Buyers being difficult

Rick62

I think the vendor is trying it on with the bannister.

The air vent sounds fair enough, I think British Gas do it for about £150. I'm sure you probably should get the landords permission, but will he notice? And ultimately if it has to be done I would personally just get it done.

Just drop some hints to the EA about the other offer you had, saying your concerned about if the buyer is serious, can they see if the other buyer is still interested. I'm sure then all the problems about the bannister will disappear. If you want to be a pushover you could split it and knock £900 off, but I see no need to take £1800 off, thats a fair bit if cash!

stapeley

Theres no way it should cost £1800. I,ve put in one , parts £250 at the most Would take a tradesman two day max , £ 300. Tell them you will knock off £1000 put put a dealine on exchange . So only £500 each with ex.

cattie

That must be some banister. A friend recently had one installed in her Victorian house which she is restoring, it twists around the corner at the top & cost her around £1500 including installation.

For a 70's property, you'd only need something quite basic, with no period features to worry about.

Bananabelly

Thanks for all the help.We put a deadline of Friday for exchange today to see what happens. I have booked someone to sort out the vent, which shows that we are serious hopefully. They also want January completion after it was meant to be end-November, so I said we may be agreeable to that, but only if it is exchanged this week. We are also getting someone who has been recommended to us to quote for the bannister just to see what they say.The weirdest thing of all is there is part of a bannister there already, and from the quote it looks like they are going to replace that with one design and do down the stairs with something completely different?? One is 'ranch style' which is apparently what we have (sort of long bars) and down the stairs is spindles, etc. I can't picture it looking very nice, but that is certainly not my problem!PS I can't get the thanks button to work properly, but I do appreciate all the posts. Thanks very much!