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    Not gonna bother with that one I saw the other night. The parking/busy street situation put me off too much. Got a viewing on Saturday morning for a house that's quite nice. No off-street parking there but it's in a little cul-de-sac which should be fairly quiet. The bathroom's got some horrible old-fashioned coloured suite in it but I could put up with that for a while and get a new one when money allows.

    Also got a viewing on Monday for another one which looks really lovely but the asking price is right at the maximum of what I could afford so dunno if it'll be doable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Not gonna bother with that one I saw the other night. The parking/busy street situation put me off too much. Got a viewing on Saturday morning for a house that's quite nice. No off-street parking there but it's in a little cul-de-sac which should be fairly quiet. The bathroom's got some horrible old-fashioned coloured sweet in it but I could put up with that for a while and get a new one when money allows.

    Also got a viewing on Monday for another one which looks really lovely but the asking price is right at the maximum of what I could afford so dunno if it'll be doable.
    Sweet? Are you voice dictating these posts?

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    Shots fired @wullie

    #RIP
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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Sweet? Are you voice dictating these posts?
    Yes.

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    When I was about 10 my dad came back from a shopping trip to declare he'd "seen some amazing sweets" at the shop he was at, and I was really upset that he hadn't bought me any.

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    Did he mean bathrooms or settees?
    I'm a twit

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    He was on about tasty treats, he just hated my guts

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    House I saw this morning wasn't all that nice when I actually saw it in person.

    I'm getting a bit fed up with this now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    House I saw this morning wasn't all that nice when I actually saw it in person.

    I'm getting a bit fed up with this now.
    Keep going. Took me a year to find the one i wanted. They are were shit.

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    Did a second viewing of a house this weekend, made an offer and had it accepted. I hope that's the end of it now, and all goes plain sailing from here.

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    I'm going to view a flat on Wednesday that would hopefully save me money and make my commute either significantly quicker or I could just walk, depending on the weather.

    Given when I got the one I'm in it was pretty much spot-on for what I needed at the time I think this is only the second time I've ever actually been to view anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    Did a second viewing of a house this weekend, made an offer and had it accepted. I hope that's the end of it now, and all goes plain sailing from here.
    It is just the start lad.

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    The last house was absolutely fine, but we didn't have one to sell that time. It's the sale that I'm worried about, if he pulls out or decides to be a dickhead then we're fucked.

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    Surely you have clauses in your offer for situations like that?

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    Obviously if our sale falls through we're not obligated to buy the new one. But it puts us back to square one, and we have a very specific, tight timeline we're aiming for.

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    Ah, fair enough if it’s a question of time more than anything else. We had “fines” for pulling out of the sale when we were selling and buying. We’re actually going to the bank tomorrow to finalize the deal for our new place. We sold ours last Wednesday.

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    Right, house I saw this morning was lovely. I want to put an offer in. There aren't any yet. It says offers around £139,950. Where do I start? 135? That too low?

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    Hasn't even started the new job and he's already spending the money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Right, house I saw this morning was lovely. I want to put an offer in. There aren't any yet. It says offers around £139,950. Where do I start? 135? That too low?
    Depends how long it's been on the market, the condition, how eager the seller is to move on etc etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Right, house I saw this morning was lovely. I want to put an offer in. There aren't any yet. It says offers around £139,950. Where do I start? 135? That too low?
    130
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    Depends how long it's been on the market, the condition, how eager the seller is to move on etc etc.
    Not too sure how long it's been on the market. It's in very good condition - I'd be able to move right in, it wouldn't need anything done. Not sure about eager the seller is to move.
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    130
    Is that not taking the piss a bit?

    I took my mum with me to see it and I said to 135 to her and she said that's probably too low.

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    It's not like they're gonna say 'you took the piss with that first offer so we refuse to even discuss any further offers' is it? Aim low; you might end up with a bargain. Just make sure they take it off the market as soon as they accept an offer.
    I'm a twit

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    I wouldn't say 130 is too low.

    It's still a serious offer.

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    135 is fine. 130 would put my nose out of joint.

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    The estate agent seems to be closed now.

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    Got another viewing. Is it wrong to creep the prospective buyer on Facebook? An O&G worker.

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    £130k is probably too low if it's just gone on the market. If it's been on more than 4 weeks, I'd say it's completely fine.

    Also depends what the exact wording is on the price. If it's "Offers over" then yeah, you're taking the piss.

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    Or just choose what you're willing to pay and go with that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    £130k is probably too low if it's just gone on the market. If it's been on more than 4 weeks, I'd say it's completely fine.

    Also depends what the exact wording is on the price. If it's "Offers over" then yeah, you're taking the piss.
    Offers around.

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    Okay so it's been on the market since the first week of June. And the owners have another house they live in elsewhere and are just renting this to their niece at the minute.

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    I think that puts them in somewhat of a strong position, they're clearly in no rush to sell. Still, a low offer can't hurt as long as you're willing to come up if needed.

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    Gone in at 135.

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    Just rang up about an apartment just down the road from that house I've put the offer in for. It was listed at 115 and is just about to go to sale agreed for 123.

    The estate agents there said there's loads of people wanting to buy and not enough people selling. The estate agent for this place this morning said they're not seeing that many houses coming on the market either. Bit worrying.

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    Buy Magic's and be done with it.

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    Viewing number 3.

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    Boydy is fucking loving this isn't he the little shit. He's gone absolutely mad for financial gain.

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    Can't wait to hear how his stocks are doing over a cigar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magic View Post
    Boydy is fucking loving this isn't he the little shit. He's gone absolutely mad for financial gain.
    I'm not really arsed about financial gain. I just want somewhere nice to live and a mortgage actually works out cheaper than renting (if you've got the deposit, obvs).

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    Obviously if our sale falls through we're not obligated to buy the new one. But it puts us back to square one, and we have a very specific, tight timeline we're aiming for.
    In my experience, once you are on a tight time frame either the person you are buying off, or your buyer, will disappear on some life affirming jaunt to the middle of nowhere, completely incontactable save for fortnightly carrier pigeon releases, the lawyers will decide one of the boundary walls is 6 inches the wrong side of some imaginary line (despite having been there for decades if not hundreds of years) and the survey will come back with both a lol valuation under what you've agreed to pay (or agreed to sell for) and some other complaint about not being able to visually inspect anything.

    Good luck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    I'm not really arsed about financial gain. I just want somewhere nice to live and a mortgage actually works out cheaper than renting (if you've got the deposit, obvs).
    Show us some pics

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    How long should I wait for a reply?

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    They're normally pretty quick. I'd chase tomorrow under the guise of considering an offer on another property.

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    Had a call from the sellers estate agents today saying they've had a better offer than ours We questioned why it was even still on the market, but they said they viewed it a few weeks ago and have only just got around to making an offer. Not sure how much I believe them, but we've upped our offer by 2 grand and said it's dependant on the house being taken off the market today and that this is our final offer.

    I really hope it doesn't go tits up. Not a great start.

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    That’s proper shit.

    We were at the bank today and now everything is done and we get the keys on the fifth of next month.

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    Congrats. Hopefully we'll be in a similar position in a couple of months.

    The property is now at least listed as SSTC, so hopefully there'll be no more twats offering on it.

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    Called the estate agents and the agent I was dealing with is 'on another call' and will 'call me back'. I don't believe a word of it.

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    The house we put an offer in required 5 phone calls over the course of a week to get a viewing booked in. Absolute twats, the lot of them.

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    He did actually get back to me tbf. Says he can't get the owners at the minute. They are on holiday which I already knew but I mean you can still answer the phone/reply to a text. He's probably out trying to drum up other interest and offers.

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    I just saw a flat on Rightmove that you have to walk THROUGH the shower to get to the toilet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    I just saw a flat on Rightmove that you have to walk THROUGH the shower to get to the toilet.
    send me a link please

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