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Can everyone keep their fingers crossed for us...

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Gobbledigook · 20/09/2005 14:36

...have a 2nd viewing on the house tonight.

14 months is way too long without a single offer - positive vibes this way please!

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aloha · 22/09/2005 22:56

Is it just too expensive? What does the estate agent say? Have you thought about having that rude bloke/woman (choose) off the telly round?

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Gobbledigook · 22/09/2005 22:56

We've had a couple of second viewings. The first couple ended up buying an 'identical' semi a few doors down - it had a small extension to it's lounge but the house was dated and needed work but they obviously preferred that.

Last week a woman came and she loved it, wanted to buy it, but on the 2nd viewing she brought her dh and he didn't want to spend to the top of their budget.

Now these people that came last Friday night and asked straightaway for a 2nd viewing but have now cancelled twice.

Considering changing agents but I'm not sure it would do much good.

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moondog · 22/09/2005 22:56

That's what we decided re the renting lark and with our comings and goings and a hyper organised control freak dh,it didn't seem like a good idea.
Also because it has been our family home,we were/are still attached to it.It was never just an investment.
Have you swapped estate agents at all?

moondog · 22/09/2005 22:57

Sorry,just read last sentence.
Don't know if it was a coincidence but we got in another agent and within a week the original lot had found us a buyer (or at least we hope she will be the buyer!!)

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Gobbledigook · 22/09/2005 22:58

Aloha - I have thought that but just recently two houses on our stretch of road have sold.

One was an 'identical' semi but it's back reception room has a 6 ft extension - OTOH it was very dated and needed work doing (whereas ours has a brand new kitchen and bathroom). The house was on at teh same price.

The other one is smaller semi (narrow hallway, 3rd room is a 'box' room) but with a bigger garden. That was on for £10K more and it's sold.

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aloha · 22/09/2005 22:59

Post some pictures!

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mizmiz · 22/09/2005 23:09

Look very nice,just the sort of thing a family would snap up.Can't see what the problem is???
Have estate agents said anything???

aloha · 22/09/2005 23:09

And yours?

House 1 was a bit dated, house 2 nicer. Is yours very different?

aloha · 22/09/2005 23:09

Great gardens!

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Gobbledigook · 22/09/2005 23:10

Mine's house 2

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hunkermunker · 22/09/2005 23:11

GDG, they look like lovely houses - yours is like that?

What colours is it inside? What colour is the front door? What's the outside like? What kind of windows does it have? Does it have an enclosed porch? Is there an airing cupboard? Can you get to the garden from the kitchen? From any other room? Is there a garage? What's the drive like?

Just trying to think of really nitpicky things that might put me off a house that I might not mention in feedback to an estate agent - we'll hopefully be looking again in the next year and while things like colour aren't important to me at all, windows and whether there's an airing cupboard or not are - we have shitey aluminium windows here and no airing cupboard, for instance, so both are on our list for next time!

aloha · 22/09/2005 23:14

House 2 is yours? But it's lovely! I was being cagey because I thought house 2 belonged to a deadly rival. I am totally at a loss then. It looks great to me. Baffled.

hunkermunker · 22/09/2005 23:15

Doh - posted before I saw yours about which house was yours.

From the pics - can you put a kettle on the side in the kitchen?

That's extremely nitpicky, I know! But the rest is very nice.

Does it smell unlived in? How often do you go there? Were the houses that sold lived in?

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Gobbledigook · 22/09/2005 23:16

Me too. The other one that sold was identical to ours in terms of the building but more like the other one I posted in terms of interior. It was the same price as ours and someone that 2nd viewed ours bought it! Very puzzled. The other one also has nasty fake pillars at the front door - really odd!

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hunkermunker · 22/09/2005 23:17

The first one you posted...got as far as the decor in the living room... May barf.

aloha · 22/09/2005 23:18

You've got to get a new agent! Your house looks perfect. Can't imagine how you would improve it - except possibly (and this is REALLY nitpicky) make the kitchen slightly more homely (though it is a really nice kitchen).
Blimey. It's a mystery. Do you jump out on your viewers and tell them about the horrible murder and dismemberment that happened in the house a few years back or something??

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Gobbledigook · 22/09/2005 23:18

We are there all the time as we go to clean, pick up post, potter about, see our neighbour (who we get on really well with), do the garden.... Honestly, there's nothing wrong with it!

Things I'd do to it if I weren't moving are put in French doors to the garden from the lounge and also put in a downstairs toilet (there are 2 places this could go quite easily and it wouldnt' cost much).

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Gobbledigook · 22/09/2005 23:20

I think you are right and it would be worth dressing the kitchen a little. I don't know what else to do except sit and wait...

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aloha · 22/09/2005 23:21

New agent!

hunkermunker · 22/09/2005 23:21

LOL Aloha - we had the same nitpicky point (minor, teeny one!)

GDG, wasn't implying your house smelt bad - just trying to fathom it. We've looked round loads of houses in our search for a new one - did 23 one weekend (before DS, I hasten to add!).

You do just get a feel for them - but if I was you, I'd be tempted by exorcism because there's nothing physical wrong with it!

And change the agent. The one you're on with is bloody useless by the sound of it!

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Gobbledigook · 22/09/2005 23:22

I think you are right on that too. In fact dh has already said he's going to arrange a new agent to come round tomorrow. We'll see!

Feel a bit funny about having my house on here now (I know I'm odd!) so will probably get thread deleted!

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hunkermunker · 22/09/2005 23:22

Put a plant on the windowsill (pref a flowering something - I'm such a gardener!), a shiny kettle and a few "aspirational" things - start a thread asking for what as I'm fresh out of aspirations (how sad does that sound?!)

JoolsToo · 22/09/2005 23:22

I think what might slightly be off-putting is that the house is now empty - that's why there is nothing in the kitchen.

it wouldn't put me off but they say empty houses are harder to sell?

JoolsToo · 22/09/2005 23:23

hunker she'd just get parped