Housenetwork

confused31_2

They may both BS, but at then end of the day if i can get a better service at half the price i will, they only put 3 photos on right move and they were terrible, and also got me no viewings.

Whether you like Housenetwork or you dont the simple fact of the matter is people are using the internet more and more to buy things, its like shopping 10 years ago not many people had their groceries delivered but look at it now.

Banking was done by appointments, now a lot of people do their banking online, insurance is done online not at insurance brokers.

I for one would not like to work as an estate agent and i can understand people sticking up for local estate agents, as a lot of them are loosing their jobs at the moment.

But with everything else going online i can see a lot more local estate agents closing down, local estate agents can promise you the earth but bottom line if your house is priced right and advertised in the right place, you will sell, whether your with housenetwork or a local estate agent.

So why should i pay a fee nearly 4 times as much for a local esate agent than i will have to pay for the housenetwork?

And dont come out with the BS they give you a better servie, because that certainly hasnt happend in my circumstances

Bottom linea lot of people dont like estate agents, and the experiance i have had with them, i prefer not to have to much contact with them, i would have sold my house myself if i could, but the main thing for me is to get it on rightmove.

The other thing i like the sound of house network is you can log on change your own description and also the photographs, im not bothered about the quantity of photos but the quality, which i certainly havent got from my estae agents photos is a lot better than what ive had . With the fee i would have to pay them was 4 times more than the housenetwork.

Ive sacked my both local estate agents and ill be instructing the housenestwork next week, im going for the 0.75% and the money im saving on the fee im going to take off the price of my house.

Ive got nothing to loose its no sale no fee, so ill give them 16 weeks and just sit back and chill.

Ill report back with any developments, i feel a lot of people just havent got the patience, ive gave my last 2 estate agent a fair few months to sell my house, but now they are history.

confused

confused31_2

chickmug wrote: »

Have you read all this thread and looked at one other house with them with which powerful_Rogue posted. He didn't seem happy and the 16 photos they used were very poor. I along with others have been helping him to get a better presentation as well as trying to help with whether he has a 2 bed house which HN say or a 2/3 bed house which others feel is the case and is better for the marketing.

The market is seriously cr-ap which can only be bucked by aggresive pricing.

I dont think he said the photos were poor but there was lot of them and he asked which ones he should remove.

Now as for the 3rd bedroom i wouldnt bother, at the end of the day it is a 2 bed house with 2 reception rooms. If anyone with 2 reception rooms advertised their house as having one of them as a extra bedroom there would be a hell of a lot of 3 bed roomed house being sold as 4 bed roomed and so on.

Fair enough there is potential for a 3rd bed room, but by changing that room to a 3rd bed room people will think there is not much living space down stairs.

If i was him i would sell it as a 2 bed roomed property and when he gets viewers, just say we use this as a bedroom when we have guests.

People arent stupid how many 3 bed roomed houses have a bed room down stairs?

confused

rizla01

Actually confused, I think that a lot of prospects need showing the potential of a property, and calling a downstairs room a bedroom is fine, provided it has a door off the hall rather than through another room.

A lot of people buy a house with 'x' bedrooms allowing for one to be used as an office.

for that reason I would have thought Office/Bedroom would be more appropriate and suit both requirements.

confused31_2

rizla01 wrote: »

Actually confused, I think that a lot of prospects need showing the potential of a property, and calling a downstairs room a bedroom is fine, provided it has a door off the hall rather than through another room.

A lot of people buy a house with 'x' bedrooms alowing for one to be used as an office.

for that reason I would have thought Office/Bedroom would be more appropriate and suit both requirements.

I agree it does have the potential, but dont you think people can see the potential? i for one would know that i could use the reception room as a bedroom, and like i said in my earlier post it can be pointed out when a viewer looks at the property.

To be honest if i went and viewed it has a 2 bedroom house and it was pointed out that the potential is there for a 3rd bedroom downstairs i would be more impressed, than going there to see a house thats advertised as a 3 bedroom property, that as obviously had a reception room/dining room changed into a bedroom.

But thats my personal point of view i have mine and you have yours so actually i think im right and you are wrong, having said that looking at the dimensions of the lounge it is not very big, infact it is very small, so you imagine potentially a family of four living in a house where the only rooms if all the bedrooms where used was a small lounge and a small kitchen.

Its like trying to ram 7 people in a mini, it can be done but its going to be very uncomfortable.


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rizla01

Not forgetting of course, that something advertised as 3 bed would show up in a search for a 3 bed and NOT if listed as 2 bed.

Usually people searching would search for 2 AND 3 bed props (Assuming they only needed 2 bed) but would always view the 3 beds first (esp if advertised for the same price as a 2 bed) as this would be preferential for most.

confused31_2

rizla01 wrote: »

Not forgetting of course, that something advertised as 3 bed would show up in a search for a 3 bed and NOT if listed as 2 bed.

Usually people searching would search for 2 AND 3 bed props (Assuming they only needed 2 bed) but would always view the 3 beds first (esp if advertised for the same price as a 2 bed) as this would be preferential for most.

Yeah whatever, if im looking for a house i put the ammount of bedrooms i want in the search engine, the person whos selling this house wants to sell it has a 3 bed roomed house, i personally wouldnt bother.


chikmug has made an issue out of it, as obviously her being an estate agent she is tying to say online estate agents are not very good.

Ive got an internal garage with a door that goes to my kitchen, so in theory i could throw a bed in there and call it a 4 bed roomed house.

But i dont think ill bother

confused

chickmug

confused31 wrote: »

chikmug has made an issue out of it, as obviously her being an estate agent she is tying to say online estate agents are not very good. confused

I am a male EA, so not an her, and my comments are NOT subjective, like yours, but based on having dealt with 1'000's of sales over a lifetime in the property business. I have no problem with Web selling but often like to put forward a few thoughts as it is not always the dream solution.

I keep saying, in my posts, that I agree most EA's are dodgy but some are not.

I am not paid to try and help out on the forum but am doing so to try and give back to those who have been, and are being, sh-it on by dodgy EA's. So give me a break!

rizla01

I must admit Confused, that Picking on Chick was a little uncalled for. I wasn't of the opinion the she was putting down online sales for the sake of it but criticising their worth on the whole - and I just tend to agree.

Just do a search in your locality and you will find that there are ten times more props on rightmove (placed there by EA's) than on any of these other sites, particularly the one mentioned.


PLUS, when you employ an EA you do get their skills thrown in.

Things are good when they are good but try dealing with an awkward buyer. Try recovering a dying sale. Try dealing with some of the Solicitors (If they will even speak to you) and this will only just about skim the surface of the horrors that EA's have to cope with.

Fortunately most are skilled enough to be able to do so.

Regards their worth. Consider at the last minute your buyer offers £20k less for your house.

In a lot of cases that EA will be able to save a lot more than the general housholder qand so pay for themselves.

Look upon EA's as an insurance policy, an advertising agent and a negotiator as well as a verbal punch bag (when things go wrong) and they actually work out quite reasonable.

I am very aware of the true value of any property that I sell and I have, on many an occasion, priced my property PLUS the agents fees and got it - Thanks to the EA doing his job properly.

Sorry Chick (HE) just kidding.:)

chickmug

rizla01 wrote: »

I must admit Confused, that Picking on Chick was a little uncalled for. I wasn't of the opinion the she was putting down online sales for the sake of it but criticising their worth on the whole - and I just tend to agree.

Sorry Chick (HE) just kidding.:)

Well thank you sir someone 'sticking up for me' and not 'sticking it me'.

The secret is finding one of the good ones (EA's) but sometimes in short supply by the sounds of this forum.

May be easier if I have a sex change so the she is right. Where the heck did I get Chickmug from.:D

powerful_Rogue

Thanks for everyones advice.

I think were going to stick to keeping it on the market as 2 bedroom/2 reception with the potential for a 3rd bedroom.

Im just getting ready to paint the "blue room" a nice bright colour and then declutter so we can take a few more piccies!