In my experience the sort of people that ask endless questions are the sort that will blame the seller for everything they can find after the sale. I would avoid both the seller and the agent.
Just my opinion.
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Hotrodder
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On my headstone it will say: Please switch off mobile phones. I'm trying to get some sleep.
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RobertArthur
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To illustrate Hotrodder's point, here is a nice case from a little further back in time, on another forum. An older British couple had sold their house in France. This was preceded by at least three additional inspection visits, during which the prospective buyers were assisted by a structural engineer. Questions, questions, answers, answers.
House sold, no questions in the office of monsieur le notaire. A few months later, they received a strongly worded letter at their new address in the UK accusing them of concealing essential structural defects, immediately followed by a request to transfer a sum of around 85,000 euros in order to settle the matter amicably and avoid criminal prosecution.
Panic ensued and advice was sought on that forum. In order not to make any overseas forum visitors who might be reading along any wiser than they perhaps thought they were, I advised them in a private message what I thought was sensible. In a registered letter, state that the buyers made more than the usual effort to assess the overall structural condition, that you were not aware of the listed hidden defects and that, given their seriousness, they should certainly have come to light during the mandatory diagnostic and the additional inspections carried out later by the buyers' structural engineer.
And inform them in a registered letter that you wish to be spared from further direct correspondence. And that from now on, such correspondence should be addressed to a well-known law firm in London, which counts the British Prime Minister among its clients.
Never heard anything more about it. Call your bluff.
House sold, no questions in the office of monsieur le notaire. A few months later, they received a strongly worded letter at their new address in the UK accusing them of concealing essential structural defects, immediately followed by a request to transfer a sum of around 85,000 euros in order to settle the matter amicably and avoid criminal prosecution.
Panic ensued and advice was sought on that forum. In order not to make any overseas forum visitors who might be reading along any wiser than they perhaps thought they were, I advised them in a private message what I thought was sensible. In a registered letter, state that the buyers made more than the usual effort to assess the overall structural condition, that you were not aware of the listed hidden defects and that, given their seriousness, they should certainly have come to light during the mandatory diagnostic and the additional inspections carried out later by the buyers' structural engineer.
And inform them in a registered letter that you wish to be spared from further direct correspondence. And that from now on, such correspondence should be addressed to a well-known law firm in London, which counts the British Prime Minister among its clients.
Never heard anything more about it. Call your bluff.
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