House buyer is refusing to full price (after completion)

walwyn1978

newatc wrote: »

Reading through the thread, I can understand, SlopingBird, why you are annoyed (and frustrated), But really for your own sake, there is clear opinion that you should just put it behind you and get on with your life.

This.

I have sympathy for the buyers who you dumped in favour of the ones who you say stung you for 3k. I have no sympathy for your eventual buyers who would like they’ve royally played you or your behaviour in the affair, I’m sorry to say.

If you choose to pursue the 3k, you’ll continue to be frustrated with it all, worried about it, spending more money on legal things to try and get your 3k back. In the long term, is it really worth getting het up over 3k? Surely saying ‘we stuffed up, but we’re out of it, it’s done and we can get on with our new lives abroad’ is better.

Good luck with your new lives in Europe. I hope it brings you happiness.

AdrianC

walwyn1978 wrote: »

Good luck with your new lives in Europe.

Point of order, Sir.

This damp lump of rock is geographically, geologically, and sociologically part of Europe.
It is still part, politically, too.

getmore4less

SlopingBird wrote: »

After reading everyone's advice on here, I think we'll be forgetting the legal action (the amount of responses has been staggering).

Please don't think we are money grabbers. We paid £207k for the house in 2007 and spent at least £15k on it. We were just hoping to recoup our losses, that's all.

Probably got done and overpaid when you bought it as well as when you sold it.

Thrugelmir

SlopingBird wrote: »

Portugal is beautiful and the people are so kind and gentle. We spent three months on the Silver Coast earlier from April to June but the weather wasn't great. We've heard wonderful things about Porto so we hope to visit the city one day. We'll probably head farther south, hence the low expectations in terms of property.

Reading the current news. Seems as if the natives are somewhat restless. Everywhere has it's own problems to address.

brianposter

AdrianC wrote: »

I know a few people who've recently moved to Portugal. We fell in love big-time with Porto a few years ago, but there's something lovely about so much of the country. The further north, the better.

One of my relations bought a house near the northern border of Portugal. They hated it - "raining all the time" was their description.

Jumblebumble

walwyn1978 wrote: »

This.

I have sympathy for the buyers who you dumped in favour of the ones who you say stung you for 3k. I have no sympathy for your eventual buyers who would like they’ve royally played you or your behaviour in the affair, I’m sorry to say.

If you choose to pursue the 3k, you’ll continue to be frustrated with it all, worried about it, spending more money on legal things to try and get your 3k back. In the long term, is it really worth getting het up over 3k? Surely saying ‘we stuffed up, but we’re out of it, it’s done and we can get on with our new lives abroad’ is better.

Good luck with your new lives in Europe. I hope it brings you happiness.

Look on the bright side
You have not lost 3K because it never really existed in the first place
I hope you did not lose too much money by gazumping the other buyers

pattypan4

karma biting back, gazumping is down to a lack of moral fibre. No sympathy at all

Crashy_Time

SlopingBird wrote: »

I've quit complaining honestly but we were paying well over £900 a month in mortgage payments for years so it didn't really feel like cheap living for Wales. Plus all the maintenance costs and it was in a pretty poor state when we bought it.

We are going to put it down to experience now. We will never agree anything again without making sure our solicitor is fully aware of all the facts. We were very, very stupid. Everyone on this forum thinks that and we're coming around to thinking they are right! We are not greedy though, no matter what anyone says.

Doesn`t sound too cheap at all.

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Hi,

SlopingBird wrote: »

. I wish you'd stop calling it a 'bung' too. It wasn't going to be a bundle of notes!!! :rotfl:

Sorry, .





Or would madam prefer Euros?

MoneySeeker1

brianposter wrote: »

One of my relations bought a house near the northern border of Portugal. They hated it - "raining all the time" was their description.

Should feel very familiar to OP then, as they come from Wales.