Vendor insists on selling her furniture

TamsinC

Just keep saying no thank you, tell her you didn't factor in extra money for furniture etc as you already have your own and are at the top of your budget already. Our vendor tried this, his stuff was at least nice but we have a full house of stuff we chose, bought and like and I didn't want his. As we told him we didn't have a budget for furniture now we are getting it for free as he doesn't want to take it. Hubby is happy, I'm not as I don't want 95% of it. But to keep things sweet we will take it and gradually 'do' something with it. Stick to your guns I very much doubt she will lose a sale over this. Tell her she could sell on eBay if she wants to recoup some money.

In 30 years of buying houses we have never lost a sale for not paying extra for carpets and curtains etc (most of the time they ended up left behind anyway).

eddddy

People can be very irrational, especially when it comes to selling their 'dearly loved' home and their 'dearly loved' furniture.

There is the risk that a seller could say "If you won't buy my lovely furniture, you can't buy my lovely house either.".


Are you buying through an EA? If so discuss the issue with them. They should be used to dealing with 'difficult' sellers, and they should be good at defusing/resolving these kinds of situations.


Edit to add...

Perhaps one strategy for dealing with this is to say "Your furniture is lovely, but unfortunately we just don't have the spare money to buy it - so we'll just have to manage with what we've got".

(Then I guess the seller might decide to leave it behind as a 'favour'... but at least you'll only have disposal costs to cover.)

AnotherJoe

SophiaF wrote: »

We love the house, but I am not happy with the vendor trying to take advantage by adding unnecessary expenses.
We are ready to pull out if she is not happy with the idea that we already have our own furniture and overstretched our budget to buy the property.

In which case just keep it polite but firm "thanks we really appreciate your offer but we already have the furniture we require so wont need yours"

Do NOT say "we cant afford it" since that might only encourage her to offer it at a lower price !

SophiaF

Yes we are buying through an EA. I wanted to approach them but as they work for the vendor, wasn't too sure it was the right thing to do.

davidmcn

Compromise is that you don't pay any extra, but allow her to leave her stuff to save her the expense and bother of getting it shifted.

hazyjo

First word of warning to others - don't give your phone number to a seller/buyer.

Presuming there's an EA, ring them and tell them to have a word with her.

As above, just repeat yourself "thank you, but we are still not interested. Not trying to get the price of goods down further, we simply have our own stuff already."

AnotherJoe

davidmcn wrote: »

Compromise is that you don't pay any extra, but allow her to leave her stuff to save her the expense and bother of getting it shifted.

The danger with that is that they may think its a cunning plan to rip them off by getting it for free and take offence.

Or failing that it also has the alternate meaning that you think her stuff is rubbish and you will dispose of it at first opportunity down the local dump.

Ozzuk

It's really not difficult, 'Thank you but not required', repeat if she keeps asking. Why did you give her your number? Wait and see what is in the paperwork...

SophiaF

I wouldn't mind her leaving the stuff and get rid of them myself. I just don't want to pay the extra money for stuff I won't be using.
I will follow your advice and tell her thanks again but we have our own stuff already.
Thanks all for your advice, I really appreciate.

eddddy

SophiaF wrote: »

Yes we are buying through an EA. I wanted to approach them but as they work for the vendor, wasn't too sure it was the right thing to do.

The EA mainly works for themselves.

They want the property sold, so that they can earn their commission.

If they see the sale potentially falling apart over an argument about £600 worth of furniture, most EAs would jump on the case straight away to find a solution.

If you tell the EA that there is no way that you are buying the furniture for £600 - they will almost certainly be on the phone to the seller to try to find a way through the problem.