From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: Nervous First Time Buyer
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.legal
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:57:52 GMT

The Todal wrote:

> A seller who isn't willing to switch on the central heating is probably
> behaving unreasonably, unless he has had the entire system drained and
> does not want to pay a plumber to fill the system and then drain it again
> afterwards. If that is the case perhaps the buyer could offer to
> contribute to the cost of this work.

Quite, but a buyer would be a fool to volunteer to pay for this,
unless he is certain his offer will be accepted.  This is for the
same reason that you folk down south don't employ a surveyor before
making a binding offer.

Would it not be much simpler to *assume* all the systems are in working
order, to determine the price offered on that basis, and to make it a
condition of the contract that in fact they will be working at completion
date or the seller will be responsible for paying to have them fixed?