We're moving house, and today we had the full inspection (same as a full structural survey). It took all afternoon and lasted until early evening. As we were leaving our next door neighbour drove up coming home from work.
He said hello and then asked how things were going. I was going to drive away as we had another meeting to go to, but Mr P stopped to talk to him (we were in separate cars, so I walked back to see what was what, and be a nice neighbour!)
Anyway, after lots of discussion about the inspection, he asked if we knew about certain things he'd noted outside the house.
Then, he went all shy and said there was something else ... so we pressed him as he didn't want to tell us.
Turns out he, his wife and his in-laws let themselves in through the unlocked side door (the builders frequently leave the doors unlocked ?) and took a tour of the house! These were his words, not mine. He said that he noticed there was a leak in an upstairs bathroom which resulted in sodden carpets, ceilings downstairs and walls .. to the point of full wet floors downstairs.
Thankfully we knew about this, and one of the ceilings has already been replaced, but WTF were they doing in there in the first place?! Mr P would have 40 fits if I said I wanted to check out a new house next door and go show the ILs round. If it was wide open, not sold and hadn't met the people moving in, then fair game, but not at this late stage.
Am I being unreasonable in your eyes in seeing red? I don't want to get off on a bad foot before we already move in, but bugger me, it's a class above being nosey, isn't it? They've already admitted they've been into the house on a near daily basis to see how it was coming on, but now it's sold, surely it's off limits?
What would you have said, if anything?
NB: These are the people who think it's highly amusing to put a snake's head in a jar and put it in their 29 year old daughter's bed when she was visiting as a laugh (he killed it on his patio). Strange folk!
