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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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SoupDragon · 15/10/2013 15:37

Plotting revenge is the best bit anyway. There is usually no need to actually carry it out.

YouAreMyFavouriteWasteOfTime · 15/10/2013 15:37

and yes it is stressful but you can come out of the situation thousands (or tens of thousands) better off or less well off, so worth getting the best possible outcome given the circumstances you cannot control.

LtEveDallas · 15/10/2013 15:46

Penny, you aren't being unreasonable - because anyone with even just a minute amount of awareness can see that you are just ranting. The woman is a wankbadger from hell, and there is nothing wrong with you hoping her legs fall off.

Of course you are emotional, stinking bitchwoman waited until you were at the point of no return and then fucked you over. She's not a businesswoman, she's a wanker.

Plan your revenge - and enjoy it, just don't let it take over your life (and don't leave ANYTHIING behind that cuntybollocks hasn't paid for. Even if you don't need it - take it and chuck it in a skip if you have to. Don't clean - you owe her nothing.)

YouAreMyFavouriteWasteOfTime · 15/10/2013 15:50

soup The price was agreed on and the buyer is pissing about 2 days before exchange.

the deal is not fixed until the contract to exchange is signed. if you found a big problem with a house you were buying - you would not stick to the price/purchase!

penny what I would learn from this, it to prehandle any manouvers like this. so you and you DH agree advance your response e.g. (1) when buying recently I offered a very low price as the buyer was clearly keen to sell and I wanted the house, if and only if, I could get a good price for it. (2) I knew she might come up with a strategy to get back 'some of her losses' so I spent all the time up to exchange telling the EA that was all the money we had - any attempts to raise the price would result in no sale. (3) its a lovely house but its only a house. A walk away would be no big deal.

so we sold for more than the EA thought possible (after chasing a buyer who walked but offering her the price she has previously rejected) and bought for considerably less in a desirable location.

====> house prices are not free money and think how long it takes you to earn each £1000.

LadyFlumpalot · 15/10/2013 15:51

Take anything you want out of the garden then salt the earth with Sodium Glyphosate. Use enough and nothing will grow again for YEARS.

Damnautocorrect · 15/10/2013 15:55

Another option is to go further down the chain and explain it will collapse your very sorry but you'll need a slight reduction off each. I've seen that work, even on big chains. But you need good agents and solicitors for that

mummytowillow · 15/10/2013 16:00

What a bitch Angry

I would do the fish thing but also pour smelly tuna water and prawn water all over the carpets it will smell so bad!

Remove everything that isn't in the contract and I mean everything!

MavisG · 15/10/2013 16:01

It's not just emotion she's leaving behind, it's any ethics. The amount of money you make by reneging on a deal doesn't make it morally ok: you're screwing someone over. You're not a nice person if you do this.

Hope you enjoy your new home OP.

Pawprint · 15/10/2013 16:04

What a vile bitch she sounds Angry

When I sold my flat in London, the buyer was buying to let. Because the fucking sow didn't want to have the flat lying empty for a few weeks before her tenant moved in, she messed me around terribly and the whole deal nearly fell through at the last minute thanks to her. I had a removal van ready and it had to be postponed because she 'didn't get the paperwork done on time'. I nearly had to pay for the removal van twice, but the kind firm did me a massive favour and didn't charge me.

When I moved out, I didn't bother to clean the place. I also left a manky old fish tank and some filthy (and wet) towels in the bath. Made me feel a bit better.

Piffyonarock · 15/10/2013 16:28

Now all you need to do is avoid the trap of the last minute "Indemnity Insurance" on your new house, which will be essential for the sale to go through and will cost something like £700 - a lot for you to loose but not enough to pull out of the move. It will be related to something like "in case the garage doesn't have planning and needs to be demolished" or "a nearby greenbelt area that may be built on".

I know several people that this has happened too, one ended up with her stuff packed up and ready in the truck and then they couldn't get the keys until they paid. Stuff ended up in the van overnight. Supposedly their solicitors had missed this essential insurance requirement in the searches weeks previously.

Don't even get me started on damp proof courses!

Good luck in your new home, it will be worth it in the end Smile.

SoupDragon · 15/10/2013 17:04

if you found a big problem with a house you were buying - you would not stick to the price/purchase

The buyer hasn't though. She is just being a bitch. Negotiating on price due to a problem is not the same thing at all is it?

SoupDragon · 15/10/2013 17:08

What this buyer is doing is basically blackmail - reduce the price or lose the sale. For no reason apart from the fact that she can.

Mouserama · 15/10/2013 17:12

Cress seeds in the carpet. Spell out exactly what you think of her in cress seeds. Water them the day you leave - then let the cress grow :-)

Talkinpeace · 15/10/2013 17:13

The last house I sold, buyer waited till 12 hours before exchange to drop his offer by 10%
He waited that long 'cos I was pregnant and he guessed that I'd be a bit more 'fragile' as due date passed.
BIG MISTAKE
I was in labour when I spoke to him on the phone.
I explained how much it hurt and how much more I would release my pain in his direction if he did not stop messing about.
Offer was corrected with 45 mins to exchange and 6 hours before DD saw the world. Grin

bundaberg · 15/10/2013 17:20

i would absolutely call her bluff!!!!

i would rather lose out on money than sell to someone so bloody nasty. Because it would actually upset and annoy me for months and months and months... i couldn't live with the injustice.

you either lose out on your fees etc by telling her to fuck off
or you lose a massive amount on your house.

i know what i'd choose. I would totally call them back now and say actually, no. you have thought about it and you have decided that you will not lower the price

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pennyapples · 15/10/2013 17:30

LtEve - lovely summing up and you are totally right, I do hope her legs fall off or something similar but guess she has her reasons for being a twat. Nothing wrong with the house - nothinh wrong with an honourable renegotiation, just a twatty calculating one.

Karma kicking in already though, just won £4 on a spontaneous scratch card! My first ever! Ace!

Shall enjoy new home, thank you guys.

And yeah she won because she wasn't emotional. No probs, know who I'd rather be.

Baby girl just threw spaghetti Bol up the wall. Ain't clearing that up.

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leavingthebastard · 15/10/2013 17:37

If it isn't screwed down, take it. And if it is screwed down, unscrew it and take it Grin

Curtain poles, lampshades, bulbs, blinds, kitchen white goods, coat hooks. Everything.

She will at least learn her lesson when she spends the first week trying to make her house liveable in.

GhostsInSnow · 15/10/2013 17:41

Be a shame if you announced a house warming 'rave' party on twitter and facebook on their moving in day wouldn't it, especially if you had a senior moment and posted your old address... Grin

comingalongnicely · 15/10/2013 17:43

Unflushed turd in every bog, better if they're not moving in for a couple of days. Pull clumps of pubes out (doesn't hurt too much) & sprinkle liberally round bath & sink plugs.

Talkinpeace · 15/10/2013 17:44

Do you have any fitted shelves that predate the wallpaper or paint?
remove them to leave stripes on the wall - that is what was done to my parents ....
and were all the plants in the garden listed as staying ....?

dexter73 · 15/10/2013 17:46

Could you accidentally spill some weedkiller all over the garden?

PeppiNephrine · 15/10/2013 17:46

The OP is ranting because she is upset. But excuse do the other posters have for such wankery? Advocating stealing for a start, because if you take with you fixtures which are included in the house then you are committing an actual crime. Same as if you poison the lawn or otherwise trash the place.
Some of the people on here are pretty sick, as well as very foolish.

bundaberg · 15/10/2013 17:50

peppi..... most people are joking.

it's ok.

GhostsInSnow · 15/10/2013 17:53

Anyone here the whoosh as half this thread flew over Peppi's head?

YouAreMyFavouriteWasteOfTime · 15/10/2013 17:55

....if I lost a few thousand pounds I would work out how to avoid repeating the same thing.....not enter into some revenge fantasy bullshit joke whatever....

does anyone think the suggestions are actually funny?

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