To those selling in these difficult times Part Deux. AKA sellers support network!

thifty

Congrats to Devilot and hookbeak. :beer:Hope it will happen to us all. And congrats to Auntie ct. :j
We had the ea round this morning to do our photos, beautiful day, our house has not looked so good since before we had kids 4 years ago! The stair gates are now back on and fireguard, pots back in the sink toys will be back out tomorrow so soon back to normal. Although the carpet we had fitted on thurs smells great! love that smell as much as new car smell.
I've a question to the oracles amongst you.. do you still have to have a different solicitor to the people you are buying from?

sunshine_shell

AWWW congratulations Auntie CT!!

We've just got back ffom a weeks holiday to find a list of things we have to do, the solicitors wants our passports or drivers licences but we sent our passports of the be renewed a couple of weeks ago and my boyfirend is a truck driver so he can't really be without his licence eek!! not sure what to do!!

Megsmum

sunshine_shell wrote: »

AWWW congratulations Auntie CT!!

We've just got back ffom a weeks holiday to find a list of things we have to do, the solicitors wants our passports or drivers licences but we sent our passports of the be renewed a couple of weeks ago and my boyfirend is a truck driver so he can't really be without his licence eek!! not sure what to do!!

You can provide birth certificates and bank statements or credit cards with copy statements. utility bills are usually acceptable too. You solicitor should be able to provide a list of acceptable alternative docs. I believe the bits i've listed are acceptable to the Council of Mortgage Lenders )

Megsmum

well, here's our story ! put our place on the market in March at £190k. plenty of viewers and one offer of £175k from a buyer who had to arrange funding through a housing association or similar. we didn't accept or decline the offer as she said she would still look around whilst we found somewhere to buy. we looked at just about every suitable property in the area and eventually one i had noticed some time ago but was sold came back on the market...we viewed. On at £270k, they accepted £250k...hurrah, but on the basis that we move super quick because they've already had a sale fall through. so, on the same day we make that offer, another couple (FTBs) offer £175k for our property. we decline as we have an offer of that amount from someone who has been waiting. our first offeror then says 'great but i can't complete for several months'. the couple then come back and offer £177k and say 'we'll move quickly'.
I check with the estate agents 'are they aware that for that extra two grand they'll have to pay stamp duty ??' and am assured that they are aware and its not a porblem. we accept their offer (against my better judgment but the time issue was more important than the money tbh). they arrive on our doorstep that night asking for a purchase price of £175k and say they'll pay us £2,500 cash - in order to avoid SD......grrr. we decline (fraud).
so now we fully expect during the whole conveyancing process that they'll knock us down 2k. they did, last week.
mightily fed up with it all tbh as we are getting close to our sellers' deadline for exchange and our own buyers have not signed cntracts and are coming to see our house AGAIN (the fourth time !) on Sunday. just want to move and am feeling very disillusioned that they promised to move fast and our sellers are getting twitchy !! grrr.
not doing this again in a hurry !

moneysavingfamilycomp

congratulations charliestwins i love being an auntie iv been doing it since i was 7 lol (im the baby of the family my sis1 is 17yrs older, my sis2 is 15yrs older and my bro is 11yrs older than me our mum and dad got a huge shock apparently) my sis has 5 kids and my bro has 2 and id do anything for any of them i love them all to bits. on the house front still nothing happening good luck to all who are nearing the finish line wish it was us.

Tibbie's_mum

Not a happy bunny today........it's beautiful out there and we haven't a single viewing booked in for this weekend.

I'm feeling a bit taken in by our EA as he said he had numerous cash buyers on his database who wanted to buy in our village, how naive I am!!!!

Goober11

Hi

I have been a long time lurker on this thread (parts 1 & 2) and have finally decided to post to share my good news. I will not go into all the details but we completed the sale of our 2 bed house yesterday which we previously let out. We did not get our asking price but sold it for a fair price given the property's state having been let for 7 years and the current market. We bought the house in 1995 and got £257k more than what we paid for it so fairly happy with that. But our EA said had we sold it it 18 months ago we could have got an extra £100k. I don't care now as this has lifted a major worry for me.

I suppose all I am trying to say is to those who are worried and in a similar position hang in there and I wish you all the best for your sales. We can now go on holiday next week for 2 weeks in the sun without this hanging over our heads.

Thanks to all for the support this thread has given us.:beer:

PasturesNew

Goober11 wrote: »

...completed the sale of our 2 bed house yesterday which we previously let out. ...been let for 7 years ....got £257k more than what we paid for it ...could have got an extra £100k.

On a positive note, at least the Capital Gains Tax bill will be lower!

Got to look on the bright side.

pawpurrs

Hi Goober,
Thanks for joining in, did it take long to sell?

chickmug

Tibbie's_mum wrote: »

I'm feeling a bit taken in by our EA as he said he had numerous cash buyers on his database who wanted to buy in our village, how naive I am!!!!

I never told people this and so never had the difficult questions asked of me. Taking me to task about what I had said, or promised.

Please, please go back to the agent, by email if that is easier for you, and ask for their explanation of WHY they said those thing to you and WHY the cash buyers have NOT materialised.

I keep seeing posts about what agents have said and wonder if these agents are taken to task about their lies and deception.

Believe me I am more fed up with the lying agents than most of the people on this forum and that is saying something.