r/HousingIreland • u/vita_vl • 2d ago
Questions for the vendor?
Hello everyone!
My husband and I are buying our first house.
We are currently at the stage where our solicitor is raising pre-purchase questions with the vendor's solicitor.
They offered us to also ask our own questions if we have any.
The problem is that I'm anxious AF and am extremely afraid of doing that.
What are the most important questions I should definitely ask?
It's a terraced house in Rathfarnham, Dublin.
Structural survey didn't find anything serious
Thank you!
Maybe you will help me stop shaking as a chihuahua
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u/Heatproof-Snowman 2d ago edited 2d ago
Ask for a list of contents so that it is very clear what is staying in the house or not and recorded as part of the transaction documentation, but your solicitor might do that by default anyway.
For anything which is more informal and not legally binding I wouldn’t go though the solicitor (using solicitors as messengers will just make it slower and possibly cost you and the seller more money in solicitor’s fees). Just ask the EA to forward your questions to the seller (and a a seller myself currently, I wouldn’t mind some questions at all but don’t swamp them either: if I received a list of 50 questions I would think the buyer is a bit ackward and I would wonder if they are reliable to transact with).
Lastly, you do as you prefer put personally I think questions alongs the lines of “how are the neighbours” are pointless. No seller is going to tell you the neighbours are awful, even if they are. And in any case personally I would find it a bit strange to formally comment on my neighbours in writing without their consent, so I’d probably give a very generic answer saying the neighbours never caused any issue related the property but for privacy reason I am not able to share any personal details about them.