How long have you sat on an offer giving no response?

[museumum]

How long have you thought about an offer giving no response? And can I ask what you were thinking about?

We put an offer on a house early in the week and no response. Nothing. Silence.
It wasn't our best offer, we could increase.
But if we don't hear soon we'll have to withdraw as our next option house is going to closed bids on Tuesday.

So when you last had an offer on your house you were selling, how long did you leave it before giving some kind of response?

Thanks.

Minutes/hours. Never days, but we are quite decisive and don't play games. Game playing is the worst thing about house buying and we have walked away from some lovely houses just because we couldn't be bothered with difficult people.

Have you chased the estate agent and told them that you will have to pull your offer if you don't hear anything? Give them a sense of urgency.

Will be doing that today fireside.
House has tenants in right now so maybe the owners are overseas (clutches at straws).
Tenants seem on board with the sale though as were in for the viewing.

Same as fireside

Our vendors spent over a week. We realised later that they hadn't expected to get offers so quickly (the day it went on the market) and needed to buy time as they were moving out of catchment & wanted to be in this house to apply for the local-to-this-house school. There were further unexplained delays during the whole process and it was only when we said we were going to pull out that they came clean. I wish they had told us from the start as it made no difference to us and we could have just had a long delay between exchange & completion.
A friend sat on an offer for about a week as, again, they hadn't expected to get an offer so quickly and the DH was expecting a job offer (hence the move) but it took longer than he'd expected to be told if he had the job. He did & it all then went really quickly.

I had a seller do this. He eventually came back and said that his wife had decided that they were no longer going to sell. :(

Have discovered the issue is two separate owners. I suspect divorced.
We've been promised a response today.

Was going to say divorce. When we bought our current home it took days to get a response, the whole negotistion took well over a week. The house was being sold due to an acrimonious divorce and it took lots of toing and froing between both parties. We got there in the end though!

We waited a few days because we had other viewings set up for a couple of day's time, but we were honest about this.