Page 2 | To pull out of house purchase as I don't like the vendor?

BeepBoopBop · 2021-09-23T12:08:06+00:00

Way down the line with this, but sick of vendors miserable attitude & stroppy Whatsapps. I've moved heaven & earth to get this done in 3 weeks, my solicitor is charging a fortune to prioritise and it's one thing after another. Other houses have come onto the market since and this house was a knee-jerk reaction following a break up. I love it, but she is making everything so miserable.

JauntyJinty · 23/09/2021 13:55

If your first post was a red flag, the 2nd is red bunting! I'd at the very least put the sale on hold until a proper viewing and survey

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BeepBoopBop · 23/09/2021 13:55

She pulled out of the sale as her original buyer was too slow and told porkies re funds. So estate agent wants his fee. Not my problem, I would have told him where to get off.

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rubyslippers · 23/09/2021 13:56

as a seasoned buyer surely you know your approach is madness?!
I would pull out because it’s massively risky, you’ve not seen it, it’s a private sale yet the agent is getting a fee
Alarm bells must be ringing surely?
I wouldn’t under any circs proceed

rubyslippers · 23/09/2021 13:56

@BeepBoopBop

One of my best friends knows the house well, everything inside & out has been done beautifully and it is almost perfect. I'm a seasoned property buyer and have no worries about anything, other than her attitude that is just such a downer.

A beautiful home can hide all sorts of structural issues

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BeepBoopBop · 23/09/2021 13:57

@QueenBee52

if its not been surveyed or has a home report... how has it been valued 😱

I'm a cash buyer, so no valuation or survey is needed. I'm not concerned at all about the condition - all work has been done properly by professionals. She had a queue of purchasers, but if I pull out, she's back to square one.

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AnotherFruitcake · 23/09/2021 13:59

@BeepBoopBop

One of my best friends knows the house well, everything inside & out has been done beautifully and it is almost perfect. I'm a seasoned property buyer and have no worries about anything, other than her attitude that is just such a downer.

With respect, you don’t sound at all seasoned if you’re buying a house that hasn’t been surveyed or viewed by you on the say-so of a friend, and your only issue is that the vendor who wants to push through this private sale extra fast isn’t very nice???

Bluntness100 · 23/09/2021 13:59

This makes no sense, a seasoned buyer who lets their mate view for them, does no survey and wants to pull out becayse rhe seller is stroppy?

middleager · 23/09/2021 14:00

Hold the line if you want the house.

Our vile vendors had our number and address. At one point the violent husband (who refused to let the surveyor in) came to my house when me and my very small children were in. He'd previously rocked up at the EA and snapped the for sale board in half at the EA desk. Three sales had fallen through because he was a psychopathic bully.

I didnt answer the door. I phoned up the EA in a state of upset and anger.

That was just one of his dick moves. I was so tempted to pull out to teach that thug a lesson, but I wanted the housr, so sucked it up.

Mickarooni · 23/09/2021 14:01

@Bluntness100

This makes no sense, a seasoned buyer who lets their mate view for them, does no survey and wants to pull out becayse rhe seller is stroppy?

I agree. This is absolutely bonkers.

MinnieGirl · 23/09/2021 14:02

I can’t believe you are buying a property without a survey!
Cash buyer or not, it’s peace of mind.
This sounds very dodgy, I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole

LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 23/09/2021 14:02

No viewing, and no removals date by close of play today means the deal is off...for goodness sake why are you dancing to her tune?

Tell her to wind her neck in and get on with stuff.

Do you know for a fact that the other buyer was ditched...seems far more likely that he withdrew after similar nonsense if you ask me.

HarrisonStickle · 23/09/2021 14:02

You're absolutely bonkers OP.

Pull out of this madness and start afresh.

DangerMouse5 · 23/09/2021 14:03

She won't be living there nor your best friend when you have bought the house. So if you want the house, as you're so close, I'd ignore that she's being a bit annoying and just crack in with it if you have no worries about the house or condition. She may mess around with dates but hopefully you'll be in there soon enough and it'll all be done and in the past as you never need to speak to her again!

DangerMouse5 · 23/09/2021 14:04

But surprised you didn't get a survey though. Private purchase or not.

duckme · 23/09/2021 14:04

Are you using purple bricks or similar? My sister had this issue when selling her house and vowed never to use a similar estate agent again.

ChargingBuck · 23/09/2021 14:05

And, errrr I haven't even seen inside just a short video and estate agent link.

WTF?
Yet you were prepared to shell out on conveyancing costs & agree to a 3 week timeline? Why?

Please tell me your surveyor has seen the inside of this house, prior to you committing money to it?

Abitofalark · 23/09/2021 14:06

You can be 'seasoned' as long as you like and still be a naïve or reckless buyer who treats it like a trivial purchase and is inclined equally to buy it or to pull out of buying it on a whim.

ShrinkingViolet9 · 23/09/2021 14:06

"And agreeing A three week exchange and completion… are you crazy? Three months is standard!"

There is no "standard".

The conveyancing of my late mother's property was done in just under four weeks from start of paperwork to exchange date.

LaetitiaASD · 23/09/2021 14:08

If I were you OP I would be trying to decide between biting my lip and not cutting my nose off to spite my face, and stringing her along for as long as possible before pulling out and leaving her up shit creek.

Maybe a combination of the two - make it a matter of principle to get "compensation" for her attitude by demanding a reduction at the last minute.

ChargingBuck · 23/09/2021 14:09

@BeepBoopBop

One of my best friends knows the house well, everything inside & out has been done beautifully and it is almost perfect. I'm a seasoned property buyer and have no worries about anything, other than her attitude that is just such a downer.

Unless your best friend is a surveyor who has spent 4 hours trawling through the house for problems, she is talking out of her arse.

& being a person who has bought property before doesn;t negate any of that. Just because you haven't been financially & legally hamstrung by previous purchases, doesn't mean you won't be now.

You might want to reconsider your "seasoned property buyer" skills if they haven't led you to wonder whyTF your vendor is pushing for a 3 weeks turnaround on a property you have neither viewed or surveyed.

Goingdriving · 23/09/2021 14:10

I was a cash buyer and had the advice of two very seasoned buyers (multiple properties)
Previous buyers pulled out last minute after their survey had been done (but not because of survey)
Sellers in a hurry
I still had my own survey done
Roof needed 12,000 pounds of repairs and sellers knocked off asking price immeadiately.

TatianaBis · 23/09/2021 14:13

Surveyors are often a waste of time and money. What you really need is an experienced builder.

ChargingBuck · 23/09/2021 14:14

& if you are more worried by a vendor's arsey attitide than the fact that you have neither viewed or surveyed the house, I wonder how many vendors & house purchases you have actually experienced.

You either want this house - in which case pay up to £1k to have a red-hot surveyor go over it before proceeding any further or incurring any more legal costs, & forget about the irrelevance of vendor's personality.

Or you do not, in which case there's no need to put up with the vendor at all.

Either way, stop communicating directly with her, & FGS rely on the professional team of EA, lawyer & surveyor to guide you through the process.

NotReallyAPrincess · 23/09/2021 14:14

You might want to reconsider your "seasoned property buyer" skills if they haven't led you to wonder whyTF your vendor is pushing for a 3 weeks turnaround on a property you have neither viewed or surveyed.

This in spades. I’m nowhere near a seasoned property buyer but even I know this has more warning signs than a cliff edge

LaetitiaASD · 23/09/2021 14:16

@ChargingBuck

And, errrr I haven't even seen inside just a short video and estate agent link.

WTF?
Yet you were prepared to shell out on conveyancing costs & agree to a 3 week timeline? Why?

Please tell me your surveyor has seen the inside of this house, prior to you committing money to it?

Everyone's advice is all well and good, but perhaps we can just trust OP that she trusts her friend, knows what she's doing and is getting it at a good enough price that the odd oversight is not the end of the world?

I do get frustrated at how often posters on this board refuse to trust the OPs own words. If you don't trust them there's not really much point engaging!

FWIW the last time I bought a property I didn't get a survey, and I missed that a significant proportion of the roof was collapsing. (Doh!!!)

Given the extensive works that needed doing anyway (full internal and significant external, including removing a chimney breast that extended through that section of roof) it didn't make much difference.

Given that my builders viewed the property to give me a quote on the day of completion, and immediately offered to buy it from me for £25,000 than I paid, my oversight really didn't bother me one iota.

The point of all of this is that it is, IMHO, simultaneously true that one should remind people of what the standard, cautious, prudent and normal way of doing things is, whilst remembering that some people know more than you, are in a different financial position, and do things differently.

Pretty sure I completed 10 days after my solicitor received the contracts, and that included two weekends.