As explained in previous threads we are in the middle of trying to buy our first home - we came across this house via private sale and it was all very very quick - they wanted out asap and we wanted in asap. Anyway things progressed rapidly until their solicitor sent the contracts at which time my solicitor realised that the hadn't sent the original documentation, they hadn't sent original maps etc etc so we knew that the process would be delayed for a while (until start of August). Anyway tonight the vendor rang me and put the following scenario to me, has anyone heard of this and what do you think?
The house was sold with full planning permission for an extension - to be honest this really didn't interest us as we couldn't afford to build for a couple of years anyway -the vendors showed us the plans they had drawn up and gave us a copy for our records - we thought no more about it. So vendor rings me now and says that they never paid the architect for the plans which were 1500 euro and he thinks it only fair that we pay half of the cost of the plans - is this normal practice? , I'm not really comfortable with them ringing me directly anyway, I believe all of this should go through solicitors No?
The house was sold with full planning permission for an extension - to be honest this really didn't interest us as we couldn't afford to build for a couple of years anyway -the vendors showed us the plans they had drawn up and gave us a copy for our records - we thought no more about it. So vendor rings me now and says that they never paid the architect for the plans which were 1500 euro and he thinks it only fair that we pay half of the cost of the plans - is this normal practice? , I'm not really comfortable with them ringing me directly anyway, I believe all of this should go through solicitors No?