Flat buying - seller turning nasty

ghekkomanic

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Actually, he asked for advice - got a load of people telling him "Walk away" but has ignored them all. He then posts yet another example of jaw-dropping audacity from the evil seller which elicits even more cries of "Walk away" and ... ignores them too. Repeat ad infinitum as the thread grows and grows.


I suspect we are the victim of quite a sophisticated bit of trolling.

Look, not ALL of the advice was "pull out." I didn't ignore it, and if it wasn't for posting on this thread I would have paid the full amount for the flat and furniture - it was from reading advice here (and the seller refusing to talk to me or the EA) that I decided not to.

Sorry for not acting more quickly, but these things don't happen overnight, as I'm sure you know.

Anyway, yesterday I offered £5k less. Today the seller pulled out (she is putting the flat back on the market and is sure she will get the asking price. Good luck to her frankly) as I suspected she would. I'm currently deciding whether to look for something else or wait a few months to "see what the market is doing."

I've mailed a link of this to the seller as a parting gift. Maybe some of the advice here will help her sell the flat rather than alienate her buyer?

Thanks again to (almost) everyone who's chipped in here.

sooz

Don't worry ghekko...I am certain that you will find somewhere much much nicer that isn't on a main road and also isn't above a shop.

Have you and your GF managed to find somewhere to rent in the meantime?



And welcome bunny boiler seller

izzybusy23

ghekkomanic wrote: »

Look, not ALL of the advice was "pull out." I didn't ignore it, and if it wasn't for posting on this thread I would have paid the full amount for the flat and furniture - it was from reading advice here (and the seller refusing to talk to me or the EA) that I decided not to.

Sorry for not acting more quickly, but these things don't happen overnight, as I'm sure you know.

Anyway, yesterday I offered £5k less. Today the seller pulled out (she is putting the flat back on the market and is sure she will get the asking price. Good luck to her frankly) as I suspected she would. I'm currently deciding whether to look for something else or wait a few months to "see what the market is doing."

I've mailed a link of this to the seller as a parting gift. Maybe some of the advice here will help her sell the flat rather than alienate her buyer?

Thanks again to (almost) everyone who's chipped in here.

Well done! :T Although I guess at this moment in time you feel quite lousy about the whole thing, BUT I would say you are well rid. Let her stick her flat on the market and watch it decline in price over the coming months..

She deserved you asking £5k less and she has made the decision for you.. which to be honest I think in hindsight was for the best. You may not think it now, but you will in time.

Have a good christmas and start HOUSE hunting again in the new year... steer clear from flats!!

BrandNewDay

I hope the BBS ("Bunny Boiler Seller") notes well: not one person who has responded to the thread has said that ghekko should pay her asking price for her flat.

I do hope she reads it.

sooz

BrandNewDay wrote: »

I hope the BBS ("Bunny Boiler Seller") notes well: not one person who has responded to the thread has said that ghekko should pay her asking price for her flat.

I do hope she reads it.

ALL her asking prices.................


greedy witch


anyway, I thought she was emigrating - next week wasn't it? Oh yes, and didn't she need the cash by yesterday to buy another place?

lying greedy witch

anyway we can link this thread to her rightmove ad?

Curv

B...b... but does that mean this thread is all done with then? :eek:

BrandNewDay

Curv wrote: »

B...b... but does that mean this thread is all done with then? :eek:

_pale_

What do I do about that big, hollow hole in the middle of my life?

sooz

Curv wrote: »

B...b... but does that mean this thread is all done with then? :eek:

we can move to the 'i exchange in 2 days and not sure whether to pull out' thread instead, and wreck another vendors xmas :cool:

VickyA_2

Well done ghekko! :j :j I've been an avid reader of this thread and I'm so delighted that you've made the right decision for you (and the rest of us).

Goodness knows what I'm going to do for the rest of my life though, if this thread is over. :rolleyes:

[Deleted User]

Yay ghekko, you should celebrate! It would have been a big mistake. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when BBS reads this thread. :rotfl: