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Offers on an already sold house
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?.....why should we miss out on our dream home to have good manners / not step on anyones toes?
Bet you all think I'm the devil incarnate lol.
Because someone else got there before you, and because the owners have already accepted their offer.
Do you apply the same logic in other walks of life? Arrive late to the play, or concert, the only seats left are in the gods, but you stomp down to the front row and kick someone out of their seat because it's YOUR dream concert (like it isn't anybody else's....)
Or you find a queue has formed for something you dream of, and you don't join that queue, but stomp to the front because it's YOUR dream, and evidently can't be anyone else's.....0 -
Sorry everyone, this process of keeping a house on the market until contracts are signed seems to be the done thing over here in NI..?
Just this week we viewed a house that's sale agreed pending contracts (with a bid a few grand under the asking price). As far as I'm aware they are at the survey stage according to the EA. We love the house and are planning to gazump the hell out of the current buyers tomorrow by bidding significantly more! Alls fair in love and war and if the EA are still happy to show people round the property and forward offers then I have no problem putting one in. If the buyers want to up their bid to match / beat ours then that's their call, but why should we miss out on our dream home to have good manners / not step on anyones toes? If its the other buyers dream home too then they'll just have to try and match us financially (to a point lol, we've decided a maximum and will be sticking to it..!)
Bet you all think I'm the devil incarnate lol.
Don't worry yourself, its not like the people you are gazumping know where you live, oh wait!Sealed pot challange no: 3390 -
Sorry everyone, this process of keeping a house on the market until contracts are signed seems to be the done thing over here in NI..?
Just this week we viewed a house that's sale agreed pending contracts (with a bid a few grand under the asking price). As far as I'm aware they are at the survey stage according to the EA. We love the house and are planning to gazump the hell out of the current buyers tomorrow by bidding significantly more! Alls fair in love and war and if the EA are still happy to show people round the property and forward offers then I have no problem putting one in. If the buyers want to up their bid to match / beat ours then that's their call, but why should we miss out on our dream home to have good manners / not step on anyones toes? If its the other buyers dream home too then they'll just have to try and match us financially (to a point lol, we've decided a maximum and will be sticking to it..!)
Bet you all think I'm the devil incarnate lol.
Wait until you've spent £1,000 on searches and fees and then the old buyer gets a friend to offer £10k more than you, you lose your fee's, then the other “buyer” pulls out after stringing the vendor along for a few months (by which time you may need to do all the searches again). Or the vendor demands £10k more the day before exchange.
After all it’s all fair in love and war isn’t it?
Manners are what separate us from animals.0 -
martinsurrey wrote: »Manners are what separate us from animals.
At least animals don't take the moral high ground and then preach to the rest of us, mere humans. :A
The poster said that the accepted behaviour in NI is different, but I'm not in a position to confirm or deny this. However, it strikes me that when a property is 'hot,' and maybe hotter than anyone anticipated, the best way to resolve matters is by sealed bids.
That was the method by which I bought my first house, although when I viewed it initially, I thought I could purchase in the conventional way. Apparently, three of us thought that! There were no Internet forums to run to for advice, just 48 hours to get a fresh bid into a sealed envelope.
It worked for me, and it obviously worked for the agent and vendor too.
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martinsurrey wrote: »
Manners are what separate us from animals.
Dear oh dear lol! I promise you we're normally very nice :eek:
We fully accept that if we are able to gazump then we are also in a position to be gazumped... that's life and I would expect no less.
I suspect it's something the current buyers will be expecting anyway, given that they've offered £5k under the asking price for a very desirable house, and they'll be well aware the house is still on the market and having regular viewings - that that seems to be the done thing over here. MFW Sept 2013 Starting balance: £101160.59 25 years :eek:
OPs 2013-2014: £64.33
MFW #780 -
Just this week we viewed a house that's sale agreed pending contracts (with a bid a few grand under the asking price). As far as I'm aware they are at the survey stage according to the EA. We love the house and are planning to gazump the hell out of the current buyers tomorrow by bidding significantly more! Alls fair in love and war and if the EA are still happy to show people round the property and forward offers then I have no problem putting one in. If the buyers want to up their bid to match / beat ours then that's their call, but why should we miss out on our dream home to have good manners / not step on anyones toes? If its the other buyers dream home too then they'll just have to try and match us financially (to a point lol, we've decided a maximum and will be sticking to it..!)
Bet you all think I'm the devil incarnate lol.
So you are getting into a bidding war with people who have already gone close to the asking price. And you are doing this in the property hotspot of NI.
I had always assumed that if the devil existed, he would be a lot smarter than that.0 -
So you are getting into a bidding war with people who have already gone close to the asking price. And you are doing this in the property hotspot of NI.
I had always assumed that if the devil existed, he would be a lot smarter than that.
Och come on now lol, no need to be so rude :rotfl: Bear in mind you only have a little snapshot of the situation.
xMFW Sept 2013 Starting balance: £101160.59 25 years :eek:
OPs 2013-2014: £64.33 MFW #780
it's empty don't worry! x
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