To those selling in these difficult times

moneysavingfamilycomp

well the viewer who didnt turn up on bank hol mon tried to book a viewing in for sun ( despite me telling the EA 3 times the only day i couldnt do was sun ) anyway got call at 3pm today to say could her father view at 4.30. he was here all of 5min. thought it may be too far from where she worked in the town. its 8 mile 15 min drive or 20 min on bus which goes from end of street in rush hour. he said they were viewing loads of houses so im not expecting an offer oh well nice clean house again.

Nikki

cindiedunkley wrote: »

How do you know when something is going to go wrong?

For those of you who have had buyers pull out at the last minute etc, did you have any clues at all that something was going to happen?

I haven't had any problems with my buyers at all but I feel that moving our completion date back a week is almost temping fate. To be honest I have been twitchy since the day they made their offer. I think this is because after six months of viewings it was all too good to be true, and it still feels like that to a certain degree.

Having not long been through the hell of selling/buying I still remember the stress of will it all go through. We were piggy in the middle to our buyers and our vendor and both wanted different dates for exchange and completion - we were laid back about it after all we'd been trying to sell for 18 months. Our vendors wanted exchange and completion on their terms, our buyers had dragged the sale out for nearly 4 months and probably would have continued had our vendor not insisted on a quick sale. Our buyers gazundered us when chased for an exchange date and so then we decided to call the shots as far as dates went. Exchange had to be the 12th of Feb as the old lady we were buying from was superstitious and wouldn't do Fri 13th. We exchanged on Fri 13th as her solicitor had the completion date wrong and needed to check with the management company selling this house they were ok with a different date before exchange:mad:. Putting dates back probably means the solicitor hasn't done all the paperwork in time for the original date, our solicitor was great and very quick but our buyers solicitor was slow and I think to the frustration of my solicitor.

pawpurrs

ourrac wrote: »

Hi Pawpurrs, that might be an idea !!! If I don't clean as much next time maybe we'll get lucky lol

My mother said to me, (she is also very obsesively tidy) that if cleaning like mad for every viewing isnt working then try something else, dont bother next time, the only time I did do this, (admitedly they booked in last minute) was the last time! So it worked for me!:rotfl:
Perhaps it seemed more homely

jasper12

pawpurrs wrote: »

My mother said to me, (she is also very obsesively tidy) that if cleaning like mad for every viewing isnt working then try something else, dont bother next time, the only time I did do this, (admitedly they booked in last minute) was the last time! So it worked for me!:rotfl:
Perhaps it seemed more homely

Or perhaps they could see the do'er uper potential.....

'the house is OK as it is, but can you imagine how nice it would be with a good tidy and a bit of elbow grease......and we can do that for pennies, therefore we are getting an amazing bargain'

(only joking pawpurrs!!!! )

beckstrous

I have been following this thread for a while, and we have been on the market for about a week or so. Have had two viewings so far, one no show, and four booked over the next three days, one of which is a second viewing. The other person who viewed the house said it was too small. I think our agent seems quite good - he is from a local independent firm. When he first valued our house he noticed things that the other two agents we had round did not. He knows the area well, too.
Our house is on for £199,950k. We paid £180k for it. We have refurbished two bathrooms and redecorated the rest of the house. I think it looks nice. We'd accept £190k so I hope we are priced realistically.
We never bought our house to make money, just to have a home. Ours is too small for us, bursting at the seams - we are upsizing, looking to spend £375k max, so viewing houses up to £400k, which I hope is realistic. We are first time sellers so this is all very new!

shirlgirl2004

The EA sent through the details for our house. Honestly my 4 year old could have produced better. Some items were factually wrong like our granite worktops became marble rolled-edge worktops! I spent ages re-writing it and wasn't 100% happy with it but wanted to send it into them last night to have a chance of being on the market tomorrow. It didn't have the floor-plan attached as promised and I still haven't received the PIQ from the solicitors either. Thinking even trying with this EA was a waste of time. I think I might remind him what a powerful tool the internet is and how I'm going to practically blog my experience on here. It might focus his attention.

shirlgirl2004

beckstrous wrote: »

I have been following this thread for a while, and we have been on the market for about a week or so. Have had two viewings so far, one no show, and four booked over the next three days, one of which is a second viewing. The other person who viewed the house said it was too small. I think our agent seems quite good - he is from a local independent firm. When he first valued our house he noticed things that the other two agents we had round did not. He knows the area well, too.
Our house is on for £199,950k. We paid £180k for it. We have refurbished two bathrooms and redecorated the rest of the house. I think it looks nice. We'd accept £190k so I hope we are priced realistically.
We never bought our house to make money, just to have a home. Ours is too small for us, bursting at the seams - we are upsizing, looking to spend £375k max, so viewing houses up to £400k, which I hope is realistic. We are first time sellers so this is all very new!

You're doing well to get a second viewing so soon. I hope you bag an early sale. Looking up to 400k is very realistic. Houses are selling at about 90% of the asking price on average.

elona

Had a phone call from estate agent this morning about the viewing on Saturday (the view in 5 minutes time question!)

Expected to be told it was cancelled but No- they want to come earlier- now tomorrow at 1p.m.

Will tidy and hoover etc but am not going crazy cleaning as I don't see this going anywhere. Father is doing all the string pulling on behalf of his daughter and the house she has is not even up for sale yet. Seems very odd!!!

Getting very grumpy and cynical lol!!!!

Charliestwins

Another update from me....

We have done the maths and we really cant afford to sell for less than 120k ( brought for 117k in Dec 2003) . It would leave us with enough equity - fee's for a 15% dep on a 150k house which is the maxim we would be prepared to go to as we don't want to increase our mortgage term.

We have stuck with 4 agents ( i know many will say too many ) even if 1 is a bully and another dont do a fat lot !! but we want to give it one last push.

We have dropped the price to offers over 119,950 ( again i know "offers over" isnt popular) but our 2 better ea's agree this may be the best thing if we are only prepered to say on for another 4/6 weeks.

Ive already got 2 viewings booked in from 1 agent so fingers crossed its our turn.

good luck to everyone x

pawpurrs

Charliestwins it must be your time soon.
You are getting the viewings so some one has to want it sooner or later. Its a nightmare isnt it. But this weekend coule be the one, you bought it some one else will.