Accepted Buyer's offer but still no Survey

Jaynorth_2

Yorkie1 wrote: »

DVS and others have suggested a mystery buyer. Why don't you do this before making any drastic or potentially complicated decisions to move EA?

As far as you are aware, your property is still being actively marketed and therefore moving agents may do little. The fact that the buyers are being slow, is absolutely nothing to do with the fact that nobody else seems to want to view your property.

I am reluctant to do this because it is almost like trying to beat the EA at their own game. Maybe I have unrealistic expectations but I believe that if you are paying someone to do a job for you, when it gets to the stage that you have to resort to gimmicks just to prove that they are actually doing the job you hired them to do then it is time to just move on, and sometimes a fresh approach helps - maybe even a review of the price.

DRP

Jaynorth wrote: »

Very frustrating, I spoke to one of the EA in their office on Tuesday and told him that I had lost out on 2 properties that I was interested in because there had been no movement at all from my buyer in 6 weeks and also pointed out that my buyer had not even asked for the property to be taken off the market yet! He said that he had informed him that he would not take it off the market until he had booked his survey but would find out what was going on and get back to me, now 2 days later still nothing...

I spoke to another agent in the office yesterday who said they had been rushed off their feet because the school holidays were now over so more people looking to view properties, I asked if they had any viewings for me as they are supposedly still marketing my property and she said no but I was still under offer so it's not so bad. I reminded her that it has been 6 weeks and the buyer had not even retained a solicitor yet, she offered to chase it up but I said someone else was already doing this.

But it seems obvious that they have stopped marketing my property so I think it may now be time to consider terminating the agreement with them and taking my business elsewhere or moving to a multi-agency contract because I have all but given up on looking for another property now and if I am not looking then I feel I should be focused on marketing my property and pushing for another sale. I am absolutely sick and tired of these EA's and their games, this is my 3rd EA since March and thankfully I made sure that I have a 7 day termination clause within the contract.

this seems the crux of it.

You need the EA to get a straight answer from your 'buyer' and then you need a straight conversation with the EA which continues until you are satisfied with what they tell you.

Then make your decision. This whole thing seems to be weeks of Chinese whispers ie. bad communication & incomplete information.

Fortheloveofmoney

We actually did mystery shop our original EA. I got my sister to do it (she is fab at stuff like that!) and they didn't even mention our property at all the first time. When she then repeated the criteria (she thinks they misheard her) then it was mentioned last behind 6 others.

This was the reason we moved agents. I'm glad we did it.

DVardysShadow

Jaynorth wrote: »

I am reluctant to do this because it is almost like trying to beat the EA at their own game. Maybe I have unrealistic expectations but I believe that if you are paying someone to do a job for you, when it gets to the stage that you have to resort to gimmicks just to prove that they are actually doing the job you hired them to do then it is time to just move on, and sometimes a fresh approach helps - maybe even a review of the price.

A mystery buyer is not a gimmick. It is a way of getting facts.

You are sorely lacking in facts as to what your agent is doing. You are more likely to get to the bottom of this by using a mystery buyer than by protracted wringing of hands