Not good enough to view.

gazter

Well, it seems the estate agent and vendor seem to think we are timewasters and are not prepared to even let us view a property. Mind you, this is for a property that has been on rightmove on and off for at least eighteen months.

We are not 'proceedable', which is correct. I let the EA know that the house we are currently own, we werent preceedable when we put an offer in either.

If we liked the house we would have put our house immediately on the market, and probably used this same EA.

Alas its not to be.

dragonsoup

So you are not even on the market yet yourselves? I'm not sure I'd want to go to the bother of allowing you to view either I'm afraid.

mrginge

Can't really blame them tbh

gazter

The house we are currently living in, we looked at it on the monday, put our house on the market by the end of the week, got asking price offer within days, twelve weeks later we completed.

I suppose its difficult to distinguish between lucky lous and those who are genuine.

We like where we live, and would only consider somewhere else if we found something we liked.

PasturesNew

Accommodating viewings gets tiresome after the first week. You'll realise this when you put yours on the market.

Not only do you have to do shed loads of cleaning/tidying, but you also have to put things away all the time and rearrange furniture etc to show it off to the best advantage. Then, for each viewing, you have to dash round moving things, tidying things, putting stuff away, doing all the washing up and wiping up and putting away, then put your coat on and leave for 30-60 minutes and loiter in the next street.

You might even be having to eat different foods to reduce cooking smells and mess! It's a very disruptive process on the whole.

Tiresome for somebody who can't actually put an offer in.

csgohan4

Generally how it goes is you find a buyer for your house that has offered and has a mortgage offer in place before you go looking for a house yourself, aka chain. It doesn't happen the other way round I'm afraid.


Your getting ahead of yourself. Sellers want to move quickly not wait 3 months for your sale and another few months for you to buy their place.


Put yourself in their position if you had a buyer who offered but hadn't put their house on the market yet let alone had an offer on it.

Mocha61

Even if the EA allowed you to view and you wanted to put in an offer the vendor probably wouldnt even consider it if you were not proceedable. It could takes weeks for you to get a buyer. Get your house on the market and then EA might let you go have a look at property.

Dan-Dan

gazter wrote: »

Well, it seems the estate agent and vendor seem to think we are timewasters and are not prepared to even let us view a property. Mind you, this is for a property that has been on rightmove on and off for at least eighteen months.

We are not 'proceedable', which is correct. I let the EA know that the house we are currently own, we werent preceedable when we put an offer in either.

If we liked the house we would have put our house immediately on the market, and probably used this same EA.

Alas its not to be.

Sorry Gazter , time wasters is exactly what you are

Do you have the money to buy the property your viewing?

No ?

Timewaster

sorry , but as a vendor i would be instructing my EA in stongest terms , dont let people without the readies , through the door , you should know as you have sold before , viewings `can` be disruptive and stressful as it is

duchy

gazter wrote: »

The house we are currently living in, we looked at it on the monday, put our house on the market by the end of the week, got asking price offer within days, twelve weeks later we completed.

I suppose its difficult to distinguish between lucky lous and those who are genuine.

We like where we live, and would only consider somewhere else if we found something we liked.

Indeed you have no idea if your last purchase went so smoothly because you were lucky or because everyone in your chain was motivated and no-one anywhere in the chain hit serious snags or changed their minds..

You are assuming everything will go equally smoothly this time despite the fact there are too many variables to know this. You are also assuming your home is so desirable that it won't linger on the market for months - your viewpoint may not be unbiased or correct ! Just because you love it doesn't mean it will sell quickly- or that it will attract early offers at the price you need.

I wouldn't allow you to view my house either. If you were already on the market I might-although I'd prefer you to be under offer but at this point you'd just be a time waster and I'd rocket the EA if they were daft enough to waste my time wth you.

Davesnave

Of course, none of the above has ever sold a house to a 'time waster,' or has been one themselves.

However, I'll admit to visiting dozens of properties as a 'time wasting person.' How else could I have done the research needed to switch areas and learn about a different kind of property from those I'd owned previously? In books? On You Tube? On MSE? Pfft!

Over a couple of years, I gained a good understanding of smallholdings in my price range and the sort of snags which beset them. I could have bought at any time in the early stages of looking, but for various reasons, it didn't happen. Looking back, in almost cases, I'm very glad it didn't!

I eventually made what I think was a good purchase and, before that, I sold to another 'time waster' i.e. someone who viewed my house before going on the market themselves. They knew what they wanted too.

I should imagine it's the same with buying other kinds of specialist property. e.g. period homes, shops, woodland... whatever.

Damned expensive if you get it wrong!

duchy

I don't think the OP is buying/selling a specialist property however - Just a bog standard home - so what's your point ?

If the property has been on the market 18 months it's entirely possible to vendor has had a sale fall through and has specifically told the EA they will only entertain proceedable viewers to avoid further (what they view as) timewasters. Most people put a certain value on their time - the OP and Davesnave clearly don't put a high value on a venor's time -perhaps the vendor puts a higher value on it and doesn't want to waste time on people with no clear ability to move forward with a sale .

Everyone thinks their home is desirable (although not so desirable that they don't want to move out of it themselves) and will be attractive to buyers - sadly that expectation and the reality of the time it can take to find a buyer both willing and able can be a far longer period of time than a seller fondly imagines.