Best Excuse for Not Liking House...

Debt_Free_Chick

I think a lot of these excuses are down to the Estate Agents. I've often had an EA suggest I view a particular property, even though it didn't meet my viewing criteria. TBH, the EA has "come clean" and told me why it's not wholly suitable, but persuaded me to take a look anyway.

Some people are a bit weak and just go along with the EA, anyway. Others go with a completely closed mind and aren't going to like it, no matter what!

Incidentally, the last house we bought (present one) didn't meet half a dozen things on our list of must haves

40 mins commute to London? Nope, 85 mins
S facing garden? Nope, north
Downstairs cloakroom? Well, kind of if you class a cupboard off the utility/kitchen as such
Two bathrooms? Nope

But we both instantly loved it so bought it. Having said that, it was an internet find and not one suggested by the EA

I digress, but thought some of this seemed relevant when I started to post

Woby_Tide

Van1971 wrote:

I am in the process of selling my 2 bedroom top floor flat. You wouldn't beleive the amount of people that said that they loved it but wouldn't put an offer on it because it didn't have a garden...duh! My EA always tells poeple that we have no garden prior to arrange viewings so that's a lame excuse!

When we sold our flat, described as "a split level, 2nd floor flat", the first viewer rejected it on the grounds of "too many stairs"

Altarf

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

I think a lot of these excuses are down to the Estate Agents. I've often had an EA suggest I view a particular property, even though it didn't meet my viewing criteria.

The last time I bought a house I failed to meet an Estate Agent that I didn't want to poke in the eye.

Despite being very specific about the type of property that I wanted to buy (which was not odd, difficult or unrealistic), they would give you any old listing in the drawer and you got the feeling that if you didn't at least go to one, even if you were not even vaguely interested, you wouldn't get the details of any you were interested in.

sooz

Altarf wrote:

The last time I bought a house I failed to meet an Estate Agent that I didn't want to poke in the eye.

friends of mine bought a flat described by EA as having a swimming pool. it turned out to be a very green and murky plastic pond..........[they had seen it and told him he was a cheeky t###er]

LH79_2

We're just looking at houses again after finally selling ours on Friday after 21 months (count 'em!) on the market. We've been renting up north for 18 of those months, so big relief. We're having same probs re EA's - being sent details of rubbish places, and not the ones we're interested in.

Re best excuse for not buying house - our fences were too low!!! :rotfl:

Smudger99

My house is at the end of a small cul-de-sac (approx 100m long).
Excuse was that it was not near enough to the main road

Casual

I'm in the process of trying to buy right now (see my thread "Negligent Estate Agent got me Clamped!) and I found quite possibly the worst described house in history.

A cute 2 bed terraced house in central Reading turned out to be an overpriced grotty 1 1/2 bed terraced house. It didn't even have a sink in the bathroom!! Yep, that's right - a bath and a small toilet that you had to stand on to be able to shut the door. The EA phoned up today for feedback and I posed one question - "where do the current owners brush their teeth?" He was stumped and said he's phone me back! hehe

The other daft thing about this house was that they were in the process of redecorating the back bedroom. Fine, I think. No doubt, magnolia or some other non-contraversial colour.

But instead, they're doing a huge Chinese themed bedroom. Complete with shiny red brick clad fireplace (with gold paint fake Chinese motifs on!). Honestly, it was godawful. So unbelievably individual (and tasteless at that!). Plus they were painting over very dark wallpaper so you could still see the previous design!

Sorry, if I've offended anyone with this - I've seen other Chinese themed rooms and thought they were okay but this one was seriously awful!

BenL

A lad came on the train recently to look at our house.

He liked it but there isn't enough parking was his excuse.

No car, ours is an end terrace with space for 3 outside where no one else really drives past and large tarmac shared parking area.

Ben

Becky

I think a very common problem is the house does not match a specification.

For example we had many people turn the house down due to it being 2 bedrooms and not 3.

I don't know why people cannot read the black and white in front of them.

Having said that, I suppose if you have lots of houses to view and an E.A. throws a pile in your hand, it is easy to forget.

I wish E.A. would only show people into your house who want a nn bedroom house and are in a good position to proceed if they like the house.

I found that in the end, anybody was being let in to view. I think they were grabbing people off the street by the collars to get them into the house! :mad:

lush_walrus

I think most people lie about the reason that they dont like a house for fear of offending the people who are living in it. After all who is going to turn around to an absolutely dump of a house in a really bad area and say that is the reason that they dont want to buy it? Not many people would do that would they? If there is a straight forward reason such as the house is on a busy road or the 3rd bedroom too small most people tend to be a little bit more forth coming with the real reason.

On another note, the reason that EAs give details which are outside of what you may specify you are looking for, is because you will be surprised how many people buy property which isnt what they originally specified they were looking for.
IE: State that they are only interested in 3 bed houses and end up actually buying a 4 bed bunglow! It happens, but in saying that if someone states they need a min of 2 beds for approx £120,000 there is never really any point in sending out details for 1 bed propertys for £80,000 as they are just not going to be interested.