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Article: watchdog: First-time buyer: My pounds 15,000 flood hell.(Features)

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Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
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April 26, 2004
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Byline: CATHERINE HENDRICK Consumer Editor

AFIRST time buyer claims he was landed with a pounds 15,000 bill and was unable to live in his new home for 18 months after an estate agent failed to tell him it had been wrecked by a burst pipe.

Tristan Wilkinson bought the three-bed semi in Camp Lane, Handsworth, for pounds 60,000 in 2002 from Bairstow Eves estate agent in Rookery Road.

The 25-year-old thought he'd covered himself against any pitfalls by paying for a full survey to be carried out on the house in Camp Lane, Handsworth, before moving in.

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