To feel overwhelmed by this whole house buying malarky

[juniper9]

My DP and I have decided to do all of life's stressful things at once, so we're in the process of buying a house. Our flat's lease runs out on 30th July so we're quite tight for time, and I'm currently 27 weeks pregnant so could end up homeless and, being the size of a whale, I won't even be able to sell my wares to make a few extra £££.

Our building survey showed that our house-to-be has a dodgy roof, and we've been told by 4 different roofers that it will need replacing. Two have said within the year, and 2 have said we could repair it temporarily but it will need redoing within 5 years.

So my question is this- where do we go from here? Do we ask the vendors to pay for the full amount? (about £7,000) Or do we compromise at half? Or do we just ignore it and hope for a quick sale?

I'm a total newbie when it comes to this, and feel totally out of my depth! The estate agents are, as you can imagine, putting pressure on us to move forwards.

Thanks

Don't buy a nail because you have getthereitis. Plan your contingency now. It's a lot of money to shell out. I'd definitely be offering minus the cost of new roof plus.

Is this the house of your dreams? Alarm bells would be ringing for me if the roof needed replacing, I would personally keep looking. presumably you are getting a mortgage, your Lender will possibly reduce the amount they are prepared to let you borrow? Please don't bow to pressure from agents.

I moved into another rented house at 6 months pregnant, bought our house when DD1 was two.

It was damp, filthy, needed new roof/boiler/bathroom/kitchen, well...it was a total shit hole.

It was scary, stressful and fucking hard work, but we've been here 11 years and it's pretty livable, in a relative sense

Try to get the vendors to pay for the whole roof, if they umm/ahh a couple of times (and you umm/ahh back) then go to half to be reasonable.

Pretend you're comfortable haggling, leave pauses in the conversation for them to fill in with offers to pay for your removals/bottle of wine for the first night

You know the estate agents are bullshitting, just take your time and don't fall for it, tell them you'll call back if they're pressuring you.