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'I have a buyer for your home' letter...

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  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,729 Ambassador
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    We found a buyer for our previous home. The only reason he ended up not buying was nothing to do with the house or EA, so occasionally it does all work out.
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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    I've also had a letter, hinting that Mr & Mrs Middleton are interested in buying my house ... clearly aimed at sucking people like me in to believing that these people would choose to own my house. Normally letters just say "Mr & Mrs M".

    The letterbox is by the bin, which saves me time.
  • SLightfoot1986
    SLightfoot1986 Posts: 4 Newbie
    Thank you all for replies.
    In terms of the addressing part, I guess that was quite vague. I mean it had our address on it, as opposed to a generic 'dear homeowner' letter. Which means nothing, ultimately. I'll give them another call, possibly speak to the manager and see what comes of it.
  • pretamang
    pretamang Posts: 172 Forumite
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    Be wary.
    I had several notes through my door saying 'I have a buyer for you' when my house was on the market.

    I called one and said "I assume that if you have a buyer then you have already tried calling my selling agent, whose details are shown clearly on the board outside my house and also online. Please take it up with them".

    They then did call my estate agent, and told them: "we have permission from the seller to take pictures and start marketing the property to prospective buyers - can we arrange to pick up the keys tomorrow?!"

    Needless to say this didn't happen, the buyer-in-waiting didn't appear, and I told them where to go. This was from a well-known chain of national high-street agents.
  • kilby_007
    kilby_007 Posts: 738 Forumite
    SLightfoot1986 wrote: »
    Thank you all for replies.
    In terms of the addressing part, I guess that was quite vague. I mean it had our address on it, as opposed to a generic 'dear homeowner' letter. Which means nothing, ultimately. I'll give them another call, possibly speak to the manager and see what comes of it.

    What is the name of the company? You can probably find out something about them via google.
  • Lord_Baltimore
    Lord_Baltimore Posts: 1,348 Forumite
    It sounds improbable and it's most likely a marketing tactic. One slender possibility is that cash in the bank loses money if inflation outpaces rates of interest: it could be a cash investor looking to the bricks and mortar alternative.

    Keep your eyes wide open :)!
    Mornië utulië
  • Marvel1
    Marvel1 Posts: 7,449 Forumite
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    The old saying comes to mind " if too good to be true it probably is".
  • sparky130a
    sparky130a Posts: 660 Forumite
    No chance. There's no way this sort of crowd will pay above market value. Their margin has to come from somewhere....
  • always_sunny
    always_sunny Posts: 8,314 Forumite
    I used to get so many of these letters as a tenant; I would chuck them away.
    There used to be a bin near the main entry door of the building and it was full of these letters!
    EU expat working in London
  • csgohan4
    csgohan4 Posts: 10,600 Forumite
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    Paper recycling anyone?
    "It is prudent when shopping for something important, not to limit yourself to Pound land/Estate Agents"

    G_M/ Bowlhead99 RIP
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