UPDATED *its done!*Our buyer wants to bury their dead dog in our garden

Old_Git

post 65 tells it all
Originally Posted by TBeckett100 ( not Henpecked I )

Spoke to my EA who had spoken to the buyer this am to suggest she ask us. The buyer was ina right state. What the buyer hasnt told us is that she wants a headstone/cross type thing made up (when they move in of course) which is why the pond was ideal and the patio isnt.

I suppose the concrete layer underneath the pond wont be too thick to break up. Does anyone have a discount code for HSS Hire?

The front garden is too tiny and I am sure the buyers would object to it being buried under the for sale board.
Its a great wind up

clutton_2

whether it is true or not.... it has given many people MANY belly laughs over the last few weeks. and i for one have really enjoyed reading it and am still laughing at various bits....

if it is true ""surely you must see their side of things? " WHAT ?????

Henpecked/TBeckett whoever.... a seller, who does not have to cooperate with a buyer until contracts are signed, has gone out of his way to allow a "burial" and a "digging up" just to be nice and helpful - has had to suffer much family disruption along the way, as well as being left with a mucked up garden... just because he was doing a kindness

what could possibly be "THEIR" side of the story.... other than an apology for mucking them about

henpecked1

Old_Git wrote: »

post 65 tells it all
Originally Posted by TBeckett100 ( not Henpecked I )

Spoke to my EA who had spoken to the buyer this am to suggest she ask us. The buyer was ina right state. What the buyer hasnt told us is that she wants a headstone/cross type thing made up (when they move in of course) which is why the pond was ideal and the patio isnt.

I suppose the concrete layer underneath the pond wont be too thick to break up. Does anyone have a discount code for HSS Hire?

The front garden is too tiny and I am sure the buyers would object to it being buried under the for sale board.
Its a great wind up

i used the AE as i didnt want everyone knowing it was me going through this.

poet123

henpecked1 wrote: »

If it were wind up I would still have a buyer for the house, the garden would have a pond and we would be looking forward to our new purchase.

OH when she came home last night reckoned that the Jones' were trying to enter the spirit of this thread and wind me up like I did to them (they seemed a bit like that). She did not believe the dog was wrapped in clingfilm until I had to show her the three empty family sized long boxes of clingfilm sticking out of the recycling bin.
She knows I don't go in kinky stuff and wouldnt therefore buy the clingfilm for myself.

The reason I had my Cheese on Toast as I had deferred lunch when they were supposed to be coming round after midday. I got so hungry by mid afternoon, I had to eat as I get the shakes.

I did forget to mention in the war and peace that the Jones's were taking the dog to the vets to be cremated last night so they wont be reburying the dog but instead it will finally go where it should have gone in the first place.

So a message to the Jones's who will no doubt read this - thank you for wasting my time in these last weeks. You have left my garden in a right state and I will be speaking to my solicitor tomorrow. You could have offered to restore the garden to a clearer state than was left and not left it as pigs would have done after an or gy in a mudbath.

The moral in this saga is that you can often be too helpful and taken advantage of. Beware when you are selling. Stick to offering to leave the curtains or dildo rail.

Classic:rotfl::T

Errata

henpecked1 wrote: »

The moral in this saga is that you can often be too helpful and taken advantage of.

Even more classic

clutton_2

""The moral in this saga is that you can often be too helpful and taken advantage of.""

wouldn't you rather be kind and nice than a miserable grumpy old git.....

Old_Git

clutton wrote: »

""The moral in this saga is that you can often be too helpful and taken advantage of.""

wouldn't you rather be kind and nice than a miserable grumpy old git.....

me again:p

clutton_2

just because of our name.. that does not necessarily make you miserable... does it ?

Running_On_Empty

I was thinking earlier that Henpecked did very well to keep us all so amused - obviously not all of us as some here believed every twist of each more preposterous statement as it gradually enfolded.
But, takes all sorts and I know I certainly used to believe every word printed in the News of the World til I realised they recycled the stories on a biennial cycle.

Then, this morning our EA phoned, joy of joys there's a potential buyer desperate to view and to confirm, have we got a fish pond and are we chain free and do we have a shed and so on.
Yes, yes yes, come round anytime, most welcome and I'll get the kettle on for them. Biscuits, too.

So in they troop, Mr and his wife, stepdaughter and her OH. Can't say they're that interested in the house itself, more keen to get up the top of the garden to have a look at the fish pond.
Actually we have two fish ponds, upper and lower.
This is a good area, you know, never make do with one when you can have two of a thing.

They were quite impressed that there were two ponds and they asked if the smaller upper pond was large enough to take all the fish from the large lower pond.
Yes, whatever you wish, says I, if you buy the house it'll be yours and you can easily transfer fish from lower to upper, here's the net, let me demonstrate.
Have you ever tried to catch a tiddler with a child's net? I did my best and luckily caught one of the more prime specimens and plop it was quickly in its new home in small upper pond.

Later, after I'd dried off and changed my shoes, socks and Sunday best trousers for a dry clean pair and after a bit of this and that chitchat over a cuppa and nice hobnob or three, they then dropped what I can only describe as a bit of a bombshell.

To cut the story short, they've just been let down by a most unhelpful seller, they need to move like yesterday like you know, as the stepdaughter so ineloquently phrased it. Could we consider a very quick sale? Yes, how quick?

So here's the deal, they're offering us the full asking price, yes, I know, gobsmacking to quote someone who's obviously never passed an exam in their life, on condition we accept their very generous offer of a free round the world cruise while the paperwork goes through.

Immediately I wonder why they would do this for us, after all I'm not daft, but they are insistent they love the ponds, particularly the large lower pond, the house, the area and that they simply want to move in as soon as. The other seller, Mr Unhelpfulness by sound of him, got shirty over something unspecified and they pulled out of the deal just last week.

We've left it that we'll think it over... HAHA.. nothing to think about really and let them know Monday morning.

BTW, the cruise was won in a comp and Mr has no sealegs; he did look a bit queasy at the ponds come to think, and ship departs Southampton on Wednesday.

So, if you're still awake at the back, what do you think?

Is it a bit of a risk to give them the keys while we swan off round the Easter Islands and let them move in before the legals have been completed?

I don't want to start a new thread for this question as Henpecked did such a wonderful job of attracting a very wise circle of commentators and want to tap into your views here.

I promised Mr Jones that I'd be in touch tomorrow so soon as you can let me know your views, I'd be most grateful.

Old_Git

Running_On_Empty wrote: »

I was thinking earlier that Henpecked did very well to keep us all so amused - obviously not all of us as some here believed every twist of each more preposterous statement as it gradually enfolded.
But, takes all sorts and I know I certainly used to believe every word printed in the News of the World til I realised they recycled the stories on a biennial cycle.

Then, this morning our EA phoned, joy of joys there's a potential buyer desperate to view and to confirm, have we got a fish pond and are we chain free and do we have a shed and so on.
Yes, yes yes, come round anytime, most welcome and I'll get the kettle on for them. Biscuits, too.

So in they troop, Mr and his wife, stepdaughter and her OH. Can't say they're that interested in the house itself, more keen to get up the top of the garden to have a look at the fish pond.
Actually we have two fish ponds, upper and lower.
This is a good area, you know, never make do with one when you can have two of a thing.

They were quite impressed that there were two ponds and they asked if the smaller upper pond was large enough to take all the fish from the large lower pond.
Yes, whatever you wish, says I, if you buy the house it'll be yours and you can easily transfer fish from lower to upper, here's the net, let me demonstrate.
Have you ever tried to catch a tiddler with a child's net? I did my best and luckily caught one of the more prime specimens and plop it was quickly in its new home in small upper pond.

Later, after I'd dried off and changed my shoes, socks and Sunday best trousers for a dry clean pair and after a bit of this and that chitchat over a cuppa and nice hobnob or three, they then dropped what I can only describe as a bit of a bombshell.

To cut the story short, they've just been let down by a most unhelpful seller, they need to move like yesterday like you know, as the stepdaughter so ineloquently phrased it. Could we consider a very quick sale? Yes, how quick?

So here's the deal, they're offering us the full asking price, yes, I know, gobsmacking to quote someone who's obviously never passed an exam in their life, on condition we accept their very generous offer of a free round the world cruise while the paperwork goes through.

Immediately I wonder why they would do this for us, after all I'm not daft, but they are insistent they love the ponds, particularly the large lower pond, the house, the area and that they simply want to move in as soon as. The other seller, Mr Unhelpfulness by sound of him, got shirty over something unspecified and they pulled out of the deal just last week.

We've left it that we'll think it over... HAHA.. nothing to think about really and let them know Monday morning.

BTW, the cruise was won in a comp and Mr has no sealegs; he did look a bit queasy at the ponds come to think, and ship departs Southampton on Wednesday.

So, if you're still awake at the back, what do you think?

Is it a bit of a risk to give them the keys while we swan off round the Easter Islands and let them move in before the legals have been completed?

I don't want to start a new thread for this question as Henpecked did such a wonderful job of attracting a very wise circle of commentators and want to tap into your views here.

I promised Mr Jones that I'd be in touch tomorrow so soon as you can let me know your views, I'd be most grateful.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
you are lucky your EA works on a Sunday ,and to get the full asking price ,and a holiday .