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  • You're cutting your nose off to spite your face at this point if you walk away. If the house is fundamentally what you want then just reduce it by 8k and say this represents a contribution towards the (most expensive) quote you hopefully will get for a full reroof but you are absorbing most of it,and I am fairly certain they will come back and offer you 4k or so.

    I also wouldn't worry about cracks here or there as long as the wall isn't bulging which presumably your surveyor would have commented on. I have cracks all over the place internally and externally as long as you can't get your hand in them it's unlikely to be a significant problem.

  • I also wouldn't worry about cracks here or there as long as the wall isn't bulging which presumably your surveyor would have commented on. I have cracks all over the place internally and externally as long as you can't get your hand in them it's unlikely to be a significant problem

    Whilst I might agree with you, there's no way my partner is going for that. Half the money is hers and she's not taking any risks.
    And 4k wouldn't cut it. That wouldn't cover any of the work needed in full and as mentioned up thread, we don't have any more to put towards it so it would mean doing 4ks worth of patching up and just living with it. Along with the hassle of having to resell in 5 years with buyers surveys pulling up that it needs a new roof and rear wall that we haven't been able to afford to get done still. We either want it all fixed and sound for the price we offered for the house or we look for something else.

  • We either want it all fixed and sound for the price we offered for the house or we look for something else

    there's no particularly good answer. They wont fix it up beforehand as it reduces what money they've got on hand if they're looking at moving elsewhere, and they have no guarantee you're buying the place even if they do fix it up. It's just risk for them

    the money they've made on it over the last 10 years is irrelevant as place they're moving to has changed by at least that much as well. it's certainly irrelevant to you as a buyer

    Figure out what number you think makes it fixed and sound and reduce your offer by it.
    Then start looking elsewhere and if they choose to accept the new lower offer then great.

    Or be a nob and proceed then chip at the last minute. Not being judgy about that as the system here doesn't do anything to disincentivise it, and they could always be a nob too, accept a lower offer and keep looking for a better offer in the meantime

  • It doesn't sound like owning an old house is for you then (or perhaps more accurately your Doris). Which is fair enough. They all need work one way or another and all need constant maintenance (and money).

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