We're selling our house which is due to be surveyed shortly. We don't have a lot of cash and our next house purchase is very much dependent on our house sale.
I confess I tend to find it easy to worry about things, so just wondering whether I should be worried, or whether my fretting is disproportionate?
Our house is a late Victorian (1890s-1900) brick terrace. Pretty bog standard. And therefore probably has lots of dings and nicks here and there, probably needs a new boiler at some point, doesn't have air vents over the chimney breasts that are now blocked up - that kind of thing that you often see in student houses (it's not a student house, but reminds me of the sort of terrace I used to live in as a student!).
It's probably also been 'enthusiastically' DIYed in places (ie. not by skilled professionals).
It's well presented and we've cared for it, but I would have no clue how structurally sound it is and knowing husband (who bought it) he would've paid for the bare minimum survey when he moved in so wouldn't know either.
Any words that could comfort me and help me to relax - or should I be worried?
We have progressed quite far with our own purchase (mortgage in place, surveyor booked) and it's now occurred to me that the whole thing could collapse if our house doesn't pass its MOT.
Forgot to add that it's also on a main road and near non residential properties. I've read that surveyors can criticise your house for things like that. But we can't do anything about those things!
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Please help me stop fretting about our house passing its survey
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FinallyLearntToBudget · 27/06/2015 22:18
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