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House Buying Companies Viewing Properties
chambta
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Mate of mine has had his house on the market for a few months and had a viewing arranged by their agent.
The lady came round and they thought things were a little odd when the woman made comments such as 'You know you get houses for 50k now?' etc etc. The house is on the market at £89,950 and they aren't desperate to sell for financial reasons at all so they kicked her out.
Perhaps I'm a little wet behind the ears or is this a new trend? She revealed herself to be from one of these companies that snap up properties at knock down prices and presumably then offer to rent it back to the former owner.
I guess now and again they will get someone interested and they're right there to negotiate but it all seems a little underhand to me.
The lady came round and they thought things were a little odd when the woman made comments such as 'You know you get houses for 50k now?' etc etc. The house is on the market at £89,950 and they aren't desperate to sell for financial reasons at all so they kicked her out.
Perhaps I'm a little wet behind the ears or is this a new trend? She revealed herself to be from one of these companies that snap up properties at knock down prices and presumably then offer to rent it back to the former owner.
I guess now and again they will get someone interested and they're right there to negotiate but it all seems a little underhand to me.
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Nasty. They must be running out of victims... i mean desperate people...0
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Sounds to me like the agent should have been conducting the viewing, rather than arranging it and leaving the owner to do it himself....0
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As the old saw has it, it's "Free Enterprise". Not free, not very enterprising.
Bleedin' crooks!. As described it would sound a tad like fraud to get into the house without declaring the true intention.
It would only be fair to all other potential victims to grass them up to their (the company's) local trading standards/Police so people know what sort of ***ts they are...
Mind you, if the property market keeps on dropping it might turn out to have been an offer worth taking... ;-)
Cheers!Wisdom is the daughter of experience0 -
Sorry wrong boardA retired senior partner, in own agency, with 40 years experience in property sales & new build. In latter part of career specialising in commercial - mostly business sales.0
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