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

NEH

partlydave wrote: »

I feel for all you boys and girls that are trying to sell.
I sold my last house in 2007, not bought again yet, and before that in 2001 and I can honestly say the first one was probably the 2nd most stressful time of my life.
When I put the last one up for sale I vowed to not be in for any viewings, and let the EA earn their money. It was so much easier.
Good luck to you all.

We're leaving it to our solicitors and their property assistants to do the viewings as we no longer live there but of the one viewing we have had so far i think the assistants did more harm than good....

clarew

we got on market thursday, and had 2 viewings good friday, 2 viewings shortly and then a 2nd viewing sunday.....am already getting annoyed with it all and remember why last time (7yrs ago) i said we'd never move again.....!!

PottyHouse_2

Mumof4 wrote: »

Welcome to all the newbies

Nothing happening here, just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter :EasterBun

^^^^ I like it !!!!!

PottyHouse_2

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PottyHouse wrote: »

^^^^ I like it !!!!!

partlydave

NEH wrote: »

We're leaving it to our solicitors and their property assistants to do the viewings as we no longer live there but of the one viewing we have had so far i think the assistants did more harm than good....

Oh dear, hope it gets better.

clarew wrote: »

we got on market thursday, and had 2 viewings good friday, 2 viewings shortly and then a 2nd viewing sunday.....am already getting annoyed with it all and remember why last time (7yrs ago) i said we'd never move again.....!!

The whole exercise is a massive trauma:(

Mumof4

PottyHouse wrote: »

:easter_ba

Nice one pottyHouse!

Good luck to all with viewings lined up, i am soooooooo jealous.

I am now getting really fed up with the lack of interest we are getting, so much so i feel like taking it off the market altogether and saying sod it

NEH

partlydave wrote: »

Oh dear, hope it gets better.



The whole exercise is a massive trauma:(

Thanks, we've highlighted what went wrong with it and we have another solicitor on the case but we're going to give them another month and then we'll think about changing if the problems carry on continuing...

tabskitten

We got our first viewing enquiry for tues now- however I was in a quandry as I work tues eve. My OH is in but I want to do the viewing rather than him, just as he can be a bit shy and would not really enjoy showing the house off as I would.

Does anyone else think that there is a difference in how you 'show' a property. I know that in the end it comes down to the house itself, but i really make an effort to have it spotless and will enjoy showing it to potentials.

Its just the EA was very ''well it wont make any difference who shows them it.........'' when i was trying to explain that I would rather do it myself than leave it to my OH.

Just interested me thats all.........

monkeys_bunny

i know how you feel. i would rather do it than my partner as he tends to tell them all th ebad bits etc as he gets nervious

rosered100

I think it really does make a difference who shows & in what order. The best rooms should be shown first & also end up in the best room again to discuss anything so that the first & last impression is positive.
We even found that the EAs were affected. DH showed back to front ie upstairs first as he wanted to save the best till last & we got the lowest quote. When I went ballistic (as we had discussed many times about the first 30 seconds being the most important) & we showed in the correct order, suddenly the valuations jumped by 30 - 50%!!!