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

Davesnave

NEH wrote: »

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...

You would if the buyer worked at the place where you'd spent the last 30 years building some kind of a decent reputation!

NEH

Davesnave wrote: »

You would if the buyer worked at the place where you'd spent the last 30 years building some kind of a decent reputation!

I can imagine that would be awkward

Well i'm just debating this tipping lark for the removal men.

We're going to provide endless cups of tea, cold drinks, biccies and cake but that's really as far as we can go, we just don't have the extra £30/£40 to tip them all.....

Hmm decisions, decisions...

harz99

NEH wrote: »

I can imagine that would be awkward

Well i'm just debating this tipping lark for the removal men.

We're going to provide endless cups of tea, cold drinks, biccies and cake but that's really as far as we can go, we just don't have the extra £30/£40 to tip them all.....

Hmm decisions, decisions...

A tip!!!!!

By all means supply refreshments, especially if they are helpful and do the job as you request; but a tip for doing the job they are employed and paid to do - absolutely not!

This is the UK, not America.:eek:

Squish_21

We have decided to drop the price of our flat in an attempt to try and get it sold before the end of the year.

I dont hold out too much hope though, will probably still be here for Xmas but hey.

NEH

harz99 wrote: »

A tip!!!!!

By all means supply refreshments, especially if they are helpful and do the job as you request; but a tip for doing the job they are employed and paid to do - absolutely not!

This is the UK, not America.:eek:

Well that's our debate, why really should we, my hubby goes away tomorrow to work in a dangerous environment wth 12 hour shifts and he doesn't get a tip for doing it, ok he's better paid but still...

I've started another thread about it to gauge what other people have done and some have tipped £50-£60 :eek: to be divided between 3.....The removal cost alone is crippling...

WheelieWood

A neighbour confessed to us today that she'd phoned our EA to see what our house was on the market for. Her story was that she'd like her mother to move closer to her - whether that's true or not isn't a big deal.

What is a big deal is that she was apparently told not to bother with our house but to take a look at one round the corner instead as it was much better! :mad:

The other house was sold (by the same EA) as a fixer-upper earlier this year and is now back on the market for 42K more (12K more than us). Admittedly whoever bought it has done a lovely job, knocking the kitchen and dining room together and converting the roofspace, so its now a 4 bed, but that's hardly the point.

Its made me question whether or not the EA has a vested interest in this property because the difference in price would mean peanuts in commission terms. Why else would they push someone towards it, rather than suggesting viewing both?

To be fair this is probably just the action of one individual in the EA's office, but its just reaffirmed my already low opinion of Estate Agents.

kymie

Davesnave - I really am waiting for the book!! The snippets of your process have sounded so intriguing!!!

JustKeepSwimming_2

elona wrote: »

This may be a very obvious point but any change in your house price makes it come up on Rightmove as if it is a new property on the market. We just reduced £5000 on relative's bungalow and it now pops up as if it had just come on the market. When compared to other bungalows in the same town it is now the cheapest as the two very cheapest ones have sold recently. Fingers crossed for us all.:j

Does this happen with Property Bee? I would imagine that the previous price & subsequent price/details changes would show up to anyone using Property Bee.

Sorry to crash this thread, but I'm thinking of moving soon & am already dreading it....

harz99

WheelieWood wrote: »

A neighbour confessed to us today that she'd phoned our EA to see what our house was on the market for. Her story was that she'd like her mother to move closer to her - whether that's true or not isn't a big deal.

What is a big deal is that she was apparently told not to bother with our house but to take a look at one round the corner instead as it was much better! :mad:

The other house was sold (by the same EA) as a fixer-upper earlier this year and is now back on the market for 42K more (12K more than us). Admittedly whoever bought it has done a lovely job, knocking the kitchen and dining room together and converting the roofspace, so its now a 4 bed, but that's hardly the point.

Its made me question whether or not the EA has a vested interest in this property because the difference in price would mean peanuts in commission terms. Why else would they push someone towards it, rather than suggesting viewing both?

To be fair this is probably just the action of one individual in the EA's office, but its just reaffirmed my already low opinion of Estate Agents.

The individual EA may be on a personal commission over and above the EA company commission to sell the house concerned.

Davesnave

kymie wrote: »

Davesnave - I really am waiting for the book!! The snippets of your process have sounded so intriguing!!!

No blooming time to write a book, but I will PM you my Photobucket pages, which are shared with a few others on another forum.

Hope it's all going well for you now. Some of us 'old timers' really went through it, didn't we! Still, I suppose we prove there is a life after selling..........:)