Lived in home for 3 months want to sell.

moneyistooshorttomention

The other thing you are up against is that, even if buyers were convinced of no hidden problems of any description, they might think "Well..she changed her mind so quickly last time. Who is to say we wouldn't agree to buy her house and get partway through doing so and she changed her mind again and refused to continue with the sale?"

Liam999uk

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Being in a detached house doesn't necessarily mean "no problems with neighbours". My house is detached but.....yep...got an nfh type neighbour:(.

So people will indeed wonder and will assume its probably down to the neighbours.

I'll admit to being puzzled myself, after your comment about "having fallen in love" with the house, but now fallen out of love.

Is it possible to put up some nice mature trees on the side of the garden nearest that road (not leylandii please.....) but there are plenty of nice trees around. It would make the garden look better and help with noise absorption.

Add in the fact that I'm wondering if any houses-you-really-want are available or you would just leap from one compromise house to another compromise house.

No, stupid statement from me really! I agree that being detatched doesn't mean that neighbours won't give me grief but like I said that's not the problem. The garden does have high trees around already and looks nice. It is a lovely house BUT not right for me as it is not the right type of house/area as said maybe naivety on my part and wanting to rush out of a rental property as we were looking for a while.


Anyway sounds like the best thing to do is suck it up and put it on later in the year with a good excuse.

Liam999uk

penguingirl wrote: »

I would be very suspicious about buying a house that had been lived in for such a short period of time. I would assume neighbour problems/antisocial behaviour or something structural you'd uncovered once in.

Is renting it out an option?

Thought about that but the OH won't have it.


I don't understand why people would worry about the structural thing as a full survey would show anything that was wrong so why worry.


Maybe neighbours and anti social behaviour are to worry about.

ethank

People will worry when you are moving so soon, I think you need to stick it out a year.

penguingirl

liam999uk wrote: »

I don't understand why people would worry about the structural thing as a full survey would show anything that was wrong so why worry.

Because surveys cost money. People aren't going to pay for one if they anticipate problems. Also you only have to read these boards to realise that sometimes things get missed on survey. The other thing I'd think about is something in the neighbour hood e.g.a planned hostel or building work

Liam999uk

penguingirl wrote: »

Because surveys cost money. People aren't going to pay for one if they anticipate problems. Also you only have to read these boards to realise that sometimes things get missed on survey. The other thing I'd think about is something in the neighbour hood e.g.a planned hostel or building work

I agree they do, a hell of a lot of money. If serious things get missed on a survey then surely you have some comeback on the surveyor. That's why you pay a professional to do that job. Building work in the area is not a problem as there is no where to build and even if there was it is usually quite easy to find on the web, council planning sites and the like.


It's in peoples mindsets to think of the worst. It doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with the neighbours and there is anything wrong with the area or house but people automatically think like that. Buying houses is not to be taken lightly and I would expect people to do their homework before committing to a purchase. TBH I wish I'd have done a bit more myself as I wouldn't be on here now! But whats happened has happened and I want peoples opinions of what they would think which is obviously wait a bit longer.


Now what would happen if say we split up or were made redundant and dropped the price low to sell quick? I bet people wouldn't be as worried about neighbours and the costs of surveys then.

Argghhh

put it up for sale - see what interest you get, it will take more than 3 months to find a buyer at this time of year anyways. If you decide to stay and no interest it cost you nothing?

Liam999uk

Argghhh wrote: »

put it up for sale - see what interest you get, it will take more than 3 months to find a buyer at this time of year anyways. If you decide to stay and no interest it cost you nothing?

Which is what I was thinking, It costs me nothing. If it doesn't sell at the price I want then take it off and decide later. Either way I can judge what people think. Apparently houses in the area are selling very well at present.

stator

Not all structural issues would show up on a survey. They only look on the outside of everything, they don't go digging around taking things apart.

Loopy28

I noticed a house come up for sale recently and thought I had seen it listed on rightmove previously, I assumed it had fallen through and been readvertised but when I looked on sold prices on rightmove saw that it had been sold in July 2014 and was put back on the market for sale again in December 2014.

It wasn't a repossession and is also only 8 years old so won't be for structural reasons I don't expect, so not sure of the reasons but it has gone to sale agreed already so there are clearly buyers who aren't put off my a property that has only been lived in for 6 months.