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Countering possible house-selling shenannigans

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Quine0nline · 23/04/2026 21:33

DD is selling here house following an acrimonious divorce. She has found a lovely place and offer accepted. Now selling her house. Listed, advertised an a couple of viewings. She will be doing the viewings.

She has overheard that her bitter ex has been advised "to get a friend to get a viewing, put in a high offer to get accepted, strong her along for a few weeks, then pull out with the intention to make her prospective new purchase fail".

Absolutely shitty behaviour but when can she do to try to avoid this? Google, linkedin, Facebook due diligence of viewers sou ds a bit stalky but can anyone suggest a way to avoid getting taken advantage of? An honest buyer may suffer a situation leading to a genuine withdrawal of offer for legitimate reasons of course.
She's in Scotland if that has any bearing on it.

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Ncisdouble · 23/04/2026 21:41

They should prove funds straight away so umless he has the dosh, he can't string her along for long.

UnhappyHobbit · 23/04/2026 22:02

She needs to let her estate agent know that there is potential to sabotage the sale. As you are in Scotland, I understand that the solicitors handle the post sales and the agents don’t get as involved as much here so she would also need to let her solicitor know so that they can aware and to look for any unnecessary delays.

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