Seller increases asking price after 10 months when they have caused the delay in exchange!

YoungBlueEyes

Bladdy laptop won't let me go back and quote posts! However.

They couldn't get in touch before they turned up that Sunday morning, we were doing everything through the EA and hadn't swopped contact details. 

Like caprikid1 says, I was perfectly happy when they arrived to organise dollies' bedrooms - I thought if ever there was a sign that a sale is absolutely going to go through this was it.

If I remember rightly it was about 0800 so not really early. I was up and away out with the dog because we were in a real hot spell and neither of us needs a lot of heat. But it turned out in conversation that we were all early risers so I wasn't put out really.

Whoever mentioned emotional blackmail - no that never occurred to me. I took it as 'we're all that excited to get moving into our new home that we couldn't stop ourselves coming round for the girls/dolls to sort out their bedrooms! You're lucky we waited 'til 8 cos the girls would've had us here 2 hours ago!!'  I was pleased as punch

YoungBlueEyes

@TripleH I'd rolled Big Sweaty tattoed Geoff into the garden before I opened the front door

Re their sense of.... entitlement..? I see what you're saying but it wasn't like that.  When they said they hoped they weren't disturbing us too early, I said not at all. Yous are wise to get out and back before the heat gets too bad. Come on in, I've ice-creams in the freezer.

As I said before, perhaps we were all just a bit innocent of 'normal procedure'? Or maybe we were all just decent people who used a bit of common sense and friendliness to make a stressful situation run as smoothly as possible. I'd behave the same again as a seller. 

ETA And none of us are solicitors, which seems to be a bonus ha haa!

newsgroupmonkey_

I think this thread should get the award for going most off-topic

YoungBlueEyes

Aye hasn't it wandered!

The OP has their issue resolved now though, so it's an interesting ongoing conversation. 

TripleH

@BV88, to get back on topic (sorry).

We had 2 properties we thought were going to be our dream home fall down on us last year.

Where we are I acknowledge was a compromise property. We had to get out of the rental, this ticks all boxes for essential requirements, poodles we missed out on the murder death House (as our friends named it).

But you know what, we love it. The house is lovely and warm (yes there are issues). The area is peaceful, we've the peak district on our doorstep. The house is chaotic still due to ongoing work but we are at peace and happy, if a little tired. When we bought it we didn't think it was our dream home, but I think the work we've done has made it into one.

Have a plan for what you need for your next home then sort through the options available to find what you want. Good luck 

@youngblueeyes, that was me to both your points. If they knew you were an early riser that makes it more reasonable. I interpreted your post that they just turned up at your house on a Sunday morning without notice and expected you to let them in to show their daughters the house without checking if the time was appropriate for you.

YoungBlueEyes

Sorry OP, prolly my fault really 🙄

They did just turn up, but as it’d already come up on a previous viewing that we were early risers (I can’t remember how it came up - you know how conversations can wander…) so I was ok with it. The EA was shut so they had no way to get in touch. It all worked out in the end anyway. 

I’d ask about your murder death house but I don’t wanna be told off! 

TripleH

It was the murder death House because the carpets were from the 1970's and the pattern looked like someone had come to an unfortunate end on them.

Oh, and the memorial garden in the garden.

GDB2222

Passenger volumes on TFL are rising quite sharply, as people start returning to the office. Lots of reports in the local papers about this. 

Skiddaw1

OP, I think you've made an extremely wise decision. It's a shame you've been led up the garden path (or not I suppose technically! ) for so long but the right house will be out there (and at the right price). Good luck with it and thanks for the update.

On a side note, I loved the dolly story! I wouldn't have minded that at all, or buyers wanting to call in to check things/measure up, etc (and, indeed, have accommodated buyers doing just that during previous house sales). I just wouldn't have been keen on a potential buyer giving me the third degree about whether I was a serious seller or not, especially to the degree of detailed enquiries about exactly where I was looking and what my financial arrangements were (as was suggested further back in the thread). I'd have found that unnecessarily intrusive and it would have certainly put me off accepting an offer from them had they done so.

peterhjohnson

GDB2222 said:

 apparently I am unusual in wanting to know how someone I am buying from is placed. 

When I sold recently, I had 3 agents round and they all asked where I was planning to move to and I told them the town. They didn't probe further. I had no contact with the buyer until completion day.

I had spent over 6 months researching property where I wanted to buy. I knew I could buy what I wanted at a price I could afford. I also knew that given the small size of the market, I might have to wait some months.

But none of the agents or the (potential) buyers knew that. I could have been a compete dreamer.
The first bit of evidence they got was (probably) when the agent I was buying through contacted my selling agent to check I was really SSTC

I really think selling EAs should have a more in depth conversation with sellers:

• Where are you going to live once you've sold?
• Would you like me to put you in touch with our affiliates there? A spontaneous, "I'm already registered with A, B, C, D, E & F agents" would be a very encouraging answer.
• Would you need still need a mortgage? A good answer might be "No, we reckon we can get a 2 bed terrace for around 250k and since you claim we can sell for 350k and our remaining mortgage is 50k, we won't need a mortage"

An EA could then tell a prospective buyer, "Look, they know where they want to move to, they're already on the books of local agents and as it's a cheaper area, if you pay the asking price, they can become debt-free so there's a good chance this is going to work"