sale just fell through this afternoon- unbelievable EA

posh*spice

jamtart6 wrote: »

my sanity by living in the parental home? :rotfl: only joking !

ahhhh! Now I see:p

pickledtink

Incisor wrote: »

I think that the comments in question fall within the limits of fair comment. This site seems to be averse to making clear cut comments when a poster is making some sort of a mistake. Deleting such comments is of no real help to anyone.

No. Both your posts are insulting, abusive and personally directed.
With all due respect please express your opinion without recourse to derogatory remarks about another poster.
Attack an opinion by all means with healthy vigour but justify it in full and resist the urge to make assumptive comments about other posters please.

chriz1000

I know everyone has there own principles and at the end of the day everyone reacts differently but both the buyer and seller must be very stubborn to let a sale fall through at such a late stage over £250. Ether that or someone got cold feet.

topher_2

I think the OP was right to pull out.

When we purchased our current house the owners told us the day before we were going to exchange and complete that they had lost the key to the garage door. The door is a strange design and the lock cannot be changed but they said it was fine as it could be opened from the inside. We said we want a reduction of £150 to get a locksmith out (we got quote on having a new key made up).

The sellers said "no way" - as far as I was concerned the house was being purchased with a working garage door and if it didn't work it either needs to be fixed or a reduction made. As we wouldn't loose any money if we pulled out I simply told them that I wouldn't loose any money, had somewhere else to live and they either sorted the door or the sale was off.

Strangely enough they got the locksmith out.

In the case of the OPs situation you wouldn't buy a car that needed work carrying out to be safe, so why would you with a house?

real1314

pickledtink wrote: »

No. Both your posts are insulting, abusive and personally directed.
With all due respect please express your opinion without recourse to derogatory remarks about another poster.
Attack an opinion by all means with healthy vigour but justify it in full and resist the urge to make assumptive comments about other posters please.

Erm, it wasn't him/her, it was another poster it's all about opinions, yours isn't the only one.

OP - what are these 10 jobs and what are the 2 urgent ones? £700 seems a fair bit of money for 10 jobs? It's often the case that asking for any workman to assess for jobs needing doing will result in inevitable work needing doing. As clutton says, it IS a fairly recent phenomenon that an installation that has worked fine for years is suddenly unsafe and dangerous (I'm not against safety, and have seen a fair bit of suspect work in my time, but standards change).

As for your negotiation, I think you have been fairly combative / have made similar threats to the seller (All of it off the price or we walk away?). Also the EA is hardly gonna have a big party on 2% of £700 = £14 - hardly something that would motivate them, they'd rather get a sale but are perhaps trying to balance the stances of 2 people who don't appear to be able to agree on a way through the deal?

poppysarah

real1314 wrote: »

OP - what are these 10 jobs and what are the 2 urgent ones? £700 seems a fair bit of money for 10 jobs?

Probably not extremely high though - its about £2000 for a complete basic rewire.
Depends of course what it is - but the house owner has "done some himself" possible in restricted areas. This potentially means the entire house is unsafer than originally checked.

Electrics are important. You don't want to exchange and move into a house which then causes a death or having no electric for a week whilst it gets sorted out.

halloweenqueen_2

Can I just say I know someone and his three other neighbours whose 20 years old houses are being totally stripped and having to be rewired because they were done wrongly and are no way up to todays standards. At huge expense and upheaval to the current owners. We used to take wiring at face value so I don't think its a bad idea that there are more regulations on them now.

MaidMarianofNottingham

Sorry to say that you are looking for a scapegoat, someone other than yourself, to blame, hence your rant.
Did you ever see a wonderful pair of shoes but did not buy them and do you ever think, wish I had bought them. Or, conversely, did you buy the most wonderful pair of shoes and never have them off your feet because you loved them so much. Do not let the property slip away. Buying and selling... houses, shoes whatever, is governed by choice and principles of economics not of ranting and bullying, you did your share of bullying, too. Being a FTB is a smokescreen
If the property is the one you want, contact the agent ASAP, and buy it and stop being immature over a few quid.
Now you have had time to calm down and reflect, go for it.

best wishes

clobber_2

I must say I cannot see the point in quoting the remarks you want deleted. It just keeps what you object to the main topic of the thread and makes more work for the mods.

Anyhoo. The phrase most likely to make us back out of the door, slowly and carefully, is "My husband is very good at DIY!"

real1314

I think there should be a new version of godwin's law on this board - anyone who responds to any problem at all regarding a property that suggests that someone might die from it, without knowing what the actual problem is, should be forced to concede their argument as invalid.

I once bought a house with a window that wasn't fixed in properly - it was held by 2 screws, one either side, and could be rocked/swung -
IT WAS POTENTIALLY LETHAL :mad: IF ONE SCREW HAD GIVEN WAY IT COULD HAVE LANDED ON MY HEAD AND KILLED ME!!!!!! :mad:

Never mind that protruding screw that could have scratched me, leading to tetanus and a horrid death.