Sellers pulled out of their purchase, now can’t find house.

TripleH

I think what annoys me is that some vendors lie about being a chain free sale to sucker buyers in and then hope they have committed too much to want to pull out when they find the truth. If you advertise as chain free or promise to rent to keep a sale, that is your problem and hassle to deal with.

Renters do have flexibility but also have a lot less when it comes to a completion date and I feel some buyers don't acknowledge the benefit they can bring to a chain (thus is my experience by the way).

lookstraightahead

TripleH said:

I think what annoys me is that some vendors lie about being a chain free sale to sucker buyers in and then hope they have committed too much to want to pull out when they find the truth. If you advertise as chain free or promise to rent to keep a sale, that is your problem and hassle to deal with.

Renters do have flexibility but also have a lot less when it comes to a completion date and I feel some buyers don't acknowledge the benefit they can bring to a chain (thus is my experience by the way).

Agree entirely.
I do think this is because a lot of vendors see tenants as not so important so don't understand what they bring to the table. 

Done don't even understand the renting process. 

In the U.K. "our home is our castle" and some vendors take this quite literally.

MaryNB

TripleH said:

I think what annoys me is that some vendors lie about being a chain free sale to sucker buyers in and then hope they have committed too much to want to pull out when they find the truth. If you advertise as chain free or promise to rent to keep a sale, that is your problem and hassle to deal with.

Renters do have flexibility but also have a lot less when it comes to a completion date and I feel some buyers don't acknowledge the benefit they can bring to a chain (thus is my experience by the way).

Bought my first house last year and constantly reminded the EA that I had to gives a month's notice and it had to line up my tenancy dates. Luckily we exchanged the last working day of the month, but if it had been the following Monday I'd be paying bills on two properties and rent and mortgage for two months instead of one. I had budgeted for two months it but I didn't want to have to pay that much just because they decided to pick a date at the beginning of the month when it could have been at the end.