{"id":40557,"date":"2017-01-13T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/harron-homes-left-us-hanging-for-months-over-our-half-built-house\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T14:08:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T07:08:49","slug":"harron-homes-left-us-hanging-for-months-over-our-half-built-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/harron-homes-left-us-hanging-for-months-over-our-half-built-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Harron Homes left us hanging for months over our half-built house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIt kept promising our property would soon be finished, leaving us powerless to find somewhere to rentWe agreed to purchase a new \u00a3240,000 house from Harron Homes in December 2015. We paid a deposit in January 2016 and were told the house would be ready towards the end of May. Unfortunately, May came and went, as did June, July, August, September, October and November. Over that time we were constantly given the impression that we would be moving in soon. What actually happened was the house was left half-built and roofless for about three months while the development was built around it.The neighbouring properties were completed \u2013 as were several other homes on the development \u2013 while ours was left untouched. We had to move in with my parents, a four-hour commute from my new job in Sheffield, while the months ticked by. I lived away from the family so I could get to work, and, after we were supposed to have moved in, my wife gave birth to our second child, who has had to spend her first six months in a Moses basket. Because we were continually promised the house would be ready imminently, we were unable to find somewhere to rent, put our goods in storage or book a holiday. The entire family has suffered stress due to sharing a cramped home in an unfamiliar area. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/jan\/13\/harron-homes-left-us-hanging-months-half-built-house\" target=\"_blank\">Harron Homes left us hanging for months over our half-built house<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; It kept promising our property would soon be finished, leaving us powerless to find somewhere&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-ay9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106965,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/harron-homes-ignored-snagging-issues-for-18-months\/","url_meta":{"origin":40557,"position":0},"title":"Harron Homes ignored snagging issues for 18 months","date":"May 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The developer failed to fix the problems in time, so now my new home\u2019s warranty has elapsedIn 2017 you wrote about the seven-month delay in the completion of our new house by Harron Homes and intervened when they ignored snagging issues for a further seven months. 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