Were we miss-sold our home?

novelty-socks

I mean, at least you don't have an empty house next door any more, prone to squatters, burglary and general dereliction. Who knows, if you bother to get to know them, your new neighbours might be tolerable, or even quite pleasant.

lookstraightahead

Your neighbours may well be disappointed to have you next door as well

jonnygee2

We feel that we have been miss-sold our house because of this, is this correct legally?

Out of interest, say this thread came to the conclusion that you had been missold your home, what do you think you'd be able to do about it? Take it back?!

I doubt it affects the value and you can hardly say it affects your quality of life given you haven't even met your neighbours.

I know everyone on here is desperate for a bit of compo but even you've got to admit you'd be pushing it on this one?

lisyloo

G_M wrote: »

The sales rep for the developers understood this, and reassured him. He received assurances about his future neighbours and relied on this information.

First hurdle - what if they say - we never said that.

Perhaps the op can clarify if this is writing?

charlieismydarling

What a vile post. Just foul.

So having had the benefit of living in social housing you would like to distance yourself from it.

You remind me of previous neighbours, who, having been handed out a council house when they were freely available, then bought it at a massive discount and then to top off this good fortune decided to class themselves as a cut above us mere tenants. They built huge fences, adorned their property with mind the dog signs and walked around with a permanent bad smell under their nose.

I wish you all bad fortune. Disgusting.

theartfullodger

In my experience most council and housing association tenants are preferably to so many braying, self-satisfied, "look at me a property owner" smug persons of the middle classes.

Artful: (.... property owner.....)

davidmcn

lisyloo wrote: »

First hurdle - what if they say - we never said that.

Perhaps the op can clarify if this is writing?

Apart from anything else, their contract probably said that they could only rely on statements made in the contract and official answers to enquiries, not any other sales puff. The developer couldn't guarantee who would be the neighbours two years in the future anyway.

myfairrlady

I just want to say that I am sorry that you have received so many negative and unhelpful comments. This should not be allowed here, people should either post a helpful advice or not at all.

KatrinaWaves

myfairrlady wrote: »

I just want to say that I am sorry that you have received so many negative and unhelpful comments. This should not be allowed here, people should either post a helpful advice or not at all.

Agreed. People should just post what people want to hear, regardless of the accuracy, so everyone can be wonderfully happy.

Giving accurate advice which makes people sad is not the point of this forum. It is about rainbows and sunshine.

Also I have to assume GMs post is sarcastic. It must be...

KatrinaWaves

G_M wrote: »

I think jarjarbink has a good point. And a strong legal case.


He made it clear before purchasing his home what kind of neighbours he finds acceptable, and what kind of neigbours he finds unacceptable.


The sales rep for the developers understood this, and reassured him. He received assurances about his future neighbours and relied on this information.


He is therefore clearly entitled to expect that throughout whatever period of time he owns the property he chose, the neighbours will conform to the catagorisation he finds acceptable.


If, at any time while he still owns this home, someone of a different catagoriasation moves in next door, he clearly has a strong legal case against the seller (the developer).



He is therefore entitled to claim damages, which would be assessed at the financial cost to him of selling his home, buying a (potentially more expensive?) home in an acceptable location, and compensation for the stress involved.

You are a bad person :rotfl: I don’t think people realise you are joking.

No one really thinks GM is saying you can choose your choice of neighbour category for life! Come on people...