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Vendor not co-operating or willing to complete on empty house after 10 months
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I would have walked after 3 months of offer. The likelihood after 10 months is very slim"It is prudent when shopping for something important, not to limit yourself to Pound land/Estate Agents"
G_M/ Bowlhead99 RIP0 -
After 3 months it's their fault. After 10, and an ultimatum being ignored it's equally yours. Move on find another place.0
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Sounds like very little research has been done on the owner(s).
Is this one person the sole legal owner and has this been confirmed by the other sides solicitor.0 -
It sounds to me like she doesn't really intend to sell. She has some strange reason for wanting to appear to be selling - and she isn't going to tell you what that reason is.
Been there myself - and a man is still (apparently) in the process of selling me my starter house. We'd got it all agreed/I sent a surveyor in - and it's now 31 years later. He never did tell me he didn't mean it - I just had to deduce that fact from his (lack of) actions proceeding with the sale. I can see someone managed to get that house out of him a few years later and it's been sold on since to another person again.0 -
moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »It sounds to me like she doesn't really intend to sell. She has some strange reason for wanting to appear to be selling - and she isn't going to tell you what that reason is.
Been there myself - and a man is still (apparently) in the process of selling me my starter house. We'd got it all agreed/I sent a surveyor in - and it's now 31 years later. He never did tell me he didn't mean it - I just had to deduce that fact from his (lack of) actions proceeding with the sale. I can see someone managed to get that house out of him a few years later and it's been sold on since to another person again.
I suspect he worked out he wasn't selling to you after he sold to someone else later
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Sorry about your situation - just walk away, cut your loses. In London, prices have fallen since Feb 2018, but not sure where you are, so prices may have risen.
Either way, walk away, give her 48 hours notice and if she does not agree on completion, she never will for the foreseeable future.0
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