that the vendor will return to make good these things in a house which is not theirs.

ElsieMonkey

Oh, be sure not to add any further dents in the carpet with your furniture...if you plan to sell the place on in the future.

TadleyBaggie

Simple, buy the exact same furniture and place it the exact same place. Problem solved.

Smodlet

glasgowdan wrote: »

I'm surprised anyone has replied seriously. Indents in the carpet? Seriously? Holy cow Beth, you are on the moon!

I don't think they've invented hover-furniture yet.

Now glasgowdan, how can you and so many others on here be so awful? These vendors are clearly the spawn of the devil if they were so lax as not to put anti-gravity pads under their furniture's feet. This is a minimum requirement when selling any property on the OP's home planet, as anyone with any sense would know.

OMG, thank you all so much. I can hardly see to type through the tears.

Jhoney_2

If I had a penny for every buyer complaining about carpet dent issues...

well I suppose I'd just still be broke!

Airwolf20721

Are you taking the PI££ED, They winding you, they saying you can sue them but i would put my salery as a bet you will lose. It normal, nothing perfect and at house being 30 years i would still get a survey done as a house that was 15 years that i was gonna buy showed some very bad faults that i didn't buy. 5 years on the house now been knocked down and rebuilt.
If you want to sue them you can, but no doubt you will lose...
You can ask the vender to fixed it but if it was me i would tell you to do one.
My last house i brought i had to clean.. put new boiler in.. my fault should of ask if it working....
Move on

Airwolf20721

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.

Dosnt matter how old brand new or a year old.. always get a survey done... my money on estate agent told you this. Next time do your own home work..