being held to ranson to complete

martindow

I've experienced people in chains becoming bloody-minded and seemingly willing to endanger the process. Are the estate agents being proactive in this? They will be eager for it all to go through and maybe can lean on obstinate people and point out their financial losses if the chain falls apart.

macaroon9

Update...our solicitors got onto their solicitors this morning to put our proposition forwards and we got the reply they want to move on the 22nd of October!! WHAT?????? In the meantime I get an e-mail from our estate agent asking if our buyers could come round to measure up on Thursday! I have declined to dignify this e-mail with a response, this couple will not set foot in my house until the day they eventually pick up the keys, plus god only knows what faults they'd find and ask reductions for. Our solicitor has gone back to their solicitor and our estate agent.

Thrugelmir

macaroon9 wrote: »

Update...our solicitors got onto their solicitors this morning to put our proposition forwards and we got the reply they want to move on the 22nd of October!! WHAT?????? In the meantime I get an e-mail from our estate agent asking if our buyers could come round to measure up on Thursday! I have declined to dignify this e-mail with a response, this couple will not set foot in my house until the day they eventually pick up the keys, plus god only knows what faults they'd find and ask reductions for. Our solicitor has gone back to their solicitor and our estate agent.

Welcome to the stress of house moves! Take up yoga would be my advice. In a couple of months time you'll forget all about this once you've moved in.

macaroon9

Good grief no, our estate agents have proved to be totally useless and we now feel that they are working on behalf of our buyer rather than ourselves, when we spoke to our estate agent on Friday she seemed totally gob smacked that we would consider not paying there demand, and when my husband asked her to go back to them asking what date they could do if not the 18th of September we got a one word text saying 22nd!

The estate agent of the people we are buying from have been brilliant, we've had daily phone calls and they have in turn chased people on our behalf, which I know is really on their behalf as they want the sale, but at least they do actually seem to be earning their money!

2Sheds

Tell them you'll be sticking back up for sale for £20k more or they can have it now cheaper

Tell its Sept or nothing

[Deleted User]

If the buyers back out now over dates they already knew would be problematic but didn't discuss.., believe you me, the sale was always going to be problematic.

I agree that you stick to your dates. If the sale happens, great, if not.., it probably wasn't going to happen if the buyers are prepared to lose the money they will lose over a couple of weeks rent.

notanewuser

If it helps, 28th August was one of the worst completion dates you could have chosen - a)it's a Friday and b) it's at the start of a bank holiday weekend. If anything had gone wrong you'd have been screwed!

notanewuser

G_M wrote: »

Also find out their annual salary, divide it by 318 working days (365 - 21 days leave - 26 weekends) and double it to give them 2 full days to move & settle in.

Huh? There are 52 weekends in a year of 2 days each - where do you get 26 from?. Plus 8/9 bank holidays.

Should be 365 - 28 - 104 = 233 working days.

KayTM

Do you know if your buyers are in furnished or unfurnished rented accommodation?

Instead of offering a cash incentive, as you were considering, maybe you could consider offering furniture or equipment instead. Perhaps you'll be buying new white goods for your new dream home. If you have, say, an old washing machine, cooker, fridge, etc, you'd probably get very little for selling them. Yet, if you agreed to leave them, it could save your buyers a lot of expense and hassle. Just a thought...

BTW, we're also in the position of being FTBs and moving out of rented, and I am seriously hoping for some overlap of rent and mortgage. We will be perfectly happy to have an overlap of a couple of weeks(or even a month!) just to make our lives so much easier. But we've bought before so we know what's involved in a house purchase - and we have budgeted for it!

macaroon9

we're already leaving the washing machine, tumble dryer, there is a built in cooker and hob and dishwasher, we're leaving the shed and storage box in the garden, all the light fittings, curtains, curtain poles, blinds and carpets. As well as a built in bed upstairs, I think they've had more than enough from us already. I've totally had enough I want to know one way or another, I want a date for exchange and a date to move and if I don't get both of those by Thursday of this week I think we'll pull out, they're obviously not worth the effort.