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Blogging my Sale
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For no other reason than I am fed up and I can.
I first put my house on the market early June. I knew it might take up to 3 years to sell due to it's location. That is what happens with a lot of houses here, they sit on the market for years.
So, estate agent said £280k. So I said stick it on at £273k for a quicker sale.
Come the end of June I was made redundant so all of a sudden I was in the house in the day, but I would go out if the agent was doing a viewing.
Come July and I was working from home taking inbound sales calls, so unable to move from the house/room at all between 9-6. So the viewings went on around me.
For each viewing I would get 2 hours cleaning done. And then I couldn't eat until the viewing had been done. On a day with no viewings I wash up once a day at 6.30pm. Rest of the time I am working so tend to stack it up on the side and leave things out.
By the end of August, I reviewed things with the Agent and we dropped it to £267,500
But sometimes the agent wasn't turning up to do the viewings, so I was having to log off from my job to cart people round the house. Even a QUICK run around takes 45 minutes to get them round. I am feeling like I am a Visitor Attraction now! Guided Tours start on the hour every hour.
On one occasion the agent was late so I started doing the viewing. As I was showing her round the phone rang, it was the agents could they send somebody else immediately, I said "yes", started to continue with the viewing and the door went, it was the estate agent, let her in, she took over the viewing. 10 minutes later she was leaving and the next viewer was at the door - but I had to do that viewing as the agent had left with the 1st set of people to take them somewhere else.
So I am feeling they are taking the !!!! a bit (LOT)
The estate agent isn't pre-qualifying viewers and their staff showing viewers round are, to be quite honest, the cheapest that minimum wage could buy them
They just show people round. They have watched me do the guided tour at least 5 times now and are still crap on the details. They don't try to sell the property, they just show people round.
Now it's early November and I've had about 25 viewings. 2 rubbish offers (they offered £250k based solely on the stamp duty threshold and nothing to do with the fact the house is bigger/better/has more facilities than those on AT £249,999) so I've said no.
2 viewings yesterday, but I think the 2nd one might actually want it.
So I will update this now as I get: new viewings, offers, annoyances ... and this blog may go on for another 2.5 years !
I first put my house on the market early June. I knew it might take up to 3 years to sell due to it's location. That is what happens with a lot of houses here, they sit on the market for years.
So, estate agent said £280k. So I said stick it on at £273k for a quicker sale.
Come the end of June I was made redundant so all of a sudden I was in the house in the day, but I would go out if the agent was doing a viewing.
Come July and I was working from home taking inbound sales calls, so unable to move from the house/room at all between 9-6. So the viewings went on around me.
For each viewing I would get 2 hours cleaning done. And then I couldn't eat until the viewing had been done. On a day with no viewings I wash up once a day at 6.30pm. Rest of the time I am working so tend to stack it up on the side and leave things out.
By the end of August, I reviewed things with the Agent and we dropped it to £267,500
But sometimes the agent wasn't turning up to do the viewings, so I was having to log off from my job to cart people round the house. Even a QUICK run around takes 45 minutes to get them round. I am feeling like I am a Visitor Attraction now! Guided Tours start on the hour every hour.
On one occasion the agent was late so I started doing the viewing. As I was showing her round the phone rang, it was the agents could they send somebody else immediately, I said "yes", started to continue with the viewing and the door went, it was the estate agent, let her in, she took over the viewing. 10 minutes later she was leaving and the next viewer was at the door - but I had to do that viewing as the agent had left with the 1st set of people to take them somewhere else.
So I am feeling they are taking the !!!! a bit (LOT)
The estate agent isn't pre-qualifying viewers and their staff showing viewers round are, to be quite honest, the cheapest that minimum wage could buy them
They just show people round. They have watched me do the guided tour at least 5 times now and are still crap on the details. They don't try to sell the property, they just show people round.
Now it's early November and I've had about 25 viewings. 2 rubbish offers (they offered £250k based solely on the stamp duty threshold and nothing to do with the fact the house is bigger/better/has more facilities than those on AT £249,999) so I've said no.
2 viewings yesterday, but I think the 2nd one might actually want it.
So I will update this now as I get: new viewings, offers, annoyances ... and this blog may go on for another 2.5 years !
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Comments
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Sorry to hear your problems. Sounds like you should switch agents. Why is it that properties take so long to sell in your area? DO you have a link to your house so that we can try to help?Pawpurrs x
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Crikey - must be really unique if you think it will take 3 years to sell! Have you got it on with a "specialist" agent? (ie, an agent specialising in equestrian facilities or acres of land?)....I am presuming here that you have quite a bit of land to spend that amount of time showing them around? We bought our house from an agent specialising in rural locations...the vendor had it on with a normal high st agent to start with and didn't have much luck. It only has a little bit of land, but still an "out of the ordinary" plot for the area. Apparantly once he changed agents the viewings came flooding in. Of course, made a difference viewing this sort of property in the summertime when everything green and lovely and sunny outside. Have you thought about waiting till next year?
Like you say your 2nd viewing might come of something so you never know. Good luck! x0 -
House is in Newquay, Cornwall. So very very seasonal.And having 6 bedrooms and 2 planning permissions (loft and new build annexe 2-storey) it is a very particular person that it would appeal to
I've had over 25 viewings, so the problem isn't interest. People are saying house is too big or not quite what they want. Viewers so far have been: local developers or people from London
No land. But by the time I've taken them round the
1st floor: 4 bedrooms, shower room
Loft: what's there now, discuss the planning
Ground: 2 bedrooms, living, kitchen, bathroom, utility
Exterior: parking, garage, workshop
New Build: discuss the plans
Time's flown by
No link, I'm shy 0 -
i dont think EA are allowed to hard sell now are they?0
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Well, they could at least point out the benefits of the house for the needs of the people viewing.
Or pointing out features/fittings.
I start each viewing by asking them what they want to do with the house. And then dependent on their answer I point out different things.
Viewers are:
- developers wanting a HMO
- developers thinking they might split it into 3 flats and a house
- live in it, rent some out (lodgers)
- live in it, split it into 2/2 properties
Different things are important/not important to discuss/show each group0 -
Blog My Sale Update: Monday 12 November: Estate agent phoned and left message on my answerphone
Neither viewer wanted to buy it
1st said it was too big and was looking now for a smaller house
2nd said it wasn't what he was looking for
Double bloody annoyance now. Took me 2 hours to tidy through for the first viewing, 1.5 hours doing the 2 viewings - and had to sit arond for 4 hours between viewings.
Wednesday now and no more viewings yet0 -
Why don't you do the viewing?0
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Chin up, you'd have to tidy up and wash up sometime anyway! But it sounds as if the Estate Agent's description is not realistic enough, so attracting indiscriminate viewers (or ones who, having made a long journey to the area, just want to see everything available). Perhaps you should charge an admission fee!0
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Why don't you offer to pay the stamp duty above 1%? Might make it a more attractive prospect to buyers....0
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Actually this show stamp duty for the nonsence it is, it really is about time this stepped in thresholds without being retrospective.0
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