Paranoid or something up - buyer wanting measurements?

hazyjo

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

Let's see how long you'll keep this up after every offer is turned DOWN.

You sound like a buyer looking for a checklist of stupid reasons to negotiate on price.

In these scenarios, BCTAH, like ive said in the past.

I'll sit pretty in the house you so dearly covet for all but trivial niggles.

Come back to me in 6 months, and I will slap 40k on for you - the cupboard woodworm will still be there.

Just sounds like he's being sensible to me! Would you buy a car (for a fraction of the price of a house) without a test drive, or looking under the bonnet?

Nothing wrong with checking a cupboard or looking at windows or a boiler. It is 'buyer beware', y'know! When spending that amount of money, you should make sure there aren't problems/issues being deliberately hidden.

Jx

DaftyDuck

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

Let's see how long you'll keep this up after every offer is turned DOWN.

You sound like a buyer looking for a checklist of stupid reasons to negotiate on price.

In these scenarios, BCTAH, like ive said in the past.

I'll sit pretty in the house you so dearly covet for all but trivial niggles.

Come back to me in 6 months, and I will slap 40k on for you - the cupboard woodworm will still be there.

Well, in over 25 years of house buying, I've never had an offer refused after survey, and I have always renegotiated to at least recover the cost of survey. The vendors have always remained on good terms with me - indeed, I'm in contact still with almost all of them. I'll be frank: dealing with any idiot like you, and I'd have walked before offer, as you'd clearly be a problem seller. Come back after six months? No, never. However, I can well believe your house would still be on the market, albeit for 40k less than I would have offered.That has happened, frequently.

Oh, and that woodworm, it would have been spotted by any surveyor, but it would have wasted a few hundred quid of mine, a month of your saletime, and left you with a withdrawal from sale that your agent would have toexplain to any future buyer.... who would still negotiate on the woodworm, when it was again found! Trivial niggles.... pah!

patricia..xx

Bumping to say all seems OK so far. They turned up with a tape measure and I could hear them talking about details of where to put what. So I'm just paranoid I guess.

I think we have been spoiled in that we rented our 1st home for 2 years before buying it from the landlord, and rented an identical house to the 1 we now live in for 6 mths before buying. So we have never had to consider furniture fitting etc.

For those who talked about getting in quick to get it off the market, just a slight cautionary tale. We had 2 very similar offers, and we chose the people who looked around twice and took 3 days to make an offer. As opposed to the ones who made an offer within 10 mins of 1st viewing. I may yet be proved wrong, but we thought there would be less chance of the people who actually considered it in detail pulling out.

Also, for those of you who like a good look before you offer, how's this for an idiot estate agent. For our 2nd viewing we told them we wanted to be there an hour so we could check lots of things. They said they couldn't spare that amount of time on 1 house. But offered to show us another one just on the market at the same time. What is more likely to get a sale I wonder? Wish I could drop that one into a conversation with the seller.

DaftyDuck

Good luck, sounds ok to me. Planning where stuff goes shows a certain commitment and forethought. Everyone is neurotic during a house sale!

Rapished

I must admit, I did do this, to be sure more than to pull out, I requested a measuring up visit after having an offer accepted, partly down to nerves, but mainly to triple check i'd done the right thing, what it did was just get me more excited about the decision i'd made,

I have also driven by the house about twenty times since just to see it and keep the excitement, as its a long process.

easilydistracted

Wow Patricia thought you were the vendor of the house we are buying for a mo! We've been lurking in the area today because we love it and so excited to see the house when we can. We also have a bunch of different specialist surveyors and trades in and are about to ask for measurements of a specific wall in the kitchen.

This is all because it needs work and we are trying to rush in doing all the work within two weeks overlap with our rental (were FTBs). We jumped in with an offer straight away though, exactly to show we were commited and serious, interesting to see people have different perspectives on this.

We also haven't had our valuation survey done yet as there is a massive wait for Colley's survey through Halifax at the moment. We did luckily find this out in advance so had a separate Homebuyers through a local company.

Other surveys are electrical and damp and having a builder in. All so we can get going asap in a short period of leave. So it may be the bank causing the survey delay. I wouldn't really worry too much.