fuck and bollox been gazundered

[plim]

need some advice please, been gazundered two days before exchange by ftbuyers. They dropped their offer by 17k this morning stating the reason that it's going to cost them more than they thought to convert the office, outhouse and to do some remedial work like damp course, electrics and repointing.

The house is an absolute bargain already as we dropped the price by 40k to get a quick sale so we can get the house we want in time for my two children to start schools in september. We previously had tenants in there and they have now left, we have given notice on our tenancy for where we are living and are due to move in two weeks (completion date).

I immediately told the ea to stick it straight on the market and there has already been 3 viewings tonight, meanwhile, ea are trying to salvage the buyers offer by pointing out that there is electrical and damp certificates and a new damp course that was installed three months ago.

I am so, so devastated, don't know where we are going to live and god knows what to do about the kids school!!

fuckity fuck fuck

rant over! :(

Larry! I think I'd rather hoik a turd out of the bath!

Massive relief then Plim, well done.

You could paint them a nice mural in one of the bedrooms, to say thank you for finally bloody agreeing to buy the place, in brightly coloured gloss paint. Nothing naughty, just a nice pastoral scene or ocean view. Just choose the biggest wall and slap some paint on like Mr Maker on a sugar high.

You do this upstairs so that they think everything's fine for a few minutes. Then they open the bedroom door and find the art.

like Mr Maker on a sugar high.

Hurray - well done. We had fuckwit buyers (although not quite as bad as yours) and in the end despite feeling bitter and pissed off with them decided to let it go.

The most stressful part of moving (I've found) is trying to get the house clean before you actually go. This time round I did a fairly superficial job - cleaned bathrooms, kitchen and floors, dusted and hoovered but I did not do the oven, the windows or mow the lawn, nor did I leave a list of useful numbers, neighbours names, rubbish day etc (which I did to a previous buyer).

They were left with a clean (but not sparkling, deep cleaned) house, a slightly scruffy lawn and weedy flowerbeds, and the barest minimum of instruction leaflets and council stuff. We did turn off the water and the electrics at the mains as they weren't due up for several weeks after completion - we told the agents that it was off, but didn't leave instructions as to where to turn it on. Not rocket science but inconvenient.

Petty I know, but I felt as though I'd won a small battle!

I've been thinking about this ......

I wouldn't take anything away but I wouldn't do any cleaning - it's a total pita to clean a house you are moving out with esp with young children and I would be cursing them with every moment I was scrubbing

Personally I think playing a trick to get someone out of bed in the night is a lot less mean than trying to do them out of £17k, to be honest.

Did it all get sorted? Are your kids happily settled in their new school? Hope so....

Hope it is still all systems go for Wednesday.

I'm a bit at all the petty revenge stuff here TBH - OP, I've no idea where you're at right now, but I hope you can be the bigger person here, then there will be no shame when the dust settles.

Hi there - really sorry that you have been gazundered too. My family and I were also gazundered.......we set up a website and a government petition (below). I'd encourage ALL on mumsnet to sign it and persuade the government to change the law. Lots of info and our story on the website. Contact me if you would like to add yours to the website.

Cheers, Rob

www.gazundering-is-not-cool.co.uk/

epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/28630

plim I think today might be completion day for you? Hope everything goes well and you can leave all the stress behind in the old house!

Rob while i'm not often keen of people promoting their blogs and websites - your banner is bloody fabulous!

What response did you get from your MP re the god awful gazundering situation?

Plim hope all is well..

Hi mrsmoodypants

Glad you liked the banner. We did get a response from the ministers office (Grant Schapps). I will post it on my website. But for the benefit of mumsnet readers read below.

I imagine the response will piss you off like it did me. Nothing to worry about - it's all covered!

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Dear Dr Enever,

Thank you for your e-mail of 8 March to the Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP about the home buying and selling process. Ministers are unable to respond personally to all the correspondence they receive and your letter has been passed to me for reply.

As you will know, under the current home buying and selling system in England and Wales, properties are sold "subject to contract", but the transaction is not finalised until contracts are exchanged. It is during this period of uncertainty that problems such as gazumping and gazundering can arise.

However, it is worth noting that sellers in England and Wales are free to choose from a range of options that can be used by those seeking more commitment and certainty that their transaction will be completed. These include ?lock-out? agreements, where the seller enters a binding agreement not to accept another offer within a certain period; ?option to purchase? where the seller grants the buyer, a binding option to purchase the property at the agreed price within a set timescale; ?conditional contracts?, where buyer and seller enter into a contract as soon as terms have been agreed, subject to certain conditions being satisfied; or ?costs guarantee?, where both buyer and seller agree to pay the other side's costs, if they withdraw from the transaction. There is nothing to stop buyers and sellers agreeing to any of these arrangements on a voluntary basis. They each have their merits, but can be difficult to operate in the English housing market where chains are commonplace and can be long.

Given the flexibility of the present system, particularly in light of their swift action to boost the market by suspending Home Information Packs, Ministers have no plans for further reform in this area at the present time.

Yours sincerely,

Treat as Signed

Paul Martin