Lying Estate Agent

papermoney

RBH, hope it all turns out ok. Are there any other houses in the pipeline?

Redbedhead

snails's_pace wrote: »

it is voluntary to join and certainly is not a voluntary organization

Sorry, voluntary is not the correct word. It is not obligatory for estate agents to be a member, unlike regulated industries such as lawyers or financial services.

Redbedhead

snails's_pace wrote: »

good luck with ur house and everything , im gonna shoot off and leave this thread because I see the sweeping comments of " lying estate agents & not trustworthy"..as a generalization of them all and with my oh being a decent honest hard working ea,it is not easy to sit here and listen to these comments without my back being put up. im an easy going kinda person and dont wanna retaliate in the wrong way good luck and everything

I am sorry you feel that way. I have tried during the thread not to generalise, hence my use of the singular 'lying estate agent' and I don't believe I have said they are all like that (in fact I spoke to a lovely female estate agent today who I think is now my first choice to sell my house with).

Redbedhead

papermoney wrote: »

RBH, hope it all turns out ok. Are there any other houses in the pipeline?

Nothing

In fact we have been looking for over a year in this one village and this is only the second thing that has come up in our price range and which is near to our requirements.

Redbedhead

papermoney wrote: »

RBH, Is it worth putting a note through their door again?

I did reply on the other site aswell and may have missed a post somewhere.

Am now trying to work out who you are on the other site:rotfl:

Tiger_greeneyes

snails's_pace wrote: »

http://www.oea.co.uk/downloads/codeofpractice.pdf

this is the code of practice relating to estate agents

and this link below is helpful to people who are gonna be renting from april 6th

http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1152035

mchu6am4 wrote: »

Not many EA follow this.

You're right

If, however, an estate agent is signed up to a code of practice (ie NAEA) then they must follow strict guidelines if they want to stay a member.

If in doubt, always ask your estate agent before negotiating terms.

papermoney

I'm there now :j you will never guess? :rotfl:

lynzpower

Redbedhead wrote: »

I understand that if all other aspects are the same etc, but is that true even if the cash offeror put in a lower offer than the mortgagee? At a guess we think it was about £10k or £20k less than our offer.

certainly, it has happened.

Where have you got 20/10k from ?

if the EA has told you this hes breaking the law

if he hasnt, what made you think it was this much??

Redbedhead

papermoney wrote: »

I'm there now :j you will never guess? :rotfl:

Did you recently change your name on there?

Redbedhead

lynzpower wrote: »

certainly, it has happened.

Where have you got 20/10k from ?

if the EA has told you this hes breaking the law

if he hasnt, what made you think it was this much??

The estate agent let slip that the other offer was lower, so they went back to him after they got our offer and he had to increase his but it was still lower than ours, so I am just guessing that they went up to about £10k less than ours.