Estate Agent possibly ignoring me.

steve866

I would email and say you are now viewing 3 more properties tomorrow and if you find something suitable you’ll be offering on them. 

moneysavinghero

boxer234 said:

I may be old fashioned but I remember the days when you put an offer in EA called back an hour later - yes or no, if no you up to asking or just below and it’s excepted. 

The process now ... 

Convince EA you can view property by showing DIP, deposit, job contract, underwear draw

View house give other viewers the stink eye as they queue up out side.

You offer asking on the spot they say they will let you know. 1 week later you call they have left the property on the market and are still holding viewings.  People have offered over and it’s going to best and final. 

You give best and final playing guess the number. 

Offer gets accepted once you go 50% above asking.  

Mortgage company refuses to lend you that much for a shed.

You sell a kidney to make up the difference breath a sigh of relief you are on the ladder. 

You get gazumped. 

Dont forget the final and most important bit "You create a thread on MSE 'i've just been gazumped! what can i do???' "

boxer234

moneysavinghero said:

boxer234 said:

I may be old fashioned but I remember the days when you put an offer in EA called back an hour later - yes or no, if no you up to asking or just below and it’s excepted. 

The process now ... 

Convince EA you can view property by showing DIP, deposit, job contract, underwear draw

View house give other viewers the stink eye as they queue up out side.

You offer asking on the spot they say they will let you know. 1 week later you call they have left the property on the market and are still holding viewings.  People have offered over and it’s going to best and final. 

You give best and final playing guess the number. 

Offer gets accepted once you go 50% above asking.  

Mortgage company refuses to lend you that much for a shed.

You sell a kidney to make up the difference breath a sigh of relief you are on the ladder. 

You get gazumped. 

Dont forget the final and most important bit "You create a thread on MSE 'i've just been gazumped! what can i do???' "

Of course the experience  wouldn’t be the same without the MSE follow up thread, should I gazump my gazumpers ? 

Another_Level

moneysavinghero said:

If you got on well with the vendors, you could pop round and check that your offer has been passed on to them.

Hi, well they made me tea and offered me my favourite biscuits whilst we sat around their dining table discussing the house.

Was so nice not to be accompanied by the EA, kind of learnt a lot about the property, had plenty of time to investigate and chat to the vendors. 

Still no contact from the EA  but i have wrote to the vendors.
Thanks for the replies !

Louise.H

boxer234 said:

I may be old fashioned but I remember the days when you put an offer in EA called back an hour later - yes or no, if no you up to asking or just below and it’s excepted. 

The process now ... 

Convince EA you can view property by showing DIP, deposit, job contract, underwear draw

View house give other viewers the stink eye as they queue up out side.

You offer asking on the spot they say they will let you know. 1 week later you call they have left the property on the market and are still holding viewings.  People have offered over and it’s going to best and final. 

You give best and final playing guess the number. 

Offer gets accepted once you go 50% above asking.  

Mortgage company refuses to lend you that much for a shed.

You sell a kidney to make up the difference breath a sigh of relief you are on the ladder. 

You get gazumped. 

This is unfortunately almost the reality of buying these days!

To add a little...
You gazump the gazumper after selling all your possessions so you'll have a house but nothing to put in it.

Vendor pulls out of sale.

Thrugelmir

Another_Level said:

moneysavinghero said:

If you got on well with the vendors, you could pop round and check that your offer has been passed on to them.

Hi, well they made me tea and offered me my favourite biscuits whilst we sat around their dining table discussing the house.

Was so nice not to be accompanied by the EA, kind of learnt a lot about the property, had plenty of time to investigate and chat to the vendors. 

Still no contact from the EA  but i have wrote to the vendors.
Thanks for the replies !

That's very nice. I'm sure that they are equally pleasant to everyone else that views. Bottom line is that this is a business transaction. 

eddddy

Another_Level said:

Hi, well they made me tea and offered me my favourite biscuits whilst we sat around their dining table discussing the house.

Well FWIW, one time I made an offer on a house, and I got a call back from the EA saying the seller would like me to go round for tea and cake with them.

It turned out it was because they'd decided to accept an offer from somebody else, and they wanted to break it to me gently!

Strangely, the seller never invited me to increase my offer, I think they thought that asking me to pay more would be vulgar.

oystercatcher

Sounds like they have accepted another offer but are keeping OP dangling in case it all falls through.

Murphybear

boxer234 said:

I may be old fashioned but I remember the days when you put an offer in EA called back an hour later - yes or no, if no you up to asking or just below and it’s excepted. 

The process now ... 

Convince EA you can view property by showing DIP, deposit, job contract, underwear draw

View house give other viewers the stink eye as they queue up out side.

You offer asking on the spot they say they will let you know. 1 week later you call they have left the property on the market and are still holding viewings.  People have offered over and it’s going to best and final. 

You give best and final playing guess the number. 

Offer gets accepted once you go 50% above asking.  

Mortgage company refuses to lend you that much for a shed.

You sell a kidney to make up the difference breath a sigh of relief you are on the ladder. 

You get gazumped. 

boxer234 said:

I may be old fashioned but I remember the days when you put an offer in EA called back an hour later - yes or no, if no you up to asking or just below and it’s excepted. 

The process now ... 

Convince EA you can view property by showing DIP, deposit, job contract, underwear draw

View house give other viewers the stink eye as they queue up out side.

You offer asking on the spot they say they will let you know. 1 week later you call they have left the property on the market and are still holding viewings.  People have offered over and it’s going to best and final. 

You give best and final playing guess the number. 

Offer gets accepted once you go 50% above asking.  

Mortgage company refuses to lend you that much for a shed.

You sell a kidney to make up the difference breath a sigh of relief you are on the ladder. 

You get gazumped. 

We haven’t bought a property for a few years now (thank god).  The last time, 2000, we decided to look at a bungalow in a tiny village.  It was owned by an elderly couple who couldn’t manage the huge and fabulous garden any more.  We viewed the property with the EA and the owners present.  We wandered round the garden on our own, looked at each other, nodded and made an offer below asking price to the EA there and then.  EA had a quick chat with owners, offer accepted then EA disappeared to office to start the ball rolling while we sat in the conservatory with owners plus tea and home made cake.  We discussed the garden at length.

A very short time later we moved in. 

How things have changed 

jacko74

boxer234 said:

I may be old fashioned but I remember the days when you put an offer in EA called back an hour later - yes or no, if no you up to asking or just below and it’s excepted. 

The process now ... 

Convince EA you can view property by showing DIP, deposit, job contract, underwear draw

View house give other viewers the stink eye as they queue up out side.

You offer asking on the spot they say they will let you know. 1 week later you call they have left the property on the market and are still holding viewings.  People have offered over and it’s going to best and final. 

You give best and final playing guess the number. 

Offer gets accepted once you go 50% above asking.  

Mortgage company refuses to lend you that much for a shed.

You sell a kidney to make up the difference breath a sigh of relief you are on the ladder. 

You get gazumped. 

... And then you eventually pay off your huge mortgage just in time to be able to sell your house to pay for your nursing home fees