Did you consult your neighbours before selling?

candygirl

hcb42 wrote: »

I have a second viewing today, house only been on the market 3-4 days. I havent told the neighbours, but the potential buyers are a single mother and her 14 yr old son :eek:

and?......................It's nothing to do with anyone else who you sell to is it?:D:D:D:D

IHateDida

My neighbours WERE the reason for my sale!!! :rotfl:

phoebe1989seb

Four years ago we were selling our home in Hampshire and the estate agents were conducting the viewings. I received a call during one viewing to say that the prospective purchasers wished to ask me some questions and could I come back to meet them at my house which I duly did. From the outset I thought the guy's face looked familiar, but I couldn't think why. The couple asked their questions, told me they would be putting in an offer and offered me their contact details. Again, the guy's name seemed to ring bells, but it was only after they had left that I googled the name and discovered who he was - an acquitted child-killer in a very well-publicised case.

The next day we received their offer and accepted it as it was only slightly below under our £600k asking price. However, as our then home was right next door to a nursery school we made the decision not to tell our neighbours to whom we had sold the house. We felt terrible about this, especially when several asked us who was buying it, but as we were very keen to sell we didn't want to do anything that might jeopardise the sale - we had visions of the nursery setting up some kind of petition (daft I know in hindsight) to keep him away..............suffice to say the sale went through very swiftly and we have never returned to see how our former neighbours reacted, although he has been featured in the national papers (and a tv documentary) since, with photos of our old house featuring prominently :eek:

puddy

was that the teacher and the fostered daughter?

Mr_Jack

I haven't even told my neighbours I'm selling, let alone who I'm selling to!

hcb42

candygirl wrote: »

and?......................It's nothing to do with anyone else who you sell to is it?:D:D:D:D

i was being facetious, hence the :eek:

SailorSam

We had the neighbours from hell so found the most objectionable buyer we could.

Nearly_Old

We've only sold 2 previous houses and both times our neighbours knew exactly who was moving in - why?

Well both times when we first mentioned that we were selling one of our then neighbours had a friend / relative who was looking to move to the area. So 2 houses sold without having to use an EA - not looking forward to putting our current house on the market next year as its 30 years since we last moved.

Ulfar

I wouldn't and haven't ever consulted with my neighbours as to who I am selling to.

In the case of nosy or intrusive neighbours, if asked I would politely tell them where to get off.

seven-day-weekend

We did not tell our neighbours we were selling our Spanish house because a) given the current economic climate in Spain it could have been on the market for years and b) we were not even in the country when we did get the buyer.

The sale is still very slowly going through, we are going back to Spain next Sunday and we will tell our Spanish neighbours then. The expat ones already know as I have kept in touch with them by e-mail.

We haven't told them who is buying it, but hopefully it will not be a problem!!

The guy who owns the flat below the one my son is buying knows who is moving in as we are great friends with his parents and he and my son went to Sunday School together for many years,