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Just found the house we want :)

Dunree · 2014-03-25 19:29:34

And now the fun starts. The house has only been on the market for a couple of days, and it fits virtually all we were looking for. We have put in a verbal offer, very close to the asking price. Now that we've done that, would it be too much to ask the estate agent to bring down the For Sale sign and take it off their…

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Dunree Posts: 401 Forumite

26 March 2014 at 4:18PM

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

My parents response to people who made an offer of the asking price when they hadn't actually got a buyer lined up for their own house, was "In principle, yes, but it stays on the market, until you've got a buyer, and if we get another offer before you've got a buyer, we'll talk to you, about where you are before we accept it."

That sounds like a reasonable response. You can't buy thier house, so the offer is academic, pointless, but if they respond like that, it gives you help to decide what the lowest you can take for your house.

I've never been in that situation.

A very reasonable attitude

Life is now good
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