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To all who have responded, many thanks for your opinions - even those I don't necessarily understand or agree with - I won't quote or we will be here forever.
I am an average, married 39 year old woman who has had her fair share of knocks in my life - even been a copper for 7 years so I think I'm fairly clued up on the good and bad in all.
I have bought and sold a number of times since I entered the 'property ladder' and have been guzzumped by a seller once who demanded more money two days before exchange - so I had to pull out as I was financially unable to pay more and also had to let my buyers down. So, yes, I've been there too.
I am not surprised by what has happened, I am not naive to the system and until your foot is in the door I know things can go wrong. I also understand that they do not have to give me any reason for dropping out. I also know, as do my agents unfortunately, that they are both fully living and breathing having been very 'vocal' to my agents. As I understand it they for whatever reason have just changed their minds - again completely legal.
I guess I am just a little disappointed, still after all my experience and knocks, that there are still people out there who have so little regard for their actions - I am a great believer in treating people as I want to be treated - it's fairly black and white I think.
To the comments regarding us potentially letting our sellers down - we were sensible enough and are financially secure enough to have bought a house well within our means. It comes back to black and white with me, short of losing my husband/me, nothing would have prevented us from moving - we have entered into an agreement when we made the offer, we have invested a significant amount of time, energy and money into the process. It's not really that complicated is it. Old fashioned it may be, but our word is our bond.
To all those cynics out there, I still like to think there may still be some good out there - and so yes, I do take what has happened very personally.0
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