craw4d2003
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Who pays the buyer or the seller?
pre purchase survey
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capsco
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Steve Clayton
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I can understand the philosophy behind this - a potential buyer pays the survey and decides not to proceed. Along comes another buyer, etc, etc, The real winner is the surveyor.
So with boats (and houses); why doesn't the seller get a truly independent certified full survey and then flog it (for say £50) to every buyer who comes along?
So with boats (and houses); why doesn't the seller get a truly independent certified full survey and then flog it (for say £50) to every buyer who comes along?
Abigail
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One difference is the different uses to which a boat might be put - even the same one might be a blue water plan, coastal cruising and the Channel occasionally, hard racing round the cans. All these have different survey requirements.
Also (tho don't have a house anymore so have not gone through this intellectually) I always want my surveyor, accountable to me, and I can pay more if I want more etc.
Also (tho don't have a house anymore so have not gone through this intellectually) I always want my surveyor, accountable to me, and I can pay more if I want more etc.
pragmatist
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It is, IMHO, true that if you commission and pay and the surveyor fails to find a significant fault you have a case against him. If it were commissioned/paid by someone else there could surely be no comeback.
capsco
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It is, IMHO, true that if you commission and pay and the surveyor fails to find a significant fault you have a case against him. If it were commissioned/paid by someone else there could surely be no comeback.
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Spot on !!
It is, IMHO, true that if you commission and pay and the surveyor fails to find a significant fault you have a case against him. If it were commissioned/paid by someone else there could surely be no comeback.
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Spot on !!
Swagman
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Don't like to keep making comparisons - but in Oz it is standard for the buyer to pay the survey.
If the buyer then proceeds to purchase (even with price reduction as a result of work that needs doing) - then the seller picks up the survey cost.
Shame this does appply this side also.
JOHN
If the buyer then proceeds to purchase (even with price reduction as a result of work that needs doing) - then the seller picks up the survey cost.
Shame this does appply this side also.
JOHN
brennonwilliams
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I am going through the same thing at the moment, but in the end I am now pleased with what is progressing with the surveyor.
I have got one that is no where near the boat broker, neither knows each other. I did this for a few reasons but mostly to get the brokers reaction and to make sure that the survey was not biased toward the seller and or sellers agent.
It is rubbish to think that you can spend so much money not only getting to a boat, researching, trialing and surveying it, but at the end of the day, it should be treated as an investment.
I know, as an unexperienced sailor, I will feel better not only for me sailing but anyone else that comes on board if I buy the boat, knowing that someone with supposed more experience and knowledge has looked over her first and says that she is safe.
I have got one that is no where near the boat broker, neither knows each other. I did this for a few reasons but mostly to get the brokers reaction and to make sure that the survey was not biased toward the seller and or sellers agent.
It is rubbish to think that you can spend so much money not only getting to a boat, researching, trialing and surveying it, but at the end of the day, it should be treated as an investment.
I know, as an unexperienced sailor, I will feel better not only for me sailing but anyone else that comes on board if I buy the boat, knowing that someone with supposed more experience and knowledge has looked over her first and says that she is safe.
