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

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pennyapples · 15/10/2013 13:20

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?

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pennyapples · 15/10/2013 13:56

Agent just agreed to reduce our fees!!

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PoppadomPreach · 15/10/2013 13:56

Cress seeds all over the carpets, lightly watered......

QuintessentialShadows · 15/10/2013 13:57

You wont lose your new home by calling her bluff, but you will have a smaller budget if you dont! Tell the agent you have changed your mind about the lower price and to put the house on the market again, and like somebody else suggested block the buyer from making an offer (for now)

PeterParkerSays · 15/10/2013 13:57

Wasn't there someone on here who wrote "Cunt" in the lawn in weedkiller, 24 hours before they moved out. It looked really effective a couple of days later.

ScarerStratton · 15/10/2013 13:58

Agent should be working to recoup your losses from further up the chain, too. Tell them to get on it.

PeterParkerSays · 15/10/2013 13:58

OP - because they mucked up?

YouAreMyFavouriteWasteOfTime · 15/10/2013 13:59

Op you have just rolled over to a try on.

you could call the EA up and say you have had a change of heart. its allowed.....

go on STAND YOUR GROUND

ah go on..... Grin

HulaHooperStormTrooper · 15/10/2013 13:59

strip it like a fucking termite.. seriously. When you are done stripping everything (and I mean everything - knobs off cupboards, light switch plates, fittings..), go and buy some reduced price fish and pop it in the loft, under floorboards.. crack an egg in the loo cistern.. have a nice lawn? you will want to sprinkle wildflower seeds all over that...or write a message in weedkiller to be more direct. Take the loo seats obviously.

WhatWouldFreddieDo · 15/10/2013 14:00

Yes, it's easy for us to be brave!

Could you try to get your seller to drop their price a bit?

JuliaScurr · 15/10/2013 14:00

Primal
damn - I was going to suggest cress :)

PlatinumStart · 15/10/2013 14:01

Only you can know if it was the right thing for you. Personally it would eat away at me forever knowing some unscrupulous cow had got one over on me.

SoupDragon · 15/10/2013 14:02

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

No no no - plant lots of daffodil bulbs in the shape of a penis. No one will notice til Spring.

SoupDragon · 15/10/2013 14:03

Bear in mind that you can't legally do a lot of the things people are suggesting.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 15/10/2013 14:04

We had something similar. We were in a chain, and the people we were due to buy from (who were lovely) suffered a family bereavement and had to delay completion at the last minute, just by a week or so. Our buyers threw a massive shit fit, accused us/them of lying and threatened to pull out unless we stuck to the original completion date. There was no need whatsoever - they were in rented accommodation and had plenty of time left before the contract ended. We ended up renting for just one and a half weeks, with all our stuff in storage.

Didn't hoover, left some lovely gouges in the wooden floor/walls when moving furniture out, took all the curtains, took down the shelving (bit of the wall came away too; oops) and cooked a lovely smoked fish curry on our last night in the house. When we left, they were waiting outside hoping to snatch the keys off us. We walked straight past them and handed the keys in to our Estate Agent, who hung on to them for several hours, right up till she was about to knock off work for the day, before releasing them. Grin She hated them too. Some of these ideas are genius though, wish I'd thought of that.

strawberriesandplumbs · 15/10/2013 14:05

Put an old bit of meat under a kitchen unit leaving a tiny gap. Catch a few flies and introduce then to the rancid flesh hopefully a nice maggot infestation resulting in hundreds if flies will be a warm welcome.

EldritchCleavage · 15/10/2013 14:05

When I bought my first place the vendor did this to me. Unfortunately for her the agent rang to say she refused to sell unless I gave her a lot more money about 5 minutes before the biggest presentation of my career to date. I was sick with nerves and shaking. I lost it, said I was pulling out, slammed the 'phone down and went to my meeting. When I came out there was a message saying we could go ahead at the agreed price. I honestly couldn't have negotiated that hard deliberately-it was just the fact I was having a work nightmare that made me do it, but it worked.

suprisepitstop · 15/10/2013 14:06

I think you should take the garden shrubs and uproot any flowers, anything from the garden, trash it. what a cow!

propertyNIGHTmareBEFOREXMAS · 15/10/2013 14:06

Go to pets at home. Buy cockroaches and locusts and release liberally all over the house as you are leaving.

Fleta · 15/10/2013 14:07

I understand how distressing this is, but please PLEASE ignore suggestions to damage the property.

By all means take carpets - but if you indicated in the Fixtures and Fittings form that you were leaving them, then your buyer can pursue you for the cost to replace.

I have acted on behalf of a buyer who the seller perceived was awkward and they damaged the property - I got them a substantial amount of damages - more than the reduction the buyer had argued for....

Caitlin17 · 15/10/2013 14:07

If you were in Scotland she couldn't do this. We don't have "subject to contract" The contract is binding at much earlier stage.

EldritchCleavage · 15/10/2013 14:09

I agree with Fleta. Enjoy all the revenge suggestions, but please don't do them.

You've got 2 options: (i) either ring the agent and say you've changed your mind, you want the original price; or (ii) just take absolutely everything you haven't listed as remaining in the Fixtures and Fittings form and chalk the whole thing up to experience.

whathappenedlastnight · 15/10/2013 14:09

This happened to a freind I think the call it gazundering and I was surprised to learn how common it it.

Can she afford to do this? How much has she got invested in this move as she might just be trying her luck? (reports. mortgage arangment fees ect?) And for her to start the processs again with a new property will take time, will she have to let down her buyer? If she is in rented then wont she have given notice?
Halloween Hmm

Can you afford to find a new buyer if she sticks to her guns?

Good luck OP - FWIW I would tell her to stick it but don't know your situation.

expatinscotland · 15/10/2013 14:11

I'd have told her to go fuck herself.

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ToggyD · 15/10/2013 14:12

Do murials on the walls for them? Blood red? Go for a splatter effect?

Why not weedkiller all the plants in your garden while you still own it?

And tell the neighbour what the new people did.

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