What to Offer but Not Cause Offence?

mimi1234

kinger101 wrote: »

Who knows. But if they want to leave the furniture, I wouldn't be surprised if they reneged on any agreement to remove it. Be aware of that if you need to move in on the day it completes.

Well the beds and the wardrobe all actually look really decent and so does the sofa, so not quite sure why he wants to leave it all.

To be honest, if I am finally going to bite the bullet and buy, I want it all to be mine and not have someone's left overs leftover if you know what I mean.

Sod it, I am going to put the offer in and see what happens.

iantojones40

It's funny how buyers get so worried about causing offence by making what could be deemed 'insulting' offers, yet vendors never seem to have any embarrassment when putting their property on the market with delusional, unrealistic asking prices that bear no relation to other comparable sold prices.

brodawel

mimi1234 wrote: »

Well the beds and the wardrobe all actually look really decent and so does the sofa, so not quite sure why he wants to leave it all.

Sod it, I am going to put the offer in and see what happens.

My parents once bought a house with most of the furniture, they didn't want it but they were worried the vendor would change their mind so they agreed to anything.

How about offering £97K or £96.5K, a carefully considered figure rather than a chance my luck figure of £95K. Think I saw it on TV once, probably LLL

Person_one

mimi1234 wrote: »

Well the beds and the wardrobe all actually look really decent and so does the sofa, so not quite sure why he wants to leave it all.

To be honest, if I am finally going to bite the bullet and buy, I want it all to be mine and not have someone's left overs leftover if you know what I mean.

Sod it, I am going to put the offer in and see what happens.

Will you have the cash to buy all new furniture straight away? Even after solicitors fees and other costs?

Having some furniture already in there might make life easier at first, you won't have to wait for stuff to be delivered, and can choose at your leisure and as your finances allow. Charities like BHF and Emmaus will collect decent second hand furniture when you are ready to get rid of it.

mimi1234

brodawel wrote: »

My parents once bought a house with most of the furniture, they didn't want it but they were worried the vendor would change their mind so they agreed to anything.

How about offering £97K or £96.5K, a carefully considered figure rather than a chance my luck figure of £95K. Think I saw it on TV once, probably LLL

I like it. I will do what you have said. I am not going to fly in with an offer because I want to leave it a day or two.

Last week he was desperate to sell because he has seen another house but cannot get a mortgage big enough (something about being self employed) so he is having to sell this one. This week he had done his homework and said there were a lot of other viewers coming. Well it's his choice at the end of the day. If my offer is not good enough for him, he can go to someone else.

Person_one wrote: »

Will you have the cash to buy all new furniture straight away? Even after solicitors fees and other costs?

Having some furniture already in there might make life easier at first, you won't have to wait for stuff to be delivered, and can choose at your leisure and as your finances allow. Charities like BHF and Emmaus will collect decent second hand furniture when you are ready to get rid of it.

Thanks for that thought. After the surveys, solicitors fees and various other bits and bobs, I am not sure I will have enough for all the furniture but I will be taking most of my room from where I am at the moment. If Mother decides to move with me, great, but if not, it's her choice and I can't make her.

A friend has offered me some money for the furniture. And to be honest, I won't want everything straight away, just the very basics and I will then work my way towards getting everything else.

A friend of mine mentioned Pass It On, which again, is like a charity and they take furniture away. I think BHF take it away for free as long as it is in good working condition etc.

kinger101

iantojones40 wrote: »

It's funny how buyers get so worried about causing offence by making what could be deemed 'insulting' offers, yet vendors never seem to have any embarrassment when putting their property on the market with delusional, unrealistic asking prices that bear no relation to other comparable sold prices.

The difference between the average property asking price on Rightmove (£303,190), and the recorded sale price by the land registry (£190,275) is massive. I know there's a lag between the two, but given most sellers only price marginally more than they want (say 5-10%), there's clearly a minority of very silly people skewing the figures.

Perhaps we need a delusion index marking the difference between the two.

brodawel

kinger101 wrote: »

Perhaps we need a delusion index marking the difference between the two.

:rotfl: I'm laughing at that even though I'm beyond fed up with greedy deluded sellers at the moment. So fed up in fact that I'm seriously considering paying too much for a property just so I can get on with life.

fudge7000

When I sold a few years ago, I got quite a few "chancing" offers - think it was up for 160k, and got probably 4-5 offers around 120k (was around the time of the crash, so think people were trying it on, hoping you were desperate). House wasn't overpriced, sold for 155 within a month or so. Certainly wasn't offended by any of them - just said no!

Crashy_Time

iantojones40 wrote: »

It's funny how buyers get so worried about causing offence by making what could be deemed 'insulting' offers, yet vendors never seem to have any embarrassment when putting their property on the market with delusional, unrealistic asking prices that bear no relation to other comparable sold prices.

Exactly, just shows how brainwashed people have become in regard to property.

MartiMcfly

I think this is an odd question. It entirely depends where you live. In an area of high demand, and assuming the listed asking price holds up with a comparable local property, then you can offer 10K less, but it probably wont be accepted.


All the property I've ever purchased has been in London, and getting property here is cut throat. You can offer a low price, but the seller knows they can achieve close or past asking price.

I've only saved money by buying places that are derelict, re-possessions etc, in London a seller of their nicely kept home would play hard ball (if priced in the bracket of recently sold) Here especially you get some crazy valuations, way beyond what has sold only months ago, people see through it and the house sits there for months, and suddenly its gone from the websites, only to re-appear with a new agent, priced 70K less to something more 'normal' (typical overpriced london local price sold)