Had a funny question from an estate agent

somethingcorporate

jjlandlord wrote: »

The seller will benefit. That's why they are asking.

This is business not a charity. OP is probably down a grand.

But that cost is sunk and not affected by whether they hand the survey over or not (unless they can wangle a few quid out of the EA for it).

Given it cannot "officially" be relied upon I cannot see them offering you much for it.

If its not the house for you and you have nothing to lose by sharing then if it were me I would just hand it over.

WeAreGhosts

somethingcorporate wrote: »

But that cost is sunk and not affected by whether they hand the survey over or not (unless they can wangle a few quid out of the EA for it).

Given it cannot "officially" be relied upon I cannot see them offering you much for it.

If its not the house for you and you have nothing to lose by sharing then if it were me I would just hand it over.

i suppose they will use it to attract/keep/appease another buyer, so it WILL be worth something to vendor.

jjlandlord

somethingcorporate wrote: »

But that cost is sunk and not affected by whether they hand the survey over or not (unless they can wangle a few quid out of the EA for it).

Yes, the cost is sunk, but now there is an opportunity to recoup some of it!

somethingcorporate wrote: »

Given it cannot "officially" be relied upon I cannot see them offering you much for it.

They can rely on it for whatever they want to do with it.

However, I agree that they will probably not be prepared to pay much for it.

I think they want to have a look at it and have asked OP because obviously they have nothing to lose by asking.
In fact, by reading replies it seems that many would just happily hand it over for free just o be nice. I guess that's why some are in business and some are not...

WeAreGhosts

jjlandlord wrote: »

I guess that's why some are in business and some are not...

and why some are in debt and some or not.
honestly, if there is a chance to make money why not go for it. they were cheeky enough to ask!

right, thanks all, you have helped me make up my mind how to deal with it. i will tell them how much it cost and ask them to name their price and see what happens

somethingcorporate

jjlandlord wrote: »

Yes, the cost is sunk, but now there is an opportunity to recoup some of it!



They can rely on it for whatever they want to do with it.

However, I agree that they will probably not be prepared to pay much for it.

I think they want to have a look at it and have asked OP because obviously they have nothing to lose by asking.
In fact, by reading replies it seems that many would just happily hand it over for free just o be nice. I guess that's why some are in business and some are not...

Or some people are nice just for the sake of it rather than to make a few quid out of a situation.

I'm a commercial accountant by trade and also have a rental property so pretty sure I know my way around maximising revenue, however, I also pick my battles and tend to be generous by nature so to be honest I'd hand it over because I am nice, not because I am stupid/know nothing about business.

OP, I think that's a fair approach but I wouldn't get your hopes up that anything like 50% would be reasonable. There was a debate on here recently about whether you would give a parking ticket you had paid for with extra time to someone entering a car park so they didn't have to pay. Similar situation, the person with the ticket has little to gain aside from a good feeling from handing it over. Of course they could choose to charge for it...

rosie383

Sounds fair. As said in the second post, if you don't ask, you don't get.

WeAreGhosts

somethingcorporate wrote: »

I'm a commercial accountant by trade and also have a rental property so pretty sure I know my way around maximising revenue, however, I also pick my battles and tend to be generous by nature so to be honest I'd hand it over because I am nice, not because I am stupid/know nothing about business.

OP, I think that's a fair approach but I wouldn't get your hopes up that anything like 50% would be reasonable.

some people, like myself, don't get many battles and tend to be overgenerous in life anyway. i stopped being a doormat a few years ago ... for various reasons.

i now totally understand 50% would probably be unreasonable

tea-bag

Ask what they are willing to give for it. As said it has no value to you. But the value goes up with demand and even if you get a pound it is a pound more than you had yesterday!

somethingcorporate

Agree with TB. They may call your bluff and offer you nothing but I would expect them to offer you something!

jjlandlord

somethingcorporate wrote: »

There was a debate on here recently about whether you would give a parking ticket you had paid for with extra time to someone entering a car park so they didn't have to pay. Similar situation, the person with the ticket has little to gain aside from a good feeling from handing it over. Of course they could choose to charge for it...

This is not a similar situation.

Here they want to see that report to help them sell the property.
Thus your analogy with a car park would be: what would you do if a car park attendant asked you to help him to his job for free.

somethingcorporate wrote: »

Agree with TB. They may call your bluff and offer you nothing but I would expect them to offer you something!

It's not a bluff: If they don't want to give something they don't get to see the report.

OK, I'm out.
Best wishes to OP. I agree that she should not get her hopes up.