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What % under the asking price did you buy your house for?
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Pennywise2012 wrote: »I know of a couple who bought their house at 40% off the asking price! The estate agent encouraged them to look around it and make a cheeky offer. They didn't even want to look, as it was priced way outside their budget, but ES said, "Just go and look, you'll see why I'm telling you to..."
When they got to the viewing, it was being sold by a couple who had split up a year earlier, but neither one would move out as they hated the other one so much. The entire house was sectioned into 'his' and 'hers', like in the film War Of The Roses. One of them was cooking in the bedroom cos the other one wouldn't let them into the kitchen. Luckily there was a toilet each!
The viewing was awful, with the couple screaming at each other from their respective sides of the house, but the property was lovely. The viewing couple made the cheeky offer, and it was accepted!
Apart from a small hitch on moving day when the woman of the warring couple decided she wasn't going to move out after all, and had to be forcibly removed by the police, it was the best deal they ever did
Haha we had a good laugh at this...
Well ive got another query!
Whats the best way to offer less that other bidders but get your offer accepted?
would you go all out and say im a FTB and a cash buyer.and.can complete within a week?0
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