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Increase offer? Grateful for advice
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Carpets? Why on earth would anyone take the carpets with them? I mean we are talking fitted, wall to wall carpets arent we?
What on earth use are they to someone moving into a different house - unless the new place is exactly the same as the old place?
Really? !!!!!!?[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Rise like Lions after slumber
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When I bought my first house the vendor wanted a ridiculous price for the carpets - If I remember rightly the house was £30K & he wanted either £800 or £1200 for the carpets in the loft. I said no, its too expensive & the beggar took them up & took them with him! I couldn't believe it - like you say, what on Earth was he going to do with them!0
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TTMCMschine wrote: »When I bought my first house the vendor wanted a ridiculous price for the carpets - If I remember rightly the house was £30K & he wanted either £800 or £1200 for the carpets in the loft. I said no, its too expensive & the beggar took them up & took them with him! I couldn't believe it - like you say, what on Earth was he going to do with them!
When we sold in Norfolk the buyer made it a condition of purchase that we took all the carpets up and left the floors bare. Don't know if he had a carpet allergy or just didn't like our taste!0 -
Carpets? Why on earth would anyone take the carpets with them? I mean we are talking fitted, wall to wall carpets arent we?
What on earth use are they to someone moving into a different house - unless the new place is exactly the same as the old place?
Really? !!!!!!?
I had one vendor who wanted £500 for carpets, the buyers offered £250 and his reply was 'is that for the upstairs or downstairs?' They decided on the downstairs. Some people loose site of the bigger picture, IMO.0 -
UPDATE! We had an offer accepted of £145,000 we always said that we would not go above this. I caved and went into the estate agent and asked if the vendor would reconsider our offer and if not would they reconsider the minimum they say they need.
I was there when the estate agent called the vendor and reconsidering our offer was a definite no. She said she would meet us half way at £145,000 and we agreed. I asked for carpets, curtains and the fridge! Although we have enough curtains to replace theirs we wont have a fridge immediately but will get one after a couple of weeks of moving in i would imagine. The property is exempt from stamp duty so thats a bonus. All in all Im very happy
Thanks for everyones advice and good luck in your own house hunting!Proud to be dealing with my debts, 18 months to go! :T
Earn an extra £250 a month - £ so far......0 -
excellant news well done, hope all goes smoothly from now on0
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