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help!! estate agent fee
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Cheers Going To Try And Convince My Partner To Pull Out.0
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And To Everyone Who Got A Bit Harsh I Was Just Looking For Some Advice. No Need To Get All 'screeming Villagers With Pitch Forks' About It.0
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zipwen1 wrote:And To Everyone Who Got A Bit Harsh I Was Just Looking For Some Advice. No Need To Get All 'screeming Villagers With Pitch Forks' About It.
brilliant...by harsh do you mean "didn't agree 100% with you"?
*puts witch on ducking stool.....forces ogre to leave town*0 -
Hey zipwen.....I realise the housing market and especially dealing with EA's can all be a bit daunting when you do it for the first time, but it's unfair for you to call anyone "harsh" on here for their comments. The info and advice you've been given has been absolutely spot on and you'd do well to heed it.
The only way to avoid EA fees is to do what I did......market your property through an online website (for all of £99) and put the word out as much as possible.......I got my asking price and saved about £5K in fees.
If you can't afford to move in your current position, maybe you should seriously consider pulling out and re-thinking your strategy.
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zipwen1 wrote:And To Everyone Who Got A Bit Harsh I Was Just Looking For Some Advice. No Need To Get All 'screeming Villagers With Pitch Forks' About It.
Nobody is being harsh, just giving it to you straight as it is. Pointless being anything other than completely honest and realistic without setting false expectation.0 -
had recent dealings with reeds rains in wigan lancshire, they are scheming,lying a**holes, i wouldnt recommend reedsrains at all.0
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mr.broderick wrote:had recent dealings with reeds rains in wigan lancshire, they are scheming,lying a**holes, i wouldnt recommend reedsrains at all.
*cough* they're estate agents - what were you expecting?
Is "libellous" the word i'm looking for? :eek:Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery0 -
Zipwin, I'm sorry, but bottom line is that the fee is payable for introducing a buyer, and that is what they have done. Your agents are complete !!!!!! and have really messed you around, but from your previous long thread on this everyone, including me (twice) screamed at you to ditch this sale and ditch this agent, but as you say your OH wouldn't. So the only person responsible is your OH. The property wasn't badly overvalued, again from your other thread you clearly have accepted less than the property was worth.
No one is forcing you to make this bad sale using this crooked agent other than you and your OH.I am a Mortgage Adviser
You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice.0 -
im paying them this thread was over with a long time ago. thanks for all comments anyway. and to anyone who is selling dont presume that your EA is working with your best interests in mind, they are working for themselves and dont care what they have to do to get paid. and if your instinct tell you something is not right go with it, dont hang around get rid and find someone else.
also with regards to reeds rains, our EA that we are buying through has made a complaint about them, i dont know what it is she has complained about, but she has mentioned to us that they are totaly sh*t and havent got a clue (her words she sounded very frustrated)0 -
I think reedsrains are a member of the OEA scheme, kind of ombudsman for estate agents so a complaint will have to be acknowledged. Its time estate agents were totally regulated, amazing that an industry as big as this with peoples lives at stake isn't..0
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