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  • ash28
    ash28 Posts: 1,789 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee! Debt-free and Proud!
    Unfortunately some viewers can't see past stuff.......

    You have decluttered the furniture out of your house but left the mess with no where to put it.

    The house looks nice enough but poorly presented.

    This house looks very similar yours...

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26999367.html

    It's on the same street and it is quite a bit more expensive. The rooms are all clean, tidy, decluttered and fully furnished, which shows that furniture doesn't make the house seem smaller. The house looks cared for and presents well. Their conservatory is shown as a dining room and it looks good.

    If the houses were on at the same price I would buy theirs - I much prefer that style of conservatory, but at the current prices I would buy yours...

    Another of my pet hates is "offers in excess of"....I never even look at them.
  • Ulfar
    Ulfar Posts: 1,309 Forumite
    moment wrote: »
    I've seen my competition on right move that why I've priced mine 20k lower then the other 2 beds because mine needs work

    Don't just look at houses in your street, look at within a 3 or 5 mile radius. This is your competition.

    I have never bought a house thinking, I only want to move into that street and nowhere else.

    Somebody has posted the link to a house in your street : http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26999367.html

    it is on at £122k, I would be offering in the region of £110, you are asking for offers over £100k. Your house will need over £10k to bring it up to this standard. The other house can be moved straight into.

    Take this one for example :

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-23641686.html

    Needs about the same level as work as yours, has a third bedroom and is £10k cheaper, has the same layout.

    There are also lots of properties much cheaper that need more work but they are £20 to £30k cheaper. Your house needs at least a full redecorate, in these circumstances people will be looking at these cheaper options and thinking, might as well go for this get everything done to how I want it.
  • I used to like to go to work but they shut it down,
    I got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found,
    Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed,
    We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed....
    All the way down the telegraph road (Dire Straits, 1981)

    Love Over Gold was a fabulous album (wasnt it lightning on the cover?), though I think it was '82 not '81.
  • Lizzie-S
    Lizzie-S Posts: 79 Forumite
    I agree with what some of the posters have said here: it's rather overpriced. I wouldn't pay £100,000 for that house, and would be more likely to offer around £87,000, and no more.
  • moment_2
    moment_2 Posts: 46 Forumite
    Good morning! just an update really the house has sold for £101, thanks for all your advice. x
  • JournalGirl
    JournalGirl Posts: 524 Forumite
    Congratulations - well done for sticking to your guns
  • MrsRobbo17
    MrsRobbo17 Posts: 40 Forumite
    Well done!!!
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