I'm guessing that it's like getting blood from a stone?
We're trying to get our first home and have had to walk away from two houses so far. Both were listed with the same estate agents.
I spent twelve years working with used car salesmen, so I thought I was used to bullshitters.
Anyway house number one we had to walk away from because we found out it had a shared access path through the back garden. We were told by the estate agent that this could be fenced off when we we're being shown around the house....turns out that wasn't the case...
House number two is a tru steel construction with cavity wall insulation (we knew about the trusteel but had no idea about the wall insulation).
The bank didn't want to provide a valuation as the property could be susceptible to significant repairs in the future. When I rang up to say we were walking away, the estate agent confessed he was expecting the call and they knew all about it. The seller was prepared to knock off a few grand and pay for the wall insulation to be taken out. I was so incensed that they knew and I didn't want to waste a grand on paying for a survey to find out the house was fucked and then not being able to get a mortgage for it.
I feel stupid about the first house but we were told the same thing by another estate agent so thought that's what it was. I know all this is a learning curve and if it could be done then the sellers would have done it.
The second one grates me but I take comfort that we aren't going to end up lumbered with huge repair costs.
So far we've spent about £800 on fees and that's the pisser. I know we've no chance of getting that money back, I'm just ranting really
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That will be a real pisser.
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The last place we actually bought- the other ones we didn't due to gazumping and issues with surveys.
This is nothing to do with agents- it is the English system is fucked up.
Scotland do it properly.
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As others have said, the system here is flawed, and any money spent before exchange is potentially lost.
Seriously, will people just stop effing blaming Brexit for every thing. I'm sick to the back teeth of people making Brexit a scapegoat of everything wrong with the world. You might disagree with the principle of people wanting their own sovereignty, but I (and many others) wish you types would just STFU with the negativity. Does you no credit, and makes you sound like a serial whinger.
I'm actually banking on a reset of prices- I'm a landlord/property developer and we will be buying once things drop.
I reckon 15-20%.
Can't come soon enough actually.
I'm not out of order- I am out of the country quite soon though.
We've decided we are going to watch Brexit happen from a foreign country- mostly likely Singapore.
Serial whinger?
I haven't mentioned Brexit for at least a year.
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Hopefully the abstract concept of 'sovereignty' will keep you warm at night and well fed.
But I digress...
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I guess we're lucky as in our block of 6 houses with the shared access we all get on very well (the shared access has been used for joint garden parties in the summer).
The person at the end of the block has locked access to non-residents so no herberts can just wander down and go across everyones' garden though. Also, we've all put up gates in the fencing so access can be shut or locked if needed.
We were unsure about it all when we were buying but it has actually worked out really well. If you do want to fence it off permanently you can, but you do need to get agreement from everyone, however.
Our first house was a terrace house and a block of 5 houses had shared access. we were the end house and only one neighbour used it!