Hi,
I am buying off the plans. We have seen a show house and that seems fine. However this weekend I went to visit 2 developements, previously built by the builders, and am now a bit worried about the whole thing. First of all neither developement had walled in front gardens, which will be the same as ours. This seems to have the definate drawback that if your neighbours dont kep their front patches tidy, then no matter what you do, it will drag yours down too. The 2 we saw were so bad i can only assume that they were mainly rental and thus garden upkeep is at a minimal. Has anyone here got "open" front gardens. How do you find them? (I know this has more to do with neighbours rather than builders). As our developement is staged payments I would hope that would turn off investment (=rental) buyers ?)
Secondly a lot of the houses seems to have a lot of moss growing on their roofs. As they were at most 6 years old, this surprised me. Is moss growing on slates a sign of something or just to be expected?
Regards
Albob
I am buying off the plans. We have seen a show house and that seems fine. However this weekend I went to visit 2 developements, previously built by the builders, and am now a bit worried about the whole thing. First of all neither developement had walled in front gardens, which will be the same as ours. This seems to have the definate drawback that if your neighbours dont kep their front patches tidy, then no matter what you do, it will drag yours down too. The 2 we saw were so bad i can only assume that they were mainly rental and thus garden upkeep is at a minimal. Has anyone here got "open" front gardens. How do you find them? (I know this has more to do with neighbours rather than builders). As our developement is staged payments I would hope that would turn off investment (=rental) buyers ?)
Secondly a lot of the houses seems to have a lot of moss growing on their roofs. As they were at most 6 years old, this surprised me. Is moss growing on slates a sign of something or just to be expected?
Regards
Albob