Does anybody else think this is madness?

Fire_Fox

Fire_Fox wrote: »

What price you originally had the house up for is irrelevant as it didn't sell at that price! The house is now at £200K and you have been offered 5% less at £190K which seems pretty reasonable to me in this market? Agree the window concept is a bit strange.

Timalay wrote: »

Yes but when we had the house orginally at £220,000, the first viewer offered the full asking price. But that fell through due to certain reasons. Also this person is asking us to move out within a month.

As I said your house didn't sell at that price it went under offer: at an educated guess, the sale fell through because the purchaser couldn't raise the finance. If your house was worth £220K you would have had a sale complete at that price. :huh: It's nothing personal, I love period properties but we are in a recession.

Timalay

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

hmmm no upstairs bathroom - yes I'd have to say you're crazy not to take the offer after being on the market so long.

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There is a upstairs w/c which we fitted we brought, if we wher to have an upstair bathroom we would have to loose a bedroom.

ViolaLass wrote: »

Do you really want to risk losing a sale for £2k?

Yeah there's got to be a little bit of leway from both partys.

At the end of the we are not accepting to offer. I just wanted to ask if the window thing was a bit cheaky.

solodanceparty

I would never pay £200,000 for your house, £190,000 is a very good offer.

goldengirl28

i'm assuming that sudbury is an expensive part of the country as thats not a lot of house for the money...................

up ere (north) could get a 4 bed detached for that

trumpton

I'm always surprised when people say 'your house isn't worth xxx amount' - unless you know the local area very well it is near impossible to talk in anything other than averages and generalisations. In the current climate, people are always going to be a bit cheeky - which I think this viewer has been over the window

Timalay

trumpton wrote: »

I'm always surprised when people say 'your house isn't worth xxx amount' - unless you know the local area very well it is near impossible to talk in anything other than averages and generalisations. In the current climate, people are always going to be a bit cheeky - which I think this viewer has been over the window

Thank you, it's very hard house to value, because there is nothing in the area like it. She also wants us to knock down the green house (which is on missing a couple pains of glass).

jonewer

An offer of £190k on a £200k property is a very good offer.

I would grab it with both hands if I were you.

not_loaded

See post #3.

They sound like idiotic timewasters. Picking on a window and a greenhouse shows they have absolutely no idea about buying a house.

They are ‘sort of’ negotiating when they clearly know nothing of any use. If they were at all serious about buying, they’d know that they need to get an offer accepted and get on with a survey to know what is really important to the deal.

Not that you need to negotiate at all. Unless you’ve advertised it as ‘the perfect house – we’ll fix everything you request’. I doubt that!

pimento

They may be idiotic timewasters, but they're the only buyers the OP has at the moment.

I think they're trying to show you why the house isn't worth £200,000.

not_loaded

pimento wrote: »

They may be idiotic timewasters, but they're the only buyers the OP has at the moment.

I think they're trying to show you why the house isn't worth £200,000.

Timewasters are not buyers. Especially not this sort!