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estate agents are crooks?

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  • Gwhiz
    Gwhiz Posts: 2,322 Forumite
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    Oh !!!!!! sunman - turn the record over!!!
  • sunman
    sunman Posts: 21 Forumite
    theartfullodger wrote: »
    Any comments? Well, spelling, syntax.... (Yup, that'll come back and bite me...)

    Just for info in 1976 I achieved Grade C English Language and Grade B English Literature .
    These days with E-mail text and SMS the art of Grammer etc has being lost , and yes I am guilty of such .
  • sunman
    sunman Posts: 21 Forumite
    Gwhiz wrote: »
    Oh !!!!!! sunman - turn the record over!!!

    What would you do Gwhiz ?
  • Gwhiz
    Gwhiz Posts: 2,322 Forumite
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    sunman wrote: »
    What would you do Gwhiz ?

    Stop bleating on and on and on! You're unhappy about something - so what?? Go change the law or stop whinging.
  • theartfullodger
    theartfullodger Posts: 15,709 Forumite
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    sunman wrote: »
    theartfullodger wrote: »
    Any comments? Well, spelling, syntax.... (Yup, that'll come back and bite me...)

    Just for info in 1976 I achieved Grade C English Language and Grade B English Literature .
    These days with E-mail text and SMS the art of Grammer etc has being lost , and yes I am guilty of such .


    Sigh!!!


    Cheers!

    Artful
  • sunman
    sunman Posts: 21 Forumite
    theartfullodger wrote: »
    sunman wrote: »


    Sigh!!!


    Cheers!

    Artful

    I had hoped you would have missed my mistake -yet another effect of not using a Pen or Pencil but a keyboard.:)
    I do find more spelling mistakes when typing compared to actual handwritten form.
  • theartfullodger
    theartfullodger Posts: 15,709 Forumite
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    sunman wrote: »
    theartfullodger wrote: »

    I had hoped you would have missed my mistake -yet another effect of not using a Pen or Pencil but a keyboard.:)
    I do find more spelling mistakes when typing compared to actual handwritten form.

    btw if you user Firefox as your browser under Ubuntu spellcheck comes as standard... (Typed from Windoze,,, as there's a couple of Windoze only things I need from time2time..)

    (Firefox/ubuntu is, IMHO, attractive because they are...
    a) Free [No, really, free as in free beer..]
    b) More secure that the Windoze alternatives..
    c) Usually, faster on the same hardware...)
  • mel19632
    mel19632 Posts: 647 Forumite
    Get a list from EA1, give it to EA2. If you don't and someone buys it from EA2 which EA1 showed round first, it is going to give you a big head ache as both agents will want their full commission. You're not going to change the law as the Foxtons case was a £35,000 fee for the agent so worth fighting, I am guessing you are not selling your £4m pad on Park Lane?
    You also leave yourself open that if EA2 see's someone on your list that has seen through EA1 and they want to come back to offer, EA2 will do everything to put them off offering and will slate your house to them. Estate Agents are aggressive, but they work in a very competitive industry so they have to be.
    Paying down the mortgage:
    At 1 October 2011: £226,000
    Currently: £224,499
    Aim: 85% LTV (£212,500)
    Paid £1,500
    Target remaining: 88.89%
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    sunman wrote: »
    Esate Agents are "crooks" for having section 18 clause of the 1979 EA Act included when the Act was prepared, clearly with EAs input .

    You don't really KNOW if any EAs were involved in the preparation of this legislation, do you.....?
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