confidentiality when selling

hev_2

chappers wrote: »

Fair enough if you want to cut off your nose to spite your face, personally speaking if I were selling up I wouldn't care if Adolf Hilter was buying my property as long as they paid the right price.
How the fcuk do you think you are going to sell your house without letting people know it is for sale, could be a pretty long process..."excuse me would you like to buy my house ok, no....please don't tell anyone though..."excuse me............

Actually, the people who sold us this house advertised in a different area, with estate agents that were not local. They didn't like him either.

I honestly consider selling my house to one of those 'buy your house for washers' people will be the best route, when I finally can get out of this hell hole that is largely (in fact almost entirely) due to this person.

And no, he would not pay a fair price, but in my experience I have never found anything he said to be truthful, he has a desperate reputation and I think he would do what he could to drive the price down to half the value before getting his bids in. Just his actions in the past have (looking at general price trends for last fifteen years in other areas and prices that our area is now getting) knocked around £30k off the value of our house.

Very bitter.

fc123

hev wrote: »

Actually, the people who sold us this house advertised in a different area, with estate agents that were not local. They didn't like him either.

I honestly consider selling my house to one of those 'buy your house for washers' people will be the best route, when I finally can get out of this hell hole that is largely (in fact almost entirely) due to this person.

And no, he would not pay a fair price, but in my experience I have never found anything he said to be truthful, he has a desperate reputation and I think he would do what he could to drive the price down to half the value before getting his bids in. Just his actions in the past have (looking at general price trends for last fifteen years in other areas and prices that our area is now getting) knocked around £30k off the value of our house.

Very bitter.

Is this someone who buys everything in an area??? Sorry I don't understand.

hev_2

fc123 wrote: »

Is this someone who buys everything in an area??? Sorry I don't understand.

We moved in @ 15 years ago and since then he has bought every property he could in our street and adjoining streets. He is not a responsible landlord, seems to actively seek out trouble makers, drug users, drug dealers, prostitutes etc that were not round here before he rented to them. You can imagine the turnover in tenants. The local prices have not kept pace with HPI elsewhere, due to dilapidation of his properties and seeing the effects of tenants who are not socially responsible. He blew it with my current neighbours - they are lovely but they originate from an extremely iffy area and one would expect trouble from people from that district. I am not the only one that doesn't want to sell to him and I know of one property that has been on/off the market for years, trying to keep it out of his hands.

I do try and see the best in people, and their spouse is lovely. I really struggle with this one, though.

Very very bitter.

fc123

hev wrote: »

We moved in @ 15 years ago and since then he has bought every property he could in our street and adjoining streets. He is not a responsible landlord, seems to actively seek out trouble makers, drug users, drug dealers, prostitutes etc that were not round here before he rented to them. You can imagine the turnover in tenants. The local prices have not kept pace with HPI elsewhere, due to dilapidation of his properties and seeing the effects of tenants who are not socially responsible. He blew it with my current neighbours - they are lovely but they originate from an extremely iffy area and one would expect trouble from people from that district. I am not the only one that doesn't want to sell to him and I know of one property that has been on/off the market for years, trying to keep it out of his hands.

I do try and see the best in people, and their spouse is lovely. I really struggle with this one, though.

Very very bitter.

I understand now. Like a medieval land owner...controls his own little area.
I guess he has cash too so can buy what he wants.

I assume that the council couldn't care less nor have any power to do anything even if they did?

hev_2

The council have condemned a couple of his properties that I know of, but eventually someone moves back in - don't know if he has to pass a check but willing to bet money that he hasn't. He is under the impression that he knows about legal matters and he says all sorts of stuff that have no basis in reality. It's like trying to nail fog sometimes, asking a genuine question.

Everyone has a right to make a living, if we had no landlords then those who couldn't afford to buy for whatever circumstances would be sleeping in tents. I don't begrudge someone who works hard to make a life for themselves and their families.

Getting in touch with Environmental Health because of problems caused by his properties damp to my property is on my to do list, but I am really not looking forward to the aggro. He is not someone you can have a rational conversation with.

Sigh, I'm going to go away and think of fluffy bunnies. At the moment lemons look at me and think I ought to be a bit less bitter!