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?

Could you knock a few non load bearing walls down?

Remove the internal doors and skirting boards.

Remove the kitchen and bathroom - just leave an empty shell.

Remove the boiler as well.

Thanks ladies. I feel better, I needed to vent and you've all helped. It's done, am okay with it. Reduced agency fees and now her paying over the odds for fixtures and fittings will do me.

Am choosing to believe in karma. She'll get hers.

If the buyer is a buy to let landlord you aren't really punishing them are you but the poor sods who rent it out from her!

I'd have said no to her dropping her price but I'm stubborn like that.

She's trying to get the best price possible. You gave it to her. Thats just how the system works sometimes.
All this nonsense about revenge is just childish. You don't have to sell to her at any price, you chose to. If you do some of the stuff mentioned here, you can get sued, and even arrested.

what peppi said.

she asked for a lower price and you agrees. the revenge stuff is pathetic.

I suspect pennyapples didn't feel like she had much choice. The lower price was deliberately timed to coincide with exchange, so that pennyapples would potentially lose out on her purchase if she pulled out of the sale of her property.

It is calculated and generally considered a nasty trick.

Full fat milk in a plant spray. All over the carpets.

Thanks postbellum, exactly right

My baby daughter just learned today to do kisses. This is what matters in life!

Thats a really low blow you have taken.

And I can quite understand why at this late stage you have agreed to it, so dont feel bad, what comes around goes around and all that...

Much as some of these ideas sound fantastic I would be wary of putting yourself in a postion of weakness' just in case...

Every dog has its day lovey - she'll get her comeuppance cos eventually she'll piss off a nasty bastard - you're not that person, rise above it

No to fish, to obvious. Spilt milk maybe. Once you've packed up invite some smoker friends round for an indoor smoking marathon, with all the windows shut. The smell will be a pain to get rid of and also put off potential tenants.

*too

Buy 10 or so digital watches, set alarms on them then seal them behind walls, under floors, under the loft insulation etc. Make sure two hours never pass in the house without an alarm going off. If you can, have short alarms so they never get long enough to hunt down the sound!!

Was just thinking about this and it struck me that she is probably the type to brag about her actions on facebook. Only right you defend yourself.

don't want to read all this, but it sounds like you accepted her offer. End of.

it is a house and should not be vandalised. Don't wreck the place, don't make it stink. Don't go too mad cleaning it, either. Just move on.

penny your comments are waaaaay to emotive:

when I buy I try to buy low
when I sell I try to sell high

no one is forced to do anything they don't want to!

I would put the house on the market again using an online site and send her the link. When she's back in touch, add £2K immediate payment as a condition to 'reestablish trust'

flippin' asshole.

Yeah is okay I got it - IABU
Will get over it with thoughts of how the university will even it up somehow
Will try and enjoy the moral high ground

Universe even

Guess house moving is an emotional business

Like I say I know IABU

Thanks all

Um you could also have some fun with being a series of new tenants who want to look at the property with landlord present and not turn up - or better get a stooge to offer a higher rent than market rent 'to secure quickly' then get right up to pen stage and then ask for massively low rent and laugh at her outrage.

Not everyone has the good fortune to stand back and buy low and sell high. It is widely acknowledged that buying and selling your home (not a buy to let property) is one of the most stressful things to do - up there with births, marriages & deaths.

When you are on the point of exchange, in a chain, with a house out there that you are desperate to move into, it is very hard not to be emotive. It is very hard to stand back & think "fuck that calculating bitch, who has left it right up until exchange to drop her price, I'm going to tell her to piss off and maybe I'll lose out on the house I'm hoping to buy." It takes nerves of steel & an ability to think that yes, you may have to walk away from your dream home.

penny the buyer 'won' because you saw things emotionally and she didn't.

you are right though about other things being more important

post IMO there is not such thing a 'your dream home' - that way of thinking leads to getting done over....

She's trying to get the best price possible.

The time for negotiating the price has gone. The price was agreed on and the buyer is pissing about 2 days before exchange. This is not the same as trying to get the best price.