09-02-2018, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Lindyloo
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Its not just the vendors but was the estate agents in the case l quoted. Total crooks they were. One house we looked at but decided we didn't want, the agent asked what we'd pay forbitbif we were interested. I came up with a figure and she then told,me she was legally obliged to put that figure as an offer to the vendors!!!!! Dont take anything for granted but wrap it all up legally. There's no honesty in property selling. Good luck.
09-02-2018, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by realspeed
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I wish i could tell you but the paperwork we shredded only the other day. Don't forget we also had legal costs under TUPE. That is ensuring staff being transferred to new ownership of our business ,I do know that legal stuff was well over £1000 with a specialist employment solicitor. If we had not done that we could have been take to ACAS and find up to £85,000 per employee.Also we were selling an on site business (boarding kennels and cattery) and a house so cost would be different anyway.
We moved from Pelsall , Walsall , West Midlands to East Sussex
our cattery looking toward the kennel blocks behind the bungalow and in the distance were our 2 large grass exercise paddocks one for the dogs
licenced for 42 cats and 118 dogs
(I know, I'm so nosy
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09-02-2018, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Lindyloo
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Its not just the vendors but was the estate agents in the case l quoted. Total crooks they were. One house we looked at but decided we didn't want, the agent asked what we'd pay forbitbif we were interested. I came up with a figure and she then told,me she was legally obliged to put that figure as an offer to the vendors!!!!! Dont take anything for granted but wrap it all up legally. There's no honesty in property selling. Good luck.
09-02-2018, 09:24 PM
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Update. Sorry it's long
Nothing much to tell at the mo. My solicitor phoned me at 5.30pm tonight, way past his home time, he sounded proper jaded. Friday's are always manic I s'pose with folk mid move and stuff goes AWOL at the last minute. Anyway...
He thought it odd the SMART TV comments and scoffed it wouldn't be worth £400 now anyway. I related my conversation about the TV and how she showed me how it worked and implied she was leaving it etc but now she's excluding it... and I want the unit front replaced (he agreed BTW). I've to itemise everything and he'll take it from there.
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She cocked up on both forms. I didn't bother relating those in my OP. I was more wanting to make sure your thoughts and mine were on the same page re the damaged unit.
Bearing in mind these are legal forms she's cocked up:
On F/F form :
She's taking poles she said she was leaving
No mention in 'Other Rooms' sections, that the property has a utility room with sink and unit fitment, or the downstairs wc with it's fitments. (All fitments have to be noted as included or excluded, for obvious reasons).
According to the form these two rooms don't exist.
She calls the 'dining room' in some sections but says there isn't a dining room in other sections or changes it to 'the kitchen'. (It's open plan with 3 separate areas - the kitchen, lounging area and dining area).
It does have a proper lounge in another room BTW, but that was easy for her to fill in
On the Property Info
'Alteration, planning Bldgs Regs, Planning Completion Certificate' etc. She'd left it completely blank. (I knew she had the planning permission, I checked online before I viewed).
'Occupants' section:
Get this one folks....it's a killer
'Any other occupants 17 or over other than the seller?' . She lists her partner.
After that: ' Is the property being sold with vacant possession' - she's ticked 'No'!
It people like her who give us women a bad name
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Realspeed. This is on the Property Info Form re information given, verbal or other:
'If the seller gives you, separately from this, any information concerning the property (in writing or in conversation, whether through an estate agent or solicitor or directly to you) on which you wish to rely when buying the property, you should tell your solicitor.
You are entitled to rely on the replies given to enquires but in relation to the physical conditions of the property'.......blah blah (goes on about getting surveys)
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You can all stop yawning now...THE END.
09-02-2018, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Pesta
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Wow, lovely looking place realspeed. Why did you move on, was it all getting too much? Do you miss it?(I know, I'm so nosy
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I miss the countryside ,we had field all around us and a canal just over the other side of the lane.
The place was run down went we bought it so got it fairly cheaply all 2 acres of it. having said that it took *years the put it right with only 40 days off in all that time. That grass in the forground was rubble and this end first half rickety old shacks with 6 cat pens in.
The kennel were rusty bars that fell apart if you kicked them , virtually everything had to be replaced.
We started off with only about 350 clients on the books and left with about 5500 clients on the books.
photos to come
09-02-2018, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by realspeed
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we retired is the short answer having run it for 21+years.I miss the countryside ,we had field all around us and a canal just over the other side of the lane.
The place was run down went we bought it so got it fairly cheaply all 2 acres of it. having said that it took *years the put it right with only 40 days off in all that time. That grass in the forground was rubble and this end first half rickety old shacks with 6 cat pens in.
The kennel were rusty bars that fell apart if you kicked them , virtually everything had to be replaced.
We started off with only about 350 clients on the books and left with about 5500 clients on the books.
photos to come
Did the new owners keep the business going?
Yes, I know what you mean about missing the countryside and the canals. I miss both. Being on my own, I'd love to go back to the hills, being on top of the world I called it, and the countryside - peace and quiet.
When told my daughter I was going to go back she very kindly said 'That would be stupid - you have to be near a hospital at your age'
09-02-2018, 11:00 PM
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one kennel block out of two and exercise field
Then we had 2 isolation kennels-a grooming room. Then for people looking around and bought their dog we had a holding kennel . then we had 4 overflow kennels as well
also another paddock the same size back of the bungalow. It was a huge setup and everything I had replaced, even doing the floor. If i said about the work i did we would be taking up pages of the thread
Everything as you can see had to be spotless . One comment often made was visitors didn't get any dog smells as other kennels had.
09-02-2018, 11:12 PM
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Gosh. That's a good sized exercise field. A lot of property and a lot of work no doubt.TBH I've no experience of kennels or catteries, well only what I've seen on TV with Paul O'Grady. I would never have put my dog in kennels. I'd worry endlessly, and always imagine them howling and whining feeling all alone and lost in a strange place
09-02-2018, 11:21 PM
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not in our place I would not allow it. Music on all day, constant monitoring by Sue or I and staff. Mess cleared up in kennels and trigene the stop infection and odourgene to keep the kennels smelling nice used every time before reused.Complete rewire throughout with power sockets high up for heat lamps
This grooming room when we took over had 2 ft of wood shavings on the floor on rough concrete
The isolation kennel below was just as bad
No expense spared to make it the best for miles around, hence we left with 5500 clients on the books
Cattery 3/4 full at least all year round and peak time turning people away. Completely reroofed all 90ft of it with tiwn wall plastic sheeting, each pen with a heated bed . 2+ cats from same family in same pen = two heated beds
clients pet carriers in corridor
Yes it was some setup we had in the end. (90 % of it I did myself) apart from new cat pens left of centre to match exisisting ones
09-02-2018, 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by realspeed
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not in our place i would not allow it. Music on all day, constant monitoring by Sue or i and staff. mess cleared up in kennels and trigene the stop infection and odourgene to keep the kennels smelling nice .Complete rewire throughout with power sockets high up for heat lamps
This grooming room when we took over had 2 ft of wood shavings on the floor on rough concrete
The isolation kennel below was just as bad
No expense spared to make it the best for miles around, hence we left with 5500 clients on the books
Must admit, as much as I love animals, I don't think I could do it. I'd worry myself silly and feel sad they have to be in cages.
I remember I watched a programme goodness knows when and if I remember rightly, I think it was a cattery. They weren't housed in cages as such, had TV, soft cushions... trying to make it home from home I guess.
I dread to think how much that cost a week for the pet owners.
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