Meet Ann Maurice, the House Doctor :cheeky:

: cheeky: Hi Ann, I've watched most of your House Doctor series and think they are fantastic. I have just finished an Interior Design course and am now in the middle of decorating my house ready to sell. Then start up my own business in designing. Thank you for giving me the confidence to go out there and show people what I have to offer. Firery red head

Hi Ann, please, where can I contact you, because I love to have my house done by you, hopefully very soon, thank you for your replay

I am sure you would love your house done by Anne Maurice, but due to her busy schedule it is unlikely to happen! However, what she does is nothing new - there are other companies out there who have been staging for years. Check out www.homefinders-online.co.uk who may be able to help.

Anne I think your the best designer on TV, I am so glad your back on UKStyle channel again. I could watch you every day, you always transform a house, and they are transformed to everybody's tastes. You know exactly what to do and where to put everything, from pictures to furniture. Please keep up with the series never stop or my life will be dreary again.

Ann I am 74 disabled and in one year i have been widowed (after my husband had five strokes and I looked after him for 18months when he was all but helpless) then i had to have gall bladder removed which left me with a stomache hernia and then i had to move from wales to kent and half my stuff is missing and a lot smashed plus they charged me £500 more than their estimate even tho i had two vanloads taken ahead of main move by a man with a van who is in my family
when i got here the house is a wreck she has removed a bedroom door the sitting room door she charged me £400 for what she insisted were large fitted robes that cost her £800 and when I got here they are two flimsy cheap wardrobes that are sold new at argos for £149 plus the survey said there was £1000 worth of urgent repointing needed and when i got builders in their estimate is £4500 to repoint ( i wouldnt have bought had i known that) she also removed side and end panels of the bath and the skirting of bathroom and left unfinished unpainted and without handles cupbd with boiler in it and no aircirculation holes in the doors
plus she removed the interior shelves of the only two kitchen base cupboards, and her dog destroyed a fence and the garden gate and the back door the scratches so deep it looks like a tiger did them! I have had to put a shed 19ft by 14ft in garden to accommodate my belongings as there is no storage at all in the house and this shed cost me £1650 plus another £950 for electric cables to go under garden to give shed light and power points but it wont be warm in there unless i get it insulated and lined on all four walls the ceiling and floor. everything in there now is damp
i am desperate to sell but the porch over front door is filthy and full of holes and front door a mess with very rusty old letterbox the metal front gate is missing with broken part still in cement which is also all broken up and the path which had victorian tiles on it is now empty of tiles and cement beneath all cracked where they have been lifted
the bay windows and all front need washing down and repainting white and the little wall under front hedge needs wirebrushing and repointing
it will cost me thousands to put right and every room is piled with boxes of unpacked things as no more room in shed
being disabled i cannot even manage to push a vacuum cleaner all i do is stack dishwasher and washer so i have piles of unironed linen and clothing and every room needs a spring clean
the sitting room carpet is scarlet and covered in stains as her dog obviously used it as a toilet and it stank of dog urine when we at last got in
why did i buy? i was in wales and having operation and then spending months packing up i only saw a brief view of it and rooms looked large which i wanted but didnt realise shed ruin the bathroom that she had tacked on end of downstairs (no bath up) and that the kitchen would be so small just two base cupboards a sink and a three drawer base
the cooker was so thick with grease and filth that i used four bottles of oven cleaner and in end gave up and had it removed as it leaked fat all over the floor whenever heated and just wouldnt clean
you cannot believe what some people get away with AND THE WOMAN WHO OWNED THE HOUSE WAS THE SAME WOMAN WHO WAS THE ESTATE AGENT WHO SOLD IT
oh ann how i wish you and sven would put it in order and release me from this hell

Dear Cheeky
It is always best to view the house BEFORE you buy it. I presume you did not do so, or the problems would not have been so bad. As she is an Estate Agent I also think you may have some come back (if things have been removed or damaged since your negotiations began) as she may be a member of a trade association.
Cheer up, you must have some reasons why it was this house you wanted to buy.