Why hasn't this house sold yet?

easilydistracted

dadtobe wrote: »

So all being said then do I have a good list of reasons to offer something like 190k then?

I think you have a long list of reasons, however if you really want to buy it then saying:
'If you only hadn't added a layer of glitter, flowers and tat to the house it would have been a lot more attractive, the garden looks like a parking lot, half your rooms look like cupboards and my kid'll have to go to some chav school'
Wont make you very popular with the vendors.

If you say something like
'We really like the house and its nicely done but were FTBs on a budget and the room sizes mean its not a forever home. We can't go beyond ...' then you will probably get a lot further. At the end of the day they'll either take the offer or not. Try and book some other viewings through the same agent and look interested in them all while viewing while not getting too excited about any of them.

I much prefer the house the other posters posted, though this one is nice enough given its limitations. Good luck!

Cakeguts

I wouldn't buy it because I wouldn't want to drive a car out onto a main road from the drive. You would have to reverse in because you would not be able to reverse out onto a main road. Finding a gap in the traffic to reverse into the drive won't be easy either.

Hoploz

None of these things are new problems - when the house was first brought to market it was on a main road, had no downstairs loo, hard landscaping, and had 2 small bedrooms. I haven't looked at the photos but the decor will presumably still be the same. It would have been valued according to all these things at the outset. But nobody has bought it.

If you are telling them you think it's worth so much less, you'll have to come up with something different.

It's tricky as you need to be saying that it suits you, but only at X price, due to the amount it's going to cost to change these things to your own taste, and you only have so much in your budget. i.e. you are willing to buy it as you can see it has potential, but your problem is you can only go to X. (see? It's your budget that's the problem, not the house or the personality of the seller!)

It's useful to suggest it being comparable in your eyes to House Y which is priced at what you're offering. No point saying it's all horrid and in a rubbish area as if it were that bad you wouldn't be wanting to live there at all.

Ragtimeplayer

Its not a terrible area, I used to live at the bottom of Dewsbury road so know the area, but it is a very busy road indeed. Horbury and Ossett are much better areas.

StumpyPumpy

davidmcn wrote: »

Also, what's that odd bit of waste ground over the back wall?

It isn't wasteland any more.


SP

Lance_De_Boils

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

I don't know the area at all, but having lived on a (rural) A road, I wouldn't choose to buy a house on a main road again! Our house was bought as a project and the amount of work - it was unmortgageable so pretty bad - plus the proximity of the road was reflected in the price we paid.

Naively, despite having previously owned several houses in a city, I wasn't prepared for the noise (and dust ) from the road. Worst of all for me though was the way the house shook when hgv lorries went past at more than the 30 mph limit

We had little trouble selling three years later, but the standard of restoration we had done to the period house helped enormously. The family - with three kids aged approx 8 - 13 - admitted they couldn't have afforded the house had it been in a quieter location, road-wise.

Personally we wouldn't buy a house with a paved, overlooked garden either, but we both love gardening.......which you've admitted you don't!
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IMHO the detached house linked looks a better buy......

I lived by a busy road and hated it. In summer the air was so thick with fumes you could taste it. And the sound of those sirens! Neenar neenar almost drove me to madness.

Blackpool_Saver

I love the decor, but it needs some green at the back and the bedrooms are too small, also the road noise. Reduce it a bit so people will be happy that it's really a 2 bed.

dadtobe

Ragtimeplayer wrote: »

Its not a terrible area, I used to live at the bottom of Dewsbury road so know the area, but it is a very busy road indeed. Horbury and Ossett are much better areas.

Thanks is it handy being near supermarket/train station etc.

dadtobe

They've had lots of viewings but no offers doe's that seem right or is she agent telling porky pies?

easilydistracted

dadtobe wrote: »

They've had lots of viewings but no offers doe's that seem right or is she agent telling porky pies?

There is little benefit for them pretending there hasn't been offers when they have, they would be better saying there hadn't been any acceptable offers. That comment suggests it is overpriced and reading between the lines suggests that agent would get them to take sensible offers. Did it look nice on viewing?