Moving house...seller taking summer house

GDB2222

FreeBear said:

lookstraightahead said: I think the requirement to sip G&T should certainly be brought in prior to exchange.

Ug... Gin is only good for stripping paint and disinfecting.

Absinthe (Pernod at a push) in the summer, or Port in the winter.

If the weather is stormy enough then any port will do.

youth_leader

I was sorry I had to leave my beautiful summer house.  I'm renting a few doors from my old house and saw the new owner smashing it to bits, as well as cutting down the trees, neanderthal.

Charrrb

small update.. the estate agent has said they will be willing to negotiate but they want us to do that directly with them so I will be phoning them this afternoon to do so. Their plan was to hold the summer house in storage until they had a concrete base built in their new garden. I imagine they will want an offer in the region of what a new summer house of a similar standard would cost (£3000?) but we shall see!

Irishpearce26

Charrrb said:

small update.. the estate agent has said they will be willing to negotiate but they want us to do that directly with them so I will be phoning them this afternoon to do so. Their plan was to hold the summer house in storage until they had a concrete base built in their new garden. I imagine they will want an offer in the region of what a new summer house of a similar standard would cost (£3000?) but we shall see!

That's positive but I think you've dealt your hand early by wanting a £3k reduction if they didn't sell it to you for £500 they will likely use that as a benchmark. Make sure you research new summerhouses to weigh up whether its cost affective to buy theirs. Good luck.

Mani_London

Well here you go @Charrrb My advise will be before calling make your final options in your mind. What will be your maximum bid and if they don't agree than your next step. Either go ahead with sale or pull out. Best of luck

moneysavinghero

Hold firm, that £500 is your offer. You already priced the fact that the summerhouse was very likely to remain into your original offer. The £500 was just to turn that into definite to stay there. Don't end up paying twice for it.

AnotherJoe

VintageHistorian said:

I'd probably be a bit annoyed, but ultimately it's probably not the only reason why you bought the house.

Maybe the vendors said "highly likely" to secure the sale. Or maybe they genuinely meant it and then, in the intervening months, realised that they can actually fit it in their new garden and want to take it with them. There's no point getting upset about whether or not they were lying, you can't prove it either way.

The base isn't really an issue, as it means you'll be able to add your own summerhouse there in the future without having to pay for a concrete base to be poured in, so that's one potential cost out the way.

Your options are: A) Ask how much extra they would want for the summerhouse to stay in place, Ask for a reduction in cost for it (but keep in mind that a summerhouse may only be a few hundred pounds and is it really worth going through the fuss of amending your mortage etc for it?) or C) Just suck it up and let it go without a fuss.

The thing about house buying is that once you actually live in the property, you realise you want things differently from the people you bought it from. Especially as seasons change and you realise how much or how little time you spend in bits of the house or garden.

You gotta be kidding me !

I'd be after a reduction. Never mind it wasn't in the EA blurb they were clearly led on to believe it would be, seems to have made a big impression,  now is the time to ask for money off if its not staying as they were lead to believe.

OPs mistake was of course not to make their initial offer contingent on the SH staying, but even so they can still as for a reduction as thats what they believed.

rubble2

Charrrb said:

small update.. the estate agent has said they will be willing to negotiate but they want us to do that directly with them so I will be phoning them this afternoon to do so. Their plan was to hold the summer house in storage until they had a concrete base built in their new garden. I imagine they will want an offer in the region of what a new summer house of a similar standard would cost (£3000?) but we shall see!

If I understand you correctly, they will be asking you for the price of a new summerhouse and leaving you with a secondhand one.
Why not therefore just let them take the summerhouse and replace it with a nice new one yourselves for the same price?

Charrrb

The seller was very adamant on the phone that they paid £3000 for the summer house five years ago and £1000 for the base so they will accept no less than £3000 for the summerhouse... I said we weren't willing to pay that and that if this couldn't be resolved it would leave us in a difficult situation and we would need to pull out. The seller said they wouldn't be budging on the price. I said we would be in contact. Agreed with my partner that if this can't be resolved then we would pull out so sent the email to the estate agent informing her of this. Email received back stating that the seller have offered to come down on the asking price of the house by £500 as a "good will gesture"  Explaining our stance of £500 for the summer house to stay or we pull out so again, we will wait and see. 

pleasedelete

Either you have posted the same on Mumsnet or summerhouse removal is a new fetish theme to post about