Perhaps the last thing a potential house buyer expects to sign before viewing a property is a health and safety waiver.
However, anyone wishing to look at a certain four-bedroom house for sale in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire must put their signature against one before entering it.
The three-storey detached house is on the notorious Boatman Drive where a sinkhole opened up in 2019, reports StokeonTrentLive.
Residents have been unable to park vehicles outside their homes for nearly three years because the city council was forced to close the road to all traffic.
The listing, through Butters John Bee estate agent, for the vacant family home presents it as a well-decorated house.
But many photographs reveal that the driveway along the property's side has collapsed with sizeable paving slabs poking out here and there.
In fact, a 'collapsed driveway' falls under one of the listing's key features.
The unusual property offering is set to be auctioned at 6:30pm on October 17 at the Double Tree by Hilton hotel in the Staffordshire suburb of Etruria.
A guide price of a mere £50,000 has been set, with any potential buyer warned they must be able to finance the purchase.
Another disclaimer asks that anyone wanting to view the house must sign a health and safety waiver 'prior to accessing the property grounds'.
The home is described as 'a modern four-bedroom detached family home with en suite to master, family bathroom, ground floor WC, lounge, dining room, fitted kitchen, UPVC double glazing, gas central heating. '
There is also a front and back garden as well as a detached garage and it called a 'fantastic investment opportunity'.
The Etruria estate was built during the mid-2000s by Redrow property developers, who along with Severn Trent Water reportedly remain in a dispute with the city council over the closure of Boatman Drive to traffic due to the sinkhole.
In October 2021, the road was featured in an BBC episode of Rip Off Britain.
The road was temporarily reopened this August for the first time in more than two years before concrete barricades were soon reinstalled.
But only days later the police were called in after the blocks disappeared without warning.
A long-suffering resident of Boatman Drive, who wished to remain anonymous, told StokeonTrentLive: "If I could I would sell up tomorrow and move.
"However, with the current situation on Boatman Drive affected the surrounding streets, it just doesn't seem viable.
"Many residents have been trying to sell over the last few years and end up taking the property off the market because they aren't getting any offers.
"I have already thought about how the auction sale of the property may compare with what I paid for mine. It's just gut-wrenching."
