We are in the process of selling our flat and buying a house. Our buyers pulled out today, which is fair enough, they are perfectly within their rights to do that, for whatever reason, until exchange of contracts. But what has really annoyed me, is the fact that the buyers haven't even had the decency to phone/message me herself. Instead I have had an email forwarded to me from the housing association (we're selling our stake in shared ownership) advising they have had to pull out. Again that would be ok if that was the only way we had communicated for the last month, but she has been pestering me by phone and email!! I have spoken to her most days etc, and she has asked me on several occasions if we get another buyer etc (before sale was officially agreed) as she really didn't want to lose the flat. I have kept her up to date with our situation. She is fully aware that we have already agreed the purchase of another property, and instructed solicitors, and applied for the mortgage etc.
Then this morning. not even a one line e-mail. She hasn't even had the decency to reply to the last email I sent (asking if she would like us to leave some curtains etc!). Personally if I had been in touch with someone so much, and I had asked them to keep me up to date, and had been phoning them regularly etc, I would be doing the same in return.
I am just so livid with her, which really could have been avoided if she had sent me a quick message herself. Would that have been the decent thing to do or am I expecting too much from people these days?