Experiences with buy to let/investor buyers

AdrianC

LAD917 said:

verytired11 said:

@AdrianC thanks for your thoughts.  Why would the agent lie - because he knows I wanted to sell to a family but also wanted me to accept the first offer, so may have been economical with the truth when the first offer wasn't from a family. The agent was very sarcastic with me about wanting a family buyer and resisted my instructions to ask the buyer what his intentions for the property were quite strongly.  He also was careful in the way he phrased his response to me.  I always feel as if the agent is hiding quite a lot from me.  

Why do you feel it's acceptable or ethical to discriminate on the basis of familial status?  If I were the agent, I'd have been more than sarcastic with you.  He's probably being careful in his wording because HE'S afraid of getting sued.  Sadly, protections against discrimination based on marital / familial status are more limited in the UK than in some other places, but such "preferences" are often used as veils for other forms of discrimination that are illegal in the UK.  I think you ought to revisit your "preferences" and think about how they sound to other people.

Being an owner-occupier rather than an investor/landlord/developer is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.

I'm quite sure that @verytired11 is not saying they only wish to sell to a "traditional" heterosexual nuclear family, and are discriminating against this potential buyer on the grounds of one of the protected characteristics...

AnotherJoe

Why have you started a new thread? Last thing you said on the old one where you talked about the buyers behaviour was you were going to dump this bidder. Indeed yesterday (Friday) was your decision day, Now you are having second thoughts? Nothing new on this thread. 

If you'd have done that you could have been having viewers this weekend.
Either take the worry, put up with the high risk of a gazunder, or put a clear line under this buyer, and start again,

LAD917

AdrianC said:
Being an owner-occupier rather than an investor/landlord/developer is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.

I'm quite sure that @verytired11 is not saying they only wish to sell to a "traditional" heterosexual nuclear family, and are discriminating against this potential buyer on the grounds of one of the protected characteristics...

If that's the case, the OP may want to consider revising their wording to say they want to sell to an owner-occupier v. a "family." 

user1977

LAD917 said:

AdrianC said:
Being an owner-occupier rather than an investor/landlord/developer is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.

I'm quite sure that @verytired11 is not saying they only wish to sell to a "traditional" heterosexual nuclear family, and are discriminating against this potential buyer on the grounds of one of the protected characteristics...

If that's the case, the OP may want to consider revising their wording to say they want to sell to an owner-occupier v. a "family." 

And also consider that they'll be able to do absolutely nothing if it turns out the "family" or "owner-occupier" actually want to rent it out, or sell almost immediately and be less choosy about their buyers.