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to be a little bit paranoid?

11 replies

ithinkimtallandblonde · 16/12/2008 19:59

We are in the process of selling our house, its been on the market for 2 months and we now seem to have 2 buyers very interested. We had given up looking at houses as we lost out on one we loved as we had no buyer at the time.
Anyway we have since found a house we really like the look of, i rang today to make an apointment to see it and the woman was quite snotty with me. She wanted to know our circumstances, the exact address of our property and the estate agent it is on with, i understand he don't want time wasters but it was more her tone. she then phoned me back about four hours later to say the vendors are no longer selling the house. Now i have a nagging feeling that they don't want us to view it.The house is still listed on their website.
The house we are selling is on at less than half the price of the one we want to buy, not that i feel its any of there business but we have been very fortunate and our circumstances have changed alot so we can now afford a much bigger house. So am i just being paranoid or do estate agents do this. The estate agents in question are known for only taking on the larger houses. I feel like julia roberts in pretty woman i want to call them up and say big mistake.

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ithinkimtallandblonde · 16/12/2008 20:00

Just read that back and I must apologise for the dreadful punctuation. I shall go and give myself ten lashes.

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MarkTheHeraldAngelsStretch · 16/12/2008 20:01

What a snotty woman!

rubyslippersisappearinginpanto · 16/12/2008 20:01

get your DH to ring or someone else and see what they say

they may have genuinely taken it off the market

TBH, i cannot understand why any Estate Agent woudl be snotty with a potential buyer in this market

KatieDD · 16/12/2008 20:04

It might be because you've not sold, unless you can move without selling your current house then you are wasting their time viewing being honest.
Ignore the tone of voice btw no doubt she'll use it on the job centre staff too in 6 months time

hotbot · 16/12/2008 20:07

put a note thru the vendors door..leave your number expaining if their house is still on the market you would be intersted in viewing

Turniphead1 · 16/12/2008 20:13

I really really doubt that in the current market an estate agent would put you off a house that was genuinely for sale on the basis that they didn't think you could afford it. they have s*d all else to do at the moment so am sure they would take you round if there were any small chance you might buy it.

ithinkimtallandblonde · 16/12/2008 20:14

Thanks for the replies. I totally understand what its like to be sick of time wasters. I spent my only day off siting in the house trying to stop my toddler from destroying it only to have the people not turn up, i could have wept. I would understand if they just said only people able to proceed. MIL has her considerably larger house on the market so may get her to phone and see what they say to her, not sure i want to deal with them if this is there attitude.

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ithinkimtallandblonde · 16/12/2008 20:15

Good thinking hotbot, dd does ballet across the road on sat so might do just that.

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ithinkimtallandblonde · 16/12/2008 20:17

Katie, we are selling to first time buyers, who are set to go so if we accept there offer we could be ready to move in 6 months, surely its very worh there while showing us around. We don't want to lose our buyers by making them wait for ages for us to find a house.

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ithinkimtallandblonde · 16/12/2008 20:18

6 weeks even.

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TheSeriousSanta · 16/12/2008 20:18

Def. leave a note through the door. And mention the estate agents too.

No harm with doing that.

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