To go back to this house?

[trapped2019]

We're trying to move house.

I hate where I live.

We've sold ours and found somewhere that we thought was perfect.

Got survey done, arranged removals, almost got to exchange etc. Then we went back for another viewing to measure up.

The vendor was starting to remove fixtures and fittings, things were broken and dirty.

We pulled out.

Since then, we have found nothing else. Nothing.

The vendor of that house put it back on the market and sold it last week.

Would it be even worth our time going back to them?

We could complete in a week and I know the vendor has already bought his new place so is paying two mortgages. He could move much more quickly with us than with his new buyers. Would that count?

I can't sleep for worrying about this. I'm in tears at thought of being trapped in our current home.

Help!

You sound delightful

I think dog shit house owner had a very lucky escape. As will your buyers if they decide to withdraw.

Honestly OP you sound like an absolute nightmare to deal with.

You are coming up with excuses to try to justify yourself wanting to screw over the new buyers of the house.

I would tell you to jog on. Six figure savings or not, you are nasty.

Ok, what have I done wrong now?

Not bought a house from a lying little CF? Not spent/risked ten grand on a pointless rental?

People will be telling me to give my current home to our buyers next. Possibly while throwing myself of a cliff....

Glad I'm not buying off you you sound like a bloody nightmare

You are such an unbelievable drama queen. Which is probably why we’re struggling to properly understand/believe the whole story about dog shit house and its collapsing floor!

I'm not forcing our buyers to wait.., Also not going back to dog shit house.

So, who am I screwing over?

HOW are you not forcing your buyers to wait, if you're now not moving out until you've found a new property? [head explodes]

OP at the beginning of the thread you said "I hate living here. Main road, shit schools, smack heads fighting outside" and "I'm in tears at thought of being trapped in our current home"

In those circumstances (assuming you weren't exaggerating...) how would renting be "pointless"? It would get you out of that situation and would enable you to keep your buyer therefore making you an attractive buyer to a future vendor.

How much have your buyers spent on searches, surveys etc?

I repeat, have you told your buyers that your purchase is off?

They're at liberty to find somewhere else.

I'm not renting out of a moral duty. That's insane.

Lol but you do realise you’re fuxking your buyers over in much the same way you felt your dog shit house seller fuxked you over?
I wonder how much time and money they’ve invested in this purchase...
There is of course nothing to stop you doing this, but it’s more than a little hypocritical after your moaning about being done over.

People on MNs always moan about cf buyers & if they pull out other posters think it’s akin to eating babies, nice to see the other side for once as plenty of cf sellers as this op demonstrates!

Look at it that way and it's dog shit house vendor who's fucked over both myself and our buyers.

Your a loon!

Thing is OP. If your house is so shit as you make out who says if you loose your buyers you will find another so easily?

From reading how hysterical you are about this, I thought your children were of school age and you needed to apply in the next round, not that they weren't even conceived yet.

I also wouldn't recommend TTC if you and your husband can't have a grown up conversation about moving house without ending up screaming at each other.

There's been plenty of advice on here and questions asked but you're just sidelining them all.

Either pull out of your sale, stay where you are for a couple of years (you've got ages until potential children are of school age!) or rent somewhere until a house becomes available.

I hope not 🤣

RTFT

How on earth is this thread still going. Crikey that vendor had a lucky escape from you. Your buyers will obv be in a great position to find something else too given the state of the market at the moment. Mind you I think you are on the wind up (yes I have reported so no need to report me 😀).

People genuinely think I should spend £1k a month on rent? Plus agency fees and all that bollox? Just so I don't upset my poor buyers? Other wise I'm clearly a terrible person

First off the rent maybe £10,000 for 6 months but once you have taken off what you would normally spend like your mortgage interest and council tax and water rates and gas and electricity and the fact you are in a position to move very quickly with nothing to sell you can make an offer which could knock a few thousand off the price it could be the best thing you could do.

I agree with you renting is dead money but only when you are in a place long term or with no prospect of buying.
Short term and for this purpose actually makes good financial sense.

I have been in similar position apart from the fact we couldn’t get a rented place. It was 1997 and estate agents and rental agents had nothing to sell or rent.

I sold and moved out as I hated the area even though it would make us homeless.

We bounced around in holiday let’s and hotels for several months.

But when we found a suitable home we were able to bid so much less and it paid for the costs we had incurred and more.

We could complete within the week and the sellers had found their dream property and didn’t want to lose it.

If you don’t want to sign yourself up to 6 months of paying out you could also look at holiday let’s for 4-6 weeks at a time.

You would have to factor in putting your furniture in storage and you could (if it takes a few months) end up going to different places. But it would mean you wouldn’t have any sort of bills and you would be free to tailor your stay to the exact date you move.

If where you are living is so bad then don’t lose your buyer.
It only takes a murder to end up being stuck in the place or taking far less than you are getting now to affect property prices or if you even get a buyer.

If we had stayed because we couldn’t find our perfect home we would probably be either stuck there 20 years later or we would have had to take far less for it.

6 months after we moved out the area ended up under 3 feet of water and every one got flooded.

Never ever happened before, never happened since.
Nothing you could have forecast.

We think we were really lucky.

Also I think confusedbeetle up thread was trying to give you an example of how things might turn out if you lose your buyer now.

If you have a buyer for your house which is in a bad area at a price which is acceptable to you it would be better to take that and move into rental until you find another house for you to buy. A good buyer is hard to find.

You do know you stand to lose more than £10k if you lose your buyer?

The markets have changed, the area you are selling in sounds like a dive, what if the only people who want to buy it next time will only offer £20k under asking?

Renting is not dead money if you get something out of it, living in a nice house, with access to the schools you want, whilst becoming a more desirable buyer and getting your place sold are all in the "not dead money" column. What are the reasons behind your dead money thinking?

People genuinely think I should spend £1k a month on rent?

Yes, people really DO. Given your circumstances you'd be an absolute fool to not consider it. Even if you had to commit to six months and were in another house within three or four, those sunk costs are nothing compared to what you stand to lose by pulling out of your sale. You already said you live in a difficult to sell location and with Brexit looming you really don't want to be walking away from a keen buyer with money in his hand right now.