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Well I have no idea what is happening with our buyer. He had the survey, told us it came back fine, then the next week his mortgage advisor phoned to say the mortgage company wants more tests done. So today, a week after call from mortgage advisor hubie tried to phone mortgage advisor, on the number he saved when he phoned, but it was another number for our buyer (answer machine). Hubbies phone is crap and he has managed to save wrong numbers before, so I'm hoping it is just that.
So I phone buyer today who says he is going to get it all sorted this week (he said that last week too). He did also say he was going to phone me back (not sure why, there wasn't anything else to say) but didn't.
The whole thing is making me very uneasy.
Other half is thinking we should put it back on the market just incase.
So I phone buyer today who says he is going to get it all sorted this week (he said that last week too). He did also say he was going to phone me back (not sure why, there wasn't anything else to say) but didn't.
The whole thing is making me very uneasy.
Other half is thinking we should put it back on the market just incase.
Ok, blossom! I can dive in here with my 2 penneth. Have a look through earlier posts of this thread (although quicker said than done, the number of posts a day hahahah!!!). I was able to complete on Friday 21st Sept after much tooing and a froing. We have a solicitor friend who has worked in residential conveyancing and she told me the basic fact that people lie. It is a fact; she has done it herself. Live with it and play the game better.
Thing about the mortgage tests is a standard 'fob off' to help delay. Others include 'searches', solicitors on holiday, lost documents etc etc.... Reasons for wanting delays are numerous and varied; bottom line is that it will cost you money
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)... C'mon!!!! Get those houses sold ready to get to the red land of barbies and ants (
). Rooting for yoo's with fingers crossed and daily - now back at parents and free time - checks to see how yer doing.
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T&G, GotoOz1, Somme, Daunted, Sarab, etc (sorry if i missed anyone
)... C'mon!!!! Get those houses sold ready to get to the red land of barbies and ants (
). Rooting for yoo's with fingers crossed and daily - now back at parents and free time - checks to see how yer doing.
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Hi all!,
New to this thread so I thought I'd include us in the house sale business!!
As from Thursday this week our house will be officially for sale too!! Have read the entire thread and now are completely dumbfounded by whats ahead
keep looking around the house and spotting things that need sorting, ie, bit of sanding, paint etc!!!
Built an extension last year but still not quite finished (part of the roof etc - you know small stuff!!!) EA said put it on the market anyway
whilst I have to go mad to get it done so Building Control can come and sign / condemn the building
We too have had the 'its coming to the busiest time of year' spiel from them but got some good tips from here especially about going multi agency!! Will def threaten them with that. Btw paying 1.25% which seems ok but a damn awful lot if sold at market value PLUS VAT!!!!!!!
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New to this thread so I thought I'd include us in the house sale business!!
As from Thursday this week our house will be officially for sale too!! Have read the entire thread and now are completely dumbfounded by whats ahead
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Built an extension last year but still not quite finished (part of the roof etc - you know small stuff!!!) EA said put it on the market anyway
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And I thought plumbers were rich!!!!
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T&G, GotoOz1, Somme, Daunted, Sarab, etc (sorry if i missed anyone
)... C'mon!!!! Get those houses sold ready to get to the red land of barbies and ants (
). Rooting for yoo's with fingers crossed and daily - now back at parents and free time - checks to see how yer doing.
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Good luck with the new EA. (there isn't a sign for spitting is there??? LOL)
Glad you could get a flexible ticket - what a good idea. Concentrate on your reckie and a buyer will appear!
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Well the second viewing we had at the weekend resulted in them buying another house
. It is the same as ours just doesn't have a conservatory. Ours is on at £369,950 the other one was £360,000. They made a full asking price offer though would have gone a bit over. They didn't even try a cheeky offer on ours. So we dropped our price by £5000 yesterday and guess who called our agent and offered the asking price. May have cut of my nose to spite my face but told them to go jump. Don't think it is fair on the other people who they offered on as I get the feeling they were trying to get us to drop. Told my agent in writing today that they have 4 weeks notice that we are changing agent so they better pull their finger out. We are lucky in that we don't have to sell now so can wait, but just hope the market doesn't crash. Just going to sit back and enjoy the fact that the other house has a north facing garden and it will cost them a lot more than £4000 to put on a conservatory the size and quality of our one
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Well the second viewing we had at the weekend resulted in them buying another house
. It is the same as ours just doesn't have a conservatory. Ours is on at £369,950 the other one was £360,000. They made a full asking price offer though would have gone a bit over. They didn't even try a cheeky offer on ours. So we dropped our price by £5000 yesterday and guess who called our agent and offered the asking price. May have cut of my nose to spite my face but told them to go jump. Don't think it is fair on the other people who they offered on as I get the feeling they were trying to get us to drop. Told my agent in writing today that they have 4 weeks notice that we are changing agent so they better pull their finger out. We are lucky in that we don't have to sell now so can wait, but just hope the market doesn't crash. Just going to sit back and enjoy the fact that the other house has a north facing garden and it will cost them a lot more than £4000 to put on a conservatory the size and quality of our one![Stick Out Tongue](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
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If everyone buying/selling acted with this amount of thought for others then the whole process would be a lot less painful and would work a lot better.
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Well the second viewing we had at the weekend resulted in them buying another house
. It is the same as ours just doesn't have a conservatory. Ours is on at £369,950 the other one was £360,000. They made a full asking price offer though would have gone a bit over. They didn't even try a cheeky offer on ours. So we dropped our price by £5000 yesterday and guess who called our agent and offered the asking price. May have cut of my nose to spite my face but told them to go jump. Don't think it is fair on the other people who they offered on as I get the feeling they were trying to get us to drop. Told my agent in writing today that they have 4 weeks notice that we are changing agent so they better pull their finger out. We are lucky in that we don't have to sell now so can wait, but just hope the market doesn't crash. Just going to sit back and enjoy the fact that the other house has a north facing garden and it will cost them a lot more than £4000 to put on a conservatory the size and quality of our one![Stick Out Tongue](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
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Well talked to the EA - told them that we would accept yesterdays offer but with some conditions...
We want confirmation that they are chain free and able to buy quickly.
Under no circumstances will be drop the price any lower - for example if the survey comes back with anything (i dont think it will anyway) we will NOT drop the price any further.
We want a quick completion date - we are looking for 8 weeks if we can.
Just waiting for the EA to get back to me now ....
We want confirmation that they are chain free and able to buy quickly.
Under no circumstances will be drop the price any lower - for example if the survey comes back with anything (i dont think it will anyway) we will NOT drop the price any further.
We want a quick completion date - we are looking for 8 weeks if we can.
Just waiting for the EA to get back to me now ....
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Well talked to the EA - told them that we would accept yesterdays offer but with some conditions...
We want confirmation that they are chain free and able to buy quickly.
Under no circumstances will be drop the price any lower - for example if the survey comes back with anything (i dont think it will anyway) we will NOT drop the price any further.
We want a quick completion date - we are looking for 8 weeks if we can.
Just waiting for the EA to get back to me now ....![Blink](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/blink.gif)
We want confirmation that they are chain free and able to buy quickly.
Under no circumstances will be drop the price any lower - for example if the survey comes back with anything (i dont think it will anyway) we will NOT drop the price any further.
We want a quick completion date - we are looking for 8 weeks if we can.
Just waiting for the EA to get back to me now ....
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