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

EssexHebridean

Beat me too it - I’ve just been reading choice bits of it out to OH! 😂

gemma.zhang

s1ipmatt said:

My parents bought a house in mid 80s and the bath tub was white in colour but had a big thick black ring going all around the inside. My parents tried everything to get rid of it but would not move. They found out from the neighbors that the person my parents bought the house off had inherited it from from a family member, who had died in the bath tub and was there for over a week before anyone had noticed she was missing. The black ring was from the water line.

This by far post of the year !

can easily match up to dog body in a bag for life post. ! 

Cant get it out of my head .. really. Now I am thinking I should get rid of the bath tub (we only moved in 2 months ago).

NornIronRose

Thanks jimbog. That's going to keep me amused for the next wee while.  Enjoy everyone. 

silvercar

We found an open gas pipe! Seller had removed the fire as we’d declined to buy it. In fact, we had reminded them that if they intended removing it they needed to make it safe, hoping they would think it wasn’t worth the hassle. One call to our solicitor and half an hour later they were at the front door with a plumber to make it safe. 

Warslet

When we moved into our current home in 1990 there were yellow post-it notes leading from a wall socket in our lounge, along another wall, over the top of a patio door, down the other side to another wall socket. On a note on the wall was a warning that an electrical cable was in the wall for a spur. Soon after moving in we disconnected both ends of the cable, re-routed under floorboards, as there was an arcing noise which stopped when re-routed. 

Sapindus

I lived in a house belonging to my parents that had slight damp problems which on investigation revealed that there was a false wall in the kitchen hiding the soaking wet original brickwork behind, and in the front room all the vertical wall timbers had been sawn off at knee level leaving the front of the house supported only by the brick outer skin and the houses each side... 

NornIronRose

jimbog said:

NornIronRose said:

FreeBear said:

EssexHebridean said: We have a winner! 😆

Patio and wine cellar. I'll say no more, but there isn't a Tesco bag for life anywhere to be seen.

Please put the link for this, if you can find it (I can't) as I'd love to revisit it and it'll be a real treat for those who haven't read it. 
Probably my favourite thing from MSE over the many years. Could do with a few giggles. 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2636903/updated-its-done-our-buyer-wants-to-bury-their-dead-dog-in-our-garden/p1

For those who haven't yet had a wee look, it only took to the bottom of page 2 before I burst out laughing for the first time. Absolutely wonderful stuff. 

lookstraightahead

We took on a rental property in the early 1990s which still had a bin full of used nappies in it and mouldy pitta in the fridge. The shower room wasn't attached to water and there were no keys to the locked front bedroom 😂. We bought a property once where they left their chickens, but only for a while as they needed to sort out their new garden and thought it was ok for us to look after them 😝

TractorFactor

Bought a house that we found the previous owners cat had been using a small cubby hole behind a cupboard as a litter box.. probably for some time as it was all mouldy and awful.

We'll be selling in the next 3-6 years, so far we haven't covered much up.  The rear room (think study) gets a lot of mould in winter if we don't regularly heat and air it - same with the adjacent convered garage.  We get mould in our bedroom on the exterior walls.  We regularly spray with the Astonish stuff that gets rid of it for a month or two.  Can't really afford to get that investigated at the moment, but we'll sell in summer when it isn't an issue.

itsanne

Recently moved, to find several things not quite as expected. Silicone in the bathroom is actually parcel tape painted white. And the vendors' cat was left behind...