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Original poster

...in hoping he gets knob rot and it falls off?

261 replies

harriethoyle · 09/07/2019 19:32

Supposed to exchange in a chain today. Buyer has demanded 10k reduction for an invented problem (not on the survey!). I either fold and lose 10k or stand on principle and possibly lose the sale. AIBU in watching Wimbledon with a stiff gin and wishing untold vexation on his head?!

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harriethoyle · 10/07/2019 18:12

Oh no @perfectstorm - non-defect is quite specific and odd! So trying to give an equivalent Grin

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elfycat · 10/07/2019 18:14

I sold a house last summer - It had been my home, but after meeting DH I rented it out in case things didn't work out. 15 years and 2 kids later...

The first buyers told me I needed to drop the price by 10k the day before we were going to exchange because 'Brexit'. I told the estate agent to explain to them that they had 36 hours to exchange contracts or to never contact me again. They didn;t buy it.

It probably cost more to pay the mortgage, bills etc in the 6 months it took to sell but it was worth it not to sell my beloved first house to CFs.

Pragmatic is fine here. He's a twat, you're a normal human who wants to sell. I don't think we should wish his knob rotting off on him. We should instead home it itches and burns everyday until he wishes it HAD dropped off.

Mrsthomas29 · 10/07/2019 18:18

👀
Just here for an update!

I hope you manage to sell at a price you’re comfortable with, what an absolute arsehole.

I am currently going through the process of buying - an empty house owned by the welsh government which has been vacant for six months...and we are renting where we are now so zero chain, that’s been stressful enough! I really feel for you xx

Julia001 · 10/07/2019 18:20

I think I would be tempted to do that anyway Grin

StinkEye · 10/07/2019 18:22

Don't know if it's any help, but we just had two misted windows replaced - literally pop out just the glass, cost us £88.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 10/07/2019 18:35

What an arse!! I think I would stand on principle tbh. No way would I give in.

Personally I’d tell him to fuck right off and instruct the estate agent to get it back on the market and pull out all the stops to market it at 9am tomorrow.

This!

I would choke myself on my own tongue before I'd give in to this sort of blackmail

The bastard!

I'd burn the house down first! Angry Angry Angry

BlueJava · 10/07/2019 18:37

I'm in agreement - don't drop. He's an arse!!

ToftyAC · 10/07/2019 18:40

Bloody hell. What a total arsewipe. Hope he gets his shit together.

flowergrrl77 · 10/07/2019 18:43

I wanna know the defect!! Just cause I am a nosey moo :P

Good luck with the sale OP

manicmij · 10/07/2019 18:48

Don't entertain him at all. Will he not be subject to paying any costs you have incurred if he pulls out at this stage. Continue with the tennis and your gin!

ForalltheSaints · 10/07/2019 18:48

I am sure some of you will understand why I think Scottish law on house purchase is better.

Stick to your guns.

Boysey45 · 10/07/2019 19:00

I'd just say its the agreed original price or nothing, I wouldn't have this twat trying to have me over a barrel.F that for a game of cards.

LabradorMama · 10/07/2019 19:03

In the process of selling my house now and now terrified my buyer will turn out to be this kind of CF. What would I do? I’m desperate to be out of here but I think I’d still tell the buyer to do one if it’s not a fair complaint. If it was fair I’d offer a reasonable reduction with a 24 hour decision-making period, I think

steff13 · 10/07/2019 19:10

How far down the line would it need to be replaced? Doing repairs and making replacements are part and parcel of owning a home. It didn't occur to me to ask for money off my house to cover things that might eventually need repaired/replaced.

changeyoursheets · 10/07/2019 19:33

Gazundering ? I always called it gazzumping hahahahah

Notcopingwellhere · 10/07/2019 19:39

Gazumping and gazundering are two different things @changeyoursheets.

Gazumping is when a seller agrees a sale then someone else comes along and offers more and the seller sells to the higher bidder instead.

Gazundering is what the buyer is attempting to do to OP.

GabsAlot · 10/07/2019 19:40

Its so bad here op i hope you come to a fair agreement 10k knocked off is huge

Why cant our laws on selling/buying be like scotland

changeyoursheets · 10/07/2019 19:40

Ah okay, thank you. I wasn't completely making up a word then just using it completely wrong

Zaphodsotherhead · 10/07/2019 19:52

Well, if I didn't believe in the threefold rule, I would wish a case of the most swollen itchy piles upon your buyer, may all his chairs be hard and the seam of his pants ride right up his crack.

But I've run out of pile cream, and do believe in it, so I won't.

Coyoacan · 10/07/2019 20:05

Well I do wonder what the comments here would be if it was a woman doing this;?

As none of us mind being robbed by women, do we?

Here's a curse that covers just about everything
allpoetry.com/The-Litany-for-Doneraile

user1467536289 · 10/07/2019 20:15

Hold out!! Don't end up being one of those house buying stories where the Buyer brags he was able to get all his costs back a the last minute - Not on this sale you wont!!

MonkeyTrap · 10/07/2019 20:42

@Zaphodsotherhead

What’s the threefold rule?

Youwanapizzame · 10/07/2019 20:49

@monkeytrap I believe that whatever you wish for others comes back threefold on yourself

JonSnowIsALoser · 10/07/2019 21:07

I’d tell him to either buy it an an agreed price by tomorrow, or your asking price will go up by £5000 for each day of delay.

What he’s doing is the worst kind of property cheating.

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