Our lives were torn apart by seaside caravan home that left us £45k out of pocket – we were ‘sold a dream’ NOT reality

A COUPLE person been near "gobsmacked" aft losing £45,000 successful 2 years connected their "dream" caravan home.

The brace snapped up the seaside property arsenic they planned a aureate retirement, but their aboriginal was thrown into chaos aft a devastating diagnosis.

Andrew and Sue Dawson, from Leeds, bought themselves a £62,400 caravan astatine the Parkdean's Skipsea Sands vacation parkland successful East Yorkshire.

They had dreamed of enjoying the van arsenic a coastal vacation home, surrounded by their children and grandchildren.

However, those plans were shattered successful February, erstwhile Mr Dawson was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

After taking successful the tragic news, the household decided it would beryllium champion to merchantability the three-bedroom van arsenic they organised their affairs.

But they were handed yet much misery erstwhile the income squad astatine Skipsea Sands told them that the van was present lone worthy £17,000.

That's a depreciation of much than £45,000 since they bought it successful 2022.

Mr Dawson told BBC News: "We were gobsmacked.

"No 1 ever told america we’d look that level of depreciation.

"The salesman sold america the dream, but didn't merchantability america the reality."

Parkdean's website does authorities that "holiday homes depreciate successful worth with age" but Mr Dawson claimed that a salesperson told him astatine the clip that the vans "pretty overmuch clasp their value".

He was surely not expecting specified a important terms driblet successful truthful abbreviated a time.

The distressed grandad added: "The amount of wealth we've lost and the mode we’ve been treated, successful my opinion, is precise underhanded and lacking successful transparency.

"We consciousness they fto america down precise badly."

Even worse, the household assertion that connected the time of the sale, Parkdean's slashed the terms by a further £1,000.

The steadfast has since been successful interaction to connection Mr Dawson that sum backmost successful an effort to settee the row, the study claims.

A institution spokesperson told the BBC that it is "aware of and sympathetic to Andrew’s situation."

They added that they person reached retired to the household to "agree a suitable offer."