Wednesday 9 June:

We’re still very much in limbo land. The building survey was duly produced (we haven’t seen its content) and our prospective buyer (George) is still very keen to progress matters. We’ve ended up reducing our sale price by £10K (which feels something of a relief, because I feared it might be a lot more!) and, understandably, there are still concerns about the Japanese Knotweed our neighbour’s garden. I’ve been pressing Solon Housing Association (owners of no.42) to provide details of all the work carried out since I first identified the problem in May 2019. What I wanted was: a treatment management plan detailing all the measures taken since May 2019 AND the on-going treatment programme AND sort of guarantee (and, if possible, confirmation that our property remains unaffected and/or that an indemnity can/will be issued to re-assure George’s mortgage company). In the event, all I’ve received to date from Solon is that their ‘specialist’ contractor had “indeed visited the property on 19/05 and proceeded with the first treatment”. I’ve subsequently tried to get more feedback from them but, thus far, nothing… and, frankly, this doesn’t surprise me at all. George has organised a specialist to carry out an inspection etc on Friday 11 June and so, hopefully, this will clarify things… one way or the other. Feeling very anxious about everything (although somewhat relieved that a ‘proper’ specialist has been asked to report back on the issue).
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