Estate agents not sending written rejection

pieroabcd

eddddy said:

pieroabcd said:

yes. One over email, the other signing a form with docusign with the clause "subject to contract and survey"

It's sensible to send your offers by email - but signing an offer form with docusign is a bit of an unusual thing to do. Did the EA ask you to sign your offer with docusign? 


Anything you say in the email or the signed form will not be binding and will be assumed to be "subject to contract" - so it's not vital that you say "subject to contract", but it won't do any harm.


Personally, I wouldn't do the docusign signing of an offer on a property - I'd worry that the EA would think it's a strange thing to do, and perhaps wonder why I had done it. (Unless the EA asked you to do it.)

Of couse the EA asked me to sign docusign. I would have never done it on my own accord.

pieroabcd

Redwino222 said:

Are you a first time buyer?

yes I am.

pieroabcd

Doozergirl said:

pieroabcd said:

yes. One over email, the other signing a form with docusign with the clause "subject to contract and survey"

I can see now why you're talking about leaving things hanging.  If you don't send a docusign, there's nothing to leave hanging.  

Nobody does that.  If the offer is accepted, the estate agent sends out a Memorandum of Sale to both parties and their solicitors.  They've both got the paperwork thing handled - it's what they get paid for.  

Most offers are dealt with over the phone and maybe backed up with an email if asked to, or perhaps if you fancy it. 

The docusign thing is a step too far.  No one is ever going to sign a document written by the buyer and, as I said, there are already people in the process that get paid for producing paperwork.  Leave that out.  

That's very interesting to read! Thanks for the advice