Waiting for a buyer... Anyone want to join me?

Pumpkim

Our drama continues, my nerves are in shreds!

We accepted the offer on Tuesday and now we have had another higher offer :eek:
The new offer is what we always said we wanted to achieve and means we have a deposit and all costs covered from the equity with no need to dip into savings. BUT we can't bring ourselves to allow the first offer to be gazumped. My conscience is screaming no, but a tiny part of me thinks we should look after ourselves... we have agonised over this today. By the time we decided what to do, nobody answered the phone at the agents.

The next part of the drama, is that the house we love, which went SSTC 1 minute before we received our offer on Tuesday, has gone back live on all the property portals as of yesterday tea-time. The vendor said she would let us know if anything changed but hasn't made any contact and we haven't been able to get hold of anyone today. I spoke to the online agent today and the lady I spoke to said it was correct and it is available, but wasn't from the team dealing with it so didn't know what the situation was, she said she would get someone to call me but nobody did! I'm trying not to get too excited in case it's snatched away from me again

If it's this stressful now, I don't know how I'll survive waiting to exchange!:rotfl:

davgray

Temo I think your problem could be price, bare in mind you bought new only 2 years ago at £195 this would of been most likely top price bracket for the area as new build you pay over the odds on them, not sure in 2 years how I guess the estate agents then thinks it had gone up by 30k. I would think most likely looking at getting what you paid for it or slightly more if your lucky

sheff6107

"If it's this stressful now, I don't know how I'll survive waiting to exchange!"

Two offers on the table. How terribly stressful for you.

Crashy_Time

Headlines like this don`t help much either?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4657812/Britain-brink-housing-price-collapse.html

Tiners

sheff6107 wrote: »

Too right. 8 weeks and nothing! Our agent came round to take some updated photos and said he'd never known a market like it. Absolutely no idea what will happen down the line and has plenty of nice houses that won't sell yet plenty of ones he'd expect to languish being sold.

That's how it always seemed to be in my area, the ones I thought were over priced seemed to sell quite quick whilst the ones that looked more reasonably priced seemed to hang around.

I think buyers have some kind of 'Emperors new clothes syndrome' when it comes to houses... the more expensive one must be the better house, because, well it's more expensive!

Things have changed now though, nothing seems to be selling, over priced or not.

scottishgirl87

Well we had another viewing today so 2 viewings in the first 2 days of being on the market. I was a bit taken aback when the lady today declared she loved the place and could see herself living here. Whenever my fiance and I view properties we very much keep our poker faces on until we leave! Maybe that's just us though?

sheff6107

Almost every viewer I've had say they absolutely love it to my face. Then they'll tell the agent something negative the next day so minor you want to slap them around the head with a frying pan.

happytails

New estate agent is coming on Tuesday - I am just a bit excited! New, better pics and a fresh start on Rightmove! Hopefully will equate to a sale soon!

Just ordered cheap curtains and pole for my Sons room which just had a blackout blind on and I have ordered bar stools for my breakfast bar to show it has a purpose! Getting some new cushions from poundland tomorrow to fill up the sofa - all good for the image on RM and its stuff i can take with me

Its the school holidays in 3 weeks and it would be so nice to be sold by then! (a miracle!)

A few things i've done this week - might help others who aren't getting much interest (or it might not!)

De-weeded entire front garden (stones on all garden area) and added 6 potted plants.
Bought some artifical plants for the house - will be mixing with some real ones as i have about 6 vases now.
Got some cheap but bright bulbs (not energy savers) so everywhere looks twice as bright
Hung some plaques and mirrors up to fill blank walls.
I have been practicing creating a lived in/purposeful space in each room that is tidy but not clinical and empty looking - dressing the table etc and strategically placing candles/toys/books like they do in show homes. my tester pics look much more enticing!

Sarah x

Pumpkim

I did a lot of those things Happytails, and it does give it a more homely inviting feel. It's more homely now than it has been in the 10 years we've lived here :rotfl:
Good luck, I'm sure it will all work!

scottishgirl87 wrote: »

Well we had another viewing today so 2 viewings in the first 2 days of being on the market. I was a bit taken aback when the lady today declared she loved the place and could see herself living here. Whenever my fiance and I view properties we very much keep our poker faces on until we leave! Maybe that's just us though?

We've had three offers and I predicted all three, the people were all much more openly enthusiastic than any of the other viewers we've had, all were perfectly polite and said nice things to my face, but with the ones that offered I knew that they were imagining themselves living here. We've now accepted the first offer we got at the beginning of this week and I've spent today filling in all my property info forms for the solicitor, Fingers crossed it goes smoothly.
Need to find somewhere to buy now :eek:
The one we love is being removed from the market, they've decided not to sell:(
Good luck everyone x

phoebe1989seb

scottishgirl87 wrote: »

Well we had another viewing today so 2 viewings in the first 2 days of being on the market. I was a bit taken aback when the lady today declared she loved the place and could see herself living here. Whenever my fiance and I view properties we very much keep our poker faces on until we leave! Maybe that's just us though?

When we sold our last house in 2014, we had one viewing that we had to do ourselves as the EAs were 'unavailable'. They warned us ahead of the viewing that the woman was flakey and had already had an offer accepted on another house they had on their books. She arrived with her mum and by the second room she was in tears, telling us how perfect the house was. By the time she got upstairs, she was calling her lender regarding increasing her borrowing and having seen everything - the viewing took over an hour - she made us an asking price offer direct before leaving.

Our EA called to confirm she had formally offered and withdrawn the offer on the other property, but set alarm bells ringing by saying she'd need to bring her DH back to view at the weekend. She did, he loved it too and the sale went through with no price negotiations in a few weeks

Hope your buyer comes good too!