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Ridiculous survey comments?

allconnected · 2023-07-07 22:53:33

Interested to know if our experience is common. We’ve had a buyer scared off by a homebuyers survey which includes comments appearing absolutely bonkers. It contains comments like ’the walls have been hidden by bookcases and furniture preventing is from identifying probable issues’ ‘existence of wallpaper may be hiding…

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Dustyevsky Posts: 2,531 Forumite

10 July 2023 at 3:07PM edited 10 July 2023 at 9:55PM

ReadingTim said:

Dustyevsky said:

In my limited experience, potential buyers who withdraw or lose interest, before or after a survey, may lie about their reasons and seize on something physical. I know we did. Sometimes it's kinder, but often it's because the real reason is a combination of factors which weigh a lot taken together, but might sound pathetic to a vendor with different priorities.

It's not "kinder" - its a flaky buyer who doesn't have the balls to own their decision to pull out, so spinelessly blames someone or something else.

Well, thank you for that. Ironically, you're proving the point of my last sentence.

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