to put notes through their doors?

[Instagrrr]

So we have a house deposit and MIP ready, we are in rented current and looking to buy in the local area hopefully before Christmas.

We’ve been looking at a specific area of roughy 16 houses which we know are within budget and will have the right space etc for our needs. They never come on the market, one has sold within the last 5 years and another went on and had no interest (priced too high) and was taken off the market with no purchase.

I’ve heard about approaching homeowners with a note saying about your circumstances to see if you can tempt them to sell?

Would you do this? It feels like it would be the proactive thing to do, we are eager to move but the market is slow in this particular area.

If you would, would you hand write? Explain circumstances, like how long we’ve been in the area, kids at local school, quick sale?

Other option would be to put a note in the village shop but it wouldn’t focus on the area we are looking at?

Wwyd?

If you're the woman who keeps putting notes through my door telling me you want my house can you fuck off please, thank yooou.

@RunningFeisty

Well she obviously ISN'T that woman, coz she hasn't put any notes through yet.

My family have a friend who knocked on doors down a road in Devon and found their home that way.
Seems implausible but it worked.

It was a generic to anyone who is reading and has done it, not specifially to the OP

I think it is plain fucking rude, it's called rightmove, love.

Do it! We love on a small street of 12 houses and a lady wrote to all of us saying:

She thought the houses and the sense of community we have was lovely

Her children go to a school close by and they were all very keen to move closer

They had sold their house and were renting, and were flexible to work around the moving schedule of anyone who was interested

They had funds in place to pay a competitive price which would reassure anyone concerned about missing out by not going to the open market

A neighbour two doors down who was considering a move in a couple of years anyway (older lady, children grown) took them up on the offer and it all went very smoothly.

Seems a fair idea to me: can’t hurt and pretty small outlay in terms of time, effort and money. We get the estate agent versions of these all the time - I don’t find them any more objectionable than the pizza menus etc.