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

sparklystar_2

Hello all, this is my first post and needed to write as I'm sooo :mad: that the people who looked at our house last week fed back to the estate agents that they want a garage when our house clearly does not have one. It did have one before we spent lots of cash converting it into a dining room, but as we live in a 3 storey house we have found having the space downstairs way better than the pokeygarage that you couldn't even fit a car in and get out of. Arrhhh why is house selling sooooooo stressful? the other people who were due to come last week didn't turn up :mad: they had seen a similar house for sale and decided not to come without telling anyone. We had decided not to let anyone do viewings in the week as my and OH work full time and have 2 little ones who go to bed at 7pm so not really do-able. Also have over friendly dog that we didn't want to lick viewers to death. Anyhow we relented as you do when you just want the whole house selling chore to be over and done with and agreed to 2 Friday viewings whilst at work with EA. Cue spending Weds and Thurs evening in manic state of anxiety cleaning. House only been for sale for 2 weeks I feel I might have a breakdown by the time we sell (or hopefully just learn to chill out a bit better :rotfl:)
rant over, sorry but just needed to write that!
thanks for reading
sparkly x

Sphynx

Ha sparklystar! You will learn to chill out. Mind you I hated those manic evening cleaning sessions. We were on the market for a year :eek: We had our fair share of no shows, but mainly the EA did our viewings, cue walking round the block with our tired two under 5's for ages.

In the end we got so fed up we cut back on the cleaning, and the viewer we sold to came on a Sat the EA couldn't do when my DH had the two children on his own at lunchtime! I have to say though the house up the road (owned by a friend and child free) has just sold for 20K more than ours...

Az sorry your viewings didn't come to anything. Fingers crossed for the ones coming up.

From my end I made the dreaded call to the EA today to say we were pulling out. It didn't go too badly, they weren't fazed at all. I am also feeling better about the house we are buying, we will be able to make it really nice in time and it does have a nice 'sun room' rather than a conservatory.

aw69

I've been a long time lurker on this thread and now i'm after a bit of moral support.

My house has been on the market since before Christmas. I've moved in with my partner and don't need to raise a set amount of cash to buy somewhere else or pay off a mortgage. I've dropped the price a couple of times and now think it is on the market for a very good price. Last week someone finally put in offer but it was very cheeky and I instinctively refused it hoping they'd come back with a bit more. Now almost a week has passed and i've heard nothing. I haven't called the estate agent because i don't want to look too desperate but suddenly the original offer is looking much more appealing ... anything better than nothing and all that.

I 'm hoping that the potential buyer is playing a game and will eventually come back with a slight increase by which time I will be so desperate I snap their hand off. But every day that goes past is another day they could have found somewhere else.

Any advice, should I just call the estate agent and say i've changed my mind and will accept the original offer or should I hang on in there hoping that there might be a slightly increased offer on the way?

sonastin

So Friday I get an offer on my place. Monday I set my solicitor to work. Tuesday I have a 2nd viewing on the house I think I want to buy. Thursday I get my offer accepted. Friday I get my mortgage application underway. Monday the valuation is done on the place I want to buy. Go for 3rd viewing (with OH - up from his home 250 miles away) and just as the EA drives away I get a phone call from my "cash buyer" saying she can't get the money together and is going to have to pull out :mad:

Good news is it saves confusion who I have to pay commission to because this buyer found the property with EA1 but I've now moved on to EA2. Bad news is I have to jump back on the keeping-the-place-spotless-just-in-case merry-go-round

Still the place I want to buy has been on the market since before HIPs were invented so hopefully no one else will want it while I try to get a new (reliable?!) buyer!

azkaban420

aw69 wrote: »

I've been a long time lurker on this thread and now i'm after a bit of moral support.

My house has been on the market since before Christmas. I've moved in with my partner and don't need to raise a set amount of cash to buy somewhere else or pay off a mortgage. I've dropped the price a couple of times and now think it is on the market for a very good price. Last week someone finally put in offer but it was very cheeky and I instinctively refused it hoping they'd come back with a bit more. Now almost a week has passed and i've heard nothing. I haven't called the estate agent because i don't want to look too desperate but suddenly the original offer is looking much more appealing ... anything better than nothing and all that.

I 'm hoping that the potential buyer is playing a game and will eventually come back with a slight increase by which time I will be so desperate I snap their hand off. But every day that goes past is another day they could have found somewhere else.

Any advice, should I just call the estate agent and say i've changed my mind and will accept the original offer or should I hang on in there hoping that there might be a slightly increased offer on the way?

Hi there, I would say call your EA and ask them if they've heard anything back from the viewers who offered. As your EA they should automatically be following up offers and giving you feedback, and I'm surprised they haven't as yet. It is far better that your EA knows your 'desperation' that the viewer and they should use this to try and seal a deal that you're happy with. See what feedback your EA comes back with - the viewer may quite possibly be playing the game, but the EA can gauge if they are still interested or not. If there's even a bit of room for negotiation you can get things back on track with the offer and take it from there...good luck

Az

azkaban420

BeeJay - good to hear your second EA seems more on the ball than the first one did, and your paintwork/deco sounds like me - I get stuff done pronto to help sell the house - good luck with it;

Sphynx - well done on calling the EA, glad you feel a bit more relaxed about the house you've seen...amazing what a relaxed approach can do to the mind-set!!

Sonastin - bad luck about the cash buyer pulling out, I'm having crappy luck atm too, let's hope things turn around for all of us soon;

Welcome sparklystar and any other newbies....sorry if I've missed stuff out, am knackered, fed up and going to bed in a few...

Az

Karmacat

Seconding Az's last post to all concerned.

BeeJay, you did that long post on a Blackberry? I'm well impressed!

NEH

23rdspiral wrote: »

sadly you are so right there. perhaps i should mention the warming up time of charcoal to my EA so he can advise the potential / cancelling viewers!! :rotfl:



quite. i've never been late or cancelled or not turned up for any viewings i've ever gone to. i just dont get it when people do it to us, dont they care when people do it to them??? if we all just didnt do it then we'd all be happier!

In people's defence I have been late to viewings especially when I have been travelling a long distance to see places....Combination of traffic, tractors, silly drivers, hold ups you just never know....Sometimes people get lost so i can understand viwers being late....

This thread is moving so fast these days can't keep up...

Heygringo, fast work on the painting...so if i'm right you've ditched the old EA and got a new one?

Wish we could do that but we'd have to pay £250 to get it listed again on the solictors property centre ...

Sorry Az that tey didn't make an offer...

and hello to anyone i have missed out...:hello:

tabskitten

God I'm depressed!!

monkeys_bunny

i know its madness how fast this thread is going at the moment isnt it haha.

just to add my bit. i dont mind people being late to viewings sometimes it cant be helped, but i cant stand it when people just dont turn up. im like a caged lion waiting for them and then when they dont show i still spend about 3 hours after their time stll waiting for them "just in case"