We’re still here unfortunately. Our vendor’s solicitors kept ignoring our solicitor for over two months and we then found out that she hadn’t found anywhere herself until four weeks ago. There were more red flags when we realised she was planning to take all the fitted appliances, which were all huge Gaggenau items and would have cost a fortune to replace, and when we went back to measure up, we saw that there was enough rubbish to fill at least two skips which we don’t believe she’s planning to clear. By this time, she had decided that she wanted to exchange and complete this week! .
The agent selling the house was her son, and he was being really evasive and shifty. We had a level 2 survey carried out which found that the roof was failing and needed to be replaced. My husband was a quantity surveyor for all his working life and worked out tjst it would cost just over £100,000 to replace, including the cost of the temporary roof and scaffolding, and the vendor told us last week that she would only reduce the price by £30,000. We had already agreed a £40,000 reduction on the price of our house, which also needs a new roof, and we had stretched ourselves to our limit with the house we were buying. It’s now back on the market and we will hopefully have our offer accepted tomorrow on another house which we love, but which needs quite a bit of work. We had hoped to move to a house that didn’t need anything doing, but there is so little on the market that we can both agree on.
My husband is retired and I’ll be stopping work soon, so this has got to be our final move. We’re just hoping that our buyers will be patient enough to wait for our new purchase to go through 😬. After 35 years in the same house, I’d forgotten just how horrible moving is!