by hayley »
Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:06 am
Hi.
I am new on here today but enjoying all i read.
Be carefull,paying more dont mean you get the best.It seem you have been given very good advice already
We bought our home just under 2 years ago with our rose coloured glasses on,had the place surveyed but the surveyor the mortgage company made us use and paid for the full work.A few months after we moved in everywhere went black,the water was coming in the concrete finlock guttering and filling the cavity walls.The electrics were a DIY job and we had to have everywhere re-wired as we the electrician who came to install lights as we had not realised we had no light in the bedrooms and bathroom, noticed all the joints and the built in cooker plugged into a standard socket,he actually said our home was like a ticking bomb what could go off at any time.
Also when we changed the patio we noticed the conservatory was built on the patio and there was no footings,hence the damp walls and wet carpet.
To top it all we looked out the paperwork 2 weeks ago as we have 3 quarters of an acre and talked about selling off as building plots and realised the searhes were not even carried out on our property,it was done on the pig farm with the same name the bungalow .which is 3 miles from here
You might think we were totaly stupid,we were !!!!! But we just sighned the papers as we trusted the solicitor and all these important people to do the job they were paid for as we desperatly wanted this as our home.
We now have had and still have heaps of work to put this place right so paying for the most expensive survey we could have had at the time was a waste and we should have saved our cash and not bothered having any of these checks done.
Take the advice given from the above reply and check who you are giving your money to ,its worth waiting an extra few weeks otherwise you might regret it like we do now