Independent Leyton Orient Forum

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:15 pm So what order do I do things in?

Tart up house
Do I need to have formal chat with bank about how much they'll lend me?
Find estate agent
Find house
Find solicitor?
Find surveyor?

Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:24 pm

Rich Tea Wellin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:22 pm On surveys; if I was to buy again I’d f*** off surveyors who, in my experience, do the minimum amount of looking and the maximum amount of legal get out clauses, that you learn nothing. Especially if you’re buying an old house like I did. Instead I’d get in (if the seller allows it), experts in things like damp, structural, gas, electric, plumbing, etc… who will actually be able to spot big issues and give you an idea on how much it would cost to resolve

Good point. To be fair to surveyors, what they can report on is often limited to what degree the existing vendor will permit them to look at. But I'd also recommend getting a reliable tradesman to accompany you on a second or third viewing. And definitely be aware of damp.

Rich Tea Wellin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:54 pm

Beradogs wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:25 pm

Rich Tea Wellin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:22 pm

I wonder what it could be that you don’t like about the area…

Alright chuckles. Actually, you make a good point, except the people I don’t really like where I am now are stinking rich, and white.

Ooo look at me moving to a nice area

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:46 pm

Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:24 pm

Rich Tea Wellin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:22 pm On surveys; if I was to buy again I’d f*** off surveyors who, in my experience, do the minimum amount of looking and the maximum amount of legal get out clauses, that you learn nothing. Especially if you’re buying an old house like I did. Instead I’d get in (if the seller allows it), experts in things like damp, structural, gas, electric, plumbing, etc… who will actually be able to spot big issues and give you an idea on how much it would cost to resolve

Good point. To be fair to surveyors, what they can report on is often limited to what degree the existing vendor will permit them to look at. But I'd also recommend getting a reliable tradesman to accompany you on a second or third viewing. And definitely be aware of damp.

So when a buyer sends a surveyor round, dont let them look at anything?

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:36 pm

Rich Tea Wellin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:22 pm

Beradogs wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:20 pm Don’t do what I have just done, moved and then realised you hate the place. Go to see it at least twice and perhaps spend a weekend in the area. All things that I didn’t do.

I wonder what it could be that you don’t like about the area…

The only place he'd be happy moving to is the 1950s.

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 3:58 pm Surveyor is coming to check out my house/torpedo the sale, how do I approach this? Poison? Charm?

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 3:58 pm Surveyor is coming to check out my house/torpedo the sale, how do I approach this? Poison? Charm?

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 3:58 pm Surveyor is coming to check out my house/torpedo the sale, how do I approach this? Poison? Charm?

Dunners wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 9:06 pm Agree. Bribery always works.

Also, flatter him by pretending to be interested in some surveyory topic. I.e. ask him for his opinion on the preference for steel frame high rise buildings in city centres and whether there are adequate capital provisions to meet life cycle costs and decommissioning at end of design life.

Listening to him drone on for the next hour should be enough to get him to overlook the creeping damp and emerging structural cracks.

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 9:49 pm How do i give them the bribe?

Talking crap i can do.

I might also try a sob story.