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Buying house advice,tie rods in old detatched property - Normal / okay or run a mile ?
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Just so that you don't worry about the structural engineer's report I am going to tell you this. The last property we bought as landlords was only 15 years old and we had a structural engineer's report and not a survey because we were only interested in the structure. Everything else inside the structure is cosmetic.This has been our policy for all our rental properties and we have been doing it for years. You get the report at the same time as you would an ordinary survey and it tells you what the structure of the property is like so that you know exactly what you are buying.1
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Thanks Cake that is great advice, as the rest of the advice given.0
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My house has a tie bar. When I first bought it, the comment from the structural engineer who inspected it as part of the condition to release my mortgage retention basically said that "the degree of movement would be unacceptable in a modern property," but that the house didn't have any recent cracks and hadn't fallen down. It's never been an issue. They gave me the mortgage.
If your proposed purchase looks solid (no cracks) then I'd carry on as others have suggested.
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Thanks all for the re-assurances, much apreciated0
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