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Surveyor website nightmare!

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  • hazyjo
    hazyjo Posts: 15,475 Forumite
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    Treng63 wrote: »
    The property I am buying is 200 miles from where I currently live, otherwise I would have used a local firm.
    Doesn't matter - still advisable to use a solicitor in the area you are selling in/local. Doesn't matter that they're not local to where you are buying.
    2024 wins: *must start comping again!*
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    hazyjo wrote: »
    Doesn't matter - still advisable to use a solicitor in the area you are selling in/local. Doesn't matter that they're not local to where you are buying.
    Jo, it's a surveyor.


    More :coffee:??
  • hazyjo
    hazyjo Posts: 15,475 Forumite
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Jo, it's a surveyor.


    More :coffee:??
    Oh god - facepalm :rotfl:


    I am definitely not yet awake lol. It's been a bloody long week (and I'm out again tonight!). Will sleep at lunch! Ta! :)
    2024 wins: *must start comping again!*
  • Moneysaving222
    Moneysaving222 Posts: 62 Forumite
    I paid £200 from my bank to do a check. Are you saying I could have got a higher check such as a RICK survey?
  • Lokolo
    Lokolo Posts: 20,861 Forumite
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    Moneysaving222 wrote: »
    I paid £200 from my bank to do a check. Are you saying I could have got a higher check such as a RICK survey?

    I presume you mean RICS.

    Not all offer it, but a lot of mortgage providers often offer discount upgrades from a valuation survey to a homebuyers or even full building.
  • JaneM11
    JaneM11 Posts: 4 Newbie
    edited 28 June 2019 at 12:20PM
    Interested in this thread because I also used findsurveyors.co.uk to have a home buyers report done. The surveyor didn't turn up and the website has been down for at least 4 days now. The surveyor isn't answering his phone or replying to emails and I have no way of contacting the website. Any suggestions as to what my next move should be?
    PS forgot to say this was paid for when we booked it.
  • ThePants999
    ThePants999 Posts: 1,748 Forumite
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    Treng63 wrote: »
    anything else I can do?
    Next time, use a credit card instead of a debit card so that you have Section 75 protection.
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    Also don't believe claims on a web site without checking the facts. In this case, it would be here:


    https://www.ricsfirms.com/residential/moving-home/buying/
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