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?

What about meeting her in the middle?

She's calling your bluff.

If you've agreed the price drop but haven't yet exchanged, then go back on the agreement and say you've thought about it, and aren't happy with the price, and are putting the house back on the market.

We had nightmare buyers once. They were completely unreasonable about the completion date which left us (with two kids under 2) homeless while they (childless couple) had another flat for an extra month.
My minor revenge was to not clean up at all after we left and to switch off the boiler and when the estate agent rang me to ask if I'd go round and explain it all to the buyers I said no. It was their flat now and their problem.

We have had experience of mice - we've kept them at bay with blocking holes in floorboards / vents etc - think may encourage them to come out and play now...

Def going to strip back and replace bulbs with blown ones - fish has to go somewhere definitely - under floorboards is good idea

Also definitely going to cultivate mould wherever possible

What a witch

this is very common now. I would have your ea take the hit, they introduced the buyer to you and if this is the type they bring you....Id say get stuffed, contact her sol, buy the searches off them direct so you have them ready for your next buyer. oh and shout at the ea a lot to find a new buyer..

if you do it then take EVRYTHING, every lightbulb and switch take the fuses out the elec box, turn off electric water gas etc direct. make it difficult!!! put peanut butter under the floor boards- mice love it. Oh I could go on hehe

Hello penny, I think your estate agent has missed a trick here - the normal procedure when this hapens is for the agents to contact the agents for the house you are buying, explaining that there has been a last minute reduction and asking them to take a drop as well. This should go all the way up the chain and by a process of negotiation some sort of compromise can usually be reached,

However, the decision was ultimately yours and you have made it. Try to let go of the anger now and just meet your obligations of leaving the house reasonably clean and tidy when you leave. Focus your efforts on the new home.

Good Luck

You need some weed killer. You can write lovely messages in grass with weed killer

Something like CHEAP CUNT would work well.

Call her bluff, change your mind after all she's changed hers with an insulting offer. If she's BTL then she must try it often and maybe gets away with it. House moves are stressful without this happening. Bitch

ScarerStratton - fabulous idea.

Shit now I feel so stressed you all think have made the wrong decision.

Just so focused on that new home, just didn't want to lose it.

Of course we all say you shouldn't have taken it, we aren't emotionally involved and don't have the same views on the risk.

You can either ring back the agent and say actually I want to put the price up by x on what was earlier agreed or you will have to take a few deep breaths and let it go. Don't do anything that can bite you later if you fair to meet your home seller obligations.

Throw a big fuck off house cooling party and don't clean up

I would call YOUR agent back and say you've changed your mind, the original offer that you accepted is what you want and you are not budging.

When DH and I were buying our first home together, my flat sale fell through four times. Didn't stop us from getting our house.

Have some gumption! MN is behind you!

(Otherwise, once you've cleared you stuff out, allow every cat in the area to come in and use the place as a toilet.)

If you're happy with your decision don't worry it's easy for us to tell you otherwise. I'd take everything out of the house you can. This has made me really angry that someone would do this

scarerstatton, love it, you have make me laugh!

This happened to us, 48 hrs before exchange, suddenly our buyers asked for £7k off! We clawed it back by telling our vendor who kindly agreed to take £3 k off our buying price, reducing the estate agent fees and taking a hit of £3K ourselves. We then got a copy of our fixtures and fittings list and STRIPPED anything that wasn't listed-light fittings, white goods, cabinets etc. Saved us a fortune in the new house!

Cheeky buggers moved in and were obviously shocked as we received a letter from our solicitor the day after saying he had been approached by the buyers about missing fittings but as all was signed previously, they walked away with nothing!

Bugger it, I'd take all the carpets, underlay and gripper rods etc. Surely this will set her back a fair bit, even for cheap carpets.

Definitely do not clean. Has anyone mentioned grass seed in the carpet yet?

Can you tell I've had it done to me?

I did get my own back. I'm not normally vengeful, but the day of exchange they dropped by over 10K. I was a single parent, desperate to move, as I'd got the DDs into fantastic schools.

I did the lawn thing. I also unplugged the water line for my lovely American fridge freezer they insisted on having, bent all the loo ballcocks back so the loos didn't fill properly, and the piece de resistance, removed every damn lightbulb, and took so long finishing packing it was nearly dark when we left (it was winter).

Cheap fuckers, I'd never renege on a deal like that.

Seriously get yourself off to a fish market and definitely milk in the carpets. There was an undiscovered milk spillage in our work kitchen and boy did it stink!

Could I suggest a cup of coffee "dropped" in the middle of a pale carpet?

Keep us updated on your revenge

Don;t take revenge. It's not good for the soul. Rise above it. Either call her bluff (she will have also spent on survey, legal fees, searches etc) or just put it completely out of your mind and concentrate on your lovely new home. She does sound like a cow btw. Too late to say it now, but I have always taken a goodwill amount of £10k from potential buyers to be forfeited if they pull out for no good reason (and the same for us).

Do what Cathers said - anything not listed in fixtures and fittings, take with you. Or even better, skip it.

How 'woo' are you?

Can post you a Ouija board.

A few ghosts might piss her off nicely.

Find somewhere on the Internet to write about a really creepy story about how there's a malevolent spirit in the house and you had to get your children out of there, exorcism didn't work etc. Full address. Hopefully potential renters will Google the address and it'll put them off.

Just a thought, have you sorted your post re-direction as she won't be v accommodating with sending post on if you've used a lot of these suggestions?!