So we've finally found a property and had our offer accepted. It is a recently renovated maisonette (5 years ago), and on the face of it, it appeared very nice and modernised. As such we agreed what in my opinion was a high price - it will be the most any property has gone for on this road.
The vendor from the get go said there was a couple of leaks from the roof and that she would fix them, she made it sound very minor and we appreciated her being open about it.
I went round the property with a builder (a colleague who has no vested interest in exaggerating) and he advised that the leaks require a fair bit of work to fix, and also found another roof leak which the vendor didn't mention (and may well didn't know about). He said there's about £15k worth of work.
Anyway I emailed the agent just to make the vendor aware of the extent of works and seeking assurances that it'd all be fixed and covered by some sort of guarantee.
She came back quite bluntly saying the two leaks have already been fixed (I guess in the two days that have passed since I went round with the builder...) and she won't provide receipts or any guarantees.
So I don't know what to do now - obviously I will go round again and check what she has done, but I don't believe £15k worth of work has been done in two days (in fact one of the leaks she said just needed some re-sealing, which my builder did not think would resolve the issue). And I get the impression she hasn't even looked at the third leak which I made her aware of.
What can I do? Insist on receipts at the very least? Am I making too big a deal of this? I guess if I thought I'd got a good price for the property I wouldn't mind so much, but I am paying top dollar for something which I now fear will come with unresolved roof repairs.