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While I think this is a great great scheme and we felt we were very lucky to been offered a house, we are not however, please do bear in mind receiving a charity offer, we are indeed buying our home granted less any developer profit but still paying a sizable amount of cash.
We accepted on offer of a house in cork built by BOWEN in Aug 2006 – I was so delighted, we had to accept the offer within days -house unseen as security on the gate of the site, after a few months we were allowed our engineer do the snag- this was the first time we saw the house- our new home.
A) The finish by Bowen was one of the most slap-dash I have ever seen – very shoddy finnish, we are still trying to get some of snags – completed – some of the houses are even leaking water. We have very uneven plastering (external and internal) damaged glass and window frames- a hole in a internal door, to mention but a few problems. The house was thrown together,
Still we were happy to be able to buy a home. What I cant understand is I have heard that even after all the problems on our estate – Bowen have been awarded another scheme in Cork !!!!.
B) As well as snag issues the council also had a problem I believe with was the title or the mapping of the site, this I am not sure as this delay was not fully explained to us, However we were told this would only be a few weeks and should be sorted, in the mean time we were asked did we want to sign a temporary leasing agreement with the council for the few weeks for 100 euro a week.
This was to enable us to move in, start decorating the house and the snags to be completed. To be honest we felt we HAD to sign for fear of losing our house; this was Easter LAST 2007 we signed and moved in …..And still the snag’s or the houses have not been signed off , even after much following up.
C.) During this year as well as paying 100 Euro week dead money that should be going towards our mortgage (we would now only have 23.5 years of our 25 years left, the interest rates have increased by 1% and the house values have been falling.
While we now do have the site map from the council – last week and snag’s look like finally being finished so paper work should start to be completed- we are still left feeling unhappy.
With over 50 houses in the scheme at 100 Euros a week for over a year and a half - the council seem to have made a profit and our loss!!!! Is this right ( also I think some people may have refused to pay the € 100, where does this leave those who did pay.)
Has any one eles have these problems and does anyone have advice for me, all advice welcome
We accepted on offer of a house in cork built by BOWEN in Aug 2006 – I was so delighted, we had to accept the offer within days -house unseen as security on the gate of the site, after a few months we were allowed our engineer do the snag- this was the first time we saw the house- our new home.
A) The finish by Bowen was one of the most slap-dash I have ever seen – very shoddy finnish, we are still trying to get some of snags – completed – some of the houses are even leaking water. We have very uneven plastering (external and internal) damaged glass and window frames- a hole in a internal door, to mention but a few problems. The house was thrown together,
Still we were happy to be able to buy a home. What I cant understand is I have heard that even after all the problems on our estate – Bowen have been awarded another scheme in Cork !!!!.
B) As well as snag issues the council also had a problem I believe with was the title or the mapping of the site, this I am not sure as this delay was not fully explained to us, However we were told this would only be a few weeks and should be sorted, in the mean time we were asked did we want to sign a temporary leasing agreement with the council for the few weeks for 100 euro a week.
This was to enable us to move in, start decorating the house and the snags to be completed. To be honest we felt we HAD to sign for fear of losing our house; this was Easter LAST 2007 we signed and moved in …..And still the snag’s or the houses have not been signed off , even after much following up.
C.) During this year as well as paying 100 Euro week dead money that should be going towards our mortgage (we would now only have 23.5 years of our 25 years left, the interest rates have increased by 1% and the house values have been falling.
While we now do have the site map from the council – last week and snag’s look like finally being finished so paper work should start to be completed- we are still left feeling unhappy.
With over 50 houses in the scheme at 100 Euros a week for over a year and a half - the council seem to have made a profit and our loss!!!! Is this right ( also I think some people may have refused to pay the € 100, where does this leave those who did pay.)
Has any one eles have these problems and does anyone have advice for me, all advice welcome
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