Buying a house - nightmare survey!

babyblade41

surveyors can be a PITA sometimes .. it would always help in these posts if the actual problems can be identified as a lot are just butt covering exercises & very much over estimated guesstimates 

So many people drop out of potentially good properties through lack of knowledge 

diystarter7

Not had any survey whatsoever on any of the last 7/8 properties we have bought - used my skills, only chose chain free and as we were cash, no need even for the basis survey.  Our first house, ie own property me & Mrs Diy, we had a mortgae survey, around 40 years ago, not worht the paper it was written on as i lacked skills, not have the net and we were being gazumped lefet, right and centre - then the second house mortgage survey but had more skills/knowledge all ok and since then bought and sold, never had any survey, never asked for a discount etc after offer accepted all good. I'm no builder etc but loads of common sense and loads of Homes under de hammer was the driving force for use to have a few properties and retire early

However, if you lack the skills and or buying a very old, big house get a structural survey, especially in London as a lot of the properties have movement often historic.

propertyrental

OP hasn't been back since joining and posting 2 days ago. Can't be that interested/concerned (unless simply withdrew from purchase), and without the further details we've requested it's pretty pointless speculating.

Mutton_Geoff

diystarter7 said:

Not had any survey whatsoever on any of the last 7/8 properties we have bought - used my skills, only chose chain free and as we were cash, no need even for the basis survey.  Our first house, ie own property me & Mrs Diy, we had a mortgae survey, around 40 years ago, not worht the paper it was written on as i lacked skills, not have the net and we were being gazumped lefet, right and centre - then the second house mortgage survey but had more skills/knowledge all ok and since then bought and sold, never had any survey, never asked for a discount etc after offer accepted all good. I'm no builder etc but loads of common sense and loads of Homes under de hammer was the driving force for use to have a few properties and retire early

However, if you lack the skills and or buying a very old, big house get a structural survey, especially in London as a lot of the properties have movement often historic.

I'm the same, as posted in another thread ..

Mutton_Geoff said:

The last two houses I bought were very old. I didn't bother with surveys at all since they aren't worth the paper they are printed on and anything important is subject to their "suggest further investigation". My offer was based on what I saw with my own eyes and knowing a roof costs £20k, a bathroom £5k, electrics £5k, boiler/heating from £2k to £15k etc. Assume the worst and budget accordingly.

diystarter7

Mutton_Geoff said:

diystarter7 said:

Not had any survey whatsoever on any of the last 7/8 properties we have bought - used my skills, only chose chain free and as we were cash, no need even for the basis survey.  Our first house, ie own property me & Mrs Diy, we had a mortgae survey, around 40 years ago, not worht the paper it was written on as i lacked skills, not have the net and we were being gazumped lefet, right and centre - then the second house mortgage survey but had more skills/knowledge all ok and since then bought and sold, never had any survey, never asked for a discount etc after offer accepted all good. I'm no builder etc but loads of common sense and loads of Homes under de hammer was the driving force for use to have a few properties and retire early

However, if you lack the skills and or buying a very old, big house get a structural survey, especially in London as a lot of the properties have movement often historic.

I'm the same, as posted in another thread ..

Mutton_Geoff said:

The last two houses I bought were very old. I didn't bother with surveys at all since they aren't worth the paper they are printed on and anything important is subject to their "suggest further investigation". My offer was based on what I saw with my own eyes and knowing a roof costs £20k, a bathroom £5k, electrics £5k, boiler/heating from £2k to £15k etc. Assume the worst and budget accordingly.

Great stuff, nice to meet like-minded people Thanks for sharing.

Your post reminded me that the houses we live in rather than rent out, we always re-do top to bottom but it has been years now - we often replace the roof as well but not the current house.

My family often take me on a viewing if they are seriously interested. I don't, Mrs DiY and me often make good observations.

As we do not borrow, we dont even need the bs survey to show the lender its worth their risk.

If I see cracks on the outside wall or fill in cracks, I walk away - nor have we bought any pebble dashed homes especially if done afterwards as can hid stukk
Thanks

BigBoss

Good luck taking advice from here about surveys/responses to surveys etc. Most of the vociferous posters on here are rabidly pro-vendor and pro-ignore survey.

Just get professionals to come and look at the areas raised by the survey and make a judgement call.

TheJP

BigBoss said:

Good luck taking advice from here about surveys/responses to surveys etc. Most of the vociferous posters on here are rabidly pro-vendor and pro-ignore survey.

Just get professionals to come and look at the areas raised by the survey and make a judgement call.

How did your negotiations go @BigBoss? Genuinely interested to know.

BigBoss

TheJP said:

BigBoss said:

Good luck taking advice from here about surveys/responses to surveys etc. Most of the vociferous posters on here are rabidly pro-vendor and pro-ignore survey.

Just get professionals to come and look at the areas raised by the survey and make a judgement call.

How did your negotiations go @BigBoss? Genuinely interested to know.

Do I know you?

TheJP

BigBoss said:

TheJP said:

BigBoss said:

Good luck taking advice from here about surveys/responses to surveys etc. Most of the vociferous posters on here are rabidly pro-vendor and pro-ignore survey.

Just get professionals to come and look at the areas raised by the survey and make a judgement call.

How did your negotiations go @BigBoss? Genuinely interested to know.

Do I know you?

Not personally but you did create a public forum post asking for advise about negotiation should your survey need you to. People advised but you closed the thread. Just genuinely interested to hear what was the outcome.