Moving house...seller taking summer house

UnderOffer

Blimey, they really want their cake and eat it! Your offer to buy property was only £500 under asking price and they don’t want to leave the summerhouse, but are asking for additional £3k! 😳

Charrrb

pleasedelete said:

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

Posted the same on mumsnet. Preferred the response on here so left that alone 

Mickey666

MobileSaver said:

pbartlett said:

There is unfortunately no 'moral' in house purchase.

Speak for yourself! I've turned down a higher offer for a house because I had already agreed to sell it to someone else.

. . . and I've been the beneficiary of a seller sticking to their word (or in my case, their handshake) when a higher offer was subsequently received.  A benefit, perhaps, of dealing direct with the seller instead of through an EA.

House purchasing, or should we say negotiation, might have no real rules but there are always good people out there, even in the wild west

AdrianC

Charrrb said:

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. 

So you're going to pull out over £2,000.
£3,000 for a new shed less £500 reduction less £500 offer.

How much will that cost you in wasted fees, survey, etc etc? Before even considering delays.

Irishpearce26

My advice now you've threatened to pull out would be to leave it for a day or two and let them stew and boil. You may find they will back down and leave the summerhouse. 

AnotherJoe

AdrianC said:

Charrrb said:

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. 

So you're going to pull out over £2,000.
£3,000 for a new shed less £500 reduction less £500 offer.

How much will that cost you in wasted fees, survey, etc etc? Before even considering delays.

Works the same way with the seller who most likely is in a worse position with a newbuild lined up and probably exchanged already on it.

Lets see who blinks first.

Just because you might lose money doesn't mean you should let that person walk all over you.

Sure the OP made a mistake with their offer, but so did the seller,  they should have told the buyers they changed their mind and asked for an increase if it was left. Rather than tried to sneak it in via the property or F&F form.

warwick2001

Sorry, but I've probably missed it.

How much has the OP offered for the house (not the summer house, the actual house)?

If it was £80k, then £2k is a decent chunk of that. If it's £250k, then to walk away from a great house due to a dispute over 0.8% of the overall cost seems pretty extreme to me..... Especially since the advice on this forum regularly says that price negotiations of 5% is not uncommon

GDB2222

AnotherJoe said:

AdrianC said:

Charrrb said:

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. 

So you're going to pull out over £2,000.
£3,000 for a new shed less £500 reduction less £500 offer.

How much will that cost you in wasted fees, survey, etc etc? Before even considering delays.

Works the same way with the seller who most likely is in a worse position with a newbuild lined up and probably exchanged already on it.

Lets see who blinks first.

Just because you might lose money doesn't mean you should let that person walk all over you.

Sure the OP made a mistake with their offer, but so did the seller,  they should have told the buyers they changed their mind and asked for an increase if it was left. Rather than tried to sneak it in via the property or F&F form.

If the seller has already exchanged on their new-build, due for completion next month, they are in no position to negotiate. In fact, unless they have a spare few hundred k in the bank, they will have to take out a ruinously expensive bridging loan. That's if they can find one. 

The sellers strike me as deranged. They spent £1k on the foundation for the summerhouse, and they want that added to the value of it if they leave it behind. Weirder than weird! 

I would pull out. If the sellers are not happy with the deal they have, goodness knows how vindictive they will be in ripping other things out. 

Insomniac101

I would tell them to take the summer house now and take £3000 off the offer 

yellowbear

What's the summer house built from?  Is it worth their while dismantling it and rebuilding it in their new place?  I think I would be inclined to tell them to take it with them. 
When we bought our house 15 years ago the sellers offered their bedroom furniture for £500. We didn't have any so foolishly said yes. The stuff was rotten. If I had known then what I know now I would have told them to take it with them.