Help I don’t know what to do!
we are trying to rent a property - we are relocating to the uk from abroad, contact (and visa) ends on a fixed date so we can’t take our time too much. We are back in the uk at the moment and the rental market is extremely tough.
We saw two properties on Wednesday, both had 3+ offers on, we didn’t like them so didn’t offer.
we saw property A on Thursday - it was nice, but rather small and very isolated. We liked it enough to put an offer in on Friday. Landlord received at least one other offer and is taking time to decide. we’ve had two viewings cancel on us over the weekend as they had already gone.
tomorrow (Monday) we are due to view property B - it’s bigger, in a small village and on paper would suit us better. There are others viewing at the same time as us and we can’t guarantee our offer would be accepted.
my dilemma is this - if landlord of property A comes back and accepts the offer, could we still view and offer on property B (because it’s a better house for us?)
if we accept property A, then hear that property B has accepted us, can we pull out of property A (this will happened quickly, within 48 hours) and proceed with property B? Seems a bit of a shitty thing to do to the landlord, but is it ok as it’s just business?
OH just wants to wait and hear about property A before offering on property B ‘to be a man of his word’. If we accept property A we should withdraw from property B straight away without offering or viewing.
i agree that I’m not happy shafting the landlord of property A, but round here is very much a landlords market and they will get tenants quickly anyway. My main concern is getting a good house for the family to live in for the next few years.
both properties are in the same catchment areas for schools. Both are similar rent. One is a modern-ish 1070s place, one is an old farm labourers cottage. They are on the market with different estate agents.
what would you do?
a) be true to your word and take the smaller house if offered.
b) keep both irons in the fire and take the better house, even if this means shafting the landlord of property A?