buyerbeware

My wife and I purchased a ‘cheap’ original character home in Mount Lofty approximately 6 years ago and although our family is still very happy living in this area we can tell you first hand to exercise extreme caution to those houses on the market that ‘seem to be a great bargain’. We originally had the house comprehensively inspected when we first put it under contract by what was supposed to be the one of the best and most reputable building inspection firms in town and within their report it only noted one problem and that was that ‘we needed to budget away for a new roof within the next six years’.

Well in hindsight we should have checked things a little better because on the first night over half the roof blew off in a windy storm and within the first two weeks the sewerage backed up and would refused to flow. So I guess it was then pretty clear that our bargain had turned into something that needed a lot of expensive unforseen repairs with an immediate roof replacement and a great deal of excavation of the back yard and parts of the neighbours property and fencing to replace all the original underground ceramic plumbing. Along with that we had a lot of minor issues but wish to pre-warn anybody else that when buying a potential bargain- ask a few more questions to try and avoid issues like these...Buyer Beware