Dream house came up - but cannot buy due to my own fault

Seanymph

If you want this house you don't have the luxury of feeling guilty.

So, go see the EA, apologise and explain, and ask to view the house. They will warn the vendor about how you behaved, I would want my EA to warn me - and if I was selling I then wouldn't entertain you, but they will then have the choice.

It's not the EA's choice, it's the vendors choice.

clockworks_2

If I was the estate agent i wouldn't want to put my new clients through hell by exposing them to. Tmewaster.

There is no harm pulling out of a sale but to faff about drag your heels and put the other party through hell isn't fair. Then to back out by email is a little spineless.

BigTrouble_2

Thanks for everybody's views.

I guess I deserved the most recent posts although if we are talking about timewasting and imposing new legislation for the home buying then it should equally apply to home selling and home sellers.

My previous house purchase fell through and cost me thousands in money and God knows how many years of life. Our offer was accepted at 2% below the asking price, the EA kept saying that they want to sell very much. We instructed the solicitor and got the mortgage rolling (already had AIP by then). And then our landlord wanted us to sign a new 6-month tenancy -which we couldn't do because we were buying this house! So we were served with a notice - which was fine because we would have completed by then, as had been agreed with the seller. And then the seller pulled out - apparently he didn't have the job in place and wanted to wait with the sale until he got one.

So we, with two small children, were forced out of our home because the landlord had found new tenants by then, we had to go back into yet another rented (which I swore we would never do again!), had to shell out on agency fees, moving, had our rent increased by £300 pcm and the whole hassle of packing a 3-bed house and then unpacking it again.

Incidentally, it was again with the same EA. And FYI, they never bothered calling me and updating me on any change of the situtation - I called them and out of the blue got the news that the seller was not selling. So much for their reassurance of his commitment along the way. If they had been honest or at least more forthcoming in communication with me then we would have stayed in our home, saved money and our nerves, and would have bought that house because the seller then changed their mind again - but we were in no position to buy because we had already entered into a new 6-month AST.

I am not writing this to justify my own actions - but I too had a great deal of s**t and I had done nothing wrong. So although I do feel sorry for the EA for the failed sale it is nothing compared to what their previous client had put my family through.

InkZ

You've got nothing to loose by making an offer.