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That's what f***s me right off about this country. Not like it ain't overpriced already. Greedy estate agents overprice everything they can as they get paid on the %....
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That's what f***s me right off about this country. Not like it ain't overpriced already. Greedy estate agents overprice everything they can as they get paid on the %....
Other countries - France for example - have mechanisms in place to prevent this sort of blackmail.
Other countries also have better made roads, better housing, fairer tax systems and better healthcare.
However, our governments and government agencies are too proud and arrogant to learn from foreign experience, although they aren't too proud to send themselves away on fact-finding jamborees at our expense all the time.
And our media are in cahoots with the establishment so they are no use at revealing our failings.
Still, we have a new royal baby so why does anything else matter
Other countries also have better made roads, better housing, fairer tax systems and better healthcare.
However, our governments and government agencies are too proud and arrogant to learn from foreign experience, although they aren't too proud to send themselves away on fact-finding jamborees at our expense all the time.
And our media are in cahoots with the establishment so they are no use at revealing our failings.
Still, we have a new royal baby so why does anything else matter
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Thanks Chris.
Now the agent has called saying they have a higher offer on the property and will I wait until they can verify it.
I've told them they either exchange by lunchtime tomorrow or I'm walking away for good.
I'm left feeling I've just wasted the last 3 months of my life.
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Will be interesting to see if they go ahead with your offer, proves their just trying it on lol.
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Not easy but stand your ground.
I dread eventually getting onto the property market and having to deal with it all.
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Following last weeks Mechanic vs Computer triumph by brother has brought his poorly BMW E39 round for me to swear at. :bang:
Yeah.
We are devastated. It was the retirement home of our dreams and we are at the very top limit of our budget, so no way we can match the other offer.
It seems the agent was continuing to market the property after agreeing in writing to sell it to us and instructing solicitors.
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Surly then you have a ground to stand against them - saying in writing you were already in process of buying it.....
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Can your solicitor do anything? Write the other party a letter threatening to reclaim your losses if they decide at this late stage in the game they drop out of the deal.
People don't generally back out of a deal 3 months down the line for a few grand more especially when they have to pay their own solicitors fees, it does see like some one is trying it on
People don't generally back out of a deal 3 months down the line for a few grand more especially when they have to pay their own solicitors fees, it does see like some one is trying it on
It used to happen all the time in the 80's/90's but that was when the market was good. I find it strange that the seller would chuck away a sure sell for a few grand, so my bet is they are bluffing.
You could always counter with a reduction in the bid price especially when they come back and say they will sell to you. Of course if this is the house of your dreams then get the contracts signed ASAP.
You could always counter with a reduction in the bid price
especially when they come back and say they will sell to you. Of course if this is the house of your dreams then get the contracts signed ASAP.
Robbing bastards in my experience. When me and my fiance were buying our current house we put in an offer on another house at 84k literally 5 minutes later got another call that the seller wants more so offered 85k. Got another one 5 minutes later, saying they want more again to which I said take it or leave it..
Heard nothing for a week then got a phone call from the agent saying my offer at 84k was too low but the seller would be happy with 85k. To which I was like oh would he? I can only assume your previous colleague was lying his ****ing arse off when he said he'd spoken to him. Of course denied it all...don't care tbf got a different better house but dishonest is not the word.
re the house, I got shafted in the good times too. was buying a house at £120k, the chain collapsed higher up, 18 months later, when they put it on market, they wanted £20k more. they done nothing to the house, just a builder wanted to buy the land that come with it. builder bought it for £140k stripped it of the land and ruined it.
My grump spending 45 minutes on minecraft attempting to install automatic double sliding glass doors. That games equivalent of circuitry is really weird built 2 proof of concept models..one at the start, then another 30 mins later as I struggled to translate it. Then realised then realised the actual routing of the "wire" determines what it does when the charge reaches the components.
As grumps go totally unimportant lol
As grumps go totally unimportant lol
It used to happen a lot in England, but never did in Scotland because once a bid was accepted you had to go through with it - on both sides.
That law never came in here though.
I would withdraw your offer and console yourself that it was not meant to be this time.
Running at top limit is never good,
It reminds me of a friend that was buying a house, long story short they put an offer in then sneaked round to the street and parked outside because they were that excited about buying it, even though "someone else had put an offer in of more" the owner of the property asked them to move because they were parked in her parking, it was the seller, they got talking and low and behold there was no other offer . . . estate agents just lie.
If its meant too be it will be, stand your ground.
I've spent the last 4 hours trying to sort a mates laptop, I finally finished downloading (incredibly slowly) and installing the graphics drivers, it rebooted and left me with a blank screen so now I have to do a system restore and start again. Not to mention it keeps overheating and shutting down at 99 degrees celcius!! :banghead:
Sunburn! I spent half the day trying to repair an electrical problem on a cherry picker and now the back of my neck is best described as well done. Just needs some pepper sauce and a side order of fries.
In a word, no. We haven't actually exchanged contracts, so either player can simply walk away & leave the other party to pick up their own costs.
Thanks for all your support, folks. I've had a pretty miserable night & your comments have cheered me up a little.
We spent a year finding this house & there quite simply isn't anything else anywhere close to what it represented - which is likely why we got gazumped
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so my car was damaged over 5 weeks ago! ive made numerous visits/calls to my local police station and they just taking the ****! i send a text to the officer the other evening about 11ish as thats what he came on duty, get a text the following morning saying "i can understand your frustration, i have not got the chance to see the driver, i will get someone to see him asap, i will sort it." the time it took him to write that he could of seen the driver!:bang: its just ridiculous!
It used to happen all the time in the 80's/90's but that was when the market was good. I find it strange that the seller would chuck away a sure sell for a few grand, so my bet is they are bluffing.
You could always counter with a reduction in the bid price
Woohoo! The chap who gazumped us appears not to have any money!
So we have now exchanged contracts at the previously agreed price bf
