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Some sellers are strange !
mi-key
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Went to view a house we are interested in yesterday - was a decent size, but had obviously been DIY decorated, and not that well ( most of the walls had dents and knocks in them, a lot of cracking of the plaster around the window frames on the front etc... ) paint from the walls on the skirting boards and window frames, so really needed a bit of work doing to get it looking decent, although not too much.
Also had exposed floorboards upstairs - but its a fairly modern house, so they just looked like the owner couldnt afford carpets rather than proper exposed wide boards like you get in an older house, plus half the boards hads screws all over them where the owner had presumably tried to repair squeaks or loose boards badly.
Garden was also a bit odd as most of it was at around 30 angle !
But apart from that was quite nice, good size, nice location, just looking a bit tatty around the edges.
Was on at £185K, which is around £3K more than the asking price for similar sized and located houses in the area, and for £10K more you start getting into the prices of 4 bedroom houses with conservatories and bigger drives and gardens ( this was a 3 bed with a drive you could only get 1 car on, although it could have been extended to get 2 on there ).
After we finished looking, the agent then told us 'the sellers arent willing to accept any offers, they'll only sell for the full asking price'
Is it just me thinks this is weird ( and quite optomistic ) ? - most sellers would expect a buyer to knock them down a bit and make a lower offer, especially if the house wasnt in A1 condition, and is priced more than similar ones - so why advertise your house at exactly what you want for it ???
The agent did say the seller had someone who 'definitely wanted to buy at the full price' - as long as he could sell his house for enough !
Needless to say we walked away and said we werent interested unless the seller reduced to take into account the condition - to me it was worth around £175K which would have been an OK buy, possibly £177K if I'd really wanted it.
Wont surprise me at all if its still on the market in a month or twos time
Also had exposed floorboards upstairs - but its a fairly modern house, so they just looked like the owner couldnt afford carpets rather than proper exposed wide boards like you get in an older house, plus half the boards hads screws all over them where the owner had presumably tried to repair squeaks or loose boards badly.
Garden was also a bit odd as most of it was at around 30 angle !
But apart from that was quite nice, good size, nice location, just looking a bit tatty around the edges.
Was on at £185K, which is around £3K more than the asking price for similar sized and located houses in the area, and for £10K more you start getting into the prices of 4 bedroom houses with conservatories and bigger drives and gardens ( this was a 3 bed with a drive you could only get 1 car on, although it could have been extended to get 2 on there ).
After we finished looking, the agent then told us 'the sellers arent willing to accept any offers, they'll only sell for the full asking price'
Is it just me thinks this is weird ( and quite optomistic ) ? - most sellers would expect a buyer to knock them down a bit and make a lower offer, especially if the house wasnt in A1 condition, and is priced more than similar ones - so why advertise your house at exactly what you want for it ???
The agent did say the seller had someone who 'definitely wanted to buy at the full price' - as long as he could sell his house for enough !
Needless to say we walked away and said we werent interested unless the seller reduced to take into account the condition - to me it was worth around £175K which would have been an OK buy, possibly £177K if I'd really wanted it.
Wont surprise me at all if its still on the market in a month or twos time
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....or they've been forced into the situation of accepting offers!
As they say in Yorkshire, "There's nowt so queer as folk!!!""Some say the cup is half empty, while others say it is half full. However, this is skirting around the issue. The real problem is that the cup is too big."0 -
The only thing I did think was : both the owners were pretty young ( I'd guess mid 20's ) and they had a Lotus in the garage, a Jetski, big plasma TV etc... - they said they had been there for 4 years, in which case they would have paid around £105K maximum for it - if all their fancy toys have been paid for from borrowing against the equity from the house, then maybe they dont have much left, and cant afford to move unless they get the full asking price ?
If its still on the market in a couple of months and we havent found somewhere, I might just offer them £160K just to annoy them !0 -
you can find out what they paid for it on https://www.rightmove.co.uk - extreme to right, "sold prices" !!!0
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