Am I being lied to?

theartfullodger

I always assume salespeople (that's who you were talking to).. will lie or mislead.

Sorry, but reality & 50+ years of buying and selling (England & Scotland) tell me this.

Good luck!

Woolsery

theartfullodger said:

I always assume salespeople (that's who you were talking to).. will lie or mislead.

Sorry, but reality & 50+ years of buying and selling (England & Scotland) tell me this.

Good luck!

Recently we had a cordial couple of hours with the EA who sold us this place 13 years ago. He'd called to value a barn we're thinking of selling.

It was an entirely different experience from the previous encounter we'd had with him, when he did everything but lie to our faces attempting to push up our offer by £10k!

It's business, but the personal nature of buying property gets in the way, especially when you're smitten. Luckily, with this one we weren't.

Anyway, we all laughed about it and he did remember which of us was the tough nut. It wasn't me!

Ath_Wat

Woolsery said:

theartfullodger said:

I always assume salespeople (that's who you were talking to).. will lie or mislead.

Sorry, but reality & 50+ years of buying and selling (England & Scotland) tell me this.

Good luck!

Recently we had a cordial couple of hours with the EA who sold us this place 13 years ago. He'd called to value a barn we're thinking of selling.

It was an entirely different experience from the previous encounter we'd had with him, when he did everything but lie to our faces attempting to push up our offer by £10k!

It's business, but the personal nature of buying property gets in the way, especially when you're smitten. Luckily, with this one we weren't.

Anyway, we all laughed about it and he did remember which of us was the tough nut. It wasn't me!

Well on this occasion you were looking to employ him; so you are his (potential) customer.

On the previous occasion he was working for the person who wanted to sell you the house, so he was doing the best for his customer.

People buying houses seem to forget that estate agents are being paid by the seller of the house to negotiate as high a price as they possibly can, and seem surprised when they are not being "fair".  They are not supposed to be fair.  They are being paid money to further somebody else's interests at the expense of yours.

sheramber

I presume that whatever you signed when you paid the deposit did not fix the price. so the builder is able to increase the price.

How much later has the house been completed than originally said?

Until missives are signed the developer can also withdraw from the sale and sell to someone else for the increased price so they are unlikely to sell to you for less.

Anything else is goodwill on behalf of the builder and it does not look like there is any of that available.

So you have the choice of signing the missive at the current price or pulling out.

Woolsery

Ath_Wat said:

Woolsery said:

theartfullodger said:

I always assume salespeople (that's who you were talking to).. will lie or mislead.

Sorry, but reality & 50+ years of buying and selling (England & Scotland) tell me this.

Good luck!

Recently we had a cordial couple of hours with the EA who sold us this place 13 years ago. He'd called to value a barn we're thinking of selling.

It was an entirely different experience from the previous encounter we'd had with him, when he did everything but lie to our faces attempting to push up our offer by £10k!

It's business, but the personal nature of buying property gets in the way, especially when you're smitten. Luckily, with this one we weren't.

Anyway, we all laughed about it and he did remember which of us was the tough nut. It wasn't me!

Well on this occasion you were looking to employ him; so you are his (potential) customer.

On the previous occasion he was working for the person who wanted to sell you the house, so he was doing the best for his customer.

Yes, those were the points I expected people to infer. He's a very genuine guy who seems to remember the background to every sale, people's names, the interiors of houses and so on in a way few could match. However, he was 'the enemy' so far as we were concerned when buying.