Anyone fancy starting a Sellers support thread?

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Just that really!

Dream ,were in the same boat. Went on the market in June, twelve viewings. Accepted an offer three weeks ago now and just waiting for the second survey and hopefully it will be all go.
Fingers crossed for both of us!

We have exchanged today!
Moving day Friday. Managed to book removals last minute. Paying for them to pack most of our stuff as well as we have run out of time.. neither dh nor I can get any extra time off work.
Never want to do this again!!

Hope it all goes ok Fri Paddington!

I put the family home on the market on Monday and have a viewing on Friday. So much cleaning and fresh flowers everywhere!!

Well done Paddington. I hope it all goes well for you on Friday.

Today our buyers said they want a price reduction before exchange!! They've already had a huge reduction at offer.

Making them sweat overnight, but the answer's NO!

I'm really annoyed. So it might be back on the market for the spring rush!

Thanks :)
JT05 let's hope your buyers are just trying it on, and when you've said no they go ahead anyway.

Just catching up with everyone's progress , lots going on, well done to the exchangers!

We are away, house hunting. We had convinced ourselves that we wanted to live in Harrogate and spent yesterday looking at houses. I think we all feel it is too big of a change for us despite being able to walk to good schools and do away with one of the cars.

So, we saw a lovely house a mile down a track today, much like the place we are selling, offered the asking price but someone else made an offer yesterday so we are waiting to hear back.

Sick of looking already to be honest, one more viewing arranged for Friday and another one to drive by tomorrow to see if we like it enough to view but we really need to progress something by the end of this week when we drive home, nothing like a bit of pressure, and we are only renting! The number of rental properties available is shocking, about 12 max within a 20 mile radius.

We've just put ours on the market. The photographer is coming round this afternoon, so I've been furiously cleaning everything.

We have our first viewing on Saturday. I'm really hoping to sell quickly because the whole facilitating viewings process is so much work!

DH is being a nightmare. He promised he'd do all the negotiating stuff with the EA (because I have to do all the bloody viewings etc) but, as usual, he's only take done it and is now bugging me about things. He was supposed to agree a price he is happy with with the EA and then I just had to sign the paperwork, but he didn't agree a price and I was left trying to discuss it with the EA with him phoning repeatedly from a train with dodgy reception to interfere. Now he's not sure whether the price he agreed to is too high. Sigh.

The thing is, he is just so negative about this house (for reasons that are to do with his poor mental health rather than the house - I won't bore you with the details) so he won't accept that it is a really nice house in a lovely area. He imagines that it's worth about £50k less than it probably is, and seems to think that the fact that a few smaller houses on our street have recently sold for more than we're asking is utterly meaningless.

There's a similar house to ours at the other end of the street currently on the market for £55k more than we're asking. They are being genuinely crazy though, and their house is much more dated than ours (there's a swirly carpet in one of the reception rooms). But DH keeps going on and on at me about whether we should have put it on for less. It's exhausting.

Potential buyer sent round his man to look at the damp, came with an electrician who took a light switch off the wall to look and also his letting agent!
Buyer was on the phone asking questions, now waiting for the electricians report. Uncrossing fingers, don't think this is guys going to buy.

JT05, hope they're just stalling and pay what you're asking.

Step, ours was well overpriced,we've dropped it twice. You can always reduce if you get little interest. Hope you get what it's worth.

That sounds like a lot of faff to put someone through to not buy the bloody house.

Well prices on our street seem to have gone up loads in the last year. The asking price as it is at the moment is less than what the EA originally wanted to put it on for, and is (I think) of the order that should attract offers of what we're looking for. People tend to like offering less and feeling they negotiated money off, and we're not asking anything completely ludicrous. A 3 bed sold for more than we're asking about 10 months ago (we've got a 4 bed). Two 3 bed houses in the next street just went for just under what we're asking, and all the other 4 beds locally are asking for 30-55k more than us. So I don't think we're being silly or greedy.

The EA insists that they can get the asking price. I'm more skeptical. We'd be happy with offers 10% under it, but prices have gone up here. There's also a local issue with schools at the moment. The schools round here are very sought after. And we live in an odd little pocket of multiple school choice (you can actually pick from several options and definitely get in because they're all really close). I think this is what's driving the prices up, as the rest of the local area is increasingly touch and go for schools places. And there aren't loads of properties that come up here either. People tend to buy and stay for many years.

We'll see though.

My house is ridiculously clean and tidy. It's very odd.

Thanks Row. Well we said no to dropping the price, they said they'd think about it??
Surely they knew what their response would be before asking the question?

Solicitor sent e mail all set to exchange, on our side. Who knows! But we've now psyched ourselves up to going back on the market and getting a better offer. Prices have gone up and there is little on the market for our style and size of house.

Shall I let it drive me to drink?

It sounds very much like they're playing games. How annoying.

step my OH is negative about this house too (long story) so he was really pushing for us to hurry the sale through which may have led to some pressure on me.

Anyway! Our buyers pulled out today! They were kind of half pushed by me/solicitors/agents because he had been pushing for a sale by the end of March, but had a mega survey done which he wouldn't show anyone (i spoke to the surveyor who said nothing should be a problem), was asking me to do all kinds of crazy shit like have all the drains inspected in case there was an issue, get building regs for work which was done between 20 and 30 years ago as well as asking for about 4k off the price he offered.

I answered the questions really quickly (within minutes of getting the letter). He took a week to respond that he wasn't happy and asked the same questions. Adding that I should respond quickly because he wanted to complete quickly. I responded quickly to my solicitor who drafted the most awesome snarky response basically saying take it or leave it.

His solicitors replied to say that it was a pity since they'd offered 10k over the guide price (it was on offers over, I had 3 offers all close to his range but we assumed a cash buyer would be simpler). My agent got fed up, rang him and eventually called him a time waster and (with my approval) sacked him off. I feel like such a weight has been lifted! I was dreading moving twice (into rented/MIL then to new house).

Downside is, cleaning again, another open day on Sunday (with me doing the viewings) and my vendors have found somewhere with no chain and have had an offer accepted. Bollocks.

Sorry that your in this situation Clock. I think your buyers must be related to ours!
I can't sleep, turning it all over in my head. I think we will also feel relieved if our buyers pull out tomorrow. We are losing all confidence in ever getting to a completed sale with them.

There always someone else out there!

He sounds like a nightmare clock! I hope the open day goes well on Saturday.

Clock/JT05- what a pain- why do people muck about like this?

Paddington- good luck with your move today!

At what point do people start sorting out things ready for the house move (eg packing/getting rid of stuff)? Do you wait until you have exchanged or start before? We have a proposed moving date for 2nd week of April and our buyers want to move quickly but I am so worried it will all fall through as it has taken so long to find a serious buyer. We have 2 months to get packed and there is no chain either side of our house. I don't want to tempt fate but don't want to wait until the last minute.

I'd definitely start sorting and chucking now. No point moving rubbish you don't need. Are you having packers or doing it yourself?

I'd start clearing as soon as possible. We have 27 yrs of stuff! So we have cleared the serious rubbish!

The problem is, if your downsizing, when do you get rid of the things you might need up to the point of leaving, such as unwanted furniture or white goods! Also WHO keeps hiding the roll of bin bags!

Still don't know if our sale is going through - expect to hear any moment!

I've cleared most of our extraneous stuff out just to put the house on the market. Both DH and I are kind of merciless declutters anyway (we always end up erring on the side of chucking stuff, even though it means we end up buying some thing again later because it turned out we did need them). We hadn't been here 27 years though...

We have 3 viewings booked in for tomorrow and one for the 27th and we don't actually have a brochure yet (nor are we on rightmove, because we're waiting to see the photos etc so we can approve them). I think the agents are suggesting that everyone who phones up about the other house on the street (that just went on rightmove this afternoon) come and see ours too. So I guess it's a bonus having competition in the street (who're on with the same agent).

I think the other house must be a probate sale. It's empty, and was clearly the home of someone elderly. It is a bit of a fixer upper, so I'm hoping the people who've phoned to see it weren't looking for a project.

I had first viewing today..an older couple who want to convert downstairs into a living space for their disabled son. So there was a lot of knocking on walls and sucking through teeth.

Buyers are "thinking " about our refusal to budge on the price! At this late stage!?! They will give their answer on Monday!! ( how kind )

If we don't hear from them, we're going back on the market and they can whistle!

JT05, thinking about it?! What is there to think about?

Our guy got back, wanted to knock a grand and a half off as he would have to do the dampcourse. He's already had four off! Suggested meeting half way, he's gone for a grand off. As a result our big shed is moving with us,he's not having that! Paperwork goes to solicitor on Monday. He's still in distant he will be in for March 11 th. We'll see.

Paddington, hope the move went OK.

Step, good luck with the viewings.

Row yeh, take your shed. It's all really cheeky expecting money off after a discount at offer.

We accepted our lowest limit offer from our buyers as they had no chain, renters and are well paid professionals with the money in place. It was £1000s off.

If they haven't agreed to proceed as things are, by Monday pm we are back on the market. Enjoying the knowledge that they have lost money on surveys and solicitors! Also we had a look at the survey and will put the little things mentioned right before the next one! Hee, hee.

Hello, can I join? My house was put on the market today. The agency made such lovely photos that I want to buy my house myself! Therefore I have started to doubt whether my reasons to move are sufficient. Basically, I want to move back to my old area which I left a year ago because our life has remained there (school, church, afterschool clubs) and will be there until DC1 will reach secondary and that is 3 years away. I thought I can do it and it is worth for the brilliant secondary school here, but DC have very inconvenient journey to school (2 miles walk in the mornings) and it all feels not worth for the next 3 years.

(another option would be to change the school to nearer but the school is tightly knit to church and scouts and all the lovely community and I do not want to lose it)

Perhaps I have a cold feet but I almost wish my house does not sell. It will have an open day next week and if I have offers it better be quick before I lose my courage further.

I bet he'll regret the loss of the shed.

If he wants to be in by 11th March then he needs to stop dragging his feet and making things more difficult, surely.