Buyers' solicitor arguing over blinds

Margot123

My buyers' solicitor is taking the art of being pedantic to a new level.

Having knocked £10k off the asking price and waiting 4 months for the buyers 'faffing' about, their solicitor is now arguing over the fact that I want £200 for 3 sets of blinds (value £1k).
Apparently, the estate agent told them they 'were included in the price'. I very much doubt this as EAs don't commit to anything, as we well know!

This comes a week after them wanting me paying for a useless boiler indemnity!

Fosterdog

Margot123 wrote: »

My buyers' solicitor is taking the art of being pedantic to a new level.

Having knocked £10k off the asking price and waiting 4 months for the buyers 'faffing' about, their solicitor is now arguing over the fact that I want £200 for 3 sets of blinds (value £1k).
Apparently, the estate agent told them they 'were included in the price'. I very much doubt this as EAs don't commit to anything, as we well know!

This comes a week after them wanting me paying for a useless boiler indemnity!

Is it really worth the argument? Either leave the blinds and include them in the sale price or take them with you. I’m guessing you have no use for them if they are made to fit the windows so they don’t really hold any value to you anymore

eddddy

Margot123 wrote: »

My buyers' solicitor is taking the art of being pedantic to a new level.

It's not the solicitor, it's the buyer.

(I suspect that their solicitor will soon get super hacked-off about having to 'argue' about blinds etc.)

It's better to agree this kind of stuff directly with the buyer or via the EA - and then just inform the solicitor what has been agreed. It will be much quicker that way.

POPPYOSCAR

It does not matter what the estate agent told them.

It is what you put down that counts.

I am also having trouble with a pedantic solicitor wanting to know about decking and balconies among other things on a property being bought by a developer who is going to knock the place down!.

There is no chain and it should have all been done and dusted by now.

I am sure they do it to justify their fees!

goodwithsaving

Will the blinds fit the new house? If not and they have no use to you, then it's you who is being pedantic. If they will, just take them with you.
EAs overvalue houses so may have been setting an 10k tolerance to start with.
Sometimes it isn't the buyers who faff about. Sometimes it's a combination of all parties, but because people don't communicate properly, it's possible to build a false impression of 'the other side'.

For the sake of £200, let it go and be done with it.

Surrey_EA

As edddy says, it's the buyer, not the solicitor.

AnotherJoe

Margot123 wrote: »

My buyers' solicitor is taking the art of being pedantic to a new level.

Having knocked £10k off the asking price and waiting 4 months for the buyers 'faffing' about, their solicitor is now arguing over the fact that I want £200 for 3 sets of blinds (value £1k).
Apparently, the estate agent told them they 'were included in the price'. I very much doubt this as EAs don't commit to anything, as we well know!

This comes a week after them wanting me paying for a useless boiler indemnity!

You mean cost £1k. Not value.

Its your choice as to how much to charge or insist on, all the way from nothing to the full £1k or why not indeed £1500 on the grounds that it avoids the faff and disruption of getting the fitted and waiting. Maybe you'll want, I dont know, what was the (I agree pointless) boiler indemnity, £60? So charge that. And take them with you if they wont pay.

aneary

How much does your solicitor charge for a letter in reply to the buyer's solicitor?

eg will it cost more than £200 to argue the toss.

JoJo1978

Ah well, just been through a very similar faff with a washing machine. Our buyer kept putting an enquiry via his solicitor that the washing machine was included. We kept referring him to the fixtures and fittings which said otherwise. He wasn't actually trying to pull a fast one, the EA were. They had failed to correctly present his offer to us as conditional, omitting the info about the items he wanted left from the memo of sale. Obvs the EA accepted no liability for their sloppiness. But he dug his heels in so we let him have it. To us losing a 10 year old appliance wasn't worth holding things up for.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

Margot123 wrote: »

Apparently, the estate agent told them they 'were included in the price'. I very much doubt this as EAs don't commit to anything, as we well know!

No, estate agents can't commit to anything. They very often do say things like "X and Y is included in the price, though. Obviously what they said isn't binding on anybody but I see no reason at all to doubt that they said it.

moneyistooshorttomention

£200 worth = is it worth the hassle for that?

My buyer (of last house) wanted some downright expensive plants in downright expensive pots in my last garden.

I wanted/planned on keeping them - but just thought "Is it worth the aggro for a relatively small sum of money? Blow it" and agreed. Still wishes they hadnt made that request and I'd got my damn plants and pots...but what can ya do....