Selling our house and had ridiculous offers recently

eddddy

Grumpelstiltskin wrote: »

Andrea OK So the OP doesn't want the link on here but if that is the case how can he expect us to help him?

Hmmm... just a touch arrogant.

The OP chose how much info to divulge.

If you feel that's insufficient info for you to make a helpful comment... then don't make a comment.

LannieDuck

bouicca21 wrote: »

IMHO a request for a second viewing with grandparents in tow suggests serious interest and an intention to negotiate.

I agree. They're demonstrating interest, and some people make ridiculously low opening bids to chance their arm.

We had someone make a very low initial offer when we were selling. Long story short (including a second interested party who was chain-free, and multiple offers from both sides), they ended up writing to us to ask if there was a number we'd accept them at!

There wasn't (because of the status of their flat sale and a sense of game-playing that we got from them), but goes to show that the first offer isn't a good indicator of how high people are prepared to go.

In your situation I would have said 'yes' to the second viewing, but asked the EA to make very clear that you're only going to be interested in offers at or around asking price.

moneyistooshorttomention

PasturesNew wrote: »

Send a bill to the rude viewers with badly behaved children for the plants they wrecked. Rude people. Peasants. Bad parenting.

I don't know why some parents think it's acceptable to take their obnoxious brats into other people's houses to run riot.... touching things, poking things, kicking their cat I bet in some cases.

Seconded - re sending the bill (and I'd be including a bit for my time in sorting it out too). I'd take the view that even if they were too "ignorant" to pay for my wrecked plants - at least I could live with my conscience (because I'd tried to get them to "do their duty").

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi everyone

Can you not post the link to the property please? If the OP wants to put it on here they can but we need to leave that up to them for their privacy.

Thanks!

Even though the OP instructed their agent to put it in the public domain?

Ithaca

bouicca21 wrote: »

IMHO a request for a second viewing with grandparents in tow suggests serious interest and an intention to negotiate.

That was my first thought too... "Mum.... Dad... we've found the perfect house but it's over our budget. You know when you mentioned about maybe releasing some of our inheritance early...".

moneyistooshorttomention

Having read right through the thread now:

- agree with going with a local EA and there is highly likely to be at least one buyer that has done exactly what I would do (if I could afford it:cool:) and made it plain to the EA that "That road is mine - and I'm to be told first about any property coming up for sale there". Yep...I do have a road in mind that is clearly "mine". Many people will have....

- Yes it is cheeky/misleading to call a 3 bedroom house a "4 bedroom" one. It isnt - its 3 bedroom and it would make me feel distrustful of the vendor to see that they were saying the house had one more bedroom than it obviously did have. (Yep....never forgotten yet a house I looked round and only realised subsequently "Hang on in there a minute - just where was that dining room they said it had?". The answer was "There isnt a dining room").

Thrugelmir

Personally I wouldn't use an online agent to market such a property. As there's no opportunity to vet potential purchasers. Nor will you necessarily find the right buyer by doing so.

phoebe1989seb

Assuming that is the OP's house - and everything points to it being so - then I agree that it's not the kind of property you would choose to use an online EA to market.

Personally, I would describe it as *niche* rather than *unique*. We've sold a few *niche* properties previously - the Tudor house that had been dismantled and rebuilt in a new location and was now surrounded by a sea of modern bungalows, the Georgian village thatch on a large plot fronting into a rural A-road (both fully restored, non-listed houses, btw) - and didn't even consider using an online EA, even though the savings in fees would have been huge. Both properties were in slower moving areas than the OP (N Essex & the SW) and in a price bracket where houses weren't exactly jumping off the shelves.

Imo, that kind of house needs the expertise/local knowledge a very good high street EA can bring to the table. In our last sale in particular (2014) we had valuations from Savills, Hamptons etc, but opted to to go with a smaller, local EA that specialised in upmarket, rural properties. The EA we used was fantastic and they found us a buyer in five weeks when we had been expecting a wait of twelve months!

The house that has been linked is definitely only a three bed, although again I can identify with the idea of maximising your buying pool by calling it a four bed, as both the houses mentioned above had ground floor bedrooms.......but - they were intended to be used that way as both had had annexes built in their past.

Moreover, despite the fact we marketed the first as a five bed (three downstairs bedrooms), in addition it had a further two reception rooms plus conservatory. The second (another five bed) had one ground floor bedroom - we used it as a library - plus a further two reception rooms and a 36' eat-in kitchen. What I'm trying to say is that despite these ground floor bedrooms there was still plenty of living space.

A quick perusal of RM shows other properties in and around the location of the linked house that are similarly priced, but in *move-in* condition without the issues of the house in question. Even some of these appear to be lingering on the market......

Imho, price definitely has to be the issue and the choice of EA coming a close second.

LittleMax

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi everyone

Can you not post the link to the property please? If the OP wants to put it on here they can but we need to leave that up to them for their privacy.

Thanks!

Fair enough - but it didn't take me more than a couple of minutes to find it from all the information OP had given - so if they want it kept a secret, they need to be more careful.

Clues I followed were... priced around £1.6m, in 'leafy bucks', AONB/greenbelt, put on sale around april, 3/4 acre with a large barn that has potential for development, and the biggest clue - an online agent (cos everyone else in that price bracket uses an 'upmarket' agent!)

AdrianC

LittleMax wrote: »

Clues I followed were... in 'leafy bucks'

...by about half a mile...