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F_T_Buyer

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Some years ago I did likewise. After a nice Sunday lunch in a country pub. We ended up doing a p\ex and moving into the showhouse some 19 days later. While letting them continue to use the sales office (our detached double garage) for a negotiated fee.

Sounds good, we're moving into the show home with the detached garage currently as a sales office. Do you mind if I ask what your negotiated fee was?

I might suggest they let us move in early and we rent the garage to them!

Thrugelmir

F_T_Buyer wrote: »

Sounds good, we're moving into the show home with the detached garage currently as a sales office. Do you mind if I ask what your negotiated fee was?

In the end the package ended being.

• A fair price for our old property. Could have sold it for more privately
• A reduction of £16k on the selling price. A lot of money had been spent on the interior and landscaping the gardens. Valuer therefore down valued and we stood our ground.
• A garden shed was installed (as we had no garage of our own)
• Use of a double garage on the development (until such time as they vacated the sales office).
• For every week they remained in the garage. They agreed to pay us £25 for the inconvenience, i.e. have people walk across the drive. Also we agreed that the 2 sales ladies could use our downstairs toilet and get water from the kitchen.
• Likewise they paid our water bill until they vacated.
• Paid our electricity bill for 10.5 months. As the sales office needed almost constant heating for them to be to able to work in there

The whole deal was driven by the fact that 31st December was their year end. As a division their head office charged them 1% of the value of any unsold property.

Fun started when we sold the property some 18 years later. When we subsequently found it was built on the site of a chemical works dating back to the 1860's but that's another story.

sultanabran

I've been in my new Barratt home for a couple of weeks and can't really complain about anything. If I have an issue, I just talk to the site manager and he gets it sorted. Try and make sure you buy a house while the development is still ongoing. Sure you'll have to put up with dirty roads and building work but it's far easier to get snags sorted if there are still tradesmen on site.

Standard for my house were fencing and gate all around the back and sides. Turfed to the rear and front gardens, shrubs/plants, outdoor tap and outdoor light at the front. Integrated kitchen appliances were also included.

I also managed to get them to throw in flooring throughout.

Post move in seems to depend very much on the site managers on your development.

Dolly123

This is because the 30th June is there year end so they needed to get you completed that day so that you could be included in there figures, terrible really just keep nagging and nagging!!