TBH I am not surprised. If they had owned up, they would perhaps have to pay an excess (do you pay and excess on third party) and their insurance may go up £200 a yaer for the next 3 years, so it might cost them £1000.
They should own up, but I can see the huge disincentive not to
Agreed, people get way too precious over the appearance of their vehicles.
@red-1 That’s for the owner of the vehicle to decide.
Personally, I would pursue someone who was being obviously careless and incompetent or flippant about it for every single penny[1], but might let it go if it was obvious it was a genuine accident and they were apologetic and approached me first (be that in person or a note), depending on the level of damage and cost to repair to a reasonable standard.
[1] e.g. they were speeding, using their phone/pratting with the radio/eating/drinking/whatever, had obviously consumed alcohol or drugs etc.
No one wants to confront the fact we can not afford to treat everything, at any cost. Basic economics.
…. and that is the simple truth. The problem arises though when society has to decide who lives and who doesn’t. The drug producing companies, through their sales are continuing with research and in to ever greater depths …….. The DG has RA and she has, on top of a weekly methotrexate injection, a monthly infusion. I asked the biologics lot where was the basis from which the infused drug was grown or created and the answer was that the start was from the uteri of hamsters and that it originated from China, it may have been a previous infusible drug, I’m not too sure, but without this infusion (Tocilizumab I think) she wouldn’t be able to function and would meet an early end.
I agree with you just as long as it doesn’t affect me or mine.
My OH use to rent a room in a house that was sub let. It was a 3 bed house. One girl who lived there rented the whole house and she let the other 2 rooms. So my OH paid the girl rather than the owner on the house. All worked fine, there was never any issues and 7 years later we are still good friends. Not sure how it all works out on paper though.
I’ve been reading up on the general causes etc. and from what I can vaguely recall the damp appeared to be all the way up the wall to the second storey so perhaps connected to the chimney in some way?
The loose plan is to visit the property and meet with the owner, then if the alarm bells aren’t going completely mental I’d like to take an expert with me to assess it.
Originally the valuation was reduced by £2000 in light of the work needed, but subsequently the price has been reduced by a further £5000 and I’m wondering if that’s because the seller has sought a quote for repairs and it’s in the region of £5000 – £7000? What’s annoying me is that the damp was quite evident when we visited the property in June 2014 and the seller hasn’t rectified it in all that time. How much worse will it be if/when I go back for a look?
And yet I can’t stop thinking about the bloomin’ house. It ticks so many boxes for me, and to a lesser extent, my OH (although he would quite happily live in a static caravan at the stables, which I would too, only I’m trying to take steps forward and be a bit more of an adult than I’ve been so far!).
