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

Fortheloveofmoney

pawpurrs wrote: »

Thank you everyone for your kind words, and support over the last year, you really have helped me stop goin insane, to all of those of you left to sell, I hope your Journey is an easier one than mine!
I am moving this weekend :eek:
But dont actually complete untill next week, Thursday in actual fact.

Now for the next drama, we are renting off friends who we know are in debt.......wait for the repocesion! :eek:

Blimey you don't make things easy for yourself do you? :rotfl: Good luck with the move.

I've just accepted a full asking price offer on my house. Fingers crossed it goes through ok

clare1662

Hi everyone, it's been really interesting reading your selling stories!

We're about to embark on doing up the house a bit because we'd like to put it on the market in about a year's time. We've got a few problems to sort out (damp, dodgy plaster, etc) before we can even redecorate.

Just wondering how much you each did to your houses before trying to sell, and especially those who've sold, was it worth it??????

I haven't done this before - it's all a bit daunting.

Davesnave

clare1662 wrote: »

Just wondering how much you each did to your houses before trying to sell, and especially those who've sold, was it worth it??????

I haven't done this before - it's all a bit daunting.

Hi Clare. Pawpurrs is probably 'otherwise engaged' at the moment, (I know I would be!) so I'll welcome you onto this thread. I really have no right to be here, having sold ages ago, but I keep hanging around!

I think the general advice here would be to simply rectify any cosmetic shortcomings with your house, but no 'major surgery,' like a kitchen refit, as you won't see your money back. The aim should be to make the house easier to sell and that's all.

Decluttering, but without removing all the character from your house, is also something to consider. The question is, can your loft take it all? I know mine didn't!;)

I don't think I'll go into the story of how our 'prudent' chimney rebuild cost us tens of £k. You are going to be selling in a flattish market, I reckon, not a plunging one, so stories about what happened just before Northern Rock are, hopefully, irrelevant now.:D

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ukmaggie45

Dear Pawpurrs, I'm so happy for you. Hope that you are having a celebratory evening! Best wishes and thanks for the thread - which I hope keeps going as we may be joining it again in the not too distant future!

not_loaded

clare1662 wrote: »

Hi everyone, it's been really interesting reading your selling stories!
We're about to embark on doing up the house a bit because we'd like to put it on the market in about a year's time. We've got a few problems to sort out (damp, dodgy plaster, etc) before we can even redecorate.
Just wondering how much you each did to your houses before trying to sell, and especially those who've sold, was it worth it??????
I haven't done this before - it's all a bit daunting.

Davesnave’s advice to rectify any cosmetic shortcomings with your house is good, and I’d agree with no 'major surgery,' like a kitchen refit, but, if you have anything that is really shabby (possibly the kitchen) then it should be rectified.

If you show viewers a disastrous kitchen or bathroom they’ll deduct thousands rather than hundreds and often you could rectify for the hundreds. Ask friends what they think if you have a shabby room. As an example, we had friends with a horrible dark wood kitchen. They spent just days cleaning sanding and painting the doors and drawer fronts, and it really looked a treat.

Decluttering is important in order to show how big each room really is. Clear floors make a big difference. Also clutter says ‘we ain’t got enough storage space’.

You mention damp and dodgy plaster. If you get the damp treated properly it will cost good money but you’ll also get a certificate or a guarantee to show for it. It’s hard to say if you’ll get your money back on that, you’ll have to decide how far to go.

Dodgy plaster is a bit daunting. I’d get two or three quotes for sorting it out. Remember that when you sell you are not selling on the basis of ‘here’s a perfect house with absolutely no faults’.

ShelleyC_2

pawpurrs wrote: »

Well.............. Drumroll please we have EXCHANGED! :T

Bullied about completion dates untill the end, but hey in the end I thought this could go on for days and you know what I would rarther just exchange! Wooohooo, cant believe it, what a year of stress!

Such brilliant news:T:j:T

Hope you are well and truly sloshed now whilst packing boxes :rotfl:

thifty

:j:j:jSooo pleased for you Pawpurrs:j:j:j
Here's to your future which can now begin!:beer:

shirlgirl2004

Congratulations PP. Hope you can find the time to still pop in even though you'll be busy packing and moving.

pawpurrs

Awwwwwwww shucks!
Thanks again, I cant really believe it to be honest, its been such a rollercoaster, and I cant believe I am on my way back to the Village and community that I love, I love this house, but its not been a happy home, there is no community at all here, and I really missed that. But it made me realise how special the village I left was. I will be renting there off an old neighbour, and so I know all the neighbours well allready, and after the crap ones here, thats a result for me. Hopefully in a year or so, Dh will be sorted and we can buy again, although not much comes up in the village which is the only reason we moved from it, we didnt want to, but wanted more space, and we only like own builds or period, and fell in love with the house, but knew it was a mistake to leave the village.
Getting excited! Nearly packed up now! :T

Clare.....agree with the sentiments allready posted really.

I,_Geek

not_loaded wrote: »

I think it’s a mistake to think that in a slow market you just reduce the price until you start to get viewings. If the viewers/buyers able to proceed aren’t there, then they just aren’t there.

My OH and I have come to this conclusion - not that we expected as many viewings as in 2007. We could reduce by another 10k but that would be rock-bottom for us and it limits where we can buy/what we can do to the next house. Considered dropping by 5k but wonder if that will make any difference. Our EAs said there were buyers out there but I suspect there aren't. Either that or they all want brand-spanking-new flats.

OH is getting on to the EA today to ask for the harsh truth - not the sales pitch we got before signing up about how things were picking up.