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

elliebobs

Vegasbaby-what a shame; hope one of your other viewers sees it through. I must admit I think I'm actually dreading the moment I get an offer as I think the stress of seeing it through to completion would send me over the edge!

My viewer is due at 3pm and I've also got one booked in for next Friday..

LittleMissInDebt

Hi everyone

I hope you're all having lovely weekends - congratulations Pawpurrs and sorry to hear your news Vegasbaby! Hope you get a better buyer/offer soon!

I finally have my first viewer - today, haven't heard from EA yet, but am pleased because if nothing else at least it's feedback - hopefully! On a less exciting note, I finally found somewhere to rent where I am now living and the landlady is being a pain - she's never let a house before and keeps changing her mind about whether she'll let it, and how long for! I'd keep looking but due to her terrible DIY it's by far the cheapest and paying a mortgage and rent at the same time is going to be very difficult as it is.

Oh well, hopefully she'll make her mind up this week!

LMID xxxx

karen310

elliebobs wrote: »

Vegasbaby-what a shame; hope one of your other viewers sees it through. I must admit I think I'm actually dreading the moment I get an offer as I think the stress of seeing it through to completion would send me over the edge!

My viewer is due at 3pm and I've also got one booked in for next Friday..

Me too , I will be expecting everything that can go wrong to actually go wrong !! Hope your viewing went ok , I had two this afternoon , both seemed to like it but neither have sold yet so nothing likely to happen from these just yet , mind you I am grateful to be getting viewers after 12 months with virtually none.

Senora

Sorry to hear the news Vegasbaby, same thing happened to us one week
before exchange/completion but keep your fingers crossed you might not lose your purchase - we were lucky (I think!!) and got new buyers almost immediately - due to exchange next week so am feeling rather nervous now!!.

Good Luck Pawpurrs hope all goes well for you this time.

pawpurrs

Its a nightmare system isnt it, not counting my chickens at all this time. When I started the thread Davesnave had been SSTC three times and on the market 10 mths, and I remember commenting how unlucky he had been, thinking that was just so unlucky, that couldnt possibly happen to me, and how chuffed I was to go under offer within the first week of markerting, ten mths later and I am on my third SSTC too! Lets hope that for me too its third time lucky! What a nightmare! In comparasion my last house sale went through without a hitch really to the first buyer. Am really nervous this time, my agent said I could keep it on the market, but after talks today they are telling people its SSTC, so I am unlikely to get any viewers now, although they should be taking names and numbers should it not go through, they have the other buyers in the chain SSTC, so they will want the sale to stay together as much as possible, all my other buyers have been chain free, and as wonderful as that sounds, I think chain free buyers are much more likely to just change their minds, than those with the pressure of a chain behind them, they have more to lose, albeit you have the associated risk of the chain staying together, these buyers are also more likely to know the proccedures regarding finance as well.

thifty

Pawpurrs good luck, dying to know the story behind it!
Vegasbaby sorry to hear your bad news hope you get another buyer soon.

We have got another viewing tomorrow, Ea still not been able to get feedback from first 2 after a fortnight but at least they keep ringing us to keep us informed. Our house is so clean and tidy think i;m in danger of becoming OCD about it:eek:

pawpurrs

Good Luck for the viewing today Thrifty. I dont understand people that never return EA calls, surely its only polite to give feedback, when the vendors have taken the time to show you around a property, and it helps get the EA on side, and let them know what you are really looking for, so they can recommend other properties, some of which may sell (although less likely in this market) before they go live.

LittleMissInDebt

No news from my EA yesterday - will have to give them a call tomorrow... hopefully they at least turned up, I'd just like some feedback

Davesnave

pawpurrs wrote: »

Its a nightmare system isnt it, not counting my chickens at all this time. When I started the thread Davesnave had been SSTC three times and on the market 10 mths, and I remember commenting how unlucky he had been, thinking that was just so unlucky, that couldnt possibly happen to me, and how chuffed I was to go under offer within the first week of markerting, ten mths later and I am on my third SSTC too! Lets hope that for me too its third time lucky! What a nightmare!

It was a bit of a nightmare, but an understandable one, with Northern Rock hitting our first buyers, then the bouts of bad news unsettling the second, but the real bad luck and frustration came when we dropped our price substantially & then had lots of keen people, none of whom could sell. Eventually one did, but we all had to compromise on price again.

Looking back, after 16 months selling and another 6 here renting, it has been...err....educational. None of it was in our original plan, living in a place where properties formerly sold themselves.

However, the first buyers would have been in deep do-do by now if they'd bought at our original inflated price, so they had a lucky escape. Happily, the people who eventually purchased are enjoying their 'bargain,' having paid less for a much better house than their immediate neighbours, who bought in late 2006. The neighbours are lovely, but being lovely doesn't help you in the world of property. Indeed, the person they bought from was a n'er-do-well who inherited it, selling it after 'encouraging' his late father's partner to get a housing association flat. To my knowledge, he never paid her a penny and cleared off, having sold a wreck for one of the best prices ever achieved in that road. C'est la vie...:rolleyes:

I'm happy to say though,that apart from being a blooming waste of time, it has all worked out for us, though again, things are not as expected. Thanks to being cash buyers, we snapped-up a 'one-off' type of property, being exactly what we needed, in a place where we thought there'd be no hope of buying. Having saved about £100k in that way, we're back financially to where we'd have been if we'd sold in 2007, but geographically, we're in a different part of the country altogether.

My advice to others is, therefore, be creative and expect the unexpected. Hopefully, pawpurrs, your misgivings will prove unfounded this time and by September you'll be over all this.....

Gosh, if that happens, who's going to run this thread? I've got acres of land to tame and a building to sort out, so I expect to be a bit busy myself!:eek:

pawpurrs

Thanks Davesnave, hopefully by September things will be looking good. Problem is the village I really want to move to the Agent that took over from me, who runs the office, is on some sort of drugs and is pricing property over 2007 peak, I sold a beautiful 2 bed period cottage for 210k approx in 2006, fully done up, large garden, and she is putting up ones with no garden and needing full renovation (not even livable, and hence not mortgagable for 245k! !!!!!!? and there are houses that have been on 4 years without one price drop? I really cant understand it!