Estate Agent told me not to buy for six months

PasturesNew

Triker wrote: »

The more I think of this the more baffled I am

Why would somebody whose livelihood depends on selling houses say 'don't bother buying for 6 months'......don't get it meself, especially with the number of EA closures and the lack of mortgage products strangling the market.

I know nothing about psychology whatsoever ... but I bet it's a stage of betrayal.

He's probably feeling betrayed by everybody and everything at the moment. Dragging himself into the office each day, wondering if each is his last. Sitting through half-perky sales meetings where people are trying to be upbeat, but each is looking around wondering who will be "the one" to go first.

Answering the phone, not wondering if this could be a buyer that will make him the commission he needs for that holiday in the sun next summer, but instead dreading picking it up in case it's a buyer pulling out ... as not only has he lost the commission he'd already mentally spent, but his next task would be to take abuse from the seller.

He's betrayed but having to go through the motions. Looking out for what he sees as a kindred spirit, somebody he feels he can confide in, to share his pain. A spot of empathy in the middle of an otherwise pointless day/week/month ... and now it seems, existence.

oldMcDonald

Triker wrote: »

The more I think of this the more baffled I am

Why would somebody whose livelihood depends on selling houses say 'don't bother buying for 6 months'......don't get it meself, especially with the number of EA closures and the lack of mortgage products strangling the market.

Maybe he was 'off duty' in a pub

It is easy to let stuff slip after a couple of pints

Triker

PasturesNew wrote: »

I know nothing about psychology whatsoever ... but I bet it's a stage of betrayal.

He's probably feeling betrayed by everybody and everything at the moment. Dragging himself into the office each day, wondering if each is his last. Sitting through half-perky sales meetings where people are trying to be upbeat, but each is looking around wondering who will be "the one" to go first.

Answering the phone, not wondering if this could be a buyer that will make him the commission he needs for that holiday in the sun next summer, but instead dreading picking it up in case it's a buyer pulling out ... as not only has he lost the commission he'd already mentally spent, but his next task would be to take abuse from the seller.

He's betrayed but having to go through the motions. Looking out for what he sees as a kindred spirit, somebody he feels he can confide in, to share his pain. A spot of empathy in the middle of an otherwise pointless day/week/month ... and now it seems, existence.

:rotfl:alright you, how's your breadmaking doing?;)

PasturesNew

Triker wrote: »

:rotfl:alright you, how's your breadmaking doing?;)

shhh... been trying to work myself up to loaf 3.

I might try that this weekend... as my trip is cancelled (no point going away as it will be peeing down all the time). Might turn my hand to a spot of breadbreaking instead.

Lotus-eater

Triker wrote: »

:rotfl:alright you, how's your breadmaking doing?;)

Oi you, back to Old Style for bread talk!.......... besides we don't talk about things that rise here, only falls

ianian99

I'd leave it a year as there will be plenty of repos then.

Triker

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Oi you, back to Old Style for bread talk!.......... besides we don't talk about things that rise here, only falls

Sorry guv, won't happen again.:rotfl:

PasturesNew

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Oi you, back to Old Style for bread talk!.......... besides we don't talk about things that rise here, only falls

That means my bread talk is allowed then.
!!!!!! didn't even mix, never mind rise. And second one rose but was welded to the paddle so had to eat it by scooping it out.

So, under your rules, my bread is valid.

Triker

ianian99 wrote: »

I'd leave it a year as there will be plenty of repos then.

Repossessed bread, gawd, times are hard.:D

Triker

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PasturesNew wrote: »

That means my bread talk is allowed then.
!!!!!! didn't even mix, never mind rise. And second one rose but was welded to the paddle so had to eat it by scooping it out.

So, under your rules, my bread is valid.

Stoppit, laughing so much my jaw hurts.:rotfl: