30-10-2015, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by stevmk2
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Rather odd development.Our neighbours across the road brought a load of pallets and I was helping off-load them and taking them around the back to the garden a little while ago and for some reason and Tim, (Tymoteusz!) asked me about our house sale.
I told him we had sold but couldn't find another home to suit us.
He asked that if our sale fell through we would let him know so I told him we couldn't accept any less for our house but he said he understood that but he could find buyers within his local community easily!
I said I'd let him know - d'you think that's for the best?
He's a good neighbour and they're a nice family group and we've known each other 5 years now. stevmk2
31-10-2015, 12:09 AM
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It's hard for me to say without knowing the chap Steve. Do you feel you can trust him?I think I would only consider taking him up on it as a last resort, but make sure they don't expect it cheaper for 'doing you a favour'. I think I'd sooner continue down the normal route if possible.
I think buying/selling will slow down now because no one wants to be in upheaval over christmas, but I'm sure it'll pick up much better in the new year.
31-10-2015, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Mups
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It's hard for me to say without knowing the chap Steve. Do you feel you can trust him?I think I would only consider taking him up on it as a last resort, but make sure they don't expect it cheaper for 'doing you a favour'. I think I'd sooner continue down the normal route if possible.
I think buying/selling will slow down now because no one wants to be in upheaval over christmas, but I'm sure it'll pick up much better in the new year.
We have been to see another house this morning - very, very nice place but the viewer just leaving as we arrived, 10 minutes before us, told the agent he's prepared to pay a lot more than we can afford and the agent told us the seller wants to make as much as she can from this house.
Not much point in our trying but we said what we'd offer - no chance he said!
Of 11 viewers booked today for this house, 7 are buy-to-let! stevmk2
07-11-2015, 03:02 PM
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Another house viewing yesterday.2-bed house in the area that we like and prefer in fairly good condition, although there were a number of things I was concerned about.
Rooms a nice size and decorating OK-ish - not quite our taste but we could learn to live with it with a few tweaks.
The only problem is that the vendor has put this on for £239,995!
Could not believe that asking price for an ex-Council house which actually does need updating in terms of the electrics at the very least and the roof's green with moss so insulation is piss-poor.
EPC said D with a possibility to achieve a C but I think that's a bit optimistic and typically skewed IMHO as this house has cavity walls.
Ours doesn't and got lots of tut-tut-tuts from the EPC assessor who said it's an E because of the lack of cavity walls AND it's got a nasty, hideously inefficient Back Boiler!
Our fuel bill for the past full year was £838 on a Dual Fuel Tariff with OVO; well BELOW average for the average 3-bed!
Told him and he shut up after that!
We have offered our top whack but I'm regretting that now because it'll leave nothing left from the sale of this house and I wanted to hold back some to do things that might have cropped up - and this house does need some TLC.
My fault really as my wife fell for this house and I feel so guilty we've not found anywhere yet so didn't point out the things wrong!
As it is now 14:00 on Saturday we assume our offer didn't get anywhere but even the agent's annoyed that these people have insisted on £20,000 more than the place is really worth and we have given a good offer.
There is another one similar nearby that's asking £235.000 but it's a rental with a sitting tenant!
The next nearest was sold for £193,000 in May and to be honest it wasn't that much lower in standard and it did have a moss-free rough!
Oh well.
At least the standard of house we are seeing is getting better but finding anything where we want to be is proving much harder than we expected. stevmk2
08-11-2015, 05:10 PM
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An eventful afternoon - and more than a little annoying!The owner of the house that we went to see has had just one offer - ours - and he went back to the agent saying he might accept £215,000!
We have offered £213,000 tops as it's what was the agreed price with our buyer BUT that's still subject to contract.
Her surveyor came this week so we have yet to find out if the accepted offer for our house still stands, although my wife says the surveyor wasn't negative about our valuation.
It turns out that the vendor of the house we went to see has made an offer on another house of £230,000 and added £10,000 on top for "expenses" and then told the agent he wanted £240,000 for the property because he thought that's what you did!
Unbelievable.
We have reaffirmed to the agent that we will go no higher than £213,000 and that's still dependent on our buyer and subject to any survey that we instigate.
We will NOT over-stretch our position no matter how much we would like that house as we are no longer financially secure in as much as we could get extra finance!
What you see is what you get! stevmk2
09-11-2015, 09:30 PM
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Hi Steve what a trama this all is .Just got a call today from a house agent on one property which we were interested but someone else bought .
Now they have changed their mind so do we want it?
The fact is having resigned myself to not getting it I am no longer sure I do want it ! It's fairly isolated which worries me.
Meanwhile the house we did really want has declined our above
Asking for price because they hadn't seen anywhere they like ( they say) I think it's because they want to ramp the price up.
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