How long did your sold sign stay up?

Dan-Dan

There was a thread once , where someone was saying their FOR SALE sign looked dangerous and what would happen if it fell on someones head

God that was funny

xyellowx

ive seen this man to a large 4x4 with cab on the back a decent electric drill and signs from companies all over the country

i phone them plenty of times they said they would come and get it and never bothered i got fed up so phoned them said the wind had got it and i was worried about it falling onto the footpath and hitting somebody and them making a claim etc they come and got it the same day :-)

calicocat

About a week I think, didn't have to ring them.

Hermoine

I put my flat on the market in October, and got my first buyer at the start of December, so a for sale sign went up. In April my first buyer fell through, but I got another offer in a couple of weeks later so I wasn't very bothered that the sign remained. In June that buyer fell through. I therefore asked, verbally and by email when I terminated the contract with the estate agent for the sign to be removed. It wasn't - it just stayed there mocking me, and it also remained on the website as "sold". Until last week, when I finally got through to someone else at the company, asked them to remove the sign and made the point of going round to collect the keys - which they had kept saying they would drop off. And why I didn't get rid of the sign earlier - my front garden is a yard, so they provided a sign embedded in a rather large lump of concrete, which never shifted through months of wind, rain and local youth. I couldn't drag it as far as my car!

Davesnave

Dan-Dan wrote: »

I dont think anyone really thought the `actual` EA physically put`s the signs up....did they ?

No, but the larger firms might employ their own P/T little man & van.

The poles are quite a nice size for use as stakes if you are planting a tree at your new house.

Atomix

LOL - After a week (inc phoning them) if they hadnt taken it -BIN!

sorry - bu tough-

Old_Git

my brother nicked a sign and put it in another garden for April fools day .

phoebe1989seb

At a previous house someone set light to ours whilst it was standing in our front garden - but that was before we'd sold.....and it was supposed to be a *nice* area too :rotfl:

We've always removed ours the day we've completed, left it in the front garden/driveway, then given the EA a call and the man in his van has been to collect it within a few days or so.......

guesswho2000

Dan-Dan wrote: »

The day we complete , i will take it up , chop it into pieces ,and use it for the fire

I did this, about half an hour after I collected the keys, in fact!

WestonDave

Previous house - EA large one connected to well known bank with singing employees - no interest shown in collecting it so took it down, shoved it in the garage for a while in case they came looking for it and eventually skipped the sign and used the post for something else.

Current house - no sign ever put up - the old independent agents round here still abide by a now defunct gentlemans agreement not to put them up within the conservation area to avoid spoiling the look of the place. Kind of ironic really - back when this was pretty much universal we didn't have rightmove etc so being able to see signs was really useful. Now you can see from a couple of clicks what is for sale in any given area, we have EA signs sprouting like bindweed!