Estate Agent is keeping me waiting

puddy

I made an offer on a property yesterday at about 2pm. He said he would have to verify my position with my own estate agent to check i was under offer before he put the offer to the vendor and then would get back to us. today, not having heard from him, i checked with my estate agent to find taht the office was shut yesterday (weather) and so he couldnt have found out, so i would have expected him to phone today to find out. however, its now 6.30 and still i haven heard from him about the offer. surely it doesnt take this long to say yes or no?

im not ringing him first, i am going to wait for him to get back to me, he probably thinks that by keepoing me waiting im going to chase, but i refuse. however, im all jittery and all over the place.

PasturesNew

He will have still had to contact the sellers and get their answer - and might have got one of them who said "My ... is at work, we'll discuss it tonight".

You're being too impatient.

tessie_bear

its the pits waiting......every min feels like ages imo

gratefulforhelp_2

Be very cool, you are very much in demand at the moment.

Doozergirl

You are allowed to call them tomorrow morning. Wanting an answer after two days does not equal being a soft touch. In fact it's better to keep the ball in your court - chase for answers, apply pressure to the vendors but then take your own time with any counter offers etc.

lincroft1710

Vendors may be waiting to see if you can be panicked into raising your offer. Or just deciding if they can accept, or if there's a possibility you will offer more.

QTPie

PasturesNew wrote: »

You're being too impatient.

Agreed.

However, I doubt that the estate agent is "keeping you waiting" - I think that it is probably a mix of "problems caused by the weather/office closures", the estate agent waiting for the vendors to come back on the offer and probably estate agent incompetency...

I chose my estate agent (to sell our house) because of her "no-nonsense" attitude: she came across as "on the ball", efficient, straight-talker... Since then I have found that she is anything BUT no-nonsense :rolleyes: . I don't think that she particularly does it on purpose, she is just imcompetent: many are all talk and little or no thought or action...

Don't expect to be treated with anything like respect by an estate/letting agent - whether you are buying, selling, renting or letting... The only person who matters is them themselves and amazingly they aren't even compitent to look after their own best interests half of the time...

My apologies to any estate agents reading this: if you can show me any different, then send me a PM...

Wait a day or two and phone them call and ask what is going on.

QT

puddy

ok, so against my better judgement, i have phoned them. he said that the offer had been rejected. he said 'oh has no one got back to you about that' i thought, yeah, like you didnt know.

anyway, now the debate about whether to increase and what to

our offer was 148, we are debating 151 or 152. cant go up much higher than that as i want to put in new bathroom etc.

asking price is 184 but 175 with another agent they have it on with, but thats the price it has been for the past year, so i have taken 15% off that to make it 'worth' about 150 or 158 (if you take the asking price of 184 as the price).

maninthestreet

jenner wrote: »

ok, so against my better judgement, i have phoned them. he said that the offer had been rejected. he said 'oh has no one got back to you about that' i thought, yeah, like you didnt know.

anyway, now the debate about whether to increase and what to

our offer was 148, we are debating 151 or 152. cant go up much higher than that as i want to put in new bathroom etc.

asking price is 184 but 175 with another agent they have it on with, but thats the price it has been for the past year, so i have taken 15% off that to make it 'worth' about 150 or 158 (if you take the asking price of 184 as the price).

Why didn't you make the offer via the agent that has it on sale for £175K ???

puddy

because we saw it first with the agent at 184, arranged a viewing and then spotted it was on with another agent at a lower price, although i say that, the price with the other agent was 175 -195 so naturally i am discounting the 'to 195' bit and considering the asking price as 175

QTPie

jenner wrote: »

ok, so against my better judgement, i have phoned them. he said that the offer had been rejected. he said 'oh has no one got back to you about that' i thought, yeah, like you didnt know.

See, COMPLETE incompetence...

Don't take it as a personal affront to yourself. Imagine the seller in this: if you were the seller, wouldn't you be angry that the EA didn't pass on the rejection (so allowing further negotiation)? Also what favours does the EA do for themselves by being SOOOOOO lazy with "negotiating" the sale? Complete madness: but that is estate agents for you... They can't even be bothered to work hard to create/close sales in this current climate... imagine what they are like when times are good! :eek:

QT