Purchase regret or reason to worry?

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? 

Tabieth

Marleysmummy99 said:

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. 

Why is it a dud house? You had a survey which, presumably, didn't pick up on anything major. The surveyor is coming back so that should set your mind at rest. The fact that a few years ago the house was a cannabis factory really isn’t a problem now. I honestly think you are stressing about something that just isn’t an issue. 

bobster2

Marleysmummy99 said:

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. 

I think you're being rather melodramatic. I see in another thread you've described this house as "a lemon".

The fact the house was used in the way you describe is not going to taint it forever. Maybe there will be a few things that need repairing? That's pretty typical for any older house.

sheramber

The seller only needs to answer the questions truthfully.

What is the exact question where you consider the seller lied when answering?

They do not need to offer information not asked for. 

How many years will go back to establish if son ex thing happened in the house that you don’t like?  10 years? 20 years? 

 

What long term issues do envisage occurring?

Again you need  proof, not something that you think might / might not happen 

 

Schwarzwald

I al still unclear where they lied to you (as per title)

noitsnotme

Marleysmummy99 said:

Surveyor did miss things, which is why he is coming back on Wed. The house is 75 years old but there is some movement and cracking, and a big dip in the kitchen floor that he missed. 

I’d wager absolutely none of that was caused by the cannabis factory.  Our house has a dip in the kitchen floor and some minor cracking from historical settlement and ours was never a cannabis factory.  The family before us owned it from new and were certainly not part of the local crime syndicate.

BungalowBel

Just enjoy your new house and repair any minor faults the cannabis factory might have done.  There is nothing to worry about.  You do not have a 'dud' house.  You have the lovely house you liked enough to buy. 

Most older houses have something wrong with them that has to be repaired, this is no different.

Flugelhorn

A lot of people have concerns about houses when they move in - they never look like they did at the time of viewing and there are lots of niggly things that need doing -particularly with older houses 

TBH re the cannabis factory - properties with a history are great but none of gets declared on the TA6 

Spikeygran

 @Marleysmummy99

Your new neighbour made you aware (how very thoughtful of them     )   , so have you had any confirmation from anywhere else?  You say you are now seeing signs, but thats prompted by what you've been told which may not be accurate.  An internet search of your street name and cannabis should bring up something, thats if theres anything to find.

I'm  sure that whatever was or was not going on in the house, your neighbour would not have had access to the house themselves and seen it with their own eyes.  So at best will just be repeating whatever they heard from other people or maybe read somewhere, getting exaggerated with every telling.