3 bed house really a 2

Pixie5740

Did you ever see a copy of the survey (I'm assuming it was just a basic home buyers report)?

eddddy

On the plus side, you bought a house with a 'poor quality' basement room, and spent £17k converting it into a 'good quality' basement room.

If you've increased the value of the house by more than £17k, that was a good investment (and hence the house was a good purchase, in that respect).

AdrianC

sarahjanekerri wrote: »

Im not trying to convince myself a windowless room is a bedroom

Great. So everybody's happy...

I brought it like that but didn't check whether it Building Regs or not to be classed as a bedroom

That's a red herring or chinese whispers. No more than that. Building Regs are needed when work is completed. The local authority can prosecute their absence for a year after work is completed. That's it. That's all they're for. There is no BR tickbox that - decades later - says "this is a bedroom".

A bedroom is a room with a bed in it. What the EA was telling you was not that that room is not a room with a bed in it - I imagine you're letting the place unfurnished anyway - but that nobody in their right mind would contemplate putting a bed in it. Which you now say that you already knew...

wow you guys are harsh!

Did you want your question answering accurately, or did you want a hug from your Mum?

austonic

sarahjanekerri wrote: »

thanks for the replies but austonsmaydrydr telling me that 'you knew at purchase' ummm no i didn't...as naive as it seems ...

sorry if that was a bit harsh.

I didn't mean to imply that you knew at purchase that it didn't meet BR (in fact, it might have met regulations at the time the original conversion was done.

I did mean that surely you noticed it's third bedroom was in the basement and didn't have a window - that surely made it clearly a less valuable proposition than a property with three bedrooms each with windows.

parkrunner

Have no idea about the legalities but my bedroom has a window, if there wasn't a window I'd still call it a bedroom.

samSpam_2

perhaps you should speak to a lawyer...

Silvertabby

On the plus side, you bought a house with a 'poor quality' basement room, and spent £17k converting it into a 'good quality' basement room.

If you've increased the value of the house by more than £17k, that was a good investment (and hence the house was a good purchase, in that respect).
Posted by edddy

You've now got a 2 bedroom house with a study/games room. What the buyers do with that room after they move in is up to them.

3card

I cant get my head round some of the replies the OP has received on this thread.
She came here asking if there was any further avenues she could look into to see if there was any comeback.
She openly admits that she was new to the buying of properties at the time and relied heavily on the EA 'expert' description of the house.

It looks like shes got no comeback (sadly) and its just another EA feeling it is OK to mislead another buyer.

Hope you manage to move on from this

As for the post saying the EA listed it as a room with a bed in it is laughable. If its not allowed to be called a bedroom then they shouldnt describe it as a bedroom!!

All the best

Davesnave

3card wrote: »

I cant get my head round some of the replies the OP has received on this thread.

I'm sure most of us found it hard to get our heads around the original post, given that it related to a purchase 16 years ago.

When I bought my house, only 7 years ago, the agent told me that the previous owners had 'let it go a bit,' but on the positive side, it had 5 bedrooms.

I've since spent around £90-£100k, putting right the 'letting go' bit and re-allocating the tiny spaces which once gave each child a room of their own.

Now, however, I can only find 3 bedrooms.

Do you think I might be due a bit of compo too?

Davesnave

Silvertabby wrote: »

You've now got a 2 bedroom house with a study/games room. What the buyers do with that room after they move in is up to them.

No, if you read OP's second post, she now has a 3 bed home.