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Waiting for a buyer... Anyone want to join me?

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  • Crashy_Time
    Crashy_Time Posts: 13,386 Forumite
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    Jack_Johnson_the_acorn wrote: »
    He lives in a bedsit and can't afford to buy.

    So you can only imagine his frustration. :eek:


    Looks like the key is not to BUY a bedsit.... :rotfl:


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  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
    I think viewing will pick up right from the new year.
  • Dollymix12
    Dollymix12 Posts: 221 Forumite
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    It's all gone quiet now after the excitement of accepting an offer! I hate waiting round!
  • kilby_007
    kilby_007 Posts: 738 Forumite
    StephieWillcox wrote: »
    We weren't really expecting FTB as although we bought it as FTB's the house has drastically increased in value (well lets hope so) and I thought it would take it out of FTB terrirtory.

    My husband suspects the FTB is a time waster (I would tend to agree) but only one way to find out!

    That there is the problem with the housing market and homeowner's attitudes to HPI. You bought the house as a FTB yet you think any FTB now are timewasters. Presumably the house has drastically increased in value just because you've lived in it, and now all FTB have to live in hovels?
  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
    Whoa there Kilby!

    No one said all FTB are timewasters and this is a SUPPORTIVE thread.
  • StephieWillcox
    StephieWillcox Posts: 36 Forumite
    kilby_007 wrote: »
    That there is the problem with the housing market and homeowner's attitudes to HPI. You bought the house as a FTB yet you think any FTB now are timewasters. Presumably the house has drastically increased in value just because you've lived in it, and now all FTB have to live in hovels?

    Erm, wow, not what I meant at all.

    It was the feeling we got from the phone call to confirm appointment and we were correct.

    This FTB was a time waster. He had seen 20+ properties in the area and deemed them all to not be value for money. He will forever be a FTB because he will not commit. He didn't even have a mortgage agreed in principle.

    We happily showed him around, as we would with any FTB.

    FTB's are absolutely the best people for us to sell to - no chain, will make things much easier.

    And why does it matter if I did happen to think that all FTB's are timewasters (again, to clarify, I do not)? I would still show them round the property, give them the chance to see it, make an offer.

    Think I'm going to go back to the old style money saving forum
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  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
    Don't do that Stephie. It isn't all of us!!

    Well we have AGAIN run the gauntlet of tidying and cleaning for photos and estate agent #4 going live on boxing day.
  • StephieWillcox
    StephieWillcox Posts: 36 Forumite
    smallholdingsister - I hope estate agent #4 is the one :)
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  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
    Thank you! I am so over the cleaning and tidying!
  • phoebe1989seb
    phoebe1989seb Posts: 4,452 Forumite
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    smallholdingsister wrote: »


    Well we have AGAIN run the gauntlet of tidying and cleaning for photos and estate agent #4 going live on boxing day.

    Fingers crossed for fourth time lucky, smallholdingsister :D
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