God what is wrong with this man??? Rant and legal advice sort!

[Fio2]

FFS I have just had a letter through post off my solicitor regarding my old house. The twat who has bought it has raised some 'issues'

1. There arent enough keys for the doors and he cant get in or out of some of them. We didnt provide enough keys - (but they were all we had and we coped)

2. There has been alot of rubbish left that is requiring clearance (ie the compost heap, which was there when they viewed it grrr)

3. The garage door was broken. (was when they viewed and when the survey was done, thick surveyor hadnt noticed) anyway she tried to close it (it was soooo obviously broken) and it 'nearly' fell on her head and if their daughter had of been there it could have killed her.

4. there is not BT linbe at the house (???!!!)

Apart from making me want to go round and punch the living daylights out of him, what should we do. Dh says ignore it because he cant do anything anway but I am worried about it and so f"cking mad. I bet none of this will make sense I am absolutely fuming!!!!

He sounds terribly petty, Fio. You expect things not to be perfect when you buy a new house. Sorry I don't know whether he can do anything legally - I hope not.

Blimey, imagine being his wife!

Shouldn't think he has a leg to stand on if he had a survey. What a dick!

What a complete arse!!! Don't worry Fio, he hasn't got a leg to stand on ... what has your solicitor said? I would instruct them to write back and tell him to get lost!!!

I'd totally ignore it. Or just write back what you have posted her - ie all these things were clear when the house was valued. A compost heap is part of a garden (it's like moaning that you left lots of earth in the garden!!). As long as you didn't pretend things were different when you sold the house he has no redress, I'm sure of it. I do hope you solicitor isn't charging you for passing the letter on or anything.
Stupid man.

He has absolutely no redress at all, whether he had a survey or not, provided you did not misrepresent anything. It is his responsibility to check out any problems and his solicitors to job to ask questions like who provides your phone line (you have no obligation to have a BT line). As long as you answered everything fully and honestly that's all you have to do. If his solicitor or surveyor missed things which are important to him then that's his problem to take up with his suppliers.
Get your solicitor to write back to his putting them straight. They shouldn't charge you for this - it's still part of the service for selling your house and should be covered by the agreed fee.

I had a similar problem when we sold our house last year. Apparently a clause in the missives stated that the buyers could have anything put right if they found it within five days of moving into the house (or something like that). I naively assumed that this refered to things being different to what they or their surveyor had actually seen at the time the house was bought, eg flood damage after the survey was carried out. However, four days after the buyers moved in we got a letter from their solicitor stating that their client (an electrician by the way) had found that two or the sockets were not earthed. Now this was a surprise to us but since it was not mentioned in their survey and since we had told them that the house had now been rewired in the time we lived there (11 years) but that we had never had any problems, I thought they had a bit of a cheek. Basically I think he was angling for us to pay for the entire house to be rewired which he would do himself for a fraction of what we paid.
We couldn't really contest it as we would then have had to pay another electrician a fortune to check the electrics and possibly uncover more faults, which we didn't know about.
In the end we offered them £200 to get them to leave us alone basically, which really galled me but as I was 6 months pregnant at the time I just could face contesting them legally.

Fio2 I agree with sponge, sounds like he's trying it on, he should have done his final checks before the contracts were exchanged. Ignore him.

Hes talking crap. Each time we have moved we have either left a problem unfixed (leaking boiler , damp ,leaking sink ) and always found something unexpected in new house to pay for . He should have paid for better survey.Whats he on about BT line - unbelievable !!!!!!

Thanks everyone for your support! I am just going to ignore it I think. I mean he's a bloody joke, all the blumin trouble he caused when he was buying and now he wont even leave us alone. As long as I dont have to anything Im not going to, we already had dropped the price and gave him money towards an electric upgrade as a 'good will gesture' grrrrrrr

Thanks again for letting me moan

I think you should write back and say you just realised you forgot to take the lightbulbs and toilet rolls and could you either have them, or payment for them
Tosser, you do right to ignore him

LOL Lisa!! well I did leave the dog bowls on the back garden on accident

from what i have read he hasnt got a leg to stand on because when you sold the house it was a sold as seen with no promises if the surveyor hadnt noticed things then its up to them to take it up with the suveyor a door only needs to sets of keys that work if he wants more tell him to get them bloody cut then and the fact there is no bt line is up to them to have one installed soory if it sounds nasty but buy law he and a legal person seen the house and desided that they were willing to buy it at x amount if he wants things changed its now down to him

I have just noticed there were 11 points to the letter but only four were put forward to us. It looks like the letter has been cut up and photocopied. ROFL I wonder what all the other moans and gripes he had aswell!! ....too much time on his hands me thinks! Who moves into a house that gripey and unhappy and moaning about how crap it is?

Can you give your solicitor a quick ring?

The only way he would have a leg to stand on is if you lied on the sellers information thing you had to fill in.

I hope you removed all the light bulbs when you left

LOL fio and lisa. This has reminded me of a friend who used to share a house with another couple in London years ago. They left to go live in a hostel for overseas travellers. When they left, they DID take the lightbulbs and loo rolls!! She was soooo p'd off that she wrapped up the washing line and sent it to the hostel with a note saying "you forgot to take this with you, you tight b***ds!!"

fio, I expect the windows need cleaning now and you didn't scrub out the dustbin (am assuming you left the dustbin, don't think I'd be in a hurry to pack mine up for moving!) and maybe there are some daisies in the lawn...? You know the kind of thing. tsk tsk.

What a pillock.

The solicitor phoned this morning about the land registry thing and didnt mention this other letter so I dont think it is that important. The only thing I think may be important was the garage door but it was broken when we moved in 4 years ago! He is trying to make out it broke between the time his survey was done and we moved out.

As for the locks, isnt it normal to change the locks anyway when you move in a new house? There werent many keys and the house was very very easy to break into - as I found out on more than one occassion. But we had 2 dogs and trusted them to look after our house instead of the locks (very foolish I know!)

Oh gawd I am moaning again! Glad I moved this far away from him else he may have had his tyres slashed this morning in my pmt state

I bloody left the lightbulbs aswell...damn! And my mum is none too pleased as we spent the good part of an hour tidying up and making sure nothing was left there!

Hi fio, nice to have you back (sorry you're having hassles). How's the new house? Your doodah on msn has said "gone for a lie-down" for about a month!!

I must be dead then I keep forgetting to turn it on! How are you me dears?

Fio, with our house we inherited keys for doors we can't find. If it's any help I can sent them to the lovely man who bought your house. I'm sure other MNers have keys they can send him too.

Oh yes, we have lots of extra keys!

I don't really know much about this, but shouldn't the surveyer notice these things and thats why you have them. I mean the people before we lived here left alot of rubbish when they said they would clear it. But thats life and we have to do it ourselves. But i wouldn't complain about it, whats the point. maybe thats me. Why don';t you speak to citizens advice maybe they could advise you on your rights etc

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I have tons of keys and would be very very very happy to send them to this man
In fact, I would consider it a public service - clearly he has too much free time and he could spend it trying all the keys in all his locks
And I hope one of them snaps off in the lock, so he has to get a locksmith out to change the lock - then he will stop stressing about his blasted keys
Did that make any sense

Don't xxxx around - whack him with a brick (it's not as if you don't know where he lives).