CF home buyers

[Teenangels]

I am being unreasonable.

Bit of background put my house up for sale, just after lockdown ended.
I had 9 viewing on the first Saturday and 3 offers. All at different levels one at full price from someone with something to sell, one just under the asking price think 10k in a chain, the third offer was 10% off the asking price, chain free mortgage offer in place. The first time buyers also wanted a second viewing before they offered and wanted me to cancel all other bookings so they could get first chance of buying it, they were told to F off. They put in an offer.
We negotiated with the first time buyers and managed to get them to offer 5% of the asking price this was still 40K under the asking price. but we had found a house and for ease went with them but told them that this was a fixed price and there would be no further movement on price from either party.
This was beginning of June, they have had a mortgage offer and surveyor round, all fine house was valued at over their offer, I did not move on our price.
Fast forward to beginning of July another surveyors has come round and found some issues, like moss of the roof I kid you not!! That the electrics are not up to current 2019 regulations, the house was re wired in 2016, that they should check the drainage, and one of the struts in the roof is bending by 5 degrees (this is not a supporting part and there is no movement and if they wanted to replace it, it would cost no more than £50.

My buyer wrote a long email to the estate agent 3.5 weeks after they got the report to say that they wanted a structural engineer to come into the house, a builder and a plumber and electrician and we would have to vacate the house for the day so that they could check everything.
He wants the electrician to take off all the plugs and check the wiring in some of the walls (Channel them out) but not be responsible for any damage. I told them to f off, he wants to check that the electrics are working and safe ( we live in the house with 4 kids).
He is now saying that I have to let him have access.
I have given him access on Thursday to look at the roof, but not to do any electrical work.
I have said that if he plays anymore games the house will be back on the market, I think he wants me to reduce the price, there is no chance.

I would tell the EA to communicate to them that you only accepted their offer because you believed it would be stress free. It clearly isn't, so they now need to exchange within 1 week (or other short timescale) at the price agreed with no more visits, negotiation etc. or you will re-market (and stick to it!).

To give them the benefit of the doubt having read the full thread that’s an awful lot of money and I guess they’re being Uber cautious. I still stand by the likelihood they’re going to request a chunk off the price just before exchange.

I had a potential buyer ask me to pull up all of my wall to wall carpets so that they could see the floors before they made an offer. I literally laughed when they asked.

Put it back on the market OP. If the CF's still want to buy then their price has just gone up by 20%.

Fuck 'em.

"We picked you over 2 higher offers, including a full price offer, because you are FTB and there is no chain and you seemed sensible. Unfortunately, your sense seems to have gone out the window. There is nothing wrong with the house. We are putting it back on the market on Friday if this nonsense doesn't stop immediately."

Fuck that.

Have the courage of your convictions. If you want shut of them put it back on the market today. By saying Saturday you are giving them the chance to take the piss again.

It just gets better, because I have refused their demands to come and do the electrics they have asked that the estate agent speaks to my husband.

Good luck with that one.... I don't have one.

The house is going back on the market. I am done with these stupid fuckers.

@Teenangels just backing up what has been said by others. get rid of them, they are looking for any excuse to bring down the price and will likely guzunder you on exchange day. They will probably purposely damage the walls and then try and get money off of you for the repairs. I'd also be even more wary they only have a 15% deposit in this day and age.

@TheOrigBrave if they have a 40 year mortgage it's about £2200. It's quite possible if they have jobs paying about £65k each which if they currently live and work in the city and are in their mid 30s they are likely to have. For london I wouldn't say £800k is a massive amount to spend on property.

WOW- speak to your husband like you're being taken to the principles office.
I WILL BUY YOUR HOUSE JUST SO YOU DONT SELL IT TO SOMEONE LIKE THAT!

@Teenangels

It just gets better, because I have refused their demands to come and do the electrics they have asked that the estate agent speaks to my husband.

Good luck with that one.... I don't have one.

The house is going back on the market. I am done with these stupid fuckers.

OMG! what a piss arse thing to do. Speak to your husband? are we in the 1950s?

We had a very similar experience with the person buying our previous house. It's all a game to try and knock more money off. Absolutely do not give them the satisfaction.
The final straw was when our buyer TOLD us (no asking) that he had an electrician coming on a certain day at a certain time and we had to be home to let him in. We told the EA to tell them the sale was off. Funnily enough all the games stopped and we exchanged within 10 days, having been chasing them for an exchange date for 2 months!

They really are Cheeky. My mother once had a door to door sales man in 60s who wanted to speak to ''the man of the house'' but there wasn't one!

It just gets better, because I have refused their demands to come and do the electrics they have asked that the estate agent speaks to my husband.

What utter twats.

Speak to your husband?! Please tell me the EA laughed in their face?

@SoupDragon

It just gets better, because I have refused their demands to come and do the electrics they have asked that the estate agent speaks to my husband.

What utter twats.

Couldn't put it better myself.

Sexist idiots.

CFs of the highest order! Speak to your husband 😂😂😂 If you want to engage with such an utterly ridiculous comment I would tell them he’ll call them back!

'Speak to your husband'?!

Not only would the house immediately be back on the market, there's no way I'd accept an offer from them now even if they increased to over asking price.

'No thanks. Spend it on some training in how not to be a pair of sexist twats.'

No way would I be letting them have unsupervised chess to my house!

Quite, chess is a dangerous game! 😂

Eventually my friends just ignited their texts/emails. But it was a painful experience.

Setting fire to your phone is a bit extreme...

Or just send a message back:

'There is no husband. And as a result of that sexist piece of claptrap, there's now no house for you, either.'

They are complete kjobs. Pull out and resist @Teenangels

I was a ftb last year but the survey did throw up huge issues with a filling damp course, i got an independent damp survey but arranged at the vendors convenience and never expected her to vacate. That's crazy!

@Teenangels

It just gets better, because I have refused their demands to come and do the electrics they have asked that the estate agent speaks to my husband.

Good luck with that one.... I don't have one.

The house is going back on the market. I am done with these stupid fuckers.

🤣🤣 love it. How dare they ask to speak to your husband!!!!!

Back on the market it goes!

Let us know what happens! It’s a whole new level of CF!

Wow just wow.
Glad you have got the EA to get new buyers.
It is not so much the price offered it is everything after.
Get the agent to speak to your husband indeed.

Have you exchanged? If not get him to pay for the work being done and then pull out. That'll learn him.

Wow! Just wow! You have done the right thing OP they will only get worse and you are doing them a favour teaching them how the real world works