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Strangest reason buyers didn't make an offer

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Namechange1086 · 11/07/2024 06:19

Nowt so queer as folk. 2 buyers, 1 didn't offer because the garage was too small for their beer can collection. Who collects beer cans 😅. The other didn't like the wall colour or that the lounge was at the back of the house. The walls were a neutral off white and the lounge was clearly shown on the floor plan as being at the back. Was very relieved when we eventually sold.

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ChessieFL · 03/08/2024 13:01

thecatsthecats · 03/08/2024 10:21

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136626314#/?channel=RES_BUY

This. There's nothing in the description, just the floorplan. It's detached, and the mystery room is at the back of the property facing the garden. As far as I can tell there is no outside stair.

It's been on the market for fecking ages and they have recently dropped the price slightly as a concession that the mystery room might put people off.

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There’s been a thread on here somewhere about this one I’m sure. If I remember correctly the room is let out to a business and accessed via a metal staircase outside. I think it’s the house behind that uses it but I might have misremembered that.

cherrytree12345 · 03/08/2024 13:37

Years ago we were selling a bungalow, a couple came to view but didn't offer as the acoustics weren't right for their piano!

Iceache · 03/08/2024 13:47

Not viewings as such, but the couple who bought (and pestered us to complete as quickly as possible) our old house had it on the market again in six months because they didnt like the floor downstairs (wood laminate - could have been changed; not a huge house) or the fact the shower was over the bath. This is after multiple viewings 🤣

Cherrysoup · 03/08/2024 14:13

thecatsthecats · 03/08/2024 08:29

I must admit there's a house I want to view as it's a detached house with an upstairs bedroom that isn't included in the sale.

Frankly I want to attend with a sniffer dog in tow.

How curious! Is it semi detached so the upper bedroom belongs to the next door house? I think I saw something similar on Homes under the Hammer.

We had a family viewing and their feedback was that there was no garage-no shit, Sherlock and someone else said it was the wrong side of the high street. I understand that people want to view to see if they can live with the compromise, but god, it’s frustrating when you keep the place show home like for viewings!

Cheshire71 · 03/08/2024 14:14

TheTwirlyPoos · 02/08/2024 23:12

When we sold our old house we had three viewings all in a row that came back with 'love the house but it's on a main road'.

Perfectly fair reason to dismiss a house but it was obvious from the map and getting a house viewing ready with two small children was a total nightmare.

We've had similar feedback on our current house, but really clear from maps that the estate is on a main road to the motorway!

Cherrysoup · 03/08/2024 14:16

mindutopia · 02/08/2024 22:57

We once didn’t make an offer on a property because it came with an 80 something year old who lived in the garden shed.

I’m not kidding. I think he may in another time have been the ‘houseboy’ - as in staff they imported from somewhere on their travels. 😬 The husband had died and the wife wanted to downsize and move into town. The man had lived in the shed for like 30 years and it was a stipulation of accepting an offer that he stayed with the property to live out the rest of his days. Oh, and you had to do his shopping and drive him to town for appointments.

Sadly, we never met him and the estate agent seemed (not surprisingly) really uncomfortable with our questions about the set up. But we did see his zimmer frame parked by the shed at our viewing. The property did sell and I still often think about him and wonder if he’s still in the shed. Maybe I should have rung adult social services? At the time though, it seemed like a potential human trafficking situation that I didn’t really want to involve myself in. 😬 I hope he’s okay still though.

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I think it was in America, posted on English social media, a fabulous house for sale but with a couple living in the basement and to continue living there which was part of the sale conditions, think it sold for the asking price, too!

WalkInAStraightLine · 03/08/2024 14:26

ChessieFL · 03/08/2024 13:07

Ah brilliant... mystery solved!

Cherrysoup · 03/08/2024 14:26

LoopyGremlin · 03/08/2024 09:18

That's awful.

Our first house needed massive modernisation but the woman selling it was convinced it was perfect. She refused to sell it to a couple who had openly said they would renovate it. We therefore had to agree how lovely it was and that we would keep it exactly as it was (while planning to rip it apart within an inch of its life!) so she would sell it to us!

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Sounds like friends of ours. They bought a very expensive house which the owner clearly loved but had to downsize, it was huge and she was alone, bless her. She made them promise not to change it too much. OMG, it is extended, completely different layout, I think they literally have one original wall. They basically wanted the exact position, but not the layout.

Feckedupbundle · 03/08/2024 14:32

When we sold our last house,a bog standard 3 bed semi,a viewer turned up and before he'd even got in the door,asked why he couldn't see the loft extension from the outside. There was no loft extension. It wasn't on the description or the photos, because it didn't exist. He refused to believe me and argued that I was wrong and the listing had included it. It didn't. He even insisted on going up into the loft so that he could check that I wasn't lying about it.
Bonkers.

thecatsthecats · 03/08/2024 14:34

ChessieFL · 03/08/2024 13:07

OMG THANK YOU.

I am relocating to the area, so we're pressed for time to make viewings, and can't waste on a definite no.

I am saving the property in my Rightmove until it sells though, aka never.

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 03/08/2024 14:50

I have to admit that I wouldn't have thought of the house I live in now on the 'particulars'. But I knew the owner, it came up for sale at just the time I needed to move. I really thought the downstairs bathroom would be a deal breaker, but I came for a 'quick look'... fell in love and adore the place now. It's odd how you can change your mind over things when you're actually in the place.

Oldfatandfrumpy · 03/08/2024 14:54

ChessieFL · 03/08/2024 13:07

THANK YOU! I was reading this thinking 'I know I've read this before' but thought I was going mad!!

MargaretThursday · 03/08/2024 15:03

I was talking to my dm about their house when they bought it, and she said there had been two buyers interested, but the others pulled out because their wardrobes didn't fit in the bedrooms. (Dormer house with sloping ceilings in the two main bedrooms)

Her words: "They could have bought new wardrobes. Can you think of anything more silly than that?"
My reply: "Yes, buying wardrobes after you moved that didn't fit in the two main bedrooms so had to be fitted into the smallest room in the house (mine)".
🤣

Cattery · 03/08/2024 15:05

The people viewing my sister’s house turned it down because their 6 year old kid didn’t like it. Truly

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 03/08/2024 15:14

minsmum · 03/08/2024 12:45

We had a three bed maisonette in East London, not docklands which was obvious from the price as well as the area. The reason they decided not to buy they couldn't for a grand piano in the lounge

How did you survive if you couldn’t have a grand piano in your flat, @minsmum? Heartbreaking. 😉😂

Iceache · 03/08/2024 15:19

@LoopyGremlin our new house is this exact scenario. Woman who owned it literally pushed people out the door of viewings if they mentioned UPVC windows or laminate floors. We have all original lead light stained glass windows and I legit think she’ll haunt me forever when she dies if we ever replace them (we won’t - we love them)!

ChubSeedsYorkie · 03/08/2024 15:34

We viewed a house recently and ultimately didn’t offer because it was a bit more run down than we wanted for the price.

When I rung the agent to feedback he was silent so I panicked and started listing off other things… he was still silent so I listed off more stuff that we could’ve easily changed. I think at one point I said too many bedrooms and there wasn’t a fan on the kitchen. It was such an awkward phone call as he was just silent at the end of the phone. It was probably fed back and the vendors probably thought we were very odd 😂 but it was the most awkward phone all of my life.

JackJarvisEsq · 03/08/2024 16:07

Pre-children we spent a lot of time abroad so decided to install a security system in the house.

when we went to sell due to child arrival we were grilled on the reason for having the system by a viewer. It was the guy who’d installed it.

he refused to believe our “story” of practically living abroad the previous 5 years and was convinced we were lying about the crime rate in the area 🤣

Anonanonandon · 03/08/2024 16:10

We had 4 bedrooms and they only wanted 2. Again all bedrooms were on the details - we hadn't hidden 2 in the loft.

GrannyWeatherwaxsBroomstick · 03/08/2024 16:17

Because the dining room is haunted 😳

HMTheQueenMuffin · 03/08/2024 16:59

GrannyWeatherwaxsBroomstick · 03/08/2024 16:17

Because the dining room is haunted 😳

That would be a total plus point for me.

Jumblebum · 03/08/2024 17:14

Our three bed, two living room, Victorian detached home in the burbs was apparently "too much of a family home" for a man to live in alone. I think he thought it would have magically turned into a riverside penthouse in the time between him seeing the schedule and coming to view it.

user1471538283 · 03/08/2024 17:22

When I sold my favourite house (a small 2 bed terrace) I had a long email with a list of things that were wrong (including it was too small and only had one bathroom and it wasn't a new build) with a really low offer which I refused. Weeks later they came back with a revised offer but I'd sold by then.

With the next house (3 beds) I was told it wasn't a 4 bed. Well yes I know.

FiferPiped · 03/08/2024 18:25

We were selling our recently renovated 1930s semi. One of the viewers supposedly loved our house but didn’t offer as he’d noticed a slightly leaky drainpipe from the house NEXT DOOR’S gutter. It absolutely did not affect our property at all!