Strangest reason buyers didn't make an offer

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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.

Honestly, top of our ‘non negotiables’ was ‘no ghosts’. I’d accept a haunted attic I think

Better that no offer is made, regardless of real or pretend reason, than one is made, accepted, and then either withdrawn or some attempt at last minute price reduction.

I honestly think a lot of these may be the estate agent being diplomatic and filtering the more honest feedback.

We viewed a house last year that looked immaculate on the photos. When we got there it was scruffy and neglected. Every aspect of it looked like they had used, abused and not bothered maintaining the house at all. It also stank of dirty nappies so bad I was gagging and couldn’t stay there longer than a few minutes. This was exactly my feedback to the EA. I doubt this is exactly what the agent would have fed back to the seller!

Not us but the house we now live in had originally been under offer by some other people who then pulled out because the owner wasn't including the furniture. It was decidedly ordinary furniture but the buyers pulled out rather than but the house without it.

I had a woman fly from one country to another to view my house. It was the house of her dreams, she was def going to buy it, had been searching for two years blah blah blah.
Emailed me after the visit she wasn’t going to buy. Didn’t realise it was so rural — despite the description which stated 7 kms from nearest village, 12 kms to nearest town and the aerial photo showing my house surrounded by acres and acres of fields and forest.

on local message board an ex Pat man constantly asked about houses for sale, getting more and more demanding. Eventually said the houses he’d viewed were no good as the views were of large fields and he’d only consider views of smaller fields. Those inconsiderate farmers…..

I had this with an estate agent when I was looking to buy over 30 years ago! I would agree to view a property and, as we were leaving after the viewing, he would produce details of another property that I knew nothing about and would say something along the lines of "it's just around the corner if you'd like to view it"., It wasn't just once! I refused every time because I had kids I needed to pick up from school! EAs really are CFs!

They sound weird because they're made up. They won't want to be honest about why.

These people actually did go ahead and buy our house - and for a very generous price (as blind bidding in Scotland) but got in touch before the closing date with two questions that were troubling them:

How were they going to cut the hedge alongside the front path? (it was 5 feet high). I suggested either shears or an electric hedge trimmer.

And more bizarrely .. they said cookers were normally sold with a free roasting tin so wanted to check that that would be included when we moved out (the cooker was 3 years old). I can't recall how I answered that one probably said they were welcome to our old roasting tin if they wanted it!

One house we had had a wall at the end of the garden and a service road beyond that. A viewer said they wouldn’t buy it because it didn’t have another garden beyond the garden.

To be fair, we're looking to move and this is on my list. It's what we have at the moment and apparently it means you're less likely to be burgled