Hello chaps and chapesses, we'd like to ask some advice, as we are 1st time buyers and not sure how to proceed with the following.
We made an 3rd offer on a house, which has now been accepted (at guide price), subject to survey, which is standard as we understand.
We appointed a full structural survey by a RICS surveyor (instead of a noddy homebuyer survey) and his report details a number of things, most of them cosmetic, or what you could consider to be natural wear and tear on a 50 year old house. We're not going to quibble about that, obviously.
What we do want to quibble about are
How does a buyer typically proceed at this point...
1. Tell our conveyancer, who then tells their convenyancer, and they haggle it out ?
2. Tell their conveyancer that we are not happy, and then they might offer to reduce the price ?
We're not sure at this point who does what, since we've not bought before.
We are quite prepared to overlook a few other things, such as the poor insulation in the loft, because at the time it was the correct depth for regulations, and we don't consider that to be "damage", but more of an improvement, and one we shall make.
Also, we think it would be cheeky to ask for an arbitary figure to be knocked off.
As Mrs BGG works in the construction trade, we were going to offer to get discounted quotations for the repairs, at cost, and just ask for these 3 bills to be reduced from the guide price.
Sorry to be noobs, but this is new to us.
We made an 3rd offer on a house, which has now been accepted (at guide price), subject to survey, which is standard as we understand.
We appointed a full structural survey by a RICS surveyor (instead of a noddy homebuyer survey) and his report details a number of things, most of them cosmetic, or what you could consider to be natural wear and tear on a 50 year old house. We're not going to quibble about that, obviously.
What we do want to quibble about are
- 2 asbestos cold water tanks in the loft,
- the porch which needs reroofing due to leaks,
- the garage which needs a new side door due to wet rot, plus the same with the garage window, and the garage up and over door which is buckled
How does a buyer typically proceed at this point...
1. Tell our conveyancer, who then tells their convenyancer, and they haggle it out ?
2. Tell their conveyancer that we are not happy, and then they might offer to reduce the price ?
We're not sure at this point who does what, since we've not bought before.
We are quite prepared to overlook a few other things, such as the poor insulation in the loft, because at the time it was the correct depth for regulations, and we don't consider that to be "damage", but more of an improvement, and one we shall make.
Also, we think it would be cheeky to ask for an arbitary figure to be knocked off.
As Mrs BGG works in the construction trade, we were going to offer to get discounted quotations for the repairs, at cost, and just ask for these 3 bills to be reduced from the guide price.
Sorry to be noobs, but this is new to us.
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