Sell your house at Tesco for £200!!

bigheadxx

googler wrote: »

So you admit that you're just making this up, with NO real knowledge of what rates the newspapers charge the EAs, NO real knowledge of how those rates compare with what they were in 2000, and - what precisely is the "cost of putting together details of individual houses", and why should it be cheaper than in 2000?

3 hours work? £10 p/h
Ink and paper 10p?

Its certainly not £2000 or £4000 is it?

googler

I sorta was hoping you would explain what you meant by it, rather than tell me how much you thought it cost......

adg1

bigheadxx wrote: »

What I object to is a "professional" Estate Agent producing poor quality sales particulars, that I could write better myself, telling me that he is the only person who can sell my house and then charging £2000 plus for it.
(I havent recently sold a house BTW)

Firstly, you can get them to take more pictures! You don't have to accept their brochure and you can tell them to rewrite your blurb! They work for YOU. Though you haven't sold a house recently (ever?) so wouldn't have gone through the processes granted.

With the internet such a powerful tool in marketing a house now surely an EA who employs a professional photographer is a must? Shop around, look at their details. Most are terrible but some really do cut the mustard.

bigheadxx wrote: »

I agree that most buyers prefer to go through an agent and that selling a house privately is difficult but this will change as people realise that the service they receive is poor value in terms of what they get for it.

If the owner writes their own listings, takes their own pictures etc, how will the property misdescriptions act affect them? Would they be subject to the same punishments as a naughty EA? That would be great wouldn't it - embelish the truth to get a few responses and end up in jail. I can't see Tesco taking any responibility for the actual listing if they leave it to the individual vendors.

jeffmasson

if like me you are selling at the bottom end of the maket its got to be a good thing. my ea did not do anything i had to show the buyer around 3 times plus the suvayer.

i would not let the ea show it when i was out as when i been to look at place they just let you wonder around and dont keep a eye on you you could seal anything ect.

if you are selling a 1/2mill pound house then the ea may be great but not a 150k house you get the new boy fresh out of school or the house wife (no ofence ment to house wifes) doing it at a part time saturday job. the only real prob is you can't check them out with a FA but you can just do like fox and sons keep it on the market till your convancer get the morgage offfer from them. even if it just makes the ea start to do there jobs in fear of losing buisness its good.

jeffmasson

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If the owner writes their own listings, takes their own pictures etc, how will the property misdescriptions act affect them? Would they be subject to the same punishments as a naughty EA? That would be great wouldn't it - embelish the truth to get a few responses and end up in jail. I can't see Tesco taking any responibility for the actual listing if they leave it to the individual vendors.[/QUOTE]

you would just put the same stuff at the bottom in small print like the ea's i can no longer count the number of lie i have seen in details the one i had the other day was new fitted kitshen. we go to look at the place and i ask where the got it from incase i wanted to buy any extra stuff the buyer say err err i dont know we only changed the work top.:mad:

googler

adg1 wrote: »

If the owner writes their own listings, takes their own pictures etc, how will the property misdescriptions act affect them? Would they be subject to the same punishments as a naughty EA? That would be great wouldn't it - embelish the truth to get a few responses and end up in jail. I can't see Tesco taking any responibility for the actual listing if they leave it to the individual vendors.

Which is precisely why Rightmove don't accept ads from private sellers, and why Tesco had to withdraw their previous offering - and why this time round, they're sending 'trained valuers' to every house that gets signed up.

googler

jeffmasson wrote: »

you would just put the same stuff at the bottom in small print like the ea's i can no longer count the number of lie i have seen in details the one i had the other day was new fitted kitshen. we go to look at the place and i ask where the got it from incase i wanted to buy any extra stuff the buyer say err err i dont know we only changed the work top.:mad:

So, was that a mistake or a lie ...?

At the end of the day, the owner/seller should be approving the description before the EA goes live with it.

And who's likely to have give the EA the impression it was a new fitted kitchen in the first place, if not the seller?

jeffmasson

googler wrote: »

So, was that a mistake or a lie ...?

At the end of the day, the owner/seller should be approving the description before the EA goes live with it.

And who's likely to have give the EA the impression it was a new fitted kitchen in the first place, if not the seller?

the point i am making is you can't go to prison for making a mistake or even lieing as you would have the same get out of jail free card at the bottom like the ea's tesco would tell you to add it or do it for you in there t & c's

THESE PARTICULARS ARE ISSUED IN GOOD FAITH BUT DO NOT CONSTITUTE REPRESENTATIONS OF FACT OR FORM PART OF ANY OFFER OR CONTRACT. THE MATTERS REFERRED TO IN THESE PARTICULARS SHOULD BE INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED BY PROSPECTIVE BUYERS OR TENANTS. NEITHER XXXXXX LIMITED NOR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS HAS ANY AUTHORITY TO MAKE OR GIVE ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY WHATEVER IN RELATION TO THIS PROPERTY

if you meet this ea you would know he is a lier he tried a few trick on us

phead

adg1 wrote: »

If the owner writes their own listings, takes their own pictures etc, how will the property misdescriptions act affect them? Would they be subject to the same punishments as a naughty EA? That would be great wouldn't it - embelish the truth to get a few responses and end up in jail. I can't see Tesco taking any responibility for the actual listing if they leave it to the individual vendors.

Jail, :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You mean a small fine, and given the very low number of prosecutions there is almost zero chance of that happening.

Any fool can be an estate agent, all you need is a shiny suit.

MissMotivation

Did you not know that every estate agent in every area of every country, man OR woman, wears a shiny suit and is a fool?

Great helpful post there phead :rotfl: