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

Sphynx

Phoned the sales progresser today and it seems that now we are the ones holding up the chain :eek: Our solicitor (who is just him running his own business) has been on holiday for the last 10 days so we have fallen behind. For some reason he wouldn't do the checks before the mortgage was agreed so just waiting for that and then I think (crosses fingers) that we will all be ready to go!

I have been reading back and seen that others have found houses they are happier with having lost out on others. I wonder if anyone has been in the same position as me in that we had to give up on our dream house and settle on a compromise because we didn't achieve our price? I am happy with our house to be. It has all the downstairs space I wanted (3 receptions, playroom, downstairs bathroom, utility) but the upstairs is just a 3 bed semi standard. Probably I will never be able to afford to extend it.

Just mixed feelings a bit. :think:

kymie

Sphynx - We are in that position! Because we moved to a more expensive area and lots of contributing reasons we went from a good sized 4 bed semi, to a 3 bed mid terrace. It is a real compromise as we have 6 children, and no extra income to do loft conversion etc. We make do, as others did in previous decades (though in those days they didnt have as much 'stuff') and the most important thing is my family are all together!

monkeys_bunny

what checks? do you know

NEH

monkeys_bunny wrote: »

We purchased our home from the same estate agents that we are trying to sell ours through. Im glad we did as it needs a lot of work doing to it and we are currently just starting to put it back together, but, its hard having 2 mortgages etc and not that many viewers for our house. Another one has been put on the market on our street again recently so thats at least 6 on a short little street. *Sigh*

Yip can sympathise, flat number 4 making us 5 in the space of 200 yards went on the market yesterday...

vet8 wrote: »

We are, so far, very happy with our EA. We chose them because it is a relatively new independent EA. They started up in the heat of the house price drop in 2008, there used to be about a dozen EAs around here and this one started with 2 guys from other firms. They have thrived through all the bad times and most of the other EAs in town have closed. They now sell more than 40% of all local houses and they seem to actually sell a lot, judging by the number of SOLD boards.

So we chose them and they have been very good, they did all the viewings, (I hate doing that), they telephone regularly, often after 7.30 at night, when they are still in the office. They seem to work hard and I was pleased with the asking price it was about what I expected, not too high, their brochure was excellent. I have no complaints. As long as the sale goes through I shall be happy.

You were one lucky indivdual...Feel for me guys we have to deal with Solicitors up here insstead of EA's...Our is pish as you all know...

You lot can change EA's we can't as we have to pay another £250 to list it on the Solictors Property site under a new Solicitor....:(

Hello Richard, welcome to the fun house Wait a few days for feedback and then if they don't give it, give them hell

heffsta wrote: »

So why don't you guys just lower your prices and there will be no problem selling quick.

Can i press the abuse button, please may i? oh go on on it'd be fun...:D

monkeys_bunny

NEH wrote: »

Can i press the abuse button, please may i? oh go on on it'd be fun...:D

ha ha ha :T

happyrichard

Thanks all for the welcome- appreciate it!

We're doing comparatively well. Our EA keeps us posted by email about visits they have arranged. It's still early days but interest appears to be there...just want an offer.

Having read some of the recent posts, I would not like to get into the position of finding a dream home only for no-one to take ours. Will only start the search proper once we have that solid interest of an offer on ours. From the internet, there appears a few very big contenders for our new home!:D

monkeys_bunny

were are you Rich, you planning on staying in the same area?

Your EA sound good

Chiaroscuro

kymie wrote: »

I sympathise with alot of you. Older members of the thread will remember it took me over a year to sell my house, not through price but lack of buyers! We had in total 6 viewers over 14 months, 3 of those were real tyre kickers (had nothing better to do than look around - no actual interest in buying a property). We dropped to our bare minimum, not what we thought the house was worth but the minimum we needed to give us enough for a deposit on our next place. We couldnt rent out as the area we were moving to had property prices and rentals alot more expensive than where we were so it wasnt an option. We did finally sell, but if it hadnt been for the fact my family was split up over 250 miles I would have given up and stayed where we were, or at least just sat and waited with a view to it happening whenever. We sometimes put too much stress on ourselves and want it to happen NOW, which of course it never does! I dont believe its worth looking at any specific properties until you have an offer, as so many of us can say - our dream house sold before we had ours under offer etc! (and the next dream house, and the next one etc lol) Yes get an idea of what area you want to move to, and ideas of houses etc, but wait until you get that call before you book any appointments (in my opinion of course! Im sure others will beg to differ!) Saves on the heartache!

I think that's really good advice, being one of those people who has seen a house they'd like to buy. It's not just the frustration of not having had any viewers and feedback on our place, but the feeling that I've potentially wasted the vendor's time. I know she's not in a rush to move, but had I realised how long it would take to even get a viewer I wouldn't have made the appointment to see her house four weeks ago. The more I think about it the more miffed I'm getting with the EA as he did give the impression he had buyers just waiting to see our flat.

spookytoy

hi folks, just a little update on our situation:

some folk may remember have had our house up for sale in Aberdeenshire since start of May. got 1 viewer in May and none since.

Our Ea is actually not that bad and put updates to me via email of anyone asking for home reports and if anyone walks in for a copy of a Schedule.

it has been really quiet for the past 5 weeks but today we had a surprise visitor!

A couple viewed the home report back at start of June , but they stay down by Birmingham.

A knock at our door this afternoon and here they were... no appointment nothing booked, no contact saying they were intending to view.. but were up visiting their son in Aberdeen and decided to try and have a look as they also wanted to see the area. ( I dont mind random viewers just threw me a bit) .

so they were here for a good wee while, general immediate feed back was good. they explained fully their situation ( they have accepted an offer on their property and hope to have it all sorted by August)

they have been waiting until their buyers were definite before starting viewings.

so after nearly 2 months of pulling my hair out things are starting to brighten up .
it made may day getting a viewer .

so thank you to the couple from over 450 miles away for cheering me up.

monkeys_bunny

Good luck Spooky Toy. does your EA know? they will still charge you if you sell to them, but you know that right