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

NEH

Davesnave wrote: »

Same here.

I suppose it is too much to hope they'll be spending a couple of days deep cleaning for you, but wouldn't it be nice if they did!

That would be like hoping Santa would visit....I've not come across many places that haven't need a full scale clean when entering...:p

Congratulations to Susie and Kelda....

Well we've just paid the removal firm so feel as though finally it might just be happening, we might just get out of this rental property after all...Final check is tomorrow as they can't do next week so fingers crossed that they're happy with the condition we've left it in, though having to point out their mould and damp issues and the leak in the bathroom yet again won't be particulary pleasant.....

Will be taking photos anyway next week just to make sure...

Davesnave

NEH wrote: »

That would be like hoping Santa would visit....I've not come across many places that haven't need a full scale clean when entering...:p

Ours was an exception then. Two days cleaning and five sets of colour-coded keys, plus five pages of knowledge about the house, wiring diagrams, plumbing etc etc.

Best bit was the newspaper advert for the last house built in the road....... at an asking price of £2 200!:rotfl:

azkaban420

Congrats Kelda, Elona and Susie T - fantastic news!!

Az

jw2003

Great news on the completion :T

Our 'offerers' had their survey done today - I feel really anxious about it, so paranoid they are going to find something wrong and value it under our agreed price :undecided

And just HOW MANY forms do you get from the solicitor????

We only went on the market 2 weeks ago today, I'm freaking out a bit :eek::eek::eek::eek:

bigzippy

Well, it seems I've managed to stumble across you lot and I hope you don't mind me barging in?

It's technically my DH's & MILs house (they co-own, co-mortgage and co-home owner loan - which is a big part of why we're selling) that we're trying to sell, so in theory it's nothing to do with me....except things are never that cut and dry, are they?

Me and DH got married very nearly a year ago, his ma is no longer capable (physically) of living there really and so should be moving into sheltered accom....except she's not been offered anything yet, having been at Medical Priority 1 for about 6months now :shocked: The house needs selling to pay off some debts so me and DH can start (relatively) fresh, and MIL can be somewhere safe without stressing about money, debts and maintenance of the house.

So the house has now been on the market 24weeks, had over 300 viewings of the online details, but only 4 real life viewings arranged through EA and 1 arranged privately.

Only 1 of the EA arranged viewings seemed worthwhile imo, as the others cried off for reasons that should've been perfectly obvious from the details, esp with EA pointing it out. The last seemed really positive - picturing where she wanted things, pleased there was no lawns cos it'd be easier etc etc, and then EA came back with feedback contradicting what she'd said at the viewing! :mad:

Personally I don't think the EAs are much cop, and am pushing DH to change EA - he's got a valuation set up for tomorrow at 9am, but I want him to set up a few more. We had 3 diff EAs round in the beginning and DH/MIL went with the current one (in my mind because she suggested the highest price *sigh*), but I think it was a mistake. The pics aren't rubbish but aren't the best (not even opening the blinds! Altho I'm aware that's half DH's fault :cool:), and to add insult to injury they posted pics of a garden that doesn't belong to our house on the online brochure!! They're really hard to get hold of, don't return calls, have only sent out 19 lots of info on the house, and worse - are just snotty and rude imo. If they're like that to me, what are they like to prospective buyers??

Anyway, that's our story so far. This house sale is very important to us, as we need the proceeds not only to pay off debt, but to also stop us getting in worse debt paying debt-repayments we can't really afford...:(

NEH

Davesnave wrote: »

Ours was an exception then. Two days cleaning and five sets of colour-coded keys, plus five pages of knowledge about the house, wiring diagrams, plumbing etc etc.

Best bit was the newspaper advert for the last house built in the road....... at an asking price of £2 200!:rotfl:

Was that you that did that or they sellers? If it was you, i have some organisation issues that might interest you :rotfl:

Welcome bigzippy.....:hello:

I am presuming you are no longer in the initial contract period with the EA?

Davesnave

NEH wrote: »

Was that you that did that or they sellers? If it was you, i have some organisation issues that might interest you :rotfl:

Gracious, no, it was us. We never get service like that.

Luckily, at the new place we've met several people who did some work here, which is helpful as it's a much more complicated set-up. So at least we know where the septic tank outlets go, where the electric traverses the garden underground etc.

Not so good are the 100 fruit trees, of which we've ID'd only about half a dozen, and the spring, which was buried under about 50 tonnes of rubbish, disappeared over summer when we moved the stuff, and has now reappeared in a rather inconvenient place.:mad:

We've also acquired a map from Environmental Health to show where the dead horses are, but they are the least of our worries....:rotfl:

NEH

Davesnave wrote: »

Gracious, no, it was us. We never get service like that.

Luckily, at the new place we've met several people who did some work here, which is helpful as it's a much more complicated set-up. So at least we know where the septic tank outlets go, where the electric traverses the garden underground etc.

Not so good are the 100 fruit trees, of which we've ID'd only about half a dozen, and the spring, which was buried under about 50 tonnes of rubbish, disappeared over summer when we moved the stuff, and has now reappeared in a rather inconvenient place.:mad:

We've also acquired a map from Environmental Health to show where the dead horses are, but they are the least of our worries....:rotfl:

My word yours is an interesting life! :rotfl:

I am impressed at your effciency....We would clean a place before leaving as well but i'm not sure we'd go to your lengths...Though having said that we won't be cleaning this place as throughly as when we moved in as we only have one night and the place was in such a mess when we moved in we feel it's damn sight cleaner on a bad day here so if we leave it like it's on a good day to them it'll be beyond sparkling...:o

sonastin

When I moved out, I spent the whole time moaning about having to clean. I mean, the first thing the buyer is going to do it clean the place from top to bottom regardless of what state I leave it in so its basically a waste of someone's time!

But my mother gave me that look that I used to get as a teenager when I tried to get out of cleaning my bedroom and by the time the keys were handed over it was the cleanest it had been in the 8 years I'd owned the place

And I bet my buyer still turned up with the jif and the marigolds... :rotfl:

tiny_tear

myhouse wrote: »

Hope I don't sound too harsh here - I really have no idea of your house or location so could be far out, but to put your comments into other words it would read:
" I am willing to reduce my house price to the price it would have sold at during the recognised peak of the market 3 years ago (before the market dropped 15%), but not any less than that"

Doesn't sound to me like you just want to get rid of the flat.

I didn't have the numbers in front of me... and was writing in a bit of a hurry... Now I have the prices and what I meant was:

I bought in 2005 for x and since then added all new double glazing throughout and a new Vaillant boiler.

The price I want to sell at is 3.5k less than what a similar property sold in the block in August 2008 and 2k less than that property had sold before in September 2006

Does this seem more realistic now?