Help - sellers lied to us

pinkshoes

I think you're worrying over nothing.

Nice neighbourhoods are often chosen for cannabis growing as its less likely to attract attention and the selling doesn't usually take place there as to also not attract attention, so you don't have to worry about that.

Your surveyor however should have perhaps flagged up anything that was potentially dangerous or recommended further surveys. You'll need to question whether this was something that should have been flagged. Did they look in the attic?? 

Just enjoy your new house. Your neighbours will be pleased to have people living there!

elsien

It does feel a little bit as if you are now overthinking it. 

You say the surveyor missed a big dip in the kitchen floor for example, but did you not see that when you looked around and ask the surveyor to check it? If not, it can’t have been that big apart from in retrospect. 

It’s not uncommon for people to move house and start fretting about stuff and worrying they’ve made a mistake. And I’m not knocking your worries at all. I’m just suggesting you ask yourself how much of this is a real concern and how much is anxiety or about change? 

MyRealNameToo

elsien said:

It’s not uncommon for people to move house and start fretting about stuff and worrying they’ve made a mistake. And I’m not knocking your worries at all. I’m just suggesting you ask yourself how much of this is a real concern and how much is anxiety or about change? 

Many have buyers regret, after all its the biggest thing we ever buy for ourselves, a decades long commitment in many times and a big part of family life. 

You spent so little time in it pre-purchase (many take cars on longer test drives than how long people spend in houses they will buy) inevitably you start spotting all the problems you didn't spot before. Many houses have a history, a lot of the time people dont mention it and arent obliged to mention it. Arguably ignorance is potentially better but then you'll probably find something else thats wrong with the house. 

Our flat is relatively new and we are the 5th owners. All the previous owners sold up because they were divorcing. Wife was fixated on the place being "cursed" for months after moving in. 

michael1234

+1 for not being worried about that. I would think most of the damage would have been superficial as what are we talking about? A load of plants, soil everywhere and probably some dodgy electrics hosting lights and fans.

I think I'd rather live in a house like that than say one where someone had been murdered or something.

HobgoblinBT

OP, have you tried Google to find out any information in the public domain such as local news?  

Try googling “your town or district/road” cannabis factory.

For example a Cambridgeshire town’s former High Street Poundland was recently found to be housing a cannabis factory. Google “Huntingdon Poundland Cannabis” to find newspaper articles etc.

 

Marleysmummy99

HobgoblinBT said:

OP, have you tried Google to find out any information in the public domain such as local news?  

Try googling “your town or district/road” cannabis factory.

For example a Cambridgeshire town’s former High Street Poundland was recently found to be housing a cannabis factory. Google “Huntingdon Poundland Cannabis” to find newspaper articles etc.

 

Tried that and nothing at all. I've sent a freedom of information request to the  local police force. 

Neighbours knew everything that happened and it makes sense what they said. 

elsien

I’m not sure how often inaccurate newspaper reports are going to be of any help to the OP questions though? It’ll just be a few headlines and not much else.

Marleysmummy99

elsien said:

I’m not sure how often inaccurate newspaper reports are going to be of any help to the OP questions though? It’ll just be a few headlines and not much else.

There isn't anything anyway. 

I feel like an idiot - buying a dud house with possible long term issues. 

youth_leader

I am sorry you have been so upset by this, and hope nothing is amiss when the surveyor returns.

When I was house hunting I did like a terraced house I'd seen in Broadstairs, and was viewing it the next day.  I googled it for fun - and read an article that a few years earlier a fire had started in a loft one end of the street and spread along the whole terrace.  I did view the property and was instantly put off by a toilet in the upstairs bedroom, next to the wardrobe.

ian1246

There's far worse things which can have happened in a house - i.e. I've been to far too many dead bodies over the years and seen the sheer mess which results when they aren't found for weeks on end. The rot can seep into anything and the smell clings to every surface.

The reality is in the UK most houses have dark histories - particularly older one's. A Cannabis farm by comparison is positively quaint - please stop worrying and enjoy your new home!

If your really worried, pay a few hundred pound for electrical tests and climb up into the loft with a screw-driver and push it into the beams/joists - if it goes in easily, you have a problem with wood rot (& a likely claim against your surveyor!), if it doesn't- you then *know* the Cannabis Farm will have had minimal or no impact on the structure of the property.

Only thing I'd be worried about is damage from damp (hence testing the beams with a screwdriver!) & electrics.

Beyond that, what other long-term damage do you envision the Farm having caused?