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There are as many red flags as there are houses for sale. So it's best to start by narrowing your criteria. What are you looking for in a house? What are your non-negotiables and what would be nice but not essential? Just start by viewing a bunch, if you are local to the area you want to live you can easily string together half a dozen viewings on a Saturday and that will really help you start to get a feel for what you are looking for.
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Is this the right place to come to for house-buying advice. Planning on doing the family thing and looking to buy a house (the one I'm looking at was built circa 1985-2000 and has been owned by a landlord for the last three years), and having lived in flats all my life I have absolutely no idea what I'm meant to be looking out for when viewing etc. and trying to figure out what red flags could exist. Are there resources anyone could point me to to get started..? Hoping to at least get far enough to understand if it's worth getting a surveyor in.