Homeowners: Wave goodbye to HIPs and hello to £200

Slight correction to my sentence "Provide a copy of, as below, your formal Complaint/Statement to the EA." This should be read as PROVIDE A COPY TO THE EA, OF, AS, BELOW, YOUR FORMAL COMPLAINT/STATEMENT MADE TO THE HIP/EPC PROVIDER(S). My apologies.

Miami193 you can terminate a Contract at any time, for proveable bad faith AND/OR SUBJECT to the terms (the small print) of the Contract. You say you cannot get rid of the Estate Agent until July? Is that because you have agreed for a sole contract with the EA for that period? And/or have you agreed to continue to market your home with this EA until July? In either case, you can immediately tell this EA, you are totally dissaftisfied with the inaccurate HIP Provider's Report, that they the EA recommended and that all marketing of your home must immediately cease until this HIP and EPC are properly corrected. Provide a copy of, as below, your formal Complaint/Statement to the EA. With regard to the [i]completely useless, false HIP and/or EPC[/i], you should go back to the Report Providers, with a formal written Complaint/Statement pointing out each of the [i]completely false[/i] facts which are claimed STATING WHAT ARE THE TRUE FACTS and invite these people at their own expense, to correct these [i]completely false [/i]claims, or to refund in full the fees you were charged for this outrageous piece of work. If the HIP Report writer has disappeared/gone out of business, get in touch directly with the EPC provider and do the same to this person/Company, requiring a full refund of your Fees paid for the EPC or a properly written and accurate EPC. Going back to the EA, I had not seen anywhere that HIP fees were likely to increase. Rather to the contrary. It was common knowledge that a Conservative Government would be likely to win the then (in April) forthcoming General Election and that the Tories had spoken of abolishing HIPS, as had the Liberal Democrats. So potential HIP fees increases sounds like a bit of churning to create cash for their friendly HIP provider? Secondly, you say the EA claimed to have a Buyer for you as the reason for the unholy haste in obtaining the HIP when you did not wish to market until the month of May? What happened to that Buyer the EA had, where is he/she and why have the EA failed to notify as to how the marketing of your property is going? Such as, you say, "you have heard claims that Buyer's' have been saying the house would be too expensive to run"? Who has led you to believe that this may be a reason why you have had no viewings? If it was the EA you have heard this report from, this is ideal, since it was their incompetent HIP Provider who has given rise to these false and erroneous claims. You can put all of these points to the EA, pointing out that, due to their services, or lack of adequate services and their recommendation, your home has now suffered effectively a defamation/libel and as such the EA have breached your trust and their contract with you, since you can no longer rely upon them and that therefore your Contract with them is terminated with immediate effect. Hope this helps.

I wish I hadnt put my house on the market 4 weeks ago as I didnt know that the HIP would disappear if we had a new government. I dont believe all Estate agents were against the HIP. My Estate Agent even had someone there that they recommended I should use to do the HIP. Saying " He is a lovely guy". They also told me I should go for the more comprehensive package of £340 instead of £299 (which I didnt ). I feel I spent that money on a very negative report that did not reflect facts. just estimates of what the assessor appeared to fish from the air. He didnt want me to go with him around the house to see what he was looking for. I was given no explanations of what the report would contain. He never asked for actual fuel or electricity bills. When I recieved the report it was completely incorrect as he quoted us as paying £1000 more /year than we currently are paying. We have only got energy efficient lightbulbs - He wrote we had 50% energy saving bulbs. He put our house 2 levels below my two neighbours who have identical houses even if our house has new loft insulation and new windows which they havent... When I complained about the report I never got a response. If this is the report that will be used to sell our house it has only had a very negative impact on prospective buyers as the agent hasnt sent a single viewer around yet. ( I heard people had asked for the details but decided not to view as they claimed the house would be too expensive to run) How do I get the Energy report amended? I paid money I couldnt really afford for a complete useless, false report.  I wont be able to get rid of the useless Estate agent until july.. Is it breach of contract if the agent doesnt actively tries to sell your house. Can I get out of the contract . I told them I wasnt going to put the house on the market until May but they told me they had a buyer and I had to get the HIP done as soon as possible before he fees of the HIP went up ( This was in April). I think they knew that a new government would want to abolish the HIP and they were just trying to get the HIP assessor money in his account if that was the case. I dont feel I can trust them at all.