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Neighbour blocking sale
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Do short time renter's store up their deposits to cause more of a blockage risk than owners?1
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MultiFuelBurner said:Do short time renter's store up their deposits to cause more of a blockage risk than owners?🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her5 -
MultiFuelBurner said:Do short time renter's store up their deposits to cause more of a blockage risk than owners?6
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MultiFuelBurner said:Do short time renter's store up their deposits to cause more of a blockage risk than owners?
Possibly with friends and family coming to visit.
And no idea of the needs to use suitable washing and laundry products.
Let alone the wet wipes etc.If you've have not made a mistake, you've made nothing1 -
Of course, nothing in the title deeds is actually going to prevent such practical difficulties from arising! But if it somehow reassures the buyer then fair enough...1
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Anything to do with septic tanks does make me shudder, good luck. I was interested to see my buyer's listed building planning consent request states he is on the mains, not sure how he's done that!
Having a septic tank as well as a Saniflo system was our problem with our self catering. In the end I had an ugly sticker on top of the toilet showing all sorts of things you shouldn't be putting down the loo!
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Sheelha said:Our neighbour has a small holiday cottage and we share a septic tank. We are trying to sell, have a buyer, but the buyer refuses to sign the contract before she has a written agreement that any costs associated with the tank will be shared. Our neighbour, who is not very well and in her 80s, refuses to sign, and refuses to let her son help her. She would also have to get her cottage registered with Land Registry (we would pay) and this she does not want to do either, it seems. Our buyer's main concern is that our neighbour's son will inherit the cottage and run it as a holiday let, which might cause blockages with the septic tank which she would have to pay for, always. What can we do to facilitate our sale? Is our neighbour required by law to share costs, simply by virtue of sharing the use? Even if we had a signed agreement, could our neighbour refuse to share costs anyway? Should we build our own septic tank, not shared with anyone as a way around this problem?
Is there a continuing need for your property to be connected to the septic tank? Obviously, there is a continuing need for your property to be able to discharge waste but has the area changed such that there is municipal sewer nearer to the property than when first built?
I agree with your buyer that any costs for a shared septic tank should be shared between both properties.0 -
Is the septic tank regularly empited? If so who pays for that?0
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Surely if the septic tank was blocked etc., the neighbours would need to have it sorted as well? I don't see the issue (especially if they were letting it out, can't see many people booking a holiday cottage with no working loo/sinks).It's not really the 'neighbour blocking sale' it's more a case of the buyers caution, probably more likely an issue the solicitors raised with them?1
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Thanks so much for all the helpful comments, very much appreciated! To reply to many of your questions at once: for years we have had a verbal agreement with our neighbour that costs associated with the tank are shared, and this worked fine, but then we started to run our cottage as a holiday let, while our neighbour became too elderly visit her holiday cottage more than once or twice a year. So in this situation we thought it right to take on, ourselves, the cost of having the tank emptied every year - about £200.Tank is in excellent condition, we had it checked recently, but occasionally our holiday let guests do put the wrong things down the loos etc (despite my notices) Whenever there is a blockage unfortunately this is evident in our neighbour's cottage, but not ours. So, our neighbour knows it is in her interest to have our buyer (single, responsible lady) living next door, rather than our holiday let guests, and twice she has agreed to a legal statement that costs are shared, and twice she has changed her mind (without actually telling us, until too much time has passed!). I guess our buyer is worried she might have the huge expense of having to replace the old tank one day (but surely then she could insist on our neighbour/neighbour's son sharing the cost or being cut out altogether??) or she is concerned our neighbour's son might run the little cottage as a holiday let, and then there would be more frequent blockages (but as the unpleasant fact is the blockages are evident next door, not in our cottage, then he would maybe feel some sort of need to share some of the cost??) Septic tank is currently situated a little away, in a farmers field, so in neither of our gardens. If we built a tank in our own (small) garden to get around the problem, surely there is not much improvement, as 100% of costs would still be ours, except we'd have had the expense and inconvenience of putting a septic tank in our small garden. But if our buyer pulls out over this issue, will future buyers also see it as a big problem??0
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