Has anyone used companies such as National Homebuyers

Milliewilly

seasidepom wrote: »

I wish I had read the posts on here and on other sites before I had instructed National Homebuyers. Having lost my original buyer and wanting to proceed with my purchase, I canvassed them and they said they would offer me between £81k and £104k (my property was on the market at £109k) so I paid their valuation fee. They came back with an offer of £70k. I was very angry but desperate to move, so I managed to talk them up to £73k, negotiated a higher mortgage with my bank and waited for things to happen. NH have now told me that they are reducing their offer to £55k because there is no parking and the area is prone to being noisy at night! I told them about the parking initially so they should have taken that into consideration at the outset and as for the noise....?? There is no way I can borrow ANOTHER £18k, I simply wouldn't be able to pay for food, bills, petrol..... Is there no law that governs this sort of practice? I would definitely advise anyone against paying a valuation fee to these money grabbing, swindling, manipulative cheats (as strong as I can make it without swearing). They hassled me and hassled me to let them quote on my property and eventually tempted me in with a half price valuation. That's still £250 of my money that I needn't have spent. :mad:

Did you try it with an EA at say £80K?

poppy10_2

maninthestreet wrote: »

This is nornally what does indeed happen - they make you an offer, you accept it, then they suddenly drop the offer close to exchange, leaving you either to withdraw from the sale losing your £250, or accepting their joke of an offer.

Yep, happens over and over. Amazed people still fall for these scam artists.

Milliewilly

I did an online quote for mine for comedy value last year and they wouldn't stop ringing me.

Its like anything - if you are desperate they will cash in on you.

I would go down the Auction route first. Even if it doesn't sell you only pay the catalogue fee of a few hundred - on a par with these 'valuation' fees and with a reserve in the region of what National Homebuyers would offer you are sure to get a bite.

DuDeXsNaVe

CloudCuckooLand wrote: »

Would love to see what the Data Protection Registrar has to say about them accessing their "automated offer system", in order to publish personal details on a public website...

an automated offer system is just that, please do research first. user seasidepom openly stated her house is worth 106k just use our automated system on our website and enter the value of 106k and thats the figure you will get no need for any other details so please tell me how that is against data protection. I really wish people would get the facts correct before posting on these forums, And the quote about Grandmother and boat is an actual quote from a customer whom we got permission to reproduce.

If you dont like somthing dont use it, but dont spread unresearched, factless gobble.

Bermuda_John

coming on a public website to justify your actions/ slate a customers (using their proper name) is shocking.

I bet on you claim to offer a "discrete" service with confidentiality being one of your selling points ......... seems not be the case does it!!

ALSO I WOULD NEVER USE A WEBSITE THAT CANT SPELL PROPERLY >>>>

a fast and hassel free sale of your property.

You have been shown up as very unprofessional, operating some sort of amateur operation.

DPJames

National Homebuyers :rotfl: