Got the fixtures and fitting list through from my solicitor. Are the prices on stuff they want to sell normally negotiable? They seem to be taking the piss with the prices they've put on. £400 for your shitty old washer/drier? You could get a brand new one for that.
All the blinds and curtains come to about £400 as well.
I've not encountered this. They're trying to add on money for what they're leaving behind?
Aside from anything built in, the expectation would normally be that they're taking everything with them.
Are they trying to sell you the fridge and bog brush or something?
Either way, I'd tell them to take the fucking lot.
What are they going to do with blinds that are presumably made to fit their current windows? Tell them to fuck off.
I’ve just bought a house.
Being poor.
Thinking back, I seem to remember the buyers solicitor requesting that we paint our old flat before leaving.
I think they just chance their arm with this shit.
We're chucking in the washer and fridge because they're approaching their sell by date and the new house has them integrated, but they've agreed to pay for the curtains we'd put up which I wouldn't have even considered as an extra but have since discovered what a money making racket the curtain game is.
My dad tried to remove the light bulbs during our house move. He didn't want to leave anything for free to the white boys.
The guy we bought off left so much stuff here I was sure he would still be asleep in bed upstairs.
My flats gone on the market today, the pictures they’ve took make it look amazing!
That's one of the few things that Purple Bricks did well for us. The house, especially the kitchen, looked incredible in the photos.
Eurgh, two months in and nowt's really jumping out at me. I might take a viewing for a place across the road just to feel like I'm doing something. I'm still waiting on a call on another place but that's gone quiet.
Is it standard practice for an estate agent not to disclose the amount of rivalling offers?
I don't know about standard but it does happen. When we were moving last time there were 3 of us interested in a property, so rather than doing a normal bidding war the geezer said "right, everyone just put in your maximum offer".
We told him to fuck off.
Bollocks to that.
One of my wife's friends has just had their seller decide to pull out just as they were about to exchange. They're understandably livid.
It's mental that you can pull out just like that and everyone else in the chain just had to suck up all their wasted time and money.
Obviously if there's a change in circumstances like a redundancy and you can no longer get the mortgage or whatever then fair fucks, but you can seemingly pull out on a whim with no explanation at all and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Seems a bit fucked.
The sellers have come back being stubborn about the fixtures and fittings. And my solicitor has just told me "ask the estate agent to contact them and thrash it out that way as it may be quicker." What the fuck am I paying you for then?
I hate this whole fucking process.
Just tell them to take the lot.
Viewed a lovely place yesterday and I've made the call. The current tenant's moving in a couple of weeks so it could be a quick turnaround. It's going to be nice to get away from a main road and having nobody above me.
Sixteen weeks in and they're still accusing each other of not sending/receiving things. And when they do send each other something they take a week to respond because 'we have to work through things as they come in'. Yeah let's see what happens when your bill goes to the bottom of my [imaginary] to-do list you cunts.
Our original buyers had another timewaster buying theirs so we had to put ours back on the market. Someone made an offer the day after a viewing but apparently they were making offers on a few houses and the estate agent said their financial advisors needed a translator so fuck that. Luckily the original lot this time have accepted an offer for theirs but through our estate agent who are a bit more strict on things like dealing with people who can actually afford a house so fingers crossed it's third time lucky. Can't be arsed dealing with new people and having to clear out for viewings again.
It's all worth it when you do finally move.
Moving during the last year was comfortably the most stressful thing ever I've had to do. Will not be moving again.
We're all done our end, just waiting for our buyers searches to come back (should be imminent) then hopefully completion if there's not a load of queries.
The hold-ups turn out to be: 1) the seller submitting his atrocious hand-written accounts as part of the 'management pack'; 2) the seller thinking that them saying the building isn't tall enough to require any post-Grenfell cladding certification constitutes acceptable proof that it isn't; and 3) my solicitor insisting that they underwrite any service charge liabilities I might inherit, because he doesn't want me paying three-hundred pounds upon moving in (better to pay double that in extra rent whilst they fuck about).
You sometimes read about idiot politicians who were barristers (or idiot online barristers) and you think they can't be idiots if they were barristers; but if all you have to do is rise above these sorts of people then maybe I should have gone into the legal profession.
The potential landlords want me to provide a work contact for a reference. Would a team leader do?
It seems selling a house is pretty easy at the moment. Annoyingly, selling a flat is proving less simple. Might have to drop the asking price, thankfully we’ve had over asking offered on the house, with a load more people still to come see it, hoping for a bidding war!
A property I'm keen on has reduced it's asking price by 8.5% in what appears to be an act of desperation. How much lower could one go with an offer in this instance?
Guess it depends how expensive the house is and how desperate they are to shift it.
Maybe they need to sell that house ASAP as they can't afford their next house without the stamp duty holiday.
The house has had an offer £11k over asking so we’ve accepted it. It’s enough that we can offer on ones we’ve looked at before selling the flat, which is very useful.
We're eyeing up a house, it's a friend's parents house and their looking to downsize. They've had it valued at 220k which is more than we thought so it's all a bit in doubt now. Depends how much we can sell ours for I guess.
I wouldn't put much weight in the valuation if it's just coming from an estate agent.
Most definitely over valued in the first instance. I might chance my arm with a further 3%.
Would have been over-valued massively. Estate agents are chasing business at the minute so they are all telling people their houses are worth way in excess of what they would have done six months ago. Then when they don't sell the get the seller to reduce the price to actually get it saleable(but after the point where they have locked them into a 20 week contract).
Yeah someone round the corner from me just sold a carbon copy of the house we bought for £130k in January 2019 for £220k last week, on arguably a worse road (busier traffic, worse parking). Market is totally insane.
I'm all clear to move in probably within a fortnight. Fuck, that's soon.
£262k knocked back. The estate agent advised the offer isn't a million miles away. A thinker.
I'd give them the bank holiday to think about it and return with a follow up offer on Wednesday if they don't get back in touch by then.
Our move is pissing me off now. Completely stagnant and both solicitor's playing a top notch game of blaming the other side.
I think ours is all a go now, just waiting for whatever our buyer's buyer is doing but they've got their searches and surveys and mortgage applications in so that's all a relief. Unless there's a miracle the stamp duty holiday will have expired by the time we're done but the extension to it was a surprise anyway so we weren't relying on it.