Measuring Up

Crashy_Time

goodwithsaving wrote: »

Cheers Crashy, I was doing okay until your response but I'll just have a sleepless night.
Great.

You shouldn`t, not due to what someone posts on the internet anyway. I think it is a housing bubble and it is starting to pop, and I believe this is now seen as a good thing by many people, others on here present themselves as somehow more knowledgeable than that because they have bought and sold a few houses over the years, but my point is that people tend to post the advice they would like to hear for their own situation and you shouldn`t pay too much attention either way if you don`t want to. Posting a query on a forum isn`t going to sell your house, only agreeing a price that someone is willing to pay will do that. I originally did think it might be a positive, but people maybe wishing not to give offence or be too abrupt in moving on might think that "showing interest" by measuring etc. gives you some value as well and justifies their viewing the property and taking up your time? The pillow talk later will definitely be about price, not cupboard sizes IMO.

Clutterfree

Crashy_Time wrote: »

That joke wasn`t particularly funny the first time IMO, we are talking about AVERAGE properties, not Buckingham Palace. Of course they probably thought prime sites could never lose their "value" in Japan in the early 90`s as well?

Wasn't supposed to be funny, was just trying to show the OP how ludicrous your posts are.

Your sole purpose is to come on here scaremongering people.
No doubt you'd say you're educating them.
House moving is stressful enough without others deliberately trying to add to it for their own agenda.

Thankfully most people on here are now wise to your bias but unfortunately some aren't and take your posts at face value.
Does it make you feel good that your post may have made someone have a sleepless night?

Last year when I was selling & buying, the Brexit vote happened. You had me worrying that all chains would collapse due to uncertainty.
It didn't and I've now lived in this property a year.

For someone so anti house buying you sure do spend a lot of time on here...

goodwithsaving

I think it went okay, the agent certainly thinks so. They asked me about some things on the property forms which I already mentioned when I was going room to room measuring things with them.
They offered me money for some things that I'm leaving behind and I said not to worry about it as, as far as I'm concerned, it comes with the property. They asked where my curtains were from as they will get the same ones. Also seemed pleased that I had additional storage of which they weren't previously aware.
Fingers crossed :-/

SuboJvR

Are they first time buyers?

For those of us new to the process it is easy to forget things first time. And it's easy to get carried away excited. Both of these are legitimate reasons to want to view again.

Someone who wants to pull out probably just would, I'm not sure I would revisit if I had already decided a place wasn't for me.

goodwithsaving

They're not FTBs. They kept referring to me by name which was very personable. Fingers crossed the next couple of weeks go smoothly and we do get to exchange.

Crashy_Time

Clutterfree wrote: »

Wasn't supposed to be funny, was just trying to show the OP how ludicrous your posts are.

Your sole purpose is to come on here scaremongering people.
No doubt you'd say you're educating them.
House moving is stressful enough without others deliberately trying to add to it for their own agenda.

Thankfully most people on here are now wise to your bias but unfortunately some aren't and take your posts at face value.
Does it make you feel good that your post may have made someone have a sleepless night?

Last year when I was selling & buying, the Brexit vote happened. You had me worrying that all chains would collapse due to uncertainty.
It didn't and I've now lived in this property a year.

For someone so anti house buying you sure do spend a lot of time on here...

Can`t remember saying ALL chains would collapse due to Brexit, many probably have though (also likely to do with banks getting cautious) and I clearly said in my last post to the OP not to take anything on the internet at face value, whether from someone who wants to see a crash or someone who has borrowed large and doesn`t want any talk of prices falling. Not much in your post to do with why people were measuring and if it is good, bad or indifferent though? Someone either buys your house or they don`t, the internet is really for entertainment/discussion purposes IMO, although there are pockets of very good advice here and on other forums, here mainly in the investment/debt threads IMO.

Slinky

We did have a lady come back to 'measure up' said she'd be dropping her cheque in to the solicitors the following day ready for exchange on Friday. Found out on the Friday she hadn't done so and pulled out (sorry!).


However we'll have looked at the place we're trying to buy 5 times by the time we get to exchange. First time me on my own. Second time both of us after offer had been accepted and thought it might be a good idea for OH to see his future home. Third time to look at some stuff the survey threw up. Fourth time to go round with an electrician for some work we will need doing immediately after completion. Fifth time will be next weekend on advice of this forum to check things are still as expected just before exchange (house is 100 miles from home, could have burned down for all we know).


We would have looked less if the vendors had pulled their fingers out and not taken 21 weeks to get from acceptance to proposed exchange on a 1 property chain with nobody living in it.

Clutterfree

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Can`t remember saying ALL chains would collapse due to Brexit, many probably have though (also likely to do with banks getting cautious) and I clearly said in my last post to the OP not to take anything on the internet at face value, whether from someone who wants to see a crash or someone who has borrowed large and doesn`t want any talk of prices falling. Not much in your post to do with why people were measuring and if it is good, bad or indifferent though? Someone either buys your house or they don`t, the internet is really for entertainment/discussion purposes IMO, although there are pockets of very good advice here and on other forums, here mainly in the investment/debt threads IMO.

I responded re measuring up in post #23 if you had bothered to read before you stressed the OP.

Anyway, walking away from this now because the OP has said all went well and bickering on here adds nothing to the original subject.

NicNicP

I'd take it as a positive. I'd have loved to use that excuse to have another look round the house we were buying but they were leaving appliances and curtains and all the bedrooms had built in cupboards.

goodwithsaving

They specifically told me afterwards, "I'm so glad we met you in person and we're definitely very serious" so hopefully that's good. I can't afford for any re-negotiations either.
Oh lord, I'm such a worrier :-(