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Discreet marketing, but house has gone online

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  • Finchy2018
    Finchy2018 Posts: 508 Forumite
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    I would imagine if your village is anything like the one I used to live in, the minute an agent turned up at your door and took a photo of the exterior people would have started talking.
  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    Davesnave wrote: »
    That's it. Used to happen pre-internet in the city where I once lived. There were never any sale boards, by mutual agreement between the council and the agents.

    But imagining that such an arrangement could keep others from knowing a house was for sale, is pure fantasy.

    In the city I used to live in - I can recall when I moved out into bedsits in my early 20's (as was the norm). Now that was rented only/bedsits only and I knew there was "hot" demand - so I stood literally right outside the newspaper office and grabbed literally the first newspaper that went on sale on the street outside and ran hell for leather to phonebox across road/looked up the adverts there (and I'm a fast reader) and rang straight up for one. It had already gone........obviously someone working in the newspaper office was bad at their job and had told their mate ....and the public didn't have a chance...
  • HHarry
    HHarry Posts: 1,010 Forumite
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    moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
    No idea about "discrete" marketing.

    Every day is a learning day - I didn't know there was a difference, I just thought one was a misspelling of the other!
  • Bacon_Sandwich
    Bacon_Sandwich Posts: 90 Forumite
    Why not just wait til spring/summer anyway if not expecting any action until then?
  • mufi
    mufi Posts: 656 Forumite
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    Finchy2018 wrote: »
    I would imagine if your village is anything like the one I used to live in, the minute an agent turned up at your door and took a photo of the exterior people would have started talking.

    Yep. We knew the day our neighbours were thinking of selling - the giveaway was lots of (mainly) men turning up wearing shiny suits and shoes that turned up at the toes.:rotfl:
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    HHarry wrote: »
    Every day is a learning day - I didn't know there was a difference, I just thought one was a misspelling of the other!
    They're definitely discrete words.
  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
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    moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
    No idea about "discrete" marketing.

    It's the opposite of continuous marketing.
  • Beenie
    Beenie Posts: 1,637 Forumite
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    didn't it used to be called 'low profile' selling?

    From my limited knowledge, it was used when owners hadn't found a place to buy so were in no hurry to sell but needed an agent to push their home to buyers who came in asking for a particular style or location of property. You can sell without boards and suchlike if there is a demand in a small area, hence low profile properties.
  • xylophone
    xylophone Posts: 45,751 Forumite
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    discrete marketing

    individual, separate and distinct.........?:)
  • datlex
    datlex Posts: 2,252 Forumite
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    Take it off the market and wait until you can go with a different agent. If they ask why tell them it is because it has appeared online.
    Paid off the last of my unsecured debts in 2016. Then saved up and bought a property. Current aim is to pay off my mortgage as early as possible. Currently over paying every month. Mortgage due to be paid off in 2036 hoping to get it paid off much earlier. Set up my own bespoke spreadsheet to manage my money.
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