Aibu or is the buyer of my flat being a dick?

[Niceeyes]

I’ll try to keep this as short as possible.

got an offer accepted on my flat early March, both myself and the buyer are chain free, there were some questions over the parking space and whether it was private or allocated, (it’s private and she’s been told this). So she keeps delaying saying she’s not happy with the documents proving so. So this has now dragged the process to 10 weeks (for two chain free people this is really long)
BUT it transpired today that she’s actually using the parking ‘issue’ as delay tactics as she is now selling her late mothers place and doesn’t want to exchange on my flat until her mothers place sells (it’s under offer) …..I feel like she’s taking the piss, her offer was accepted by me as she was a chain free buyer, now there’s a chain…god knows how long.

so do I give her the extra 8 weeks to get her mothers place sold (this costs me more mortgage fees and utilities) or just tell her that she’s changed the deal and that I’m re marketing my flat.

grrr so annoyed

She's no longer chain free. Any number of things could delay the process even further down the chain. She's not been up front about her intentions. Remarket and find someone who actually wants to move quickly.

Re market. 8 weeks would be the time frame if she accepted an offer tomorrow.

Would you have accepted her if you'd known she was in a chain?

Just remarket.

Yanbu.
We bought a house with four in a chain and it took 2 months.
I'd give an ultimatum and play devils advocate, get a new buyer.

Tell her you're relisting the property. She's changed the criteria

I wouldn't wait.
I'd tell her that it's going back on the market on Monday.

What was the level of interest like for your flat when you had it on the market?

Yep really disappointed …if I re list I’m just worried that the market is slowing as bank interest rates have gone up. Work case scenario I can rent it for a year but I do kinda need the cash now.
It’s been renovated to a high standard and the new buyer wants it so she can rent it out.
The estate agent told me to hold fire on relishing but I guess they don’t want ti have to do more viewings for something they have technically already ‘sold’ such skull dickery

*Countertop I had loads of viewings but it’s in the eaves but has great ceiling height, it’s a 2 bed but second room is small. I had an offer of asking but she pulled out as she found something closer to her work. It’s a starter home, communal garden and lovely village

@CounterTop sorry I didn’t know how to reply. I left you an answer in the thread 😊

Tell her it’s going back on the market unless she completes in the next fortnight. She’s taking the piss.

Remarket. Get it on tomorrow. I despise buyers like that.

I'd remarked and tell them to let her know it's becuase she was a liar

@Herejustforthisone yep me too, she’s also paying £25k under my original offer so she’s getting a deal, I’m just worried that if I let her away with this that she will drop her offer on exchange day….just a feeling (only because I refused her 1st crap offer)

Remarket. She's not chain free, she's already dicking you about and you're worried about additional dicking about on exchange day.
You'd be a fool to go ahead with this one.

@Cherrysoup @CounterTop @Georgeskitchen @HairyScaryMonster @Herejustforthisone @IncompleteSenten @Longdistance @MacaroniBaloney @SpaceMaaaaan @xyzandabc thank you all SO much for your advice, badly needed, my head was fried but now im more confident remarket 😘

Why is she lying £25k under OP?

*paying

@Useranon1 the original person offered full asking but had one pull out as they found some loser to work, the current buyer offered 25k less and I accepted as it had been on market around 11 weeks and I was nervous it wouldn’t sell….now look at me 😑

I think I would re-list.

if you think she’s fannying about then she likely is.

Something closer to work not some loser 😂

I agree. Tell her your putting it back on the market if not exchanged in 1 week with completion by x date. Check with estate agent if price has moved, if it has remarket at a slightly higher price too.

She’s too high risk. Drop her. And I’d ask the EA to feed back to her sold why. Maybe be more constructive than ‘because she’s a twat and a chancer’, though you’d be within your rights.

Definitely relist. If she’s buying to let, she doesn’t have the same urgency as you do. Within 8 weeks you could have sold and exchanged with someone else.

Usual advice applies, never take the property off the market until contracts are exchanged.

Subject To Contract has no meaning, and only benefits the EA.

Get it back on the market, start taking viewings again.