Do we have to pay the seller
Please help, we have recently pulled out of buying a property, and received letters from the sellers, that we now owe them for jobs that have been done on the property for our survey report, that needed to be put right before they could sell the house anyway. They are now saying they will take legal action to recover costs, e.g loss of marketing costs, leak in the garage doors, loft insulation, and the water tank in loft was in one letter ok, then in letter that work had to be done to support the tank, we pulled out as my wife became ill, and this is causing undue stress. Please help do we have to pay them?
So, with regard to the day of completion of the sale, when he receives the money from the purchasers solicitor, is there any reason why my solicitor would not agree to simply take his fees and pay the remainder directly into my bank account? I just don’t want the money sitting any longer in his account when it could be in mine?
Take legal advice. Obviously it goes without saying that you should speak to your solicitor.
I would hope that he or she will advise that you should not be liable to pay for work that the owners of the property carried out voluntarily. The only way that they would have some claim is if you had told them (perhaps in writing) you would pay or perhaps if you commissioned the work to be done direct.
They were presumably under no obligation to take the property off the market until exchange of contracts. That would presumably would have been their decision to lose marketing time unless you insisted on them doing so.
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