Survey on house we are selling

mi-key

Wait and see what reduction the buyer comes back with, then offer them £500 off as goodwill to fix the tile and have their own gas and electrical checks done if they want them, and say take it or leave it.

If they leave it, remarket and find another buyer. The current buyer has already spent out money on the survey and searches etc... so they will be losing out. If they have gone this far with the process they obviously want the house. 

FTBs often don't seem to understand what surveys are for, or how to interpret any warnings of possible things in the results llike 'may contain asbestos' or they think they are a way to get an extra reduction on the house. 

With the tile, I doubt the surveyor broke it deliberately, it may have been accidental if they were checking it was loose or something

lesalanos

Mixture of surveyors covering their backs with "may"  comments on gas/electric/asbestos and ftb who have panicked.

I would stick to my guns and tell them that's the price but depends how quickly you want to sell.

dannim12345

As others have said, the gas and electrics and probably the asbestos is pretty standard. The surveyor won’t check what the solicitor has already been provided. 

Seems like they did break the tile although don’t think it was deliberate - small cost in the scheme of things and not worth risking their reputation for / a bad review. But I would ask them to pay to fix it.  

comeandgo

youth_leader said:

I am so sorry for your loss, but don't be upset.  It is a business transaction 

Goodness, what sort of people do you do business with.  None of my business associates behave like that.

youth_leader

My buyer was constantly chipping at the price and the negotiation was very ugly, I withdrew from the sale.  I also thought he was in cahoots with his surveyor - who whispered in my ear that the the watertank joint was leaking as he was leaving.  Another £300 I didn't need to spend, my plumber said it was the very smallest of drips.

housebuyer143

youth_leader said:

My buyer was constantly chipping at the price and the negotiation was very ugly, I withdrew from the sale.  I also thought he was in cahoots with his surveyor - who whispered in my ear that the the watertank joint was leaking as he was leaving.  Another £300 I didn't need to spend, my plumber said it was the very smallest of drips.

But it was leaking.. small leaks turn into large leaks, probably right it was fixed before the buyer moved in.

youth_leader

Probably housebuyer143, but plumber said the joint had at least another ten years before it would need replacing.  Unfortunately the surveyor gave me the creeps, he was in my house for six and half hours and I tried to stay out of the way in the kitchen.  At one point he asked if he could 'go for a wee' which was obviously a guise for seeing if the toilet flushed OK.  He did apologise for covering my bed in loft debris and spiders after opening the hatch.  And pulling the curtain rail down.

Zerforax

Squoozy said:

Thank you all for your comments and advice. Just for information, we now have proof that the surveyor broke the roof tile. He made the mistake of including and earlier photo of the same piece of roof with no broken tile. He put it in a different part of the report and presumably forgot. It’s clearly the same place next to the window, tiles all intact. I’m sending the photos to our solicitor. I don’t actually see why we should fix a roof that has been deliberately damaged. 

If that is the case, tell the buyer the price is the price and you won't be swayed by whatever this suveyor has said.

diystarter7

Hi OP

We've never had anything given or left to us as we did not want this.

If I was in your shoes and the upset these people are causing via last-minute delays and as 
you will gain from a sale at almost any price, I personally would be tempted never to sell to this lot.

However, as we do not know what the next lot are going to be like, give them a chance and see what they say.

If you then feel they are still taking the p, no ifs, no buts, just refuse to sell it to them and put it back on the market.
Trust me, they will feel it more than you do.

I'm a man of principles and always up front and I'm infamous for making what some deal as silly offers on property and working towards a good buy, However, I would, we would never pull a stunt like your potential buyers. For this reason, I'd be tempted to teach them a lesson but to reduce the burden and stress to self, consider what I said earlier.

Good luck