To ignore house buyer complaints a month after completion

[Sandals12]

My buyer has complained through our conveyancing solicitors about a crack in oil tank. Surely they are BU and completely deluded. They've sent a picture and quotes for new oil tank, removal of oil and old one etc amounting to £2500.

My solicitor has responded more or less saying about 'buyer beware', a decent survey would've shown this etc.

Btw The crack was definitely not there when we sold..its v noticeable!

My thoughts exactly…

Ha ha ha h…..we had the buyer from Lala land once😵‍💫

We received a solicitor’s letter demanding that we reinstate the fireplace surround ( it was there in the picture he sent, it was stone and must have weighed a ton, impossible to remove), that we replace doors in the arch between the dining and sitting room ( about twelve foot across as could be seen in the EA photos showing without doors ) and best of all, that we had had a bonfire at the bottom of the acre and half garden some weeks before we left ….

Just ignore any communications, don’t feed the 😵‍💫

We got Into a bit of a bidding war for our house and ultimately agreed £20K over the asking price No complaints, the house was worth that to us. However, we were very unimpressed when, after contracts had been exchanged, the vendors wanted to charge us for the oil that would be left in the tank. Apparently our solicitor quite enjoyed telling theirs to fuck right off.

It was a joke I assume. On the basis that they were treating OP as if she were a landlord.

This is actually quite normal. Utilities like electricity and gas switch from day of completion so often there is a payment agreed for the oil that remains in the tank in properties which have oil fired central heating. Especially if the tank is nearly full or they have a top up contract

I'd just refer the buyer back to their survey and say you had no issues with the oil tank, and they need to speak to their surveyors regarding their findings and claim off them if they feel they missed something.

@Itslookinglikeabeautifulday

Is your husband ok? Did he do it to piss them
off?

Mine too. The boiler doesn't need to be turned off. Only the heating system.

This!

Always wanting someone else to solve their problems. Suck it up buttercup, it's your house now.

He does sound bad but quite frankly when once his money was in your account the house is his and you need to be out regardless of what is going on further up the chain.

It’s irrelevant whether it was there on completion. It’s the new owners issue

I bought a flat off a TV sportscaster and he not only didn't make good the ceiling after a leak (my solicitor was crap as we was supposed to hold money back just in case of this) the boiler didn't work. I turned it on and it made such a noise my upstairs neighbour came running down and told me it had been an issue for some weeks! All I could do was hiss at the TV every time he came on.

We had a huge crack in the garage wall when we moved in. We didn't spot it during the viewing, as it was getting dark, and the house was so lovely we just didn't forsee it.
Then a few months later all of the previous owner's botched fix/cowboy patching up came to light. We had a huge leak through the ceiling, shower bottom glue tacked on bottom, I kid you not. Dh has only just finished fixing it all years later, but now all the good parts have gotten old so need replaced. We didn't contact previous owners as it was our fault for rushing into it. We wanted the house and to be in the area.
We were first time buyers and couldn't afford an indept survey, given we had already lost the valuation fee due to a middle aged couple letting us down on the previous house. Even if we had have spotted the issues, we think it could have very well put the previous owners off selling it. Given the state of the housing market and economy, we are just grateful to be on the housing ladder, and should have jt paid off in our mid 50s.

We moved in to our new house and the boiler was broken- it hadn’t come up on the survey because it was temperamental. We were gutted to have to shell out the money but it didn’t occur to us to try and charge the vendors

The boiler was switched off in the house we moved in too. I wonder why?

It was condemned the first night after calling an emergency plumber as it was vibrating that much I thought it was going to explode.

Did not ask the CF house seller for a new one though,

Cheeky buggers. Not your problem.

years ago our buyers contacted us via the estate agent two weeks after moving in to say the loo was blocked. Bonkers. Ignore

Ha some stories. Yes it's just laughable. I regret giving him a free fridge and spending hours on end cleaning it and the house for him. Also left him a good but of oil. Plus his solicitors held everything up unnecessarily meaning I'd to pay an extra £100 for my bankruptcy checks etc to be done again as they'd expired. I didn't even think to bother trying to put the cost on him.

That's terrible. Was that a long time ago? Usually solicitors check boiler services are up to date, ours hadn't had it done within a year, so she wrote to their solicitor and asked them to get it done, which they did.

YANBU they bought the property, they had a survey, it’s theirs now.

Ignore. Ours tried to get us to buy a freezer. They purchased ours from us and it stopped working after a week. I felt kinda bad but I did warn them it was 7 yrs old and it’s massive. They got it for £100. It had worked perfectly until then. They also got an oven too.. wanted me to buy them a new fridge freezer at cost of £700

Silly question here but I am thinking of selling soon and it's been ages since we last did any of this.

So, my Q. is: are there any circumstances where the buyer would be able to come back and ask for money etc.?

I always thought that if they'd had a survey/searches etc. and a conveyancing solicitor, then 'that was that' and there was no comeback? Perhaps that's what everyone is saying here too 😂but I'm getting a bit worried now if this is a 'thing' that people are now doing.

When I bought my first property the boiler wasn’t working. I told my solicitor but I was told it was my responsibility as the new owner to get a new one.

We had this when we bought a house.The heating system leaked which we couldn't have possibly told from a survey, but the seller must have known because you had to keep refilling the system.We took them to small claims and won several thousand

2021 we moved in we did phone the solicitor to ask if the owner knew of any problems and she pretty much just said buyer beware. However, our buyers solicitor did ask for a copy of our serviced working boiler.