Seller lied on the SPIF form. Their solicitor won't communicate with me...HELP

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I found out somebody had hung themselves in my last house.
*shrugs*
It happens.
I didn't know him and didn't know the story around it.
He wasn't popping back and haunting me.

But you didn't know he wouldn't pop back and haunt you until after you had moved in.

ethansmum

I thought that all carpets lino etc where someone had died had to be removed because it could harbour some nasty germs. Atleast thats what they said on Grimebusters USA where they had a company who specialised in dead body clean ups.

puddy

call me a bit dim, but im having a hard time accepting that the sellers of a property know exactly what developments are going up around their properties

for example, next door but one to me is a new block of flats, there used to be a detached house on the plot. although i recall seeing the workers around, i dont think it really twigged that there was a development being built until after i saw them completed and the for sale signs outside (we live on a wide busy road and next door but one is a bit away). seeing this thread, i am assuming that i may have received some letters from the council about a new development going up, but i dont really remember. if someone had asked me around the time it was being built, i probably wouldnt have mentioned it because it wouldnt have been in my mind (IF I knew about it).

when the neighbours in this instance stated to Becks that there had been meetings which the neighbours attended, did that mean that the sellers attended it?
I know in my own situation, posters on lamposts outside the property would be ignored by me, i walk around in my own world most of the time.

what shocks me most is that a local search would not have shown this develoopment up, that is what i would rely on and im really surprised that this isnt the way to find out whether somethings going to be built right in your eyeline or on a nice piece of green near your prospective house.

where else do we get this information from if not from the local searches??

poppysarah

Near neighbours get sent planning permission notices so they can object. Not knowing means you didn't read some bit of paper that came through the door, missed the notices posted up outside and don't read the local paper.

You can view planning permissions online or at the council office. If you go in you generally find the area on a huge map and then look it up in the books. Very fun to be nosey.

Debt_Free_Chick

jenner wrote: »

where else do we get this information from if not from the local searches??

The "standard" search just looks at adjoining properties. You need to ask your solicitor to do an extended search and explain how far around the property you're buying you want to look at.

puddy

poppysarah wrote: »

Near neighbours get sent planning permission notices so they can object. Not knowing means you didn't read some bit of paper that came through the door, missed the notices posted up outside and don't read the local paper.

You can view planning permissions online or at the council office. If you go in you generally find the area on a huge map and then look it up in the books. Very fun to be nosey.

thats right, i go straight from my front door into the car and drive off, i dont see whats on lamp posts. i dont have a local paper here, i dont read any news papers (local or national) and anything that comes through the door is either identified from the top couple of lines as bill or 'other'. if its 'other' that isnt anything to do with me, it goes in the recycling barely read. ive lost a lot of information that way

confused31_2

ethansmum wrote: »

I thought that all carpets lino etc where someone had died had to be removed because it could harbour some nasty germs. Atleast thats what they said on Grimebusters USA where they had a company who specialised in dead body clean ups.

I think there okay as long as they have been scotch guarded!!!!!

confused

bobsaint

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

The "standard" search just looks at adjoining properties. You need to ask your solicitor to do an extended search and explain how far around the property you're buying you want to look at.

....... or spend 2 minutes on the relevant local authority planning website !

poppysarah

jenner wrote: »

thats right, i go straight from my front door into the car and drive off, i dont see whats on lamp posts. i dont have a local paper here, i dont read any news papers (local or national) and anything that comes through the door is either identified from the top couple of lines as bill or 'other'. if its 'other' that isnt anything to do with me, it goes in the recycling barely read. ive lost a lot of information that way

My other half is exactly like that. He just doesn't notice things. It's just how I am. I've got an overactive nosey gene.

poppysarah

ethansmum wrote: »

I thought that all carpets lino etc where someone had died had to be removed because it could harbour some nasty germs. Atleast thats what they said on Grimebusters USA where they had a company who specialised in dead body clean ups.

That'll be the US. I don't think there's any rules here - the ex-undertaker didn't say anything - it is common sense though to remove the carpet thats stinky.