Seller speaking to Buyer in person

scw1

I know that the buyer of our property lives about a 5 min walk from where we are now although I dont know her. I also know from our sols and EA that she has a few queries. Would it be rude/silly/wrong for me to go and introduce myself and speak to her in person over the weekend to find out what the enquiries are, help as much as I can with anything else and basically try and hurry up the process as much as possible?

Any views?

Emmzi

Drop a note through the letterbox advising you're really pleased she is buying and are happy to answer questions - if lights are on pop round, or we are usually in between 7 and 8 of an eveing, etc. Then she knows she can if she wants but you arent being pushy.

chickmug

scw1 wrote: »

I know that the buyer of our property lives about a 5 min walk from where we are now although I dont know her. I also know from our sols and EA that she has a few queries. Would it be rude/silly/wrong for me to go and introduce myself and speak to her in person over the weekend to find out what the enquiries are, help as much as I can with anything else and basically try and hurry up the process as much as possible?

Any views?

Within the initial confirmation letters/memo of sale did that not have the buyers contact details/numbers?

We always put that in and left it to the buyer and sellers to play whichever way they wished. Some decided they would have dialogue throughout, some would rather not. Difficult if one side wanted to and not the other.

So my view is make contact and ask if they would be happy to have a direct communication both ways. Then you have to accept their answer. But where the parties do speak to each other I always found it DOES reduce the stresses throughout the legal process.

scw1

That sounds like a good idea Emzzi.

Chickmug - the memo of sale we initially had only had her name, but last week we had an updated one with her full address on it. No telephone numbers on either though.

I think I will drop a note through with our contact number and if she wishes to speak to us she can and if she wants to go via our sols/EA she can also do that.

Thanks both

PasturesNew

If it were me, while I'd appreciate you dropping a letter through the letterbox, I'd not want you knocking on the door without warning.

Any time is not a good time when one gets an unexpected knock at the door.

ruggedtoast

scw1 wrote: »

I know that the buyer of our property lives about a 5 min walk from where we are now although I dont know her. I also know from our sols and EA that she has a few queries. Would it be rude/silly/wrong for me to go and introduce myself and speak to her in person over the weekend to find out what the enquiries are, help as much as I can with anything else and basically try and hurry up the process as much as possible?

Any views?

Why do you want to do this; what are you paying your EA for?

Several of my buyers lived close to me, one turned out to be the son of my old boss who called me up at 8pm one night (must have got my number from the phone book), saying he'd spoken to my agent that day and proceeded to rabbit on at me for 10 minutes about why I should accept a low offer.

I listened politely and told him I'd discuss it with the agent and to please make future enquiries through them. I called the agent the next day and told her what had happened so she could follow it up, and that I in no way ever wanted to receive cold calls about my house from members of the public again.

I knew one nice guy down the road. I felt sorry for him when his offer was gazumped by someone else and glad that all the unpleasantness was dealt with by people who enjoy that sort of thing.

Stay away.

chickmug

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Why do you want to do this; what are you paying your EA for?

We saw our role as: -

1) Get a good buyer.

2) Make sure the sale went through by chasing up at all stages and ensuring issues were resolved.

3) Perhaps few agents realise this but we saw our role as someone to talk to when the going got tough for either the buyer or the seller. I repeat - when the buyer and sellers talked to each other it did usually reduce the stress considerably. However we urged the buyer and seller to let us know everything that was said between them. We did NOTsee it as as tactic to cut down our involvemnt/workload.

emmybrown1

I've just had an offer accepted on a house and felt it was good to build up a bit of a rapport with the seller. We had a face to face chat about our offer and left it with them. We then went through the agent to make an official offer.
They offered their phone number and answered all queries directly.

When you're talking about hundreds of thousands of pounds then whatever you can do to take the stress away - you should!

Though I do agree, the buyer should never try to push the seller to make a decision. Very rude.

Hippychick

We popped a note through our vendors door with our contact details on and our vendor has been texting us.

To be honest it has made the process a lot less stressful and has reduced the chinese whisper effect we would get if we went through agents/solicitors.

PasturesNew

You might regret giving them your mobile number .... they'll be texting you Xmas morning when the heating's not come on ... and all sorts of issues/problems re the house for the next 5 years.

poppysarah

PasturesNew wrote: »

You might regret giving them your mobile number .... they'll be texting you Xmas morning when the heating's not come on ... and all sorts of issues/problems re the house for the next 5 years.

My friend did this and the bloke who bought her house didn't stop pestering her with questions for months.