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For Sale Board Stolen
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Might it not just be kids/yobs? We were selling our house back in 1997 and one night some fool set fire to our EA's board - we were buying our next house privately, the vendor drove past next day, saw we had no board up and decided to instruct an agent as he believed we'd changed our minds about selling ours/buying his......blasted kids :mad:
Luckily we were able to inform him of what had happened before he signed on the EA's dotted line and we still got the house.......this was in a *nice* area on the South Coast btw
Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
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phoebe1989seb wrote: »Might it not just be kids/yobs?
Doesn't fit in with the pattern described; why would random vandalism target one board in particular, and leave others untouched?
"For the 3rd time in 2 weeks our board has had it's ties cut off and the board stolen. There are 2 other for sale boards by other estate agents and neither of these have been touched."
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I thought it might have been kids but like its already been said why just our particular board.
Very strange and frustrating :mad:0 -
I would ask for another board and position a webcam as hidden as you can in a window facing the boards, and record when you are asleep/away! It would be interesting to see who is doing it!!!! (and funny in the process!!!)
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I would ask for another board and position a webcam as hidden as you can in a window facing the boards, and record when you are asleep/away! It would be interesting to see who is doing it!!!! (and funny in the process!!!):D
Yes I wish that was possible but I don't think I could handle watching it without wanting to strap them to the for sale board!
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MacMickster wrote: »Some years ago it was common for people to tour the streets looking to see what houses were for sale by the sale boards.
Now they simply look on Rightmove from the comfort of their own homes, particularly those looking for a top floor flat. I don't think that the boards serve any purpose now other than to act as subliminal on-street advertising for the estate agent.
Ive fixed the board this evening putting more cable ties on, but if it happens again I may have to admit defeat0 -
Doesn't fit in with the pattern described; why would random vandalism target one board in particular, and leave others untouched?
"For the 3rd time in 2 weeks our board has had it's ties cut off and the board stolen. There are 2 other for sale boards by other estate agents and neither of these have been touched."
True I guess, especially as it's happened to the OP more than once, but when ours was set alight there were several other boards opposite our house (where there was an old convent which had been converted to apartments, a few of which were for sale) and these were not targeted......unfortunately there's no accounting for yobbish behaviour Hope it doesn't happen again OP! Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
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MacMickster wrote: »Some years ago it was common for people to tour the streets looking to see what houses were for sale by the sale boards.
Now they simply look on Rightmove from the comfort of their own homes, particularly those looking for a top floor flat. I don't think that the boards serve any purpose now other than to act as subliminal on-street advertising for the estate agent.
The idea that absolutely everyone in the country does this, and nobody at all might note a sale board in an area that they might be interested in, is fanciful in the extreme. It's even less of an issue in Scotland, where Rightmove simply doesn't have the presence that it does in E&W. For two of the other major cities in Scotland, RM has, in one case, an inventory of properties in almost single figures, and in another has less than a third or so of the available stock.
Believe it or not, not everyone in the land has a PC or web-enabled device.
However, my point was - if two of the neighbours have sale boards up, would you want to be the only homeowner out of three who DIDN'T have one?0 -
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I am just wondering, do you have to have a board? My parents sold their property without a board. Plus of the 12-14 properties they looked at, about 5 had a board.
With today's easy access to the internet and able to see properties for sale throughout the UK, you don't necessary need a board up.0
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