Bleeping Lobster @ Transcendant @lemmy.world

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Am definitely not in love with the house! I think I'm pretty desperate to be a homeowner after renting all my life and dealing with scummy landlords, plus while I'm living with my dad I can't really work. There's just about room for a table with my PC and one synth, but certainly no space for my giant monitor speakers, let alone any bass traps or room treatment (as this is essentially a rental for my dad, albeit housing association so he's very secure).

So I prob need to factor in my emotional state, try my best to be as cold & calculating about this as possible. Thanks for your advice.

I guess I can do an update once I have the report in writing. Someone has made the point that the surveyor will 'over-survey' to cover their arse, but for sure I'm very much leaning into the possibility that this purchase isn't viable. Thanks.

This is very sage advice. I mentioned this comment to my dad and we both didn't take a heartbeat before responding "Definitely not" to the question of if we'd buy it in perfect condition for 100k.

Renovations are really time consuming especially when you have a job, family, etc. And living in a renovation can be exhausting as you have to work around all the fixes until theyre done or at least usable. I speak from experience unfortunately.

Am self employed, single so I guess that's going for me in this respect. Writing music would be pretty difficult though with drilling and hammering going on through the rest of the house! Thanks for your advice.

the seller is much more transparent.

Am trying to take the attitude of not taking it personally, it's just business and the seller is trying to maximise what they get for the house... but it's hard not to feel deceived. They surely must have known there are serious issues and clearly have not priced the house accordingly. It's frustrating to have to dig out these issues, every buyer is going to pay for a survey and waste money finding out things that should really have been disclosed by the seller.

Apparently in Norway, the seller pays for and provides a survey to all prospective buyers. Seems a much more efficient and fair way of doing things.

I do have somewhere within walking distance where I can stay while works are being completed. Windows I'm not so much worried about, as estate agent said she had similar issues and just did the windows one at a time as budget allowed. The damp / potential subsidence though is my biggest concern. It's likely the provider would pull the mortgage offer based on that, and there's no way I'd get building insurance with issues like this.

This was my thinking, get some estimates and hard data in hand before attempting negotiations. Tbh it's not looking good, and am seeing a return to combing through house listings this weekend.

What level of survey did you have done? Have you had a structural engineer look it over?

We went for a full survey, the guy is RICS-registered but fairly young so assume he's pricing cheap to get plenty of jobs and reviews under his belt. He did recommend a specific separate cavity inspection but at this point it feels like I'm probably going to be chucking more money down the drain considering all the other issues.

You’re clearly up north! If they aren’t prepared to negotiate then everyone should walk, if they weren’t prepared to come down closer to £50-60k then I’d definitely consider walking

Correct haha. Someone else said that a reduction of 15k is almost unheard of. Tbh I already was having a bad feeling, and reading all these responses has really crystalised that I simply cannot buy this house without a massive reduction... and even then it's going to be a shitload of hassle, potentially more expenses that haven't yet been uncovered. Will see what they say once we have the full report in writing. I don't mind roughing it a bit, but managing a project like this I would think isn't really in my wheelhouse and will be very stressful.

Thanks for your advice.

Follow your gut and try not to fall for the sunk cost fallacy

Have to say my gut is saying to walk away. Of course it's me that has to make the decision end of the day, but the responses I've gotten here have clarified all the subconscious worries I had and given me a lot more to think about. Much appreciated, glad I made this post.

I'm often told I can be negative with regards to the intentions of others but this definitely crossed my mind. I've reiterated many times the importance of the electrics being sorted because I write music, I'll have ~£15k of equipment in one room and do not want my new home burning down or my kit damaged due to faulty wiring.

Interestingly / worryingly, the electrical cert they handed over at the start of this process hadn't even been signed (though the company appears to exist).

The mortgage offer is until Aprl 2024, so there is still 5 or 6 months left. These responses are exactly the kind of experienced advice I was looking for, thanks

Good advice re constant regret of being stuck with a lemon. I checked the prices for subsidence repair and the average in my area is £12500.

This is why my 'smart' TV will never, ever be connected to the internet. It's an LG so I would expect it to not be onerous, but it's often nagging me to connect to my router for stuff like AI tools.

No thanks. You're smart enough already for my use, TV! HDMI only please.

I'll be interested to hear what his defence is, considering a not guilty plea. Maybe insanity? You'd have to be a bit fucking insane to believe one quarter of the Qanon shit. Or stupid.

Kinda looks like Prismo from Adventure Time, now I think about it!

Some great tips there, very much appreciated. I'm fairly ignorant re keto so will do some reading up on it, if you have any resources to hand I'd be interested to read them

hahahaha. Yeah it's a bit too on the nose.

Am in the final stages of buying a house (hopefully), landlord evicted me over repairs so I'm temporarily living with my dad... he's a bit of a feeder, I did make the point to him last night that if he puts food on a plate in front of me I'm going to eat it (brought up to eat everything I was given, 'starving kids in Africa' etc) and he agreed he'd stop offering me food all the time. I'll defo make an effort to eat more protein & less carbs, thanks for the headsup!

I am in a constant struggle atm to lose weight. Am 6' tall, but 94kg so definitely technically overweight (and it's fat, not muscle, do they make bras for men? Cause I've got hairy tits right now).

You're right, last time I cut down on carbs combined with drinking green tea the weight melted off (though I was also doing a lot of pushups daily which also helped). cries in love of pasta

Had no idea something existed for this, I'm forever deleted annoying tracking info from links. Mozilla continues to impress me with their privacy additions... latest update notified me about email masking which looks like it'll be a major boon once I work out how to use it.