Were we miss-sold our home?

davidmcn

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.

So what's your helpful advice to the OP?

KatrinaWaves

davidmcn wrote: »

So what's your helpful advice to the OP?

Why the lovely pandering and saying how sorry she is. That’s gonna help her neighbour problems isn’t it?

csgohan4

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.

Sometimes the truth hurts, can't sugar coat it I'm afraid. Mumsnet is always an option

RedFraggle

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.

Who are you and what have you done with G_M? :eek:

theartfullodger

Basic problem is, you believed a salesman.



Sigh!

societys_child

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.

You mean, only posters who say what the op wants to hear should reply?

csgohan4 wrote: »

Sometimes the truth hurts, can't sugar coat it I'm afraid. Mumsnet is always an option

:eek: Now that can be a scary place, they pull no punches . . .

gomer

Jarjarbink wrote: »

Hi so this isn't going to come across as the nicest thing as I haven't even met the neighbours yet but that's beside the point.

Basically when we purchased our new build home we had a choice of two houses, one with a garage which was next to 2 housing association homes and another which wasn't. Due to previous experiences we opted for the one without the garage but not next to the housing association homes.

We confirmed this with the sales rep and made our choice. Fast forward 2 years and no one had moved into it, until today when the housing association homes in the area started to become occupied including the one next door to us!

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

My initial thought is haha.

Sadly you don't get to choose who buys other properties. A HA bought it. Tough luck. If you don't want to live next to social housing your best options are either a field in the middle of nowhere or the top of a mountain.

Unless you buy on an exclusive private gated estate I think you're being unbelievably naive.

Moving onto a new build estate and honestly thinking no social tenants would move next door is almost laughable.

Unbelievable. :rotfl:

gomer

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.

What did you expect? Perhaps they find closet snobbery a bit distasteful? Besides, it's not really for you to decide what people should and should not be allowed to post. That's up to mods. Free speech and all that.

Personally It all seems a tad stuck up to me. We don't get to decide who buys surrounding property. And why the heck should we?

If I were in social housing I'd probably be a bit concerned that I was surrounded by such inverted snobbery.

elsien

gomer wrote: »

What did you expect? Perhaps they find closet snobbery a bit distasteful? Besides, it's not really for you to decide what people should and should not be allowed to post. That's up to mods. Free speech and all that.

Personally It all seems a tad stuck up to me. We don't get to decide who buys surrounding property. And why the heck should we?

If I were in social housing I'd probably be a bit concerned that I was surrounded by such snobbery.

MSE and free speech does tend to bit of a contradiction in terms.

elsien

gomer wrote: »

What did you expect? Perhaps they find closet snobbery a bit distasteful? Besides, it's not really for you to decide what people should and should not be allowed to post. That's up to mods. Free speech and all that.

Personally It all seems a tad stuck up to me. We don't get to decide who buys surrounding property. And why the heck should we?

If I were in social housing I'd probably be a bit concerned that I was surrounded by such snobbery.

Nice thought, but MSE and free speech does tend to bit of a contradiction in terms nowadays.