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Estate Agent - need to vent!
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Robert_Sterling wrote: »So if you were to become an E.A. you would be telling buyers to have an expensive full survey done so that they would not do so.
Erm if i was wanting to sell houses that would be the last thing I would do now wouldn't it.....
EA work for seller not buyer (well actually they work for themselves)If you find yourself in a fair fight, then you have failed to plan properly
I've only ever been wrong once! and that was when I thought I was wrong but I was right0 -
Believe me the same applies to what comes out the mouths of many of the sellers and buyers I used to deal with. The human being is capable of lies and deceipt whatever their job.
I agree with this... when buying property (or anything else really), trust no-one... sad, but true.
Do your own research and make-up your own mind (if that includes a structural survey, then that is your choice)
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Believe me the same applies to what comes out the mouths of many of the sellers and buyers I used to deal with. The human being is capable of lies and deceipt whatever their job.
Yes your very right and labeling EA like what I did is not entirely the right thing to do.
they seem to be better at withholding info rather than actually lie......If you find yourself in a fair fight, then you have failed to plan properly
I've only ever been wrong once! and that was when I thought I was wrong but I was right0 -
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Erm if i was wanting to sell houses that would be the last thing I would do now wouldn't it.....
EA work for seller not buyer (well actually they work for themselves)
All people work for themselves whether EA's or not.
Most people work to live and not live to work.A 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 -
Robert_Sterling wrote: »Remember that the E.A. is trying to get the highest price for his client.
"trying to" being the crucial words. If it were me buying, an EA trying to get me to skip a full survey, "DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON" would start flashing in big letters in my mind. It would be more likely to make me pull out altogether than skip the survey.0 -
You could always ask if a previous interested party has had a survey done and if there was a problem. They probably won't tell you but sometimes do.
Whatever you do go ahead with the survey, if there are problems its best to know.
I recently viewed a property were I wanted to look through in the roof, the estate agent without even thinking told me I couldn't as the roof was rotten and they didn't want any further damage, as someone else had been up there and put a foot through a joist.
It was at this point I closed my stepladder up while trying not to laugh too much and left. The estate agent tried to convince me it wasn't a big job really.0
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