Revenge on gazunderer

p00hsticks

RanP said:

As for 'revenge', I would do the prawns in the curtain poles but the buyer's wife is pregnant and I don't want her gagging in that condition. I'll just take every single lightbulb, snip the bathroom chords at the bottom, remove the curtains, saw the curtain poles in half and leave them in the bin so that he sees them, switch the power off before I leave, not empty the bins and not tidy up, I'll also tell the neighbours that he can't be trusted.

Just stop, read this back and then behave like a decent human being, even if you don't think your buyer is. You do realise it will probably be his pregnant wife and not him who's going to end up sorting out all your petty sabotage ?

GaleSF63

Do the prawns in the curtain poles and kippers under the floor boards really work? I'd have thought they would just dry up. Does anyone actually know of an instance where it worked?

RanP

onwards&upwards said:

RanP said:

I'll just take every single lightbulb, snip the bathroom chords at the bottom, remove the curtains, saw the curtain poles in half and leave them in the bin so that he sees them, switch the power off before I leave, not empty the bins and not tidy up, I'll also tell the neighbours that he can't be trusted.

And presumably you won't complain if your vendor does this to the house you are buying? 

As I said, the house I'm buying is completely uninhabitable at the moment. They really can't make it any worse than it is!

I have also treated my vendor with respect from the start and was happy to honour my pre lockdown agreed price. In fact I was pushing to exchange before the lockdown but my buyer delayed things at the time, most likely due to the chance of him getting a discount later on down the line.

Anyway I'm a lot calmer now. Hopefully I can exchange in the next couple of days and move on from this stressful up and down period.

RanP

p00hsticks said:

RanP said:

As for 'revenge', I would do the prawns in the curtain poles but the buyer's wife is pregnant and I don't want her gagging in that condition. I'll just take every single lightbulb, snip the bathroom chords at the bottom, remove the curtains, saw the curtain poles in half and leave them in the bin so that he sees them, switch the power off before I leave, not empty the bins and not tidy up, I'll also tell the neighbours that he can't be trusted.

Just stop, read this back and then behave like a decent human being, even if you don't think your buyer is. You do realise it will probably be his pregnant wife and not him who's going to end up sorting out all your petty sabotage ?

I'm going to leave the house as it is and move on but the nice clean up I was going to do will not be carried out.

Marvel1

The one you are you are buying, the sellers may think you are time wasting and give up on you.

barbiedoll

OP: You can rant and rave and get it all off your chest, this is a safe space (well, as safe as anywhere can be on the internet!) You know full well that you won’t do any of those things, but, like they say, it feels good to write it all down sometimes, if only to clear your head.

Life is full of chancers like him, we’ve all met dodgy builders, dishonest car sellers, horrendous colleagues, etc, etc. It’s lovely to imagine all sorts of horrible revenge tactics, but that’s as far as it goes for most of us, because we’re better than that. Take his money, move onwards and upwards to your forever home, and you’ll soon forget all about him. If you want to have a little dig, leave a nice “Welcome to your new home” card, and some flowers for his wife on moving day. Addressed to her only! (Probably cheaper than prawns and kippers?)

Hope all goes well with your move, and that you fulfill all of your dreams in your new place 🙂

MoneySeeker1

So how did he manage to get £10k price reduction from "the seller I am buying from" then?

Surely you are the only person that could have gazundered the person you are buying from?

Crashy_Time

Wow, some real hate here for a 15k drop, can`t wait to see the threads that will be popping up in future.

RanP

Finally exchanged today!
I won't be doing any of things I mentioned before. I look back and think what was i thinking when I posted those things. However, I can definitely see how people do things in the heat of the moment!

To all of those people who said that I have also Gazundered my vendor, you are completely off the mark. My ability to buy that property depended on me getting a decent price for my house,  i.e. the original agreed sale price. That is what my initial offer was based on. I cannot pull 15k out of thin air. I never stopped my vendor from relisting their property during these last few months when my buyer started playing games. I would not have held it against them for doing so. Neither would I have held it against them to ask me to use my stamp duty savings to finance the price reduction on my property, however they never asked me to do so. They had agreed to reduce the price one week before Rishi's announcement on stamp duty. 

As I mentioned earlier I offered 10k more than what the house was valued by the surveyor 7 months ago. My buyer got my house for a cheap price 8 months ago, he paid the same price he was going to pay for a nearby house that had 15k less features. As for my house not getting decent offers in the past two months you have to understand there has been some uncertainty in the market, we have just been coming out of a very tight lockdown. Some houses take a longer time to sell but eventually they do get the asking price or near abouts. My buyer has taken advantage of the lockdown situation, there has not been a crash in the outer London area and I doubt there is going to be. He has been desperate to exchange since Rishi's announcement.

He now wants to see my property before completion to plan any rennovations, can you believe the guy, after messing me about like this he still wants to meet. I have told the agents No Chance!

blue_max_3

Haven't you exchanged/completed on the same day? Thought that's what everyone was doing these days. I know I did, when I sold.