Last minute demand from buyer

lichfield22

The dad has somehow got it into his head that I'm loaded and told the estate agent he 'can't believe' I can't afford everything they're asking for when I'm buying a house in the area we're moving to. We're paying £160k for the house we're buying. Clearly I am a secret millionaire.

shortcrust

Just wanted to add my pint of anger to the angry mix!!! Grrrr!:mad: Hope it all works out in the end.

mpet

You've definitely done the right thing. It's annoying that it's put your purchase in jeopardy, but you can only take so much. Having in the past had a nightmare buyer, I vowed that if I was ever in that position again, I would tell my buyer to do one.

I feel for you, but it seems that the electrical test at your expense was only the start of a list of other demands.

marksoton

lichfield22 wrote: »

Drumroll .... The house is back on the market :mad::mad::mad: Having promised the estate agent last night that she'd sort out her deposit and see her solicitor today, the buyer eventually emerged at 2pm and hadn't done a thing. By this time the dad had been on the phone to the estate agent ranting and raving about ME holding things up again. The whole thing is insane. Once he realised his daughter hadn't done her bit, he told the agent that it would help if I would pay for her first year's buildings insurance and a professional cleaner :mad::mad: At that point I told the agent to put the house back on the market.
Position now is that if she comes up with the deposit money by midday tomorrow, we can still exchange. She is aware of this and also that the house is back on the market - the reaction apparently being floods of tears and that I can't do this to her. Oh yes I can.
This post does not, by the way, quite convey how angry I am right now surrounded by 50 boxes.

lichfield22 wrote: »

The dad has somehow got it into his head that I'm loaded and told the estate agent he 'can't believe' I can't afford everything they're asking for when I'm buying a house in the area we're moving to. We're paying £160k for the house we're buying. Clearly I am a secret millionaire.

Dear God some people are delusional. Pay her insurance and for a cleaner?! Some things are beyond parody.

I really would make that midday deadline your final one. After that have no further dealings with them.

Timpu

Probably for the best OP to go back on the market, though that's probably not how you feel right now. Really sorry for all the stress you're going through, you must be utterly gutted.

It sounds like Daddy's little girl can do no wrong in his eyes and the daughter doesn't know how to carry through on commitments. You never know, the daughter may get her act together but at least you now have another option. Good luck!

lichfield22

We don't yet know whether our vendors would be willing to wait for us to find another buyer for my house but I'm not going to think about that too much before midday tomorrow. Their estate agents know what's been going on - we saw them yesterday when we went to measure up at the house - and were horrified so no doubt have explained that the current situation isn't of our making.

We've been packing and cleaning today and I've been coming up with horrible schemes for if she does exchange tomorrow like taking all the internal shelves out of the kitchen cupboards. My husband thinks I've gone bonkers, I think you can push a nice person too far ...

robatwork

Sorry for being right (post 5) but I saw it coming.

You need a new buyer, she's not serious about it.

AnotherJoe

AdrianC wrote: »

That just takes it straight past ridiculous into sheer farce.

!!!!!!? Sorry, love, the ball is in YOUR court. Sign here <X>, and here <X>, hand over 10% of the purchase price, and tell your solicitor that thunderbirds are go. It's that easy.

Which part of that is she not understanding...?

And that's the point at which she says "10% deposit ? I thought that was paid at completion. I haven't got it. My dad says Lichfield can afford it"

OP my commiserations. Good luck with more rational buyers. Which would be about 99.999999% of the population.

marksoton

lichfield22 wrote: »

My husband thinks I've gone bonkers,

There's only two bonkers people in this sorry tale and it ain't you.

Personally i think bonkers is far too kinder description...

Hoploz

Oh you've been brave enough to visit the house you're buying. Good move! Keep them on board, hopefully with their sympathy