Thinking of buying but next door is very run down

Bey0ndcontrol

Thank you all for your replies - I will hopefully hear back from the seller today to see if they know anything!

moneyistooshorttomention

As per my usual advice on this - cornershop or having a drink in the nearest "local" type pub might yield info. Postman/woman. Even "the" local taxi firm (if there is one).

You can guess what my sources of info. on the local grapevine often are these days:rotfl:

You can get all sorts of info. on that "grapevine" if you know where to look - who does convenient "bankruptcies";) at intervals/who has probably been working a bit "hand in glove" with a few of the local councillors/who gets away with blue murder because they have been deemed "Pillar of the Community"/etc/etc. It's amazing what one can sometimes find out....:cool:

seven-day-weekend

When we lived in Spain the house next door to us (joined on to ours) was derelict - it was owned by four people, all of whom lived hundreds of miles away in northern Spain and one of whom was a child! No-one wanted to bother with it. It worried us greatly, my husband used to take photos of it so he could monitor the size of the crack in the wall. He also repaired the roof to make it watertight to try to stop it degrading further.

Anyway, we sold our house and moved on. The buyers asked if we knew anything about the derelict house, we just told him what we knew, which wasn't much.

Six years on, our house is still standing and the derelict house has gone - I know this from some photos I saw recently on Facebook.

I persoanlly would not buy another house adjoined to a derelict one, unless I could find out who the owner was and talk to them about it, it would worry me too much.