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Lower house offer before exchange?

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  • jayII
    jayII Posts: 40,693 Forumite
    mrginge wrote: »
    Don't listen to them.
    If you don't reduce your offer you'll move in and be permanently miserable because you'll KNOW that you paid too much.

    Only by reducing can you guarantee a long and happy future.

    ....possibly in a different house too, possibly paying more, not to mention a new lot of fees, when/if the current seller tells the OP to Fly Off.
    [FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot] Fighting the biggest battle of my life. :( Started 30th January 2018.
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  • Missus_Hyde
    Missus_Hyde Posts: 539 Forumite
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    lush_walrus wrote: »
    And people say it's Estate Agents that are immoral. The time to negotiate is while offers are being considered, or as others have said if there is an actual reason that the survey has thrown up.

    It shows a complete lack of honesty and integrity and how would you like it if the sellers decided at this late stage to put the price up? (A vendor tried that with my father, when they were buying their house and he absolutely refused to be blackmailed into paying any more money.)
    If I were the seller and you tried it with me I would withdraw from the sale and stop dealing with you.

    Absolutely and tell you to foxtrot oscar in no uncertain terms! ;)
    A cunning plan, Baldrick? Whatever it was, it's got to be better than pretending to be mad; after all, who'd notice another mad person around here?.......Edmund Blackadder.
  • SevenOfNine
    SevenOfNine Posts: 2,392 Forumite
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    Hmm, I wonder if the first time buyers are still around to grab this house when you are told where to stick your 'reduced' offer.
    Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
  • Dan-Dan
    Dan-Dan Posts: 5,279 Forumite
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    I dont think dimwitted `Adele` is going to be rushing back to the thread
    Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
  • ManuelG
    ManuelG Posts: 679 Forumite
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    Dan-Dan wrote: »
    I dont think dimwitted `Adele` is going to be rushing back to the thread

    Done their fishing, thrown the bait out...
  • GaggingOrder
    GaggingOrder Posts: 90 Forumite
    OP, I hope you read this thread and have your answer.
  • TrickyTree83
    TrickyTree83 Posts: 3,930 Forumite
    Gazumping and gazundering in the same transaction, that would put me off selling to you even at my own expense. If you really wanted the house that much to gazump the FTB's then you shouldn't feel miserable because you paid £5k - £6 more you should be happy you got the house you wanted and that's the end of it.
  • Adele79
    Adele79 Posts: 6 Forumite
    Many thanks to all your comments.i think I have been put firmly in my place.i am not going to try and renegotiate and carry on with my original offer.didnt realise I would get such a hostile view!
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    Adele79 wrote: »
    I would get such a hostile view!

    Thanks for coming back.

    Don't take it personally; we're all just pixels.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    Adele79 wrote: »
    Many thanks to all your comments.i think I have been put firmly in my place.i am not going to try and renegotiate and carry on with my original offer.didnt realise I would get such a hostile view!
    One day, you will be looking to sell this house and buy another.

    How would you feel if the people who you thought were buying it from you suddenly turned round and said "Y'know what? I don't want to pay as much as we've been talking about. I want to pay less."?

    You would be bloody furious with them, wouldn't you? Well, yes. Exactly. THAT.

    Do unto others, an' all that.
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