Has anyone bought a house and found that the previous owners had left a complete mess - cleverly hidden i.e building rubbish hidden,windows not opening properly - crap left everywhere.
2007-01-05 00:52:16 · 12 answers · asked by Nathaniel 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Yep, our previous owners left a huge rubbish pile hidden behind a tree at the end of the garden, plus tons of crap in the loft. Its so frustrating isn't it? Especially if you aren't the kind of person who would do something like that. Sounds like you have experience of it, poor you! Good luck.
2007-01-05 00:58:16 · answer #1 · answered by BritishChick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work in an estate agency and we always advise buyers who find that the sellers have left a lot of rubbish behind to contact their solicitor. He will contact the sellers' solicitor and if the sellers won't clear their rubbish, you can hire a skip or whatever is necessary and bill it to them.
The windows not opening properly...well, you could try contacting whoever did the survey and asking why this wasn't checked. But if you only paid for a basic survey then this probably wouldn't have been included in the inspection. "You get what you pay for".
2007-01-05 09:04:36 · answer #2 · answered by chip2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to be an Estate Agent. You need to contact your solicitor asafp. You were sold the house with vacant possession, so any rubble/rubbish etc should have been cleared and you may be able to claim the clearing costs back from them.
With regard to the windows, it's tough I'm afraid unless the Estate Agent stated on the details that they were all in perfect working order which I doubt very much.
Buyer Beware I'm Affraid!
2007-01-05 09:03:13 · answer #3 · answered by voodoobluesman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This should alert you and all future prospective home buyers to hire a professional house inspector. He/she will completely inspect the house for structural integrity, functionality of all built in facilities, potentional health and injury hazards, etc. and give you a written report. Then you can negotiate with the seller to correct them or adjust the selling price.
Always put in your escrow instructions as one of the last items, a complete walk through after the seller has vacated before closing escrow.
As for your specific situation, only recourse you have is take pictures and/or video and take the sellers to small claims court.
lightpulse
2007-01-05 09:11:52 · answer #4 · answered by lightpulse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't help you about the windows not opening but regarding the rubbish you are well within your rights to get it all cleaned up and send them the bill for the skip or rubbish removal.
To be on the safe side speak to solicitor, take photographs and get three quotes to remove the rubbish. Good luck.
You can definitely make them pay they are legally bound to have cleared it before they left.
2007-01-05 09:02:27 · answer #5 · answered by honeybell 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The house we finally bought was clean. BUT, most of the homes we looked at was filthy, i would not even let a rabid dog in there nevermind human beings. How people can be so dirty is beyond me. Dirty pots and pans lying on the kitchen floor, excrement smeared on the toilet walls, heyyyyy some people. Is this now after you bought the house or when you first went and looked at it. :)
2007-01-05 09:06:24 · answer #6 · answered by Duisend-poot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well not bought a house, but moved from a very clean house, to find what I thought was a cupboard was in fact a downstairs toilet, !! she had unpluged the washer, without letting all the water out first, the kitchen was flooded, we cut down the jungle that was a garden, found alsorts, even a broken toilet bowl, bird bath ,!!!!
2007-01-05 09:02:22 · answer #7 · answered by Weed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Window problems should have been picked up on the survey. As for rubbish, Im not sure if you can make them pay to clear it Im sure there must be something in the contracts.
2007-01-05 09:00:33 · answer #8 · answered by Annie M 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you should have seen our loft.............they said they'd leave bits incase we needed them...............half a cot, part of a sofa,knackered weight bench, broken baby walker, huge fair ground cuddly dog (with red scary eyes) blah blah blah CRAP CRAP CRAP.......oh and loads of old opened half empty bottles of alcohol!!!! What sort of people did they think we were.
More unbelievable was the amount of crap we found behind the radiators, never knew they were a storage solution!
2007-01-06 09:04:02 · answer #9 · answered by sisterofbayee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is not that uncommon. You should always insist on a closing-day, final walk-through, prior to closing. Once you've passed papers, you own it.
2007-01-05 08:58:39 · answer #10 · answered by Leo L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋