Very long saga and backstory, but the crux of it is my dm wants to live near me, so they have been supposedly moving for three and a half years. They spent the first two years fannying about looking at houses, moaning about how expensive it is here vs where they now live, putting in lowball offers and not putting their own house on the market. When they finally did, far from the instant sale my df had envisaged they didn't even get a viewing for six months, and have now been on the market for a year and didn't have any offers until a month ago. They have now had two low offers and I have been subjected to my df being righteously indignant about how offensive these offers are, at around 11% under asking despite having put in some downright offensive offers himself
My df just wanted to tell them to go to hell but I insisted it was the starting point for negotiations, and they needed to go back with a number they were willing to accept. The number he came up with was within two percent of the asking price! Fine, but they have been on the market long enough to know it isn't a sellers market! Today I had my mum moaning about the work they claimed was needed to justify the low offer. I told her the reasons they give are irrelevant ( ie you cant just replace a few windows and they will then pay asking price!) it is all just a game, and noone expects to get the asking price, it is all a question of supply and demand, and the only issue is how much they are willing/able to pay and how much you are willing/ able to accept, and not a checklist for webuyanycar.com that takes £x off for dodgy windows!
Aibu to think that everyone knows the asking price is a guide and the chances of him finding a mug buyer willing to pay the asking price is similar to the chances of a pig flying past my window.
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bedraggledmumoftwo · 09/10/2015 18:15
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