Difficult buyer

fawnyb

mrginge wrote: »

Point proven.

:T

Thanks so much for your helpful responses!

alchemist.1

fawnyb wrote: »

:T

Thanks so much for your helpful responses!

The point is that there is nothing you can do in your position apart from take a hit on the purchase price by selling to someone else (which i assume you are not willing to do).

mrginge

Oh, you want a helpful response?

Tell him that you're not doing any work and he can exchange or eff off.

From your previous post i doubt you are prepared to do that.

DandelionPatrol

Take note of what mrginge says here

mrginge wrote: »

Sounds to me like this difficult buyer has in fact negotiated you into position where you to do exactly what he wants.

For every diificult buyer there's a desperate seller.

fawnyb wrote: »

Well we really have no choice. We want to move asap! He's a complete !!! and from what we have been told by the EA he is rude and they have never heard of such ridiculous demands!

Essentially your position is weak because you have to move - does your 'buyer' know that you have to move?

I suggest that you are unlikely to 'win' in this situation by strong arming him, demanding that he exchanges by Friday or anything.

I suggest that you make a contingency plan to see yourselves through not selling the house. Once you know that you can do that, you will be psychologically stronger.

With that contingency plan in your back pocket, tell your agent to put the house back on the market but to continue to progress the sale to your present 'buyer'. Let your solicitor know too.

Alchemilla

You can get really big and cheap carpet offcuts on the bay of E, if you go that route.

DRP

DandelionPatrol wrote: »

<SNIP>...With that contingency plan in your back pocket, tell your agent to put the house back on the market but to continue to progress the sale to your present 'buyer'. Let your solicitor know too.

Agree^^

You need to take control and come up with a plan B.

goodwithsaving

This is ridiculous. There are so many things needing replacing in our house but we bought 'as is'. Tell him a time frame in which to exchange and don't cave to 1 of his wants, otherwise you'll have to cave to them all!

slowpoke_rodriguez

I think you've brought this on yourself to be honest. You should have been firmer two months ago...

cns06

He viewed the property in that condition so why the big deal?

We are in the process of buying and I happened to speak to the vendor myself and the vendor was saying they were doing ABC before completion and I said don't bother. We viewed it like that don't go out of your way to repair stuff we were willing to fix. Talking minor things. We will probably make changes anyway undoing all their work.

Alchemilla

Cns will you buy my house too, please?!