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Thanks for the feedback - looks like it's gonna have to be our bag given circumstances (buying a house on a single lowish income due to disability is barely possible from what we've learned)
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The roof is the only thing that sounds like it actually needs work before the winter in my opinion. It would be great to update the consumer unit and get an electrical safety test done too. There are loads of things it would be great to do too.
Some of the rest of it was bollocks “we couldn’t see the water pipe so it could be lead and that’s terrible”
It’s a house in the valleys, it has always been and will always be damp. I didn’t see them mention subsidence, so it’s doing better than most houses built on a mine!
You can leave the garage for a few years if you don’t have cash now.
Go and look in the loft - take a ladder. Be annoyingly nosey. Has it been sitting empty? Maybe when it is full and has people in and heating on the damp will be less. If you’re prepared to live somewhere that needs a lot of work, and prepared to do that work yourself, I’d take living in a tired property that I owned above a nicer rented property every day of the week.
Which valley is it in? Lots of good cycling around there, inc some nice long shallow alpine-ish climbs.
t.o.
A quick glance left me with the feeling that there is a lot to put right, some of it expensive and disruptive, i.e. evidence of rotting timber in the roof, internal and external joinery being mostly fucked.
Plenty to negotiate on, then, if that's your bag.