They also made the mistake of not checking things like mattresses. When you get serious about a property then don’t worry about being cheeky sit and or lie on every bed. This may seem excessive but my friends and later my parents were caught in this trap. They bought the place and decided to spend a night in every room making sure that the rooms were alright and found that all the beds were down to the springs. This may seem trivial but if you have 8 rooms and a new double mattress per room is about £150.00 it soon mounts up. Also if they were hiding that what else were they hiding? My advice is to buy a good mattress and turn them regularly your guests will thank you for it. You can buy mattresses from the high street but depending on numbers as sometimes there is a minimum order you can buy from hotel whole salers and get a good price. You will find also that quite frequently you will get men at the door proclaiming that their bed company is going bust etc and they have excess stock to sell you off the back of a lorry don’t be fooled into thinking you have got a bargain. Sometimes you can get one not all of these chaps are criminals but there is a fair chance that if they are selling off the back of a lorry then the goods fell off the back of someone else’s.