To not list all of the houses faults when we come to sell it?

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It’s wonky, damp, some radiators don’t work, taps are linked up wrong way hot/cold, windows are shit, oven not actually screwed into the unit, it’s built on a brook.. you get the picture the list goes on.

Anyway, if I want to sell it do I have to tell people this crap or do they just figure it out themselves sold as seen type thing.
If I have to say then nobody will ever buy it, surely.

The only thing that would bother me would be the damp but I would expect a survey to pick that up. I would live with the tap thing - in fact I think my parents used to have this issue and it didn't matter. The radiators I expect just need a bleed. Or else I would replace them at some point after moving in. And all houses are wonky aren't they?

I can't believe searches don't pick up the Brook issue.

I believe it takes a really shitty person with no integrity to sell something on, knowing there are issues, without highligting them.

We have divulged any issues with previous sales, you can sell in good conscious. I would hate to think i was possibly putting a person/family into financial hardship by purchasing a product from us that had issues.

I suppose it depends on who you are as a person, but i would tell them.

I believe it takes a really shitty person with no integrity to sell something on, knowing there are issues, without highligting them.

Whereas I know it is. But that still doesn't mean a seller legally has to.

We had the mains water tap turned down to regulate the water pressure and a bloody noisy pump for the shower. On removing the pump, replacing the boiler the water tap was turned on properly and we found that there was a leak under the floor in the kitchen. A fully tiled, expensive Welsh slate, flooring.

The obligatory house insurance included a gas and water service contract and they very carefully dug up two tiles, found and fixed the leak and then replaced the tiles nigh on invisibly. Too about 4 hours - free because of the insurance we took out.

And the conservatory roof panels were on upside down and so drew water in instead of repelling it - took about 5 hours , DH did it himself

Let me see, oh yes! Fuses were all overamped. We have a freind who fixed that. But it could have been disastrous.

All water pipes were overcrimped and leaked just a little bit, but were all one 'judder' away from catastrophe

Lots of additional electric cables. Cable lengths joined by switches - cos the last owner was an oak joinery specialist and hadn't a clue. Took DH hours to remedy that one too.

And his doors? Dear god. They look beautiful but he put the hinges on the fucking ledges not on the flat of the door. So they all slowly bend and drop and catch on the floor - have to be tightened every couple of months. We have a choice. Live with it or ruin the doors!

And much much more including, as we found out a few months ago, a burned out chimney beam that he just plastered over. It's a listed house, will cost tens of thousands and many, many months to put right!

But that doesn't mean I think that he did anything wrong - well, he did with the chimney but we can't prove it was him. He was just a fucking Bodger!

We didn't list everything, of course we didn't, it would have been a stupidly long list, but we didn't hide anything, we answered any questions as comprehensively as we were able - and spent quite a bit of time doing so - and the price should have said a lot to anyone considering buying.

Unlike when we bought it when most of the problems were covered up and hidden - bought from a DIYer whose ability was nowhere near as good as he thought it was. As we undid most of his DIY we had some nasty shocks, luckily not literally given he left live wires dangling from removed plug sockets in one of the bedrooms.

Unfortunately I don't think our buyers had a survey done, I know they were buying outright so didn't need a valuation done for a mortgage. But most of the problems were clearly visible, such as the damp in the hall and the damp in the bathroom and they asked some pretty thorough questions that indicated they'd had a really good look round.

Sold my late mums house sold as seen due to the fact I genuinely didn't know the answers to a lot of the questions