What did the vendor of your house NOT tell you (that they should have) when you came viewing?

Can you explain why your neighbours felt the need to access your back garden? CariadAgain sounds really strange… was it a shortcut to town?

Oh yes - the lies some of them tell one way or another.

Any variations on "I should have interpreted the phrase they used as meaning "Warning - trouble ahead with the neighbours" "?

I knew the house was A Dump (big-time) when I bought it. So far = so expected...that "If there was a cheapie bodge way of doing things - that is what they had done". Pretty much nothing at all was normal quality or done to normal standard.

What I didn't realise was "We let next door park in our front garden" had been taken by Her Next Door to mean "....and I will expect to continue doing so regardless" and then arguing the toss when she wasnt allowed to any longer.

"That side wall there between this house and next door was put there by last owner of this house you're viewing" turned out to mean "...and next door is still trying to make out some of your side garden is really hers all these years later".

"The original owners of this little group of houses were all friends" turned out to mean "This is the only one of these houses that has a modern-day title plan so far - and the neighbours will trespass and argue and trespass and argue some more - and it will take £2,000 on security cameras and £1,000 on a gate to keep them out of your garden". I was okay with the wandering cats - even those that were making a huge bid to move in with me instead - but wandering neighbours from 3 (!) different houses was pushing it and never knowing when I'd have to head out and chuck them out...

The look on a couple of neighbours faces was priceless when they went to trespass again and spotted my new cameras pointing right at them....

He would fence and gate the garden (new build) and finish the road and then the council would adopt it - neither happened.
When we installed a new cooker a few years later the fitter found a pipe cutter on the gas pipe - luckily it never got knocked.

Never seen him since he told us we would have to stay in his holiday rental for 5 weeks as the house wasn't ready - he lied to the solicitor. He sent a message via the painter that our house was ready and the holiday home was booked from that day - I didn't bother doing the housework.

I must remember to preview before I post I am ashamed of the typos and annoying autocorrect.

We view during a lovely hot summer and it was only a month or so after we had moved in during October that we found out all the sealed units double glazed windows were running in water. The window cleaner informed us they had been like it for years and the units had failed a long time ago. The owner was a mad D.I.Y freak bit not very good so although everything looked nice on the surface and sailed through the survey. The most frightening thing of all though was a couple of months after moving in we had a log burner fitted. The gas engineer who removed the previous gas fire was horrified to discover Mr.D.I.Y had fitted it himself despite not being qualified and that carbon monoxide was present. I still shudder to think what might have happened if we hadn't decided to get the log burner.

On my son’s recent purchase, he was informed that all the neighbours were lovely. The next door neighbours smoke cannabis in their back garden and didn’t understand the need to fence off their garden which contained ponds. They then complained about the new fence which in fact reclaimed some back garden which they had appropriated. They also complained that my son wasn’t giving them the nice side of the new fence…. Etc etc. Everyone else is quite normal!

The vendors had a long-standing feud with the neighbour on one side. The roots from their bedraggled but extremely tall pine tree which was right against the boundary fence had lifted the bricks on his drive. They kept saying they would repair his driveway and never did. We later found out that when he had been on a month's holiday the vendors had faithfully promised to relay his drive when in reality they were moving out and we were moving in. We sorted it amicably by paying £1000 to remove the tree and roots and he agreed to foot the bill for his drive. The vendors did not mention this on the paperwork which asks if there are any disputes with the neighbours. Very annoying!

Not me but my daughter found on moving day that the boiler wasn't working. Apparently it had been regularly serviced it hadn't and was only 8 years old it wasn't.

The garden was full of rubbish and they said a gardener had been he hadn't .

It reiterated my view that sometimes people just don't care.

That instead of packing the night before moving day, they were going to get drunk, and leave the wine bottles and most of their belongings all over the house.

The vendor stood in the kitchen and explained to me how the central heating clock worked. It didn't. The next door neighbour told us afterwards that the heating hadn't worked for years and his wife was always complaining that he wouldn't get it fixed. It cost us hundreds to put right.

That they had emptied the contents of their freezer at the bottom of the garden. We were inundated with rats. Also that they would keep coming back and dumping unwanted stuff in what was now OUR garage.

That the light bulb and the light switch in the garage were not wired up.

I'd never even heard of that particular little trick Flippinheck! Yep....that was distinctly naughty - to say the least...

That they had lined some of the walls with hardboard so that the damp meter didn’t register the damp, despite a full survey. I had to have a full dpc, which is an awful, dirty and expensive process.