We'd like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum... Read More »
PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING: Hello Forumites! In order to help keep the Forum a useful, safe and friendly place for our users, discussions around non-MoneySaving matters are not permitted per the Forum rules. While we understand that mentioning house prices may sometimes be relevant to a user's specific MoneySaving situation, we ask that you please avoid veering into broad, general debates about the market, the economy and politics, as these can unfortunately lead to abusive or hateful behaviour. Threads that are found to have derailed into wider discussions may be removed. Users who repeatedly disregard this may have their Forum account banned. Please also avoid posting personally identifiable information, including links to your own online property listing which may reveal your address. Thank you for your understanding.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
Seller being pushy over furniture
Comments
-
Just tell him that you do not require any furniture, but he is welcome to leave any furniture in the house if he doesn’t want to take it with him.
Ask for this to be confirmed before the sale progresses.
Sounds like a difficult vendor. Is it an older person downsizing?Should've = Should HAVE (not 'of')
Would've = Would HAVE (not 'of')
No, I am not perfect, but yes I do judge people on their use of basic English language. If you didn't know the above, then learn it! (If English is your second language, then you are forgiven!)0 -
If a vendor said to me 'give me £2k for furniture or I'll pull out' , I'd probably beat them to it and withdraw my offer.
This would not be someone who I would want to do business with.
If however you still really want this house, explain what has happened to the agent, that you are about to withdraw but will let them negotiate with their client first. Vendor could be a 'foot in mouth' type person full of bluster who thought they were being clever with a FTB and might be shown the error of their ways. Then again, might not.0 -
Thank you all so much for your advice.
We will talk to the EA, in the morning and see if we can get this all sorted out. We do really love the house but being blackmailed into buying furniture that we don't want doesn't bode well for the rest of the process. We will also only communicate with him via the EA from now on and block his number.0 -
If the seller wins this battle what more will they want? stand firm before you have spent too muchAn answer isn't spam just because you don't like it......0
-
If you do end end up in the house with unwanted furniture, there are a number of larger charities that will happily take it off your hands as long as it’s in reasonable condition.0
-
£2000 is a heck of a lot even for a whole house full of second hand furniture. We had a local auctioneer come and value our entire contents - 4 bed house - with a view to selling the lot (we were moving abroad), and they reckoned they weren't worth enough to even cover the cost of the removal van to come and pick it all up...No longer a spouse, or trailing, but MSE won't allow me to change my username...0
-
trailingspouse wrote: ȣ2000 is a heck of a lot even for a whole house full of second hand furniture. We had a local auctioneer come and value our entire contents - 4 bed house - with a view to selling the lot (we were moving abroad), and they reckoned they weren't worth enough to even cover the cost of the removal van to come and pick it all up...
True, you can kit out an entire 2/3 bed house at a general sale auction for certainly under £1k (including white goods) if you're not too picky on condition. Adding removal costs and up to 20% commission to the AH on sale price adds up.0 -
Second hand furniture is worth absolute peanuts. Even if this is a whole houseful of furniture, it's totally overpriced. We recently moved and got rid of several items of chunky solid oak furniture, with each thing having cost us £200-600. We were flogging them off on Facebook for £30-70 each. You're looking at 10-20% of original cost. Is the furniture on offer really worth £10-20k?
Don't get too hung up on having his wardrobes. We've completely fitted out two bedrooms at our new house with Ikea Pax wardrobes and Malm drawers. Cost us £1k per room for 7-8 doors of wardrobe, chest of drawers and two bedsides. From a fitted bedroom company that would have been £3-4k per room. We've got solid wood doors on the wardrobes and configured the interiors exactly how we wanted it. I'd really recommend it - Ikea really is decent quality (soft-close doors etc), not like Argos flat-packs.
Agree with the others above to keep communication through the EA only and given how he's behaved, I wouldn't try to negotiate for the wardrobes.0 -
Decline his offer of £2,000 for unwanted furniture and leave your offer on the table.
When you instruct your homebuyers survey you may find issues that you have hammer down the price a bit more, say £2,000 or get them to leave all the furniture so you can give it away or sell it.
Sounds like a bad vendor and you will probably wont end up buying the property in the end.0 -
One word comes to mind which begins in P and ends in K
Do not let him bully you into paying over the odds for his second hand furniture. I wouldn't even bother offering for the wardrobes now.
I'd be even more tempted to pull out.0
This discussion has been closed.
Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply
Categories
- All Categories
- 350.5K Banking & Borrowing
- 252.9K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
- 453.3K Spending & Discounts
- 243.5K Work, Benefits & Business
- 598.2K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
- 176.7K Life & Family
- 256.6K Travel & Transport
- 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
- 16.1K Discuss & Feedback
- 37.6K Read-Only Boards