Dealing with a difficult PA

H.P.Bazxter

eddddy said:

It's normal for an Estate Agent to ask a buyer to provide ID, and proof of funds. (Proof of funds might be an AIP plus bank statements showing your deposit.)

It sounds like you are being a bit difficult, and the Estate Agent is suspicious about your motives.

When you say...

H.P.Bazxter said:

Temporary accepted price is also higher than what I intended to pay.

... do you mean you have offered a high price, with the intention of reducing your offer later?

If that's correct, it sounds like the Estate Agent has made a good judgement call, and is right to be suspicious of you.

It is not normal for PA to ask these info, I never experienced that in my previous purchases? In fact I never had to deal with PA once the offer was accepted. In this case they agreed to accept the offer and keep changing their mind.

They said they will fully accept the offer if I accepted their term (that they will continue marketing it for rental) and I said I won't. They then asked for additional documents before taking it off market, and I have done so, they are still not taking it off the market. I can't see how I am being difficult here, if I listen to any more of their ever-changing demands I am simply a push-over?

Slithery

You have two options. Either jump through their hoops and buy the place, or don't.
I'm not quite sure what else we can say?

H.P.Bazxter

I have asked a question in my original post if there is any knowledge base I can read and study so I can use it to stand on my ground. I thought by explaining all the small details of my purchase (which I didn't think was so important) you can point out where to look?

Does anyone know where I can find the professional conduct and regulations of PAs for consumers, before I can hand these horrible set of people to my solicitor? Or else they will make things just so really difficult for me, possibly in a hope to raise the price.

Slithery

Nothing in your original post suggests that the agents have done anything wrong.
You have absolutely no chance of forcing a sale with your own conditions attached. So again, either jump through their hoops or don't buy the place.

davidmcn

Why do you keep on calling them "PAs"?

Slithery

davidmcn said:

Why do you keep on calling them "PAs"?

I was wondering that as well, I've never heard it before. I presume it's meant to stand for 'Property Agent'?

Tiglet2

H.P.Bazxter said:

HampshireH said:

H.P.Bazxter said:

Hello,

I am currently buying a property through a PA whose Google review is a shamble. I also know the vendor personally as he is my old neighbour, and basically I don’t like either of them, and they don’t like me. It’s a property I want to buy off the vendor so I no longer have to deal with him.

I own a couple of properties and by no means a novice buyer, so I can tell what they tell me to do is not standard;

 -I was told the property won’t be taken off the market for rental unless I show AIP showing that I get residential mortgage (which I have, but it still is advertised)

-I was told the offer won’t be accepted unless I give them my financial advisor’s detail (I don’t have one)

 They are really unpleasant to deal with and VERY condescending, too. Frankly very rude considering I am the paying customer here.

They won’t accept my conditions for purchase and keep changing theirs even though it is all in email,

They seem to think they are in higher position for some reason?

 Can anyone suggest if there is a good information source for me to use what they are asking / telling me to do is outside of their professional conducts,

Just so I have some ground to argue rather than just give in?

 I really want this property but rather not to endure dealing with their nonsense. Temporary accepted price is also higher than what I intended to pay.

 Thank you

They are. You want them gone and to they know that. Do you live next door? (If your username is your real name it's best to change 🙂)

They are the vendor the power is in their hands. They could probably get another customer

No, as I mentioned I don't live next to the vendor any more, but they know I want it, it's the 2nd time he tried to sell and 2nd time I'm trying to buy. It's really about if he wants to sell more than I want to buy, or now,

He doesn't appear to be serious about selling, he will never gonna get rid of it for the price he is asking for, next door is (nicer property) on market at lower price now for a year and hasn't had any interests. I'm not going to cave in and let them walk all over me, but I need the knowledge base to go against them.

If you don't want to deal with this particular vendor and/or Estate Agent (PA?), why aren't you buying the neighbouring nicer property at a lower price?

HampshireH

H.P.Bazxter said:

HampshireH said:

H.P.Bazxter said:

Hello,

I am currently buying a property through a PA whose Google review is a shamble. I also know the vendor personally as he is my old neighbour, and basically I don’t like either of them, and they don’t like me. It’s a property I want to buy off the vendor so I no longer have to deal with him.

I own a couple of properties and by no means a novice buyer, so I can tell what they tell me to do is not standard;

 -I was told the property won’t be taken off the market for rental unless I show AIP showing that I get residential mortgage (which I have, but it still is advertised)

-I was told the offer won’t be accepted unless I give them my financial advisor’s detail (I don’t have one)

 They are really unpleasant to deal with and VERY condescending, too. Frankly very rude considering I am the paying customer here.

They won’t accept my conditions for purchase and keep changing theirs even though it is all in email,

They seem to think they are in higher position for some reason?

 Can anyone suggest if there is a good information source for me to use what they are asking / telling me to do is outside of their professional conducts,

Just so I have some ground to argue rather than just give in?

 I really want this property but rather not to endure dealing with their nonsense. Temporary accepted price is also higher than what I intended to pay.

 Thank you

They are. You want them gone and to they know that. Do you live next door? (If your username is your real name it's best to change 🙂)

They are the vendor the power is in their hands. They could probably get another customer

No, as I mentioned I don't live next to the vendor any more, but they know I want it, it's the 2nd time he tried to sell and 2nd time I'm trying to buy. It's really about if he wants to sell more than I want to buy, or now,

He doesn't appear to be serious about selling, he will never gonna get rid of it for the price he is asking for, next door is (nicer property) on market at lower price now for a year and hasn't had any interests. I'm not going to cave in and let them walk all over me, but I need the knowledge base to go against them.

(I'm oddly relived that ppl don't know where my handle name came from.)

O...k

So why bother?

You can't tolerate the vendor or the agent, you don't want to pay the price they want, you don't think they are serious sellers, you have tried to by it before and failed, you acknowledge next door is nicer and cheaper.

Why not buy next door? They might be nicer as well as cheaper and want to sell.

Good luck, from the sound of it you will need it with the approach being taken as per your posts. Like I said they do have the power, they are the seller and they don't have to sell to you.

dimbo61

If you don't want to deal with the PA ( estate agents ) and Vendor then ask your Solicitor to deal with the purchase.
Good luck with buying as it's going to be a tough journey with the huge number of people trying to buy and sell before the 31 of March 2021.
Call me old fashioned but I won't get involved in gazumping or trying to reduce the price of a property once I have made an offer

davidmcn

Slithery said:

davidmcn said:

Why do you keep on calling them "PAs"?

I was wondering that as well, I've never heard it before. I presume it's meant to stand for 'Property Agent'?

That's what I presumed at first, but the fact the OP is persisting with it despite every reply referring to Estate Agents or EAs makes me wonder.