No viewers! ARGHHHHH!!!!

janie161

In reply to Jorgan, my own naivety I spose, I have never sold a house before and as much as I like this house and feel at home here (bearing in mind I have lived here all my life!!) I just thought it would appeal to everybody else as it was! It's only now that I have started to look at other properties on Rightmove I can see the ones which have taken the time and trouble to stage and de-clutter first ....

And thanks Davesnave, I did have a chuckle at your story!

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

I think Bairstow Eves are a franchise.

Yes

http://www.bairstowevesfranchising.co.uk/

Jorgan_2

Davesnave wrote: »

I think Bairstow Eves are a franchise.

I don't believe all the branches are franchised. Bairstow Eves has been going for many years as part of Countrywide, they went into franchising about 7 years ago.

Flylady_Flower

Conrad wrote: »

This is truly astounding!

You think agents like cluttering up thier minds / offices with your property sitting doing nothing?

Your greed is the problem, end of.

If you advertised for £50000 you would sell in the next 10 minutes. Clearly thats a ridiculous price but it illustrates EVERYTHIGN SELLS, so all you have to do is sell for the price the buyers want to pay.

It aint rocket science you know, jeeez

This is a pathetic answer and not helpful to anyone. Janie was given the price to sell at by the 'Experts', she did not pluck it out of the air, she has even done her own background work and checked the price against others, but again - SHE WAS TOLD WHAT PRICE TO MARKET AT BY BAIRSTOWS THEMSELVES!

You have to sell at a certain price to be able to buy on - if she was selling for cash, maybe she could afford to reduce, but if it is marketed at the right price, why should she - and having worked for BE - THEY DO JUST SIT ON THE PROPERTIES - I don't know why they do, but as long as they are reaching their targets, all is well!

Instead of slating someone, give them good advice, otherwise DON'T BOTHER!

Maz

Davesnave wrote: »

I think Bairstow Eves are a franchise.

We had a most interesting experience with their Tiverton branch, which sent us to view a plant nursery business owned by a complete madman, who pretended he had plants in a polytunnel under fleece, (at mid-day!) when there were, in fact, none there. Most of his stock outside was either dead or past its sell by date and he'd obviously sold nothing for weeks, but he kept running to the window 'to check for customers....because we'll get a rush on any minute and I may have to leave you.' It was like something out of Monty Python.

This man had also self-built the house.....and it showed. Not that he'd finished all of it. The details omitted mention of these things. Despite it being a dormer property, he also assured us' 'You can get another floor on there.' By this time, my 15 year old daughter was having trouble not wetting herself and had to go away for a laugh. She missed the bit where he claimed 'All this is NHBC.' which I translated as 'Numpty Hasn't A Bl**dy Clue.'

We finished the tour by noting that the land with this property had been ploughed then left to self-seed; an interesting management strategy. There were also areas where 'things' had been buried.....However,the site had obviously been quite attractive at one time and everything had potential, but addressing the problems was more than we could afford.

When we returned, we wrote to the agent detailing the main 'incidents' in our visit & saying how we thought their particulars could be improved for accuracy. True, we used a light hearted style, but we also pointed out that we'd had our time and 160 miles worth of petrol wasted because of their inaccurate description, and that we felt they'd come close to becoming the Arthur Daley of the Devon property scene. A day or two later my wife had a very angry 'phone call from the manager of Bairstow Eves telling her that he was incensed with our letter and that we had been 'blacklisted.'

I know this doesn't help you in the slightest janie, but if it gives you or anyone else a laugh........It also shows how the Property Misdescriptions Act may not always be followed to the letter.

We never looked at another property in that area, so our 'blacklisting' was clearly effective. We did pop into the nursery a year ago though, and we found considerable investments had been made. The place looked good and was selling things, if not exactly 'having a rush on' !

That's Devon for yer!

rose101_2

Benefits_Blagger wrote: »

!!!!!!, have you not thought the EA might be right, the market is slow and you need to reduce the price ?

afterall they had no problem finding you viewers last year ?

or judging by the number of these threads, have all the agents turned into barstewards overnight (ignoring the fact they alreay were) ?

you have two anecodatals there, the viewer situation, plus the fact you found it difficult to buy last year, but not a problem now.

you need to get over the fact that last year, was erm last year, the market has changed and moved on, you need to do the same.

Thanks for this, we had a viewer today that seemed v keen, fingers crossed. Otherwise we are going to consider reducing price. Just wish they had given us a realistic price to start with.

junk_foe

When will you all come to terms with the fact that a property is only worth what a buyer is willing to pay not what you think or worst still what an estate agent thinks is worth!!

CheeseCat

It now says Sold STC on the rightmove link so I am guessing all's well?