Owning your own home

Thank you lads!

After the same... do not want plantation style though, due to not living on a plantation.

Clement Brown look legit. Cheers for that.

No I told you already, you’re getting Rhodesian red teak parquet flooring!

I recommend the newer Neato vacuum cleaners- they send you a cheerful note each day to tell you that they have finished chasing the cat round the flat

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So it seems that we will be getting a house with a ruinous (RH) garden fence. The lawyer’s paperwork show it actually is the neighbours responsibility. Is there any way (other than offering £££ got partial or total replacement) to get the current owners them to replace or at least have a chat with the said neighbors?

You're buying the house, why would they do your dirty work for you? Presumably you bought it knowing it had a ruinous fence so there was a 50/50 chance it was the neighbour's responsibility?

Once you've moved in just go round and have a word.

I find it unbelievable that people will not fix stuff like that... we haven’t signed the contract yet so there is room for negotiation (I hope). We have gone over the asking price in an area (and a moment) where the market is not particularly strong so tbh I would like them to reciprocate getting the house looking as good as possible... call me a dreamer 😊

It's the neighbour's fence though, it's not part of the house you're buying, but you're expecting them to fix it?

I'd tell you to do one if I was them tbh.

We failed to shame out neighbour into replacing their fence when it was at about 45 degrees into our garden.

Ended up going halves which I guess is about the best you can expect if they don't just accept the responsibility after a couple of chats.

I knew someone who lived in a Victorian terrace and a new neighbour moved in over the road. Soon after they moved in came over to tell them that their door wasn’t period correct and it annnoyed them to see it when they left their new house and whether they would consider changing it.

He didn’t. Actually didn’t like it himself either mind.

Soon after they moved in came over to tell them that their door wasn’t period correct and it annnoyed them to see it when they left their new house and whether they would consider changing it.

oh so they live opp @Mickie_Cricket ?

I find it unbelievable that people will not fix stuff like that...

Why? You are buying the place as seen. The only things you can really negotiate on are things that can't be easily identified in a viewing.

If you really wanted it done by them, you could try to get it done as a compromise on something else significant uncovered by a surveyor or solicitor that they will not do for you.

Unless you didn't see the fence before making your offer then surely it was taken into account in your offer.

It was more the lack of wisteria creeper that I found disturbing but I’m glad I got my point across.

I would immediately install a frozen sausage/turd catapult if a neighbour approached me with the same request...

FYI Our front door is period correct...

Unless it's in the deeds. I know that all of our deeds state that the fences must be maintained.

First world problems.

Same. XLA and it specifies which ones are our responsibility.

Granted it wasn't a fence, but we expressed some issues we thought needed sorting when we made an offer on our house and they were sorted the next day.

Offer rejected on the house I was trying to buy. Estate agent didn't say on what basis we missed out on. We went £10k over asking but weren't in the best position as our flat was only just coming on to the market.

Now need to decide whether we're going to stay where we are for a few years (and hence do some work to the flat) or carry on looking to move.

That place in H?

Yep. I'm happy that I bid as much as I thought sensible so not too disappointed at missing out.

Cool. It was a total mess, right?

I don't understand your thinking...

The fence is ruined.
It's neither yours, nor the person your buying off's responsibility to pay to repair it.
You want the people you're buying off to pay half the cost to replace the fence that's legally not theirs.
You feel their not doing so are grounds to reopen discussion on agreed price of purchase.
You're quibbling over sub 1k worth of work on what I guess is a 500K+ purchase.

Will probably be our course of action 🙂