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Estate agents phrases you love to hate

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  • MoneyGeoff
    MoneyGeoff Posts: 264 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    "Link Detached" = Terraced
  • warby68
    warby68 Posts: 3,148 Forumite
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    'A credit to the current owners' (who now can't wait to get away)

    'Flexible' accommodation (whatever you use the rooms for it won't quite work)

    'Tastefully' (and it never is)

    'In need of some modernisation' (falling down money pit)

    And listing the radiators and sockets ....
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    Littlebobo1981 wrote: »
    Offering versatile accommodation - meaning the layout is just plain weird ( ironically this isn't my house LOL)
    I saw that written about on a standard three up, two down semi the other day.

    Wondering what they meant baffled me almost as much as the writings ofJean Paul Sartre.
  • harz99
    harz99 Posts: 3,770 Forumite
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    lincroft1710 wrote: »
    A few years an independent agent in a nearby town used the phrase "welcomed to the market" for nearly every property in their newspaper ads.


    That's the thing that winds me up more then anything, when EAs use the self same worded introduction to every property they advertise.


    Sheer bloody laziness on their part.
  • NaughtiusMaximus
    NaughtiusMaximus Posts: 2,839 Forumite
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    Modern apartment = a shoebox
    Townhouse = a multi storey shoebox
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    harz99 wrote: »
    That's the thing that winds me up more then anything, when EAs use the self same worded introduction to every property they advertise.


    Sheer bloody laziness on their part.

    They only do it because people let them. The same charge could be levelled at the public who employ wasters and duffers.

    What agents do as regards advertising is in the public domain, so one doesn't need to be very clever to see who's good and who would be better avoided.

    The lack of floor plans is a good starting point for weeding-out.
  • NaughtiusMaximus
    NaughtiusMaximus Posts: 2,839 Forumite
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    They only do it because people let them. The same charge could be levelled at the public who employ wasters and duffers.

    What agents do as regards advertising is in the public domain, so one doesn't need to be very clever to see who's good and who would be better avoided.

    The lack of floor plans is a good starting point for weeding-out.

    Indeed, when we sold our old house in the summer and tried to narrow down the myriad of EAs to a shortlist of 3 or 4 from which to obtain quotes, we looked at current and recent listings and instantly ruled out any EAs who didn't include a floorplan, measurements and at least one photo of every room in their listings. There's one EA local to me who's listings regularly fail on all 3 counts, I'm amazed anyone uses them to sell.
  • harz99
    harz99 Posts: 3,770 Forumite
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    They only do it because people let them. The same charge could be levelled at the public who employ wasters and duffers.

    What agents do as regards advertising is in the public domain, so one doesn't need to be very clever to see who's good and who would be better avoided.

    The lack of floor plans is a good starting point for weeding-out.


    Agreed. The looks I get from EAs when I give them the intro I've written and tell them they'll be using that and the photo's I've taken are quite funny.
  • enjoyyourshoes
    enjoyyourshoes Posts: 1,093 Forumite
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    the last viewers did not make an offer.
    Debt is a symptom, solve the problem.
  • NineDeuce
    NineDeuce Posts: 997 Forumite
    "Hi. I am an estate agent"
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