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The decluttering, cleaning, vacating, pandering, nailbiting antics of the stressed out house sellers goes on and on....

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TerrysNo2 · 24/06/2013 21:22

New thread!

Come share and despair :)

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enjoyingscience · 06/07/2013 07:15

We've accepted an offer! The first guy didn't come back with anything, but someone who viewed earlier in the week called last night and offered 2k less than asking. Hurrah!

Need to figure out what on earth I'm supposed to do now. House hunt a bit, I guess! Trying not to get excited, as there's a lot that can happen, but am secretly completely delighted.

50shadesofmeh · 06/07/2013 15:40

House went on last Friday and had 4 viewings since then and one note of interest so I'm very pleased :-)
Unfortunately note of interest people have flat to sell but it's still promising , got 2 viewers this weekend so fingers crossed.

leakyR · 06/07/2013 18:29

House on market two weeks and we'll have our 6th viewing on Monday. We've had some nice feedback but no real interest. It can be quite demoralising can't it?
Last time we moved it was a pretty big relocation for us and DH employers bought our old flat and paid fees and removals costs, making everything easy peasy. I feel a bit ill when I think of all the hassle and potential problems this time.

oopnorthmum · 09/07/2013 21:34

hi everyone, glad you are all doing well with your viewings! we have been on the market over 5 weeks now and not even 1 viewing! Not sure if everywhere else is selling well and just not here, or just in our town! Thought we might have had a noisy viewer by now at least. Bit disheartened now tbh Sad we think our house is lovely, nice cul de sac, spacious rooms etc.

SquinkiesRule · 11/07/2013 04:03

Paperwork done today, house is officially on the market. Pictures taken and the EA will email me a link to the listing n the morning. She was here for nearly two hours going over all the papers, and answering questions, then taking pictures and asking us questions. I had a bloody migraine by the time she left.
I felt so stressed for a couple of hours then made dinner and feel a bit better.
House round the corner went in two days, house one street over the same. So fingers crossed we get an offer and it's good enough to accept this weekend or soon.

SquinkiesRule · 11/07/2013 04:05

Thats strange oopnorth is it actually being marketed, or just a picture in their window. Can you look online to see what others have sold if they took a long time or something.

rubyrubyruby · 11/07/2013 08:18

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oopnorthmum · 11/07/2013 08:30

Hi, we are over the £250k mark which round here seems to be a problem. We did put it up for what 3 EA's suggested but nothing. We reduced to £10k and put OIRO, yesterday. So back in rightmove emails again. We are in a nice small estate of similar houses, popular with families. Thought we would have had some interest by now.
Good luck squinkies and ruby x

PastaBeeandCheese · 11/07/2013 08:38

How far over threshold are you oopnorth?

ghosteditor I'm so with you re beyond caring. 'tis boring now.

The second viewers who cancelled last week because she was ill have re booked for the weekend. Lucky me.... Get to do show home transformation again.

rubyrubyruby · 11/07/2013 08:53

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Jaynebxl · 11/07/2013 09:05

Ruby we had that problem and I think the companies are used to it. We had a couple of quotes, picked the company we wanted to go with and explained that it was all dragging on a bit and we didn't have a fixed date. Then when we finally reached the exchange date and everyone was arguing politely discussing completion dates I contacted the company to make sure they could do the proposed date before we agreed.

enjoyingscience · 11/07/2013 09:53

oopnorth that sounds quite disheartening. Hopefully the reduction will have an effect.

We've fallen in love with a house that I'm having to sit on my hands not to make an offer until we've had a second viewing and done it all properly! Head over heart. Hope everyone else is getting on ok.

FCEK · 11/07/2013 11:32

Newbie to this thread! Hope to have our house on the market end of the month. In the meantime getting it all tidied up, minor repairs etc.

I'm terrified it won't sell for ages as a few houses in this estate aren't selling. Granted ours is in the best spot and nicer looking inside Wink but still worried

There's a house coming up soon in my mums street which would be ideal in terms of knowing the neighbours etc but if I don't sell mine soon I'll miss out Hmm

Stressed already and it's not even marketed yet! I need to get away from these horrible neighbours I have at the moment.

oopnorthmum · 11/07/2013 11:48

Hi pasta,
We were valued at £279, which we went with, now £270. Would be happy to negotiate but not even a sniff yet!

oopnorthmum · 11/07/2013 11:51

Thanks enjoying.
We have our eye on a renovation project, but suspect at this rate it will have long gone Sad

monkeytennismum · 11/07/2013 13:18

Ruby I echo what Jayne says. I am in the middle of getting quotes now and have only a rough completion date. The two companies I've seen so far will let me book a provisional date now (at no cost), so that if someone else wants that date they will call me to check progress before giving it to someone else. As Jayne said, they are well used to this.

Good luck to all of you going through the viewings process atm. If it helps at all, both the parties who were seriously interested in our place waited until they had accepted an offer on theirs before going to see properties. We ended up doing the same too as I didn't want to find the right property and miss out on it. I think this can explain the slower market somewhat.

wonkylegs · 11/07/2013 16:24

Arghhhhh I hate this whole house buying / selling process. Why is buying our most expensive possession such a stupid and risky process?
We are still waiting for exchange despite it being promised a week ago, paperwork signed off ages ago by us & our buyer. Getting conflicting messages about the cause of the delay, each day saying it'll be tomorrow. It's getting close to the completion date which for various reasons would be difficult to move (for all parts of the chain) yet haven't got removals booked (although packing is on it's way) or anything else sorted as we haven't exchanged.
I actually feel physically sick with stress.
It had been going ok up to this point so I should have guessed there would be a problem.

Tau · 12/07/2013 10:14

Now, for a proper vent. House move - or rather lack of it, is starting to strain family relationships. No viewings at all this week!
The current problem is, that son will be going to college in September, and the college in the place we want to move to has different course content for his subjects, so it'd be bad to switch mid-course. So we do not want to move after college has started.
If we don't get an (sensible) offer REALLY quickly, we will take the house off the market by the end of August.
I don't mind so much; I'm quite happy staying here. For son it would be more practical to move to our planned new town, but he likes it here too, so he is neutral on the topic. But my partner gets really miserable about the idea of not moving, and I am getting a bit annoyed with him!Blush
His problem is that where we are (far southwest Cornwall) it isn't easy to get to any interesting events and facilities. That is true, and a tad inconvenient, but hardly the end of the world. Where we live now, most things are within 15 minutes walking distance (including shops, doctor, dentist, schools, hospital, recreational facilities, sea, rural walks...), but partner wants to attend big sports matches, gigs of certain bands, and Buddhist meetings/retreats, all of which are so far that attending them would require lots of travel and nights away from home. Mind you, he is in a Buddhist group here - they meet every week, and there are gigs - but not of the bands he liked when he was young! Sports matches admittedly are lacking a bit here. But he acts as if it's all a big disaster. In my opinion he is taking it totally out of perspective, and to be honest I find it hurtful. He ignores all the good and happy things we have, he ignores the fact that it was me who moved from my country to here to be with him, and it's as if he can only possibly live a proper life if he can get to his sports/gigs/buddhist stuff. Apparently I'm not one of the things that can make him happy. Sad

wonkylegs · 12/07/2013 15:37

Yay we have finally exchanged. So the final stretch is in sight.

doglover · 12/07/2013 16:43

WE HAVE EXCHANGED! MOVE NEXT FRIDAY! Smile

wonkylegs · 12/07/2013 17:34

Yay Doglover good news.
We move the beginning of the following week. Was starting to think exchange would never happen.
Removal is now booked, I am sitting in the sunshine with a beer feeling more relaxed than I have in weeks.

50shadesofmeh · 13/07/2013 06:44

So a girl came who loved my house and she told estate agent she wants second viewing once her partner is available to come but nothing further, won't hold my breath. Why can't people just be honest. feeling frustrated and scared my viewings will all dry up.

Got another viewer on Tuesday so crossing fingers for that one, we have fallen in love with 2 houses so hopefully one will be around when we sell.

PastaBeeandCheese · 13/07/2013 06:55

Yay for wonky and dog.

oopnorth that's such a difficult price bracket. Have you thought about offering a stamp duty incentive? Have you seen your Rightmove statistics so you can see how many people are looking at the house online?

Second viewing today..... Got to get up and do some cleaning 😣

underthemountain · 13/07/2013 10:15

no more viewings here-have an open viewing tomorrow afternoon so will be interesting to see if anyone turns up.

rosieposey · 13/07/2013 11:32

Hello, i posted on the last thread as i was getting ready to put on the market but i would really like some company in these next few weeks as i don't know where we are going to be living for about the next 4 weeks.

Put the house on and we got an offer from the 1st people that looked around which was great! - We have had three sale fall through in the last 2 years each time we tried to sell either the chain fell apart or our buyers couldnt get a mortgage so i gave up for a few months.

Anyway that was 4 weeks ago and their surveyor came around on Wednesday so hopefully its all going through their end.

Am on tenterhooks myself as DH has been contracting for the last 10 months and we can only find one mortgage provider that will look at him (its ironic as he earns more now than he used to) so we are going through the process of trying to secure our mortgage. They did say yes ( a sort of Agreement in Principle) but i just have a nagging feeling that they are going to say no or that we have too much on our credit cards ect ect - then we are buggered and will have to rent.

We have found a really nice place in Devon ( we are moving from Wiltshire) so i hope we are successful in getting our mortgage!

Buyer is coming back around this afternoon with his wife and kids to do some measuring, i know its pessimistic of me but i am just waiting for something to go wrong. It's also way too hot to do the amount of cleaning i just did this morning so it looks spotless again (not easy with 5 dc's - 3 teens, one 4 yo and a 7 month baby!)

I just Cant wait to exchange contracts and get it all done - our buyer is in rented and the place we are buying is the end of chain so nice and short ... gah just need some good luck now with our mortgage.

Ill read back across this thread to see where you all are in your buying process - good luck to you all, looking forwards to getting to know you a bit during this nailbiting time - i hate selling and buying houses, its rubbish!