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I think it’s unreasonable to expect you to pay. I paid for my own structural engineer when we bought to check the state of the very old loft conversion. What if they drop out after you paid the engineer and opened up the wall?
If you want to keep things moving, I would maybe propose splitting cost.
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If the work was signed off in '95 then it's fine. If you were selling a house and the buyer turned round and said "I'm going to do an extension. Would you organise and pay for the foundations to be dug, oh and put up with the inconvenience of having the work done while you're still living there?" You'd probably tell them to fuck right off.
To put it mildly, I think they are chancing their arm because they are a guaranteed buyer in a potentially uncertain market. But still they need to be told to fuck off.
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Unfortunately logic doesn’t prevail in house buying, but why the fuck should you pay for them to find out if they can do a loft conversion without adding steels? It’s not like your selling the house with the guarantee that a loft conversion is viable. Caveat emptor, if they want to make sure they pay.
Are they going to ask for a refund if they don’t get planning permission?
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Am I being unreasonable here in saying we don't want to this and certainly not pay for it? The EA says they won't pay and will pull out otherwise and so is advising we pay
EAs will be desperate for anything to go through at this point.
I'd tell them to go back to the buyers and ask them if they actually want the place or not.
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If they're putting a loft conversion in then you'd assume they'd be putting in steels in the loft anyway.
Ultimately though it comes down to how much you/they want it to go through.
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Anyone who uses a report from someone else's engineer is an idiot.
What if there are mistakes?
The EAs are being idiotic too. And self-interested, but I guess that goes without saying.
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Our buyers have gotten a bee in their bonnet about the wall knocked through between the front room and living room of victorian terrace (done sometime before 1995) bc they want to build a loft conversion. They're saying that we need to get a structural engineer in for a GSI and that we should pay for it. I'm 99% sure it's fine, it looks like every other version of this you've seen before and zero sign of movement/issue, the process would mean removing the plaster etc and so is not a neat job. Am I being unreasonable here in saying we don't want to this and certainly not pay for it? The EA says they won't pay and will pull out otherwise and so is advising we pay - I assume this is bc they have 3 properties in the chain and are trying to keep things going. I'm thinking to just re-list once the lockdown is over as these buyers just seem unreasonable at this point.