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Buyers support thread - stressed? Worried? Stuck in a chain? Gazumped? Well come and join us here

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Bakingnovice · 25/06/2013 12:31

I can't see if there is already a thread like this so here goes..

We finally upped our offer enough for it to be accepted on our dream house. It's been stressful so far and this is just the beginning. We have had so many let downs: vendor changing mind, vendor getting higher offer etc and we hope this sale goes through smoothly. We've been looking for years. Come and join me if you're buying and equally stressed....

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Bakingnovice · 15/08/2013 22:43

Misty I'm still here too! Still waiting for it all to come together. Reading this thread is the stuff of nightmares!

Clara - press your solicitor daily to get to the bottom of it all.

Turnip good luck with your viewings.

Bumble we were in the same position. Now letting our house to release equity and buy our new house.

50 thank god the consents are ok!

Toomuch - you poor thing. Hope your insurance covers the damage.

As for me, well still here. Not due to complete for a few months. I noticed one of our neighbours has started a business doing removals as he had a big van with logo on the front. I asked him for a quote and he said £150! I came home laughing. Surely he must be crap if that's what he's charging, but dh wants to snap his hand off. We also got a letting agent in to help us find a tenant. She basically told us a lot of tenants these days trash properties then gave a long list of jobs we need to sort per letting. The whole thing is a nightmare. And I seemed to have fallen madly back in love with my current house which is not good. I sometimes wonder why the hell we are putting ourselves through this.

Chin up buyers!!

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Turnipinatutu · 15/08/2013 22:52

Bumble - Is there anything you can do to make it look bigger?
Pale colours, decluttering, even move furniture?

We have a 'too small' bedroom and move as much out of it as we can for viewings. The car is stuffed full.
The trouble is our whole house is too small, which why we want to move!

Turnipinatutu · 15/08/2013 22:56

Baking, are you planning on letting longterm or selling it eventually?

AuraofDora · 15/08/2013 23:16

Is there room for one more? This seems to be the right thread for me.

Sorry to read of all the house buying pain here, it's uber stressful but am trying to maintain a distance and claim we will laugh about this, in approx 20 years time..

Everything going well, so we thought, ready to exchange on our sale but now find out woman who's house we thought we were buying has 'problems' and no paperwork has been filed with our solicitor and the estate agent will not approach her for straight answers

We are now scrambling around trying to find a new place before our buyers get fed up, as it looks like we have to accept that for whatever reason this house is not on the market any more. Wondering if estate agent or vendor wants more money for it as prices seem to have gone up since our offer was accepted.

So back to dealing with those underage pimply estate agents who were born not to listen nor give a monkeys that they are talking about huge amounts of money and trailing round damp properties being polite

hells bells

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5amisnotmorning · 16/08/2013 11:06

Another newbie! Our house went on the market last week, sold at over asking by Monday.

The house we want to buy is in a different area and a complete renovation project. It has been a long term family home and the old guy is now realising that it is too big for just him.

They have had 20 viewings and no offers until us at 5% below asking price with a no chain buyer on our side. They have rejected it as they were hoping for a bidding war to get over asking price! They have now taken it off the websites to relaunch in September.

We are just about to go in at £10k more with a deadline of Monday and will walk away if it's not accepted. The problem is that we have been looking for a year but the house makes me nervous as it needs sooo much spending on it and gutting, I am pregnant and due in Feb and planning on giving up work after next maternity leave so whilst we could just about afford the renovations, we will be skint! Not sure if I will be happy if they accept of breathe a sigh of relief if they don't!

5amisnotmorning · 16/08/2013 14:21

Well offer of £715k on an asking price of £750k rejected with no other offers on the table. Estate agent thinks he's bonkers but the guy is holding out for asking price. Back to trawling Rightmove!

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Bakingnovice · 16/08/2013 16:08

5am - I feel your pain. We had to offer virtually asking price to get our house. It has been on 6 months with no offers. It is a big fat lie that we are in a buyers market. Also, baby boomers tend to have the best family houses but don't want to sell them for less than asking price. Grrrrr

Turnip - any news on your viewings? Yes we do plan on selling our house as soon as our 2 yr fixed mortgage period ends. A sale would leave us mortgage free again but the next two years, or further until sale, are going to be v tight for us.

I have been comfort eating. I run but in the last month have gained 5 lbs and I'm sure it's the bloody stress. Lunch today was 1000 calories worth of sweet popcorn. Hoping I still fit through the door of our new house when we complete.

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Turnipinatutu · 16/08/2013 17:22

Hello 5am, you're right to walk away. It is a pain when you want the house though.

Baking, when are you hoping to complete? Hope the doors don't need widening Grin

Feedback on our viewings so far.....
Yesterday's apparently loved the house, but put herself off by sitting in the back of the house and listening really hard for traffic Hmm
Think the EA thought she was bonkers.

Today's apparently liked it, so we'll see if that comes to anything.
One more viewing tomorrow morning.....

Meanwhile the house we want is still on the market and their new photos have increased their Zoopla views from under 100 to 150!! (Sob sob)
Just hope all the work that needs doing will put people off offering on it.

Turnipinatutu · 17/08/2013 16:15

We've had an asking price offer!!! Shock Grin Shock

We now plan to go back to the dream house on Monday and ask if they'll reconsider our offer........Oh God, I feel sick.... Wine Wine Wine

Misty9 · 17/08/2013 16:46

Yey turnip that's brilliant! Good luck :)

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Bakingnovice · 17/08/2013 20:04

Well done turnip! Didn't I say this would happen?!! Yippee.

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Turnipinatutu · 17/08/2013 21:12

Thanks Baking & Misty.
I'm so chuffed. All the scrubbing and polishing I've done over the last week is not normal!
Everything now rests on the house we want. We've found nothing else close, so the pressure is on. I probably won't sleep over weekend for mulling it over! Keeping everything crossed!

WorrisomeHeart · 17/08/2013 21:29

Room for another one? We've just accepted asking price on our flat which is great. Had an offer rejected on one house but EA has let us know about one that's due to come on the market soon in the same road. Apparently it's being sold by an asset management co and solicitor - I think the owner has gone into a home. We've stalked the outside and it looks perfect but the EA obv can't show us the inside until forms are signed. We're planning to offer asking price if we can get them to agree not to market it at all but I don't know if the fact that its a company and not an individual vendor means they'll just want to grab the money and run. Anyone have any similar experiences?

Turnipinatutu · 17/08/2013 23:37

Hello Worrisome, it sounds like we're now in a similar position. Fingers crossed here for you too!

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Bakingnovice · 18/08/2013 18:25

Worrisome welcome to the thread. From what I know the company may have protocols involved which mean they have to market and try to achieve best offer. Hope they don't market it for your sake and it all goes smoothly.

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WorrisomeHeart · 18/08/2013 18:35

Thanks folks. Bakingnovice, yes I have a feeling you're right. The EA mentioned a 30 day marketing requirement but seemed to suggest it was for repossessions which this isn't. I guess we'll see, I'm just desperate to get inside!!

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Bakingnovice · 19/08/2013 09:12

Good luck today turnip and anyone else who is offering/exchanging/ completing/ waiting on news.

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claracluck71 · 19/08/2013 10:46

and so starts another week...

Good luck everyone!

Turnipinatutu · 19/08/2013 11:43

Thanks Baking, I've done the deed. Now the waiting begins...Confused

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HearMyRoar · 19/08/2013 16:29

Hello, can I sort of hang out on your thread for a moment. We haven't even decided to put an offer on a place and I am already in a state. If we go ahead I will be a wreck within the week, and I'm a first time buyer so not even got to sell anything.

I suspect it may be a buyers market if you are stupidly rich but sadly we are really not and even more unfortunatly live in a very, very expensive area so finding anything even remotly suitable in our budget is really very hard.

We have just viewed a flat which is pretty much perfect in every way. In fact it is even better then I ever thought we could afford. Ticks all my boxes, even some I had dismissed as fanciful. So what's the catch? It's over a fish and chip shop! Sob!

It's not fair. I love it but just don't know if I can live with the noise of the extractor fans and stink of fish and chips out the back. Not to mention the noise of annoying people buying take away in the evening. Off course there is not a hope in hell we could afford anything like it if there wasn't a major catch so if we say no we will be looking at buying something significantly smaller or further away from town and work.

There are already 2 offers on the table and a lot of interest so I don't think we can hang about thinking about it too long. DP is remaining annoyingly sensible about it all while I am bouncing about in a state of conflict and turmoil. Hmm

FCEK · 19/08/2013 16:40

It might not always be a fish n chip shop though?

enjoyingscience · 19/08/2013 17:00

can you go and camp outside it over the next few days at various times of day? If there's a massive noisy queue at pub kicking out time, that's a problem, if it's all quiet after 7:30, maybe not so much?

You'd also get to eat a lot of fish and chips. Yum.

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