House viewing, what feedback?

ognum

Interesting, I think they already have 250k offers they have turned down. I also liked the tenants, interesting they said they paid £800 a month rent and the EA was saying it would rent for £1100. the guy in bed was quite chatty.

think they will definitely be calling around for offers/feedback on MOnday!

ognum

barnaby-bear wrote: »

I thought the tenants seemed nice and if they are going through that every weekend :eek: whilst knowing they are on their way.... nasty little town with a rubbish housing stock! It's the rises that frighten me - stuff that was £180k is now £290k on 5 years ago and it's not slowing.... we've been bidding our time in the sticks (with virtually no rise in price )

The city has always had premium prices over the surrounding villages, as you say, why don't you stay in the villages? sorry that's not meant to be rude, housing stock I the city is very limited at the moment with lots of people chasing anything habitable!

barnaby-bear

ognum wrote: »

Interesting, I think they already have 250k offers they have turned down. I also liked the tenants, interesting they said they paid £800 a month rent and the EA was saying it would rent for £1100. the guy in bed was quite chatty.

think they will definitely be calling around for offers/feedback on MOnday!

If we were early 30s maybe we'd consider it but really we need 3-bed and the sticks can give that.... so we aren't planning to bid! Late 30s first home.... ex-council shoebox.... but it's better than the KH and kendal ways/east chesterton council estates

barnaby-bear

ognum wrote: »

The city has always had premium prices over the surrounding villages, as you say, why don't you stay in the villages? sorry that's not meant to be rude, housing stock I the city is very limited at the moment with lots of people chasing anything habitable!

but there's a bit that hankers not to drive everywhere, be able to catch a train to london, cycle to work, have a shop round the corner! I miss the city life!

ognum

barnaby-bear wrote: »

If we were early 30s maybe we'd consider it but really we need 3-bed and the sticks can give that.... so we aren't planning to bid! Late 30s first home.... ex-council shoebox.... but it's better than the KH and kendal ways/east chesterton council estates

I guess that is the problem.

ognum

barnaby-bear wrote: »

but there's a bit that hankers not to drive everywhere, be able to catch a train to london, cycle to work, have a shop round the corner! I miss the city life!

I absolutely agree, I only need to get in a car about once a fortnight!

ValHaller

Could we have the link to the property taken out? It is the home of some tenants whose privacy is already being trampled over and now they are not only being discussed, but also effectively identified on a public forum.

V_Chic_Chick

I tend to have some sympathy with the tenants - if their estate agents are anything like the ones who are currently [meant to be] conducting viewings on the property, then they will have royally !!!!ed the tenants off. Not turning up for viewings quite literally 80% of the time, not bothering to cancel, leaving viewers on our doorstep for half an hour after the booked viewing, trying to ignore the 24 hours notice necessary, plain rudeness over the phone and - to take the biscuit - wanting me to conduct a viewing on their behalf at two hours notice, because they don't have the staff. Erm, no.

It's also the tenant's home, so if they are having to put up with this every Saturday then I'm sure you can see why they are somewhat miffed and unlikely to get out of bed at a specific time, just to make the house look that bit better. My own LAs have annoyed us so much that we have stopped bothering to tidy up before they come around, because we know that chances are they won't come around.

ognum

V_Chic_Chick wrote: »

I tend to have some sympathy with the tenants - if their estate agents are anything like the ones who are currently [meant to be] conducting viewings on the property, then they will have royally !!!!ed the tenants off. Not turning up for viewings quite literally 80% of the time, not bothering to cancel, leaving viewers on our doorstep for half an hour after the booked viewing, trying to ignore the 24 hours notice necessary, plain rudeness over the phone and - to take the biscuit - wanting me to conduct a viewing on their behalf at two hours notice, because they don't have the staff. Erm, no.

It's also the tenant's home, so if they are having to put up with this every Saturday then I'm sure you can see why they are somewhat miffed and unlikely to get out of bed at a specific time, just to make the house look that bit better. My own LAs have annoyed us so much that we have stopped bothering to tidy up before they come around, because we know that chances are they won't come around.

I absolutely agree with the posters that have sympathy with the tenants, so do I. There is no way I would agree to multiple sets of viewers wandering through my home at the same time so why should they.

My problem is with the EAs who do this kind of thing, this particular agency has the majority of the housing stock for sale in an area I am interested in buying in, they have plenty of buyers so causing a big upset would be counter productive but on the other hand this was not a useful viewing to me or the tenants!

EmmaHerts

barnaby-bear wrote: »

but there's a bit that hankers not to drive everywhere, be able to catch a train to london, cycle to work, have a shop round the corner! I miss the city life!

Take a look at Bishop's Stortford and Saffron Walden.