Evidence of mice/rats. No keys for the upstairs windows that swung up like a garage door, totally unsafe. Had to change all the handles throughout. A wobbly hearth, just needed stabilising. Carpet used as underlay, totally filthy. Wallpaper badly applied, falling off. Kitchen cupboards that were weird frames, not proper cupboards. The boiler, directly over the hob. That needed moving. Layers of soaking flooring in the bathroom, the toilet was leaking. A massive dog shit on the patio.🤮A neighbour with severe mh issues, delusional and the reason the vendors moved, but never mentioned.
As a previous poster, all 3 wheelie bins full of the incorrect rubbish, took ages to sort out. Lots of begging letters from vendor’s bf asking for his various fines/traffic tickets to be removed. The overgrown lawn was covered in cat shit-vendor had a 4 year old child and was heavily pregnant. 🤷♀️ Bailiffs threatening to remove our goods until I pointed out it was the previous owners they wanted and where to find them.
In this house, it seems the previous owners had demolished an extension and dumped it behind trees. We found a huge kitchen window, a door, loads of breeze blocks, lots of broken crockery, old tools, car parts (they used to have multiple cars in various states of repair on the shared drive, wankers) There was a massive ball of concrete which was presumably whatever was left over from some project, inches under the lawn. We needed 2 skips. There were cork tiles then white wall tiles on the kitchen floor. The built in oven didn’t heat up so needed replacing asap. The chimney hadn’t been properly lined, so the bloke who came to service the woodburner described it as like having a fire in a box, not effective!
When we move in future, I will be going over any potential places with a fine toothed comb!