What's the worse thing you have found when buying a property and the worse thing you have covered up

MultiFuelBurner

The worse thing we have found is every single bathroom and toilet and kitchen water source had a leak.

The worse we have covered up well not really covered up just the oil boiler needed a weekly reset which we left a note about with a bottle of champagne and some flowers.

Grizebeck

Well ive covered up very large cracks by the position of wardrobes etc 
Not related as such but i covered a mistake with a jet washer on a car roof by the use of a decal when selling to a dealer.  It was raining.  They sent of these people round to inspect he never noticed and i got paid....

lincroft1710

Back in the late 1980s repainted the bedroom walls but didn't paint behind the wardrobe. So the wardrobe was covering a patch of unpainted wall.  

turnitround

The worst I discovered-
Bought a house in 2003 which had just had beautiful laminate flooring laid. There were patio doors leading through to the conservatory and on moving in we discovered a giant molehill of a lump right in front of the doors where the laminate had been wet and swelled. The dogs bed had been placed over it and obviously  the dog didnt get let out regularly.

housebuyer143

Bought a house with a man hole under the kitchen floor that was concreted over 🙄. We did some remedial works and reinstated the drain access and then covered it with vinyl flooring - made no mention to the buyer and they didn't pick up on it.
Guess that covers the worst thing I found and the thing I covered up.

Green_hopeful

When we were decorating at my mums we found a big patch of blown plaster behind a large painting on the wall. My mum said ‘what are you going to do about that?’ We painted around the hole and put the picture back up. To be fair it was a doer upper and we were just making it a bit brighter before putting it on the market. It had a very elderly kitchen and bathroom and needed lots of TLC. The other funny was that you couldn’t open the dishwasher without opening the oven as they were too close together. 

RelievedSheff

I think we have been lucky and neither house we bought has hidden any real horrors. Worst of it with the first house was that the previous owner had painted around the fridge freezer. Ours was a bit shorter than theirs so for the first few months we had a patch of bare plaster above the fridge.

The worst that we have hidden again wasn't too bad. Just a small rusty patch around the bleed valve on a radiator we hid with a cleverly placed tea towel.

Bigphil1474

When we first redecorated our attic bedroom, we found the previous owners had wallpapered over a hole in the ceiling - big enough to get your head through. Just had newspaper stuffed in it. Gave us a nice view of the inside of the roof though, and we spotted a gap by the chimney so possibly a positive. Currently selling our house, and have done quite a few cosmetic improvements to hide the worst of what is really a house in need of a refurb - nothing major though. We also have a small hole in the carpet which the sofa sits on. 

Silvertabby

Not me, but a family member.  When they viewed the house they would go on to buy, the vendor emphasised the fact that the master bedroom had recently been redecorated and an expensive new carpet laid.  The decor and carpet were of good quality, in a nice neutral colour that sis-in-law could have chosen herself, so this was seen as a plus.

They knew that the vendor's huge triple wardrobe wasn't included in the sale, but that wasn't a problem as they had their own bedroom furniture.

When they moved in they found that the walls had been painted and the carpet fitted AROUND the now removed wardrobe.

Exodi

I'm not sure which was the worse, but the gifts my vendor left me:

• Extractor Fans in all bathrooms had no ducting on the other end, meaning they were throwing all the moisture from the bathrooms into the attic
• The bamboo in the garden beds was not sectioned in, so when it came to removal it had spread rapidly, requiring me to take up the partio and dig up big parts of the garden up to the knee... an entire SKIP worth of bamboo roots....
• Knife marks extending the entire length of the landing wall, a door with a fist hole, and knife marks on the back of two other bedroom doors (I understand there were dark circumstances behind my purchase - long story short, at the start guy borrows money from mum to build house, guy marries and wife + kids live there, guy unexpectedly dies, wife lives there with kids mourning... founds out husband doesn't own the house and MIL wants to sell it).
  
• No water meter on the property, the board board was unaware that the house had been using water for approx 10 years until my inquiries during purchase. No meter = tripled water bills
• The downpipe from the guttering stopped half way down the side of the house
• All toilets had a leak
  

I could keep going. We've fixed everything since (except the water meter - the water board won't put one in unless we have the drive way taken up... one day).

I'd like to think the person buying from us won't feel as stitched up.

LHW99

Last house had no guttering all along the back, and hadn't for quite a lot of years. In addition, the period open fireplace actually had no grate and the previous owner had been laying fires on the concrete floor.

On the whole we have left houses better than we found them although our FTB house many years ago had a mains pipe under the concrete floor which leaked, and we never got replaced. looked fine as long as you didn't lift the carpet tiles.