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  • Today you may be sharing with a dance studio+kitchen company+accountants, but that may all change....
    Honi swanky malyponze. Or something.
  • trakky14
    trakky14 Posts: 398 Forumite
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    I would worry about resale too...Id definitely walk away
  • Maka344
    Maka344 Posts: 139 Forumite
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    edited 28 October 2022 at 2:33PM
    Thanks everyone. Reluctantly, we have decided not to proceed with our reservation. 

    It is a shame because we loved the house and the garden. 
  • trakky14
    trakky14 Posts: 398 Forumite
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    That is a lovely garden but you've done the right thing, good luck for your new search.
  • Maka344
    Maka344 Posts: 139 Forumite
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    The developer came back today offering a price reduction… 
  • Flugelhorn
    Flugelhorn Posts: 7,505 Forumite
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    Maka344 said:
    The developer came back today offering a price reduction… 
    I am not surprised, this is going to be a real problem unless they sort out the road

  • robatwork
    robatwork Posts: 7,322 Forumite
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    Maka344 said:
    The developer came back today offering a price reduction… 
    Tell them to come back to you instead with the original price but an adopted road, or a written pledge (backed by insurance) that they will maintain the road/verges etc. for the next 100 years or until adoption
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