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Most estate agents know me well
It’s a decent point. It you go back to the agent post survey and say “joe bloggs says this is a problem, and you know joe bloggs isn’t a wind-up merchant” then you are likely to have more luck in any discussion over price or the seller fixing it.
FWIW I have found the best approach to be to get a standard homebuyer survey to identify any areas of concern and then get “experts”/ tradesmen in to investigate those more fully (except damp, which can fuck off)
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FWIW I have found the best approach to be to get a standard homebuyer survey to identify any areas of concern and then get “experts”/ tradesmen in to investigate those more fully (except damp, which can fuck off)
This is the conclusion that I came to.
And save a wedge to account for the issues that can’t be identified by surveyor, like the great example above.
It’s a decent point. It you go back to the agent post survey and say “joe bloggs says this is a problem, and you know joe bloggs isn’t a wind-up merchant” then you are likely to have more luck in any discussion over price or the seller fixing it.
This is total conjecture though. The whole point of the chartered system is that they should not be wind up merchants - they are disinterested professionals who will be delivering to well understood standard.
The chummy connection to the EA is basically an anathema to me.
Howard
Yeah there's that too. They'll have generic templates for all the different types and classes of properties then it's a case of removing the stuff that's not applicable and adding in anything not covered. Can't really hold that against them, it's an efficient way of doing the written report.
What did annoy me was that none of them could offer any differentiation over the others, their sales patter was literally "I'm qualified, I'm available". I asked one who charged a hefty amount about whether he could provide references or testimonials and I received this as a response:
How persuasive.