To think if you are selling your house you should be available even on holiday

[DappledThings]

Made our second offer on a house at 7.30 on Sunday night. It's on with one of those online agents so offers made through their portal. No response.

We know they are away as they got their dog walker to let us in on Saturday with a builder. That was all arranged via the portal so they clearly were checking it but now nothing.

It's a very reasonable offer and I just want a response.

I agree that the house moving process is full of delays and annoying waits.....they are part of it.
However, when someone receives an offer they like, they tend to be speedy in accepting. This is not a slow part of the process usually.

If you are waiting to hear back from an interview, or from a first date which went well, or something else which feels important and urgent, you make sure you are contactable. I would think the communication has been received, but they have chosen not to reply yet.

DM's house was on the market and we went away. I checked emails as and when (no 4G so only when I had wifi) and answered phone calls if I could as there was very little reception. There was no way I was cancelling that holiday just because a house was on the market!

These online estate agents are useless. Don't think I'd bother with sellers who are too mean to pay for a proper estate agent. But it's up to you.

It's nice that you try to always respond within 2 hours, but I think you're being unrealistic to expect everyone else to be as quick.

Pink sparkly shows that many people aren't desperate to sell quickly. A day or two doesn't matter in their minds. Lots of people are selling a house which won't then determine when they can move, because it's not the house they currently live in, but belongs to a deceased relative or a relative who has gone into a home, or a buy to let or whatever. If the seller doesn't need to sell, in order to be able to put in an offer on a house that they want and worry will be snapped up by someone else, the urgency of it all slips away.

This is likely to be a seller who either doesn't like your offer or isn't in an urgent hurry to have a buyer.

Don't think I'd bother with sellers who are too mean to pay for a proper estate agent.

No, you are right, you are much better off with sellers who will include the estate agents fees in the price of the house, so basically the buyer will pay for them

If a seller accept my offer immediately, I would think he's too keen and my offer is too high!