opinions please!!

BitterAndTwisted

Do absolutely nothing for the time being. Do not respond for at least 48 hours. You're playing poker here and you don't want to show your hand, do you?

baz01

ok, so 48 hours have passed. then what is the tactic?

money_saving_diva

It looks like you will have to carry on waiting and hope he gives in or give him the asking price. It looks to me like he will only take the asking price (but he sounds like he is hoping for more but I can't see how he will get that). It depends how much you want this house. I have put offers on houses because they were a good deal and not got them because we didn't want to go to the asking price. If you love a house you know what you are willing to pay and will pay it. You have to ask yourself do you want to pay the asking price now and start the ball rolling buying the property or can you leave a week/months while he sees if he can get more than your offer from someone else?

baz01

i can afford the asking price, as that is what i have budgeted to. he is being very optimistic in my eyes

Catblue

baz01 wrote: »

ok, so 48 hours have passed. then what is the tactic?

Reply stating that you don't want his furniture as you have your own, therefore he should consider selling the furniture privately.

Even if you don't have your own stuff you can buy other second hand stuff from eBay.

Sounds like he thinks his second hand furniture is worth a lot of money (it won't be), so take that out of the equation and see where you are.

Actually, reply to him asking him to put a figure on the furniture. When he responds with £10K or something ridiculous, then say that as you do not want to have the furniture, would he consider an offer of £10K off the asking price? This allows him to sell the furniture privately.

baz01

i see what you are getting at, but im pretty sure he wants to sell the furniture in with the house. its worth a shot i guess
thanks

Anew

It may be the case that the seller is one of potentially thousands of people like myself who often check these forums to keep up to date with housing rights etc but do not post very often....

If this is the case he may be sat at home reading this thread now knowing your postion exactly.

This is a public forum belonging to one of the most popular websites in the UK.... this game of poker that's being talked about is currently about as private as Big Brother eviction nominations! It's literally open to the world to see.

I could suggest now removing the above posts where you quote e-mails, remove any names and other bits that may relate to the sale. If he hasn't already seen this.... you might remove it in case he does?

On a more related note: best of luck with it, I was in your position 6 months ago, it worked out in the end and I got an offer accepted, but I now know that both the EA and the vendor were reading these forums.

baz01

to true

thanks for that

baz01

right, im going to ask the vendor just how much he is expecting to get for his house. as it looks as though hes wanting more than the asking price.

if he is wanting more than we can afford i will just leave it as we are looking at too other houses.

is this fround upon??

BitterAndTwisted

Baz, it's a ruddy poker game. You do not ask direct questions because you will never get a truthful answer. What the vendor wants is as much as possible and that figure is somewhere between what you've offered and the asking-price unless someone else comes along and offers more than that. I really don't think you're temperamentally suited to the house-buying process