Our buyer wants us to demolish our shed

Cakeguts · 20 October 2018 at 7:03PM

EachPenny wrote: »

Please, just let the dog rest in peace.

It was resting in peace. It was just that they didn't want to have to dig it up to move it if I remember rightly.

It just shows that you can't even bury your dog under a shed without some buyer coming along and asking you to demolish the shed.

phoebe1989seb · 20 October 2018 at 7:15PM

YoungBlueEyes wrote: »

When we had our house on the market, the EA rang me to say the buyers wanted the garden walls repointing and painting white or they'd pull out.

When I finished laughing I hung up.

When we were selling our first house twenty-odd years ago, our buyers had a similar request - if they bought some wallpaper, could we paper the second bedroom with it.

Admittedly, it was the only room we'd not redecorated (this was a three bedroom/three reception plus conservatory and cellar Victorian terrace) and they were FTBs with - at their own admission - no DIY skills.

Being young and naive, we agreed

They did go ahead with the purchase, but we'd accepted their (asking price) offer first day the house was on the market, so we could have probably told them to take a hike and found another buyer really quickly......

I certainly wouldn't do tit now and if I was the OP I'd be telling themto get stuffed!

EachPenny · 20 October 2018 at 7:29PM

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Being young and naive, we agreed

I'd say it was a very smart move.

20 years ago things were different in the way people behaved towards each other, but if the buyer had pulled out then you'd have had the compensation of them having paid for the wallpaper to redecorate your room.