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Companies who will buy your house - advice needed

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  • steph2901
    steph2901 Posts: 346 Forumite
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    Pixie5740 wrote: »
    Evicting the tenants will take time. The sooner your husband gets the ball rolling the sooner they'll be out. Do you know if they are in a fixed term or periodic tenancy?

    Since the property is only an hour away it wouldn't be that arduous for your husband to send a letter giving the tenants at least 24 hours notice he's coming to do an inspection and seeing for himself what's going on. The tenants might be causing a nuisance but then again it might just be a busy body who would complain no matter who was living next door.

    I think they were fixed for 6 months, which has now passed.

    He's going to phone the estate agent in the morning for them to inspect the place and see what's going on. We will go up next weekend probably.
  • sheff6107
    sheff6107 Posts: 451 Forumite
    Companies that buy houses often agree a price with you and then suddenly offer you a much lower price as you are literally about to exchange contracts.

    People who use these companies are usually desperate and they know it. Most will just suck it up and take the last minute low price.

    So overall, they're very good if you want to sell your house at 50% of its market value.
  • Mojisola
    Mojisola Posts: 35,571 Forumite
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    steph2901 wrote: »
    He's going to phone the estate agent in the morning for them to inspect the place and see what's going on. We will go up next weekend probably.

    Better to go and see the house for yourselves than rely on an agent's report when you already have doubts about their work.
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