That’s what annoys me about Homes Under the Hammer. It’s not homes it’s prop-er-ties. They are 99% of the time they are buying it to do up and sell on. When houses stopped being homes and started to be properties is when the prices started become ridiculous.
The amount of perfectly usable white bathroom sets you see being ripped out that were probably only just put in months ago. Just bloody clean it and put a new loo seat on. Such a waste.
This kind of waste gets me angry. It's just so unnecessary.
Isn't it Scotland where the seller prepares a 'package' for prospective buyers, including survey results? So the survey is done at the seller's expense, just the once.I suppose it's a matter of getting a second opinion and not taking the sellers word for it.
Unless conditions change, the buyers and sellers surveys should remain the same.
I wonder if there's a market in 'selling' the survey you had done on a prospective purchase, at cost so you don't make a loss?
Mods, please note: My conscience reminds me that we've strayed from 'minor strangeness' to 'housing market oddities'. Perhaps someone could split the thread, placing this in chat somewhere?
Here, the survey, if asked by the prospective buyer, is paid for by the seller. I have one for my home. It may be the original one. It is a condition that can be placed on the offer to buy.
Here they fix up to sell and move down South!
Yes it most assuredly is. And the Minor Strangeness perspective to this: I had just blithely-presumed that during the many years this logic has been in place in Scotland, that (of course) it had become standard everywhere else.
And if two (or more) people use the same surveyor, I can't see that they would go out and survey the house again, but as far as I know they will still charge the client the same rate as if they had done.
The trick is to crush beer cans first.
I do Scargs, but there are so many of them…………….The trick is to crush beer cans first.
I don't think so as the trees are quite tall right near edge of road.
I did think that but it was a hot, still day yesterday, and with quite a thick copse of trees and bushes to the right. There was nothing coming the other way either as I know you sometimes get a kind of suction or blast off wind if a van or lorry passes close by in the opposite direction. Also the gust moved my head sideways a bit, plus the sound, which was very brief but def there, it wasn't a sound that seemed to fade away but sudden and gone. I did wonder if it was one of those mini cyclone things but it did feel like a concentrated blast of wind passing through the car from right to left.
No disused bridges that the wind could have been funneled through as you passed?
No, nothing nearby at all. The land on the left falls away gently so if anything you would think the wind would blow left to right. Maybe someone took a shot at me!! Mind you I haven't done any plumbing for a while....
Talking of a green man, I just saw this;
https://strangebritain.co.uk/ghosts-hauntings-supernatural/the-green-man-of-hughenden
Is @Paul_Exeter a detective in real life?
Nice find.
Get him, Grovsy and BS3 on a case and they're like Columbo, Poirot and Starsky and Hutch all rolled into one.
You have your Green Man, we have our 'Jersey Devil', seen for hundreds of years in forested areas of NJ, central to southern NJ. A few people I knew from central Jersey told me that it is really true. There are no sightings up here in the north.
Brilliant, that is the place. My experience was just past that clump of trees on the left in the distance, I was coming along in the same direction as the car in the pic. ( How did you get a picture of me by the way
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