To want to take vengeance on the horrible cow who is buying our house

[pennyapples]

she has waited until two days before we are due to exchange to decide she isnt prepared to pay what she had offered, she's reducing the price and we have had to go with it because we are so far committed.

The estate agent shared her reaction, she was basically laughing at us. Clear she planned all along this last move.

Feel gutted and a bit shocked that somebody can have no morals whatsoever. I know it's business but honestly what a cow.

Should let it go of course but just consumed by anger at present and keen to trash the place before she moves in. Bad idea though right?

dampen the carpets and sprinkle cress seeds all over them,that'll give her something to think about.Personally I would tell her to get lost

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I am worried our buyers are planning to do this to us. The survey highlighted a few things & we agreed to an indemnity policy that would cover some of them & they came round with a builder to "reassure themselves" over the remainder. 6 weeks on & less than a week til planned completion & they have not (so far) asked for a reduction. But it may come. Any tips to avoid this (other than "stand firm")?

Fleta
Or the multi million pound house in London being sold by a to this day high profile businessman. His buyers messed him around so after ALL their belongings removed his daughter was allowed an 'all comers' party.
We were not allowed to destroy ANYTHING : but bowls of marker pens were to hand. There must have been 200 people there and beer was pouring down the stairs.
I gather the new owners had to get the Sauna rebuilt and the pool retiled as well as redecorate.
It was a fantastic party though.

Yeah we don't have this gazumping or gazundering business in Canada either - it's quite gobsmacking when you're not used to it!

Good luck in your lovely new home OP.

Oh and I thought the revenge fantasies were hilarious!

I'm sorry OP, I would take everything you can but I'd also shag on every surface that you are leaving just for the pure satisfaction (in orgasming as well!).

Buyer of my place pulling this crap with me at the moment, so I completely sympathise. This bozo keeps threatening me with "my sister is a solicitor you know." then "my mates on facebook said that I should......"

I'm not doing any of the things suggested on this page, but I usually leave houses impeccably clean with champagne and flowers on the bench, and he's certainly not getting that. Brand new carpets are staying but all the rolls of spare carpet are coming with me instead of being left for him. They'll be handy for when I have puppies next time. Instructions and receipts for all the new appliances were going to be left, but stuff that. And the pooper scooper is being packed so can't pick up the dog poop for the next few weeks. No one has ever left a house in clean condition for me to move in to, so I'm not feeling particularly guilty if I don't spend two days scrubbing this one before leaving.

I've bought and sold for years and rarely had problems, but the last few times have been nightmares. There's no honour in real estate at all.

Some really vindictive stuff on here.

Yea, joking eh? "Many a truth spoken in jest" or something?

Please have some more respect for nature than chucking chemicals on her.

You know, like anything in life, it can throw you a curve ball. You have to deal with it.

OP has taken the moral high ground - not bothering to leave it pristine is only to be expected in the circumstances.

This thread has been hilarious. Some ideas have been banked in case the need arises in the future. Although it would seem not everyone is having a light hearted evening
Good luck with the new home op. (Any updates from EA after the move could be entertaining).

I especially liked the penis-shaped daffodil bulb plan. That's not vindictive, it's a work of comic genius.

You can spot who not to sell a house to on this thread can't you?

I can't believe anyone thinks it's acceptable behaviour to do this two days before exchange. It's nasty and unethical.

Take everything OP. And be happy in your new home.

WimbleHorse not necessarily. An idiot friend of mine offered the asking price (first offer), then when the survey identified thousands of pounds of extra work, paid the asking price with no attempt to renegotiate.

It's totally understandable that you feel aggrieved by her behaviour. But why would you go out of your way to cause damage to the house. Revenge doesn't really belong in a business transaction, which house buying and selling is. Rise above it.

an afternoon's fantasising has done me the power of good.

Did you read this bit, Melanie?

How is this legal? You must have had a contract, seriously this cannot be right. I passed my real estate exam this year, and if I were the agent in this transaction I would lose my license. Seriously what the hell?

I am going to leave one thing for her - book on the bookshelf 'Karma'...

Good idea, do the Ouiji board and candle in one room too though!

Gruff, in English and welsh property law, nothing is certain until 'exchange of contracts' whereupon the sale is legally binding and after this either party pulling out faces penalties. In the strictly legal sense the buyer has done nothing wrong, she is simply renegotiating an offer and acceptance of that offer. Morally however, she is in the wrong. English and Welsh property law is fairly archaic. I wonder if the system came about when a gentleman's word was his honour so this type of thing would never have happened?

YANBU. It's a twatty thing to do.

It seems to be quite common though. A former friend who pissed about with a house sale moved in and the previous owner had stripped everything (dont blame them), but they took the including loft insulation too.... She also couldn't fathom a dodgy smell in the kitchen until her DP removed the kick boards under the cupboards. They never figured it out what it was but reckon it was tinned dog or cat food, said it was literally crawling and rank. She was v upset they'd been treated that way.

I checked under the kick boards as soon as I walked into our new house!

Last house we bought the vendors fucked us around and then left it in such a state that quite literally (yes really) they left used condoms on the bathroom floor.

not advocating that mind.

going back to read everyone elses... was just bursting to tell that!

Gruff,

Real estate exam

Licence to practice

Speaking on behalf of all UK home owners:

Hahahahaha we fucking wish.

(A shake up of estate agents and the house buying process is long overdue IMHO )

I can't believe anyone thinks it's acceptable behaviour to do this two days before exchange. It's nasty and unethical.

Of course it is, you don't actually do things, you plan them, late at night when you can't sleep and it helps you sleep.

Other things no one would ever do, particularly people with access to livestock is let three small pigs loose, labelled 1, 2 and 4 - this only works in large buildings.

Or walk a cow upstairs and leave it there - again best for large buildings such as a school.

No one would ever remove a carpet in a small room, replace it with turf and put a sheep in there. No nothing like that.

Also peeing on walls, or using urine and a paintbrush to paint brush to write messages that come out in mould later. (no idea if this works read it in a book - Val Mcdermid I think)

You are MAD to let this happen .

Urgh what a complete and utter cow for doing that to you. YANBU for feeling like this.

Our buyers did something similar; they had a screaming fit at the estate agent because we refused to leave our stand alone fire and they refused to buy it from us. We ended up leaving it, but in a completely childish move I took ever single lightbulb and didn't clean from the minute the sale went through. I don't think that was too bad.

It's harder when you're emotionally involved, I'd just focus on your new home and forget about the cow. I like the 'Karma' book on the bookshelf idea!