Offer accepted 5 months ago!

Flugelhorn

Mac_70_ said:

Flugelhorn said:

Anyway nothing said in those discussions is binding. 

That's where you and i would disagree, as i said to me the deal would be broken if shook on. You could probably get it drew up and signed, but that doesn't show trust. I like to think there is still some with morals out there, and thankfully i still come across people with that quality. Though sadly they tend to be off a certain age upwards .

Then you would have to walk away, really nothing is binding. the last vendor agreed to sell us the Fridge freezer, garden furniture and washing machine but then at the last minute decided not to - mid lockdown trying to get a fridge was not easy...  woudl you have walked away with less than a week to go?

Mac_70_

Did you stay cool during it .

To be honest over something as you described above, i don't know depends really on their reason. Had they gave one, if they hadn't, i might have been getting the silent movie mode from the boss for sometime to come.

Flugelhorn

Mac_70_ said:

Did you stay cool during it .

To be honest over something as you described above, i don't know depends really on their reason. Had they gave one, if they hadn't, i might have been getting the silent movie mode from the boss for sometime to come.

no reason given just "they say that the items are not for sale now"  - we coped!

Mac_70_

Flugelhorn said:

Mac_70_ said:

Well you get to meet the person eye to eye (a plus in my book), plus it lets those that want something sorted to say it, or creates a door that can be opened without waiting weeks for it to reach you, via estate agent or the highway man. 

depends what you want sorting! 30 years ago I sold a house (other half had already moved for worked, I was following on when all sorted at the sale end) - purchaser was lovely chap, but absolutely insistent that he wanted to put some stuff in the garage prior to completion. I said no as there was stuff (from another house) fillng the garage, he kept on and then turned up saying "if I could just have a key to the garage....?"  - I had to open the garage, show him it was full of stuff and mention that anything that was left there might just end up on a lorry going 150 miles.. 
as I say  nice enough couple, but just didn't get it - wish he hadn't had my phone number but it was a private sale (non estate agent - property was flying off the shelves like it is now, so we just put a 2 line ad in the local paper) and there wasn't much I could do about it. 

Yea years ago you had to use your landline, not great. Now you can get a pay as you go card for a spare mobile, great for things like this selling/buying not just houses. I will let you know how my old way's go Flugelhorn, you sound like a person that i would love too exchange some yarns with over a couple off pints, all the best Flugelhorn.

Mac_70_

Flugelhorn said:

Mac_70_ said:

Did you stay cool during it .

To be honest over something as you described above, i don't know depends really on their reason. Had they gave one, if they hadn't, i might have been getting the silent movie mode from the boss for sometime to come.

no reason given just "they say that the items are not for sale now"  - we coped!

Do you think if they would have let you know why, if you had meet them at the start.

MsACam

Mac_70_ said:

Flugelhorn said:

Anyway nothing said in those discussions is binding. 

That's where you and i would disagree, as i said to me the deal would be broken if shook on. You could probably get it drew up and signed, but that doesn't show trust. I like to think there is still some with morals out there, and thankfully i still come across people with that quality. Though sadly they tend to be off a certain age upwards .

Met vendors on first viewing (EA screwed up and didn’t show up / didn’t tell vendors we were coming) were there for half an hour discussing what they did to the property and how they want to move quickly and happy to go into rented. We asked them to name a figure (which they did and it was 20k over asking) and then we went 500£ over it. 

Now they’re saying they only want the one house to move to and most certainly won’t go into rental. They’re in late 40s I’d say. So you’d think they’d have morals to keep their word...

lookstraightahead

MsACam said:

Mac_70_ said:

Flugelhorn said:

Anyway nothing said in those discussions is binding. 

That's where you and i would disagree, as i said to me the deal would be broken if shook on. You could probably get it drew up and signed, but that doesn't show trust. I like to think there is still some with morals out there, and thankfully i still come across people with that quality. Though sadly they tend to be off a certain age upwards .

Met vendors on first viewing (EA screwed up and didn’t show up / didn’t tell vendors we were coming) were there for half an hour discussing what they did to the property and how they want to move quickly and happy to go into rented. We asked them to name a figure (which they did and it was 20k over asking) and then we went 500£ over it. 

Now they’re saying they only want the one house to move to and most certainly won’t go into rental. They’re in late 40s I’d say. So you’d think they’d have morals to keep their word...

Wishy washy people. Terrible morals.

Tokmon

lookstraightahead said:

I think it depends on what people think is putting them out.

To some, moving is a massive undertaking. To others it's nothing compared to what else might be going on in their life.

ive been divorced and had to move into rented, this was the least of my problems. I've also sold and moved into rented when looking after a very poorly relative and consequently dealing with her death at the same time.

ive also moved into rented by moving to the other side of the country and changing jobs.

I also rented when I was so skint I didn't think I would even find a room.

So I don't see the issue - I don't think it's a lot of money (if you can't afford a few months extra rent you're not in a good position to buy). 

And remember. By a seller not moving, someone else is having to pick up the flack.

im sure there is snobbiness, lack of confidence/scared, and "can't be bothered" thrown in there. To some sellers their home is their castle and it should be everyone else's castle and they should wait for it.

I always move on. To be fair though, my chains have always kept their word.

At the very least moving in to rented makes the process less efficient and more time consuming than it needs to be plus it's irrelevant whether or not it's a "lot of money" it's still extra money that doesn't need to be spent which isn't very money saving at all. Why would you want to spend an extra day of free time moving and a few thousand extra on renting when it didn't need to be done?

Brie

We were lucky that the people who offered on our house were able to wait 8 months.  Our EA kept trying to get us to move out to get the sale complete but we refused, in part due to having a cat and not knowing when we would be able to finish the purchase we wanted.  

The length of time was due mostly to the fact that we were selling 2 properties and while we had an offer on one the other didn't go through until the 3rd offer was made and that purchaser was so demanding we considered rejecting their offer when they still weren't satisfied with needing to dot all the "i"s and cross all the "t"s.  That took nearly 5 months to finalise.  

But the sale finally completed, the pain in the backside buyer had the second property, everyone moved.  And then 2 weeks later the pipes in the sold second property burst causing extensive damage.  I couldn't have been happier!!!  (I know...nasty of me)

lookstraightahead

Tokmon said:

lookstraightahead said:

I think it depends on what people think is putting them out.

To some, moving is a massive undertaking. To others it's nothing compared to what else might be going on in their life.

ive been divorced and had to move into rented, this was the least of my problems. I've also sold and moved into rented when looking after a very poorly relative and consequently dealing with her death at the same time.

ive also moved into rented by moving to the other side of the country and changing jobs.

I also rented when I was so skint I didn't think I would even find a room.

So I don't see the issue - I don't think it's a lot of money (if you can't afford a few months extra rent you're not in a good position to buy). 

And remember. By a seller not moving, someone else is having to pick up the flack.

im sure there is snobbiness, lack of confidence/scared, and "can't be bothered" thrown in there. To some sellers their home is their castle and it should be everyone else's castle and they should wait for it.

I always move on. To be fair though, my chains have always kept their word.

At the very least moving in to rented makes the process less efficient and more time consuming than it needs to be plus it's irrelevant whether or not it's a "lot of money" it's still extra money that doesn't need to be spent which isn't very money saving at all. Why would you want to spend an extra day of free time moving and a few thousand extra on renting when it didn't need to be done?

Quite the opposite, I find it more efficient, you sell your house, you break your chain which in every single case has meant more negotiating power for me and less cost, and you kept your buyers.

sitting in a house and not moving onwards is like hiding your money under the mattress. 

But I get some people are nervous about it.