If the survey reveals any issues or any recommendations of any work that needs to be carried out, you can obtain a quote from the workshop based on the independent factual survey and we will then go back to the sellers and try to renegotiate the price once we have received a full copy of the survey.
You will need to deal direct with the workshop if you require any additional work carried out and pay them directly. We will need a full copy of the survey detailing any faults found with the vessel. You can then get the work carried out once you become the legal owner of the vessel.
If you had made an offer of £2000.00 less than the asking price and there was £500.00 of work required you would not get any more money reduced off the price because you have already had £2000.00 off the price of the vessel. If you decided to withdraw from the purchase based on the fact that the seller would not reduce the cost of their vessel by £2500 for £500 of work required then your deposit would not be returned. If it was your vessel would you reduce the cost of it by £3000 for just £500 of work required? The majority of sensible buyers appreciate this and would continue the purchase as it makes financial sense. You have had more money reduced off the cost of the vessel than the actual cost of the work required. Why would you want to invest several more hundreds of pounds to have another vessel surveyed that could also have similar issues? If you still decided to withdraw from the purchase then we would as a gesture of good will let you use the deposit against any other vessel that we have for sale for a period of 3 months from the date of withdrawing from the purchase.
There is nothing that can’t be repaired, fixed or replaced. The same process as if you were buying a house. You normally would not pull out of a house sale because of the outcome of a survey. You have now invested several hundred pounds on the vessel for a survey and to have the boat lifted out of the water.
Providing the work is carried out on the vessel and the price has been renegotiated then you still have your dream boat and there is no need for you to spend another several hundred pounds on getting another vessel surveyed that could also bring up more issues and your costs just keep increasing.
You are welcome to meet your surveyor on the day of the survey but please do not enter any of the workshop areas or any docks or gain entry to the vessel regardless if it would be with or without the surveyor.