fordsportjay

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went to view a house on monday dinner time,we both loved it.tuesday morning we put an offer in that was acceped.have got the mortgage in place but when we were viewing the property all the estate agent was interested in was getting us to get a mortgage through them.

our house has just gone on the market this week and we have already had an offer,all be it slightly lower than we wanted.

got a phone call yesterday telling me the house we wanted has had another offer on it and they know they can proceed straight away because they have got their mortgage with them
can just picture it
"there has been an offer put it on this house but if you take your mortgage out with us we may be able to swing it your way".

i told them i could have raised the £40000 shortfall without selling our house,but they arent interested-it seems all becase we wouldnt entertain getting a mortgage with them-fuckin wankers!

just sold the rs500 as well!

oh well back to house hunting again but she's on her own this saturday as its ford saloons at oulton park

dangerous - reyland

Jay, some estate agents have buyers line up mortgages with their in house man so they know that the deal can go through & that the seller wont get messed around
my ex is a prtner at one of the large corporates and wouldnt accept an offer until her man had approved them for mortgage (approved not necessarily arranged)

the thing to do here is see their advisor, agree to take the mortgage through them, have your offer accpeted so you get the house you want
then whilst all is going through see an IFA in case you can get a better deal & if you can Swap it before you complete

play them at their own game pal

Wazzzer

they are completely bent mate, I had a similar situation with a house we wanted, put an offer in, accepted no problem. Then apparently because of the way it was sold it had to be advertised in the local paper for 7 days. Lo and behold on the 7th day we were told there had been a higher offer. It then went to sealed bids (which we lost out on)

We checked about a year later and the house had never officially been sold so something dodgy defo went on

a lot of the lower priced houses over here don't even make it to the general public either, they're offered to builders that the estate agents have in their pocket

Cossie Helen

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So so glad i dont have to deal with all that crap when we buy

fordsportjay

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once we had put the offer in they asked us to come into the office to put it on paper and bring proof of id.this particular estate agents has the worst reputation around here,but because the house was with them we had to entertain them.

we took in our mortgage offer certificate,which was only 40k short of the full house price.

they just didnt like the fact that we wouldnt go with them,but they are absolutely hopeless!

its just so frustrating as the house was perfect,it had been on the market for 8 weeks with no offers then suddenly...........two offers in 2 days

just wasnt meant to be

dojj

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thats a right fooker that is
we bought our last house on the 6th of august, but couldn't move in until december 15th

and the estate agents fucked us right over with that deal too

if you've had the bid accepted then they've declined, go and compalin to one of them housing people who deal with estate agents about getting getting bambozzled or purlioned gadzooked or whatever they call it

i went looking at a house last sunday, made the deal on the sunday, only to be called on the monday monrnig to say it'd had already been sold

coonts the lot of them

fordsportjay

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and how was this for professionalism............

we could only go in our dinner hour,when we got there(its a very small office) the 4 people there were all eating pizzas they had had delivered which were all over the desks and they made us wait until they had eaten them before they dealt with us


and didnt even offer us any..............

dojj

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mate, when i confronted the guy behind the desk about why i couldn't have moved in after 2 weeks from the sold sign had gone up (this was in november) you could see he was bricking it he had the proper shakes

then when i told him i was pulilng the plug on the whole deal and would be off to see my soliciter in the morning hec alled his boss

he came down with the big "listen here sonny, you can't tell us what to do, we sell houses and are the big shits" attitude but soon wilted when i pointed to my watch and said "i finish work at 2.31 tomorrow, and it's only a 15 minute drive to the soliciter, who's expecting me beacuse i've already called him and he's said he'll waive 505 of the fee if the sale doens't go through"

he looked like he would do ANYTHING to close that sale at that point
still took 2 weeks to do though

they ain't intrested in anything that holds up their comission is what i've found, some will be nice and polite and will let the owners move in their own time, but the majority of them i've fuond want you to make the deision on the spot, speak so fast you have to ask them to slow the fuck down and generally give me the impression they don't want to speak to me, just get the money from the home owner

coont's, at least 90% of them

ballin

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ill agree with that - in a very similar situation to you Jay.

we've just had an offer accepted but they have now turned round and withdrawn it because we dont have the cash waiting and wont take a mortgage. we are halfway through selling a house to get the full amount for this property but now another person is interested and has placed an offer apparantly.

so now we've gotta fuck around arranging a mortgage only to pay off about 80% of it before we've even moved into the place.

fuck wits

charlie luciano

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Estate agents come into the catogory of people that earn a fair wack of money from doing fuck all. when i was looking for my first house i found one i really liked and put in an offer, the agent then said some one else has offered full asking price to which i replied i'll offer full asking price then i got caught in some kind of bidding war which in the end i lost. remember agents work on commission the more they get on a property the more cash will feather their nests, bottom line be carefull and you will more than likely face the same situation again,

estate agents i wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire

C L

ballin

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good advice there Charlie, I'm certainly not going to entertain them if they come back saying the others put in a higher offer

cozzfather

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i recall a few years ago Lester Stacy(raced a rs500) got the hump when
he got gazumped on a mansion he was buying,he went straight
round and planted one on the vendors hooter,got banged up
for it mind

AndyRST

What a load of bollocks

My missus is an Estate Agent and works fucking hard. She is in work at 8am and doesnt leave until 7-7.30pm and no lunch hour (its sort of expected not to "go for lunch" in her company. She works saturday and every 1 in 6 sundays and if she hasnt made a sale that week its all for a basic salary you wouldnt get out of bed for, let alone be able to live on.

Estate agents dont decide on what offers are accepted or rejected they only relay the offer to the seller and make recomendations. Very often its the seller that "messes" about

Jay small tip on buying. If you make an offer on a house and its accepted make sure its on the condition that the house comes off the market with the estate agent, comes off any websites its on, forsale sign comes down and no viewings are aranged while the offer is going through

We did with buying our house and its reduces the chance of someone coming in and putting in a higher offer, If the seller doent do this then they arent happy with your offer in the 1st place and would will always have trouble until exchange.

ballin

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good tip there Andy

dojj

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but what happens when the board goes up and the seller decides he doens't want to move for 4 months?
and the estage agent calls you 20 times a day to find out why YOU are stalling the sale?

gilly

Sorry to hear that Jay mate. Hope it you find the house you looking for matey

Very sad indeed to hear you sold the 500 as well mate. Looked rather cool on the M6 coming back from ND

Sticky.

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What time you heading over Jay???

AndyRST

Tell the twat to speak to their vendor

Micky The Finn

yeah,do you never watch location location location!

dojj

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thats the word i was looking for

fordsportjay

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got a list now of about 20 houses to go and view at some point next week

not one seems as good as the one we wanted but you never know until you have looked i suppose.

buying houses isnt like buying cars

OldSkoolRS

I'm attempting to buy a house at the moment, the estate agent is good as gold- its the tosser that is selling it who is the lying twat.

cozzfather

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go around with a hand painted,taxed and tested old munter and
leave it outside.nothing anyone can do if it is parked legally
make you feel loads better,i did it with a van painted 4 different
colours

AndyRST

Maybe if he wants something to help him sleep at night

topaz

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Jay, even though the vendor has decided on a better offer it does not mean it will go through, its very early days, it might show something up on the survey, they might change their minds, not have the money or just find something else.

Good advice in playing them at their own game, have the meetings with their men, get the figures, look as if your playing ball, you can always say ive got a better deal elsewhere - beat it, once the time comes to hand over the cash.

dojj

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bidding wars are soemthing i never got involved with
i wante dthe house, had the money, offered the asking price

now i'm looking for another house a lot of agents are coming out with "it's up for £xxxx but i know for a fact they'll take £xxxx for it"
if you know they'll take less money for it why not put it up for th lower figures

in some cases this has been £12k less, and thats on a £200k property

AndyRST

Its the same as selling a car m8, if you put it up for sale at £3000 you will have in your mind a price you are willing to drop to i.e £2800 and the agent is letting you know that they are willing to drop to this price for a sale now.

dojj

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apparently they have been on sale "for weeks at the higher price" but the one i went to see the other day said that the estate agent had advised them on a price and they let him deal with it

so the estate agent put the £210k price tag on it and has then said that they'll take £205k for a quick sale

who do i trust?
the seller of the venrod?
one says th eother has set the price, the other says that the other will take a lower price

i think this is where they are being cocks, especially as the house has only been on the market for 3 days