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Whats the difference
Dan-Dan
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between offering on a house when you havent sold your own but it is on the market , and selling a house , accepting an offer but not having found one yourself
Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
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the first is like building a new house without any foundations and the second is more akin to building a second floor on a bungalow
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If you offer on a house when you haven't sold (got a firm offer on) your own ... your offer is worthless.
When you have an offer on your own house you are then able to make real offers on a house you want.
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I see the analogy , so basically , although both very similar , one HAS to be concreted for anything on from there to work....Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.0
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jbainbridge wrote: »If you offer on a house when you haven't sold (got a firm offer on) your own ... your offer is worthless.
When you have an offer on your own house you are then able to make real offers on a house you want.
Make sense?
Absolutley , i was just musing to myself , for example , i called an EA about a property a week or so back , just to enquire , he said to me , the vendors had not really started looking and were just going to see what they could find
To me , i would be very wary of offering on a house like that because i feel like i`d do anything to avoid a chain
Is this normal ?Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.0 -
I see the analogy , so basically , although both very similar , one HAS to be concreted for anything on from there to work....
yep until contracts are exchanged, property deals are pretty ethereal at the best of times.
But unless you are in a position to splash the cash, then any offer is pretty much a figment of your imagination
You really have to start with a solid link at the bottom of the chain...0 -
you always seem to see just what you want when your not in a postion to proceed, and then when you are in the right place theres nothing, for a while anyway you just have to be patient.
Don't set your heart on a place too early dan dan it's just so dissapointing when someone else pips you to it.0
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