Buyer wants to meet us?

TBeckett100

Our buyer is coming back tomorrow to meet us. she lives a few hundred miles away and this will b his second viewing. The survey is booked for tomorrow morning (eek)

What do buyers normally ask. I never have any intention of meeting the people I am buying from.

getting nervous.

MobileSaver

TBeckett100 wrote: »

I never have any intention of meeting the people I am buying from.

I'm with you on this - I've bought and sold several houses over the years and have never met or wanted to meet either the buyers or sellers before.

Dvardy will be along shortly with a different viewpoint.

Another recent thread had a similar situation and the meeting went well for the seller.

sarah_elton

I like to meet the seller when I'm buying. I want to get a feel for whether they're serious about selling, why they're selling (one seller once told us a scabby run down house opposite was owned by a university and let to students who have parties!), how they get on with neighbours etc - all that kind of stuff that an EA can't tell you. I've met a couple of sellers who were blatantly lying through their teeth about things - put me straight off dealing with them. I want a genuine person who is serious about selling, knows what they're doing with the process and isn't going to mess me around.

sciencegeek

It could work out well for you....

I looked at a house and decided it was not for me. After several other houses fell through I went back to look at the first one again and this time was shown round by the vendors not the agents.
It made a world of difference, we found out so much more of the important information we wanted and made an offer.
I am currently living in the house I had originally discarded simply because of the vendors.

good luck.

clutton_2

why should you be nervous ? they are spending the most they have ever spent in their whole lives and want to know what sort of person they are dealing with....

its also an opportunity for YOU to see if they are going to mess you around.. so have some questions ready for them also...

N79

I always meet the sellers of propreties that I am buying and I have to travel thousands (not hundreds) of miles to do it. It is the only way to gauge if they are serious and to lay down my conditions for how I buy properties and to discuss their completion date requirements.

jockosjungle

They want to look around and meet you, ask any questions they may have and for you to answer them. Some people are really against it, not sure why. I met the person who we are buying ours from and they can tell you more about the area, what the neighbours are like, etc.

They can also see if you are likely to mess them around, are serious about selling, but you can do the same to them. If they have questions and an EA shows them round, the EA won't know and are not the sort of things you would ask in an e-mail to be passed to you. So when they ask about the boiler you can tell them, not get the EA to phone you to ask you and then pass a message on.

Probably cut a week out of the whole selling process

R

DVardysShadow

MobileSaver wrote: »

I'm with you on this - I've bought and sold several houses over the years and have never met or wanted to meet either the buyers or sellers before.

Dvardy will be along shortly with a different viewpoint.

Another recent thread had a similar situation and the meeting went well for the seller.

Covered in the referenced thread.:exclamati

9wizard9

It's a funny one, cos I'd never wanted to meet people I was buying from or selling to, but we've just spent a very pleasant evening at the house we've just exchanged on being given a garden tour by the vendor and chatting over a couple of glasses of wine.

Actually was very useful, as we've now got all sorts of details of who they've used to do work on the house, and recommendations of places/people to use for other stuff.

We've just told her that she's welcome to knock on the door next time she's in town to see what's happened to the garden. It's rather nice to be on good terms with the people you're doing these deals with, and it certainly helped the conveyancing process.

That said, if you really don't get on with the people, then maybe it's better to be a bit more distanced from them - after all, you don't want them calling and hassling you every time they find something wrong with the house!

LandyAndy

I've always met the people I am buying from/selling to. I can't imagine a transaction where you didn't know who you were dealing with.

QTPie

I agree that it COULD very well work in your favour...

We had an offer accepted on a property. When we went back with a builder (to get some quotes), the neighbour was there and did a LOT better job at "selling" her house (talking about what a happy family home it had been, talking about the neighbours, talking about the parties that they had had...): much better than the unknowledgable, pretty disinterested EA....

We had already had an offer accepted, but you get the picture....

So meeting potential buyers is an opportunity...

QT