What's the fastest house sale here?

Doozergirl

What would be the benefit of lying than just being straight at the start? "Oh, sorry, I thought you'd prefer to be strung along like an idiot?"

Which solicitor/accountant/estate agent exactly would be suing you? :roftl: Business acumen? Yeahright.

missk_ensington

Well the Associations could potentially sue me for slander against a whole sector of people however unlikely that is.

Well sometimes you have to lie. For example if you want a house which lots of other people want, but you don't have the despoit straight away for whatever reason. If you put in an offer but say "Oh I can't proceed for another 9 weeks until I have my deposit is that okay?" You can guess what the answer might be. Therefore, your advocation that one should be straight from the beginning is clearly going to result in losing said house. The other option is not to mention anything (you're not obliged to volunteer information) get the house and play tactically for time. That's business.

Knowing about customer service is all well and good if you work in Macdonalds, but in self-emplyed business it means sweet FA. I think we'll agree to disagree, I'm 21 with a £50,000 mortgage and a further £65,000 equity from doing things my way so if I'm wrong, it clearly hasn;t hindered my progress thus far.

Doozergirl

I'll quite happily agree to disagree. You quite plainly and consistantly talk complete rubbish.

The difference between you and me is that I talk from experience.

david29dpo

This time last year i was selling a little flat to a man who said he wanted to be in for Xmas. I wanted a completion before Xmas. The sale was going well then the truth came out. I found out he needed to give notice on his rented flat and had no intention of exchanging before Xmas. After he had paid most of his buying fees i sold to a cash buyer instead and completed 6 days before Xmas. The moral? Tell the truth now, explain the situation your dad is in and all should be well. Lying rarely works when your selling.

Nicki

I was selling to a couple who were guaranteeing a completion date before the kids went back to school. It transpired they were only saying this to appear attractive buyers and they wanted to drag the process out until well into the school term. On finding this out, we put the house back on the market, had offers of full asking price from 2 cash buyers within the day and exchanged and completed on the sale 22 days later!

Madmel

Thanks to everyone who has replied, and I'm sorry there are some posts which have strayed from my original question.

Doozergirl, the house isn't actually on the market; the 2 years was his own timescale, but an eager EA might have put paid to that. However, I feel that a buyer with the cash is worth several "interested" people without ready funds. If this one goes t*ts up, he hasn't lost anything so I think on balance he should go for it.

If he breaks one of your records (3 weeks!!!) and has the cash in his hand, he can afford to put stuff into storage & move into a nice hotel (or with us) for a few weeks until he has sorted his new place out.

For the record, I agree about the honesty. When we moved last year, the vendors of our new house wanted a quick exchange then a long time til completion. They were running a B&B and holiday cottages here and wanted to milk the holiday season. It gave us longer to sell our house, so we decided to stick with their wishes and it made for a much nicer atmosphere. She actually came round earlier this week with some instructions for appliances that she'd mistakenly packed, over a year on. They are really happy to answer our questions about things and we run into them from time to time. I do believe what goes around comes around, and if you make someone's life difficult, it may well come back to bite you.