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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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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.