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Anyone fancy starting a Sellers support thread?

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Sooperswooper · 21/07/2015 17:30

Just that really! Grin

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JT05 · 24/02/2016 18:12

Unfortunately, there are always people who will try it on! Hang on for what you want/ need.

Savagebeauty · 24/02/2016 18:19

Indeed! I'm in no hurry to move and gave no chain. So they can go away and come back with a sensible offer

StepAwayFromTheThesaurus · 24/02/2016 18:33

£150k under asking price! Shock

I can't imagine thinking anyone would accept that. Unless your house is on for tens of millions, of course.

We have a viewing booked for tomorrow and 3 on Saturday. One of the Saturday ones really wanted to come round tomorrow in the middle of thr dinner, homework and bedtime period, which I just can't accommodate, especially as I'm going out so DH would be on his own with the kids trying to do a viewing (I'm going out). DH is not allowed to interact with prospective buyers at all because he will just put them off. Hopefully some of them will want to buy the place.

Savagebeauty · 24/02/2016 19:00

It is on for more than a million.
But London, so Monopoly money.

StepAwayFromTheThesaurus · 24/02/2016 19:56

Still, it would have to be many millions of asking price before £150k looked like a minor reduction.

Bearbehind · 24/02/2016 20:06

Not really, £150k off sounds a lot but if the house is over £1m then it's comparable with £15k off a £100k house.

StepAwayFromTheThesaurus · 24/02/2016 21:38

But psychologically it would need to be much more expensive before £150k didn't sound like loads. Even if it's only 10%, it won't feel that way to either party.

Savagebeauty · 24/02/2016 22:18

Well they aren't having it at that price Grin
I'm not in a hurry to sell

Clockstooticky · 25/02/2016 13:01

So I left the estate agent of the people we're buying from know that our buyer pulled out but we've got a new one. They seemed ok about it. They have a special person who's in charge of moving things along but I've heard nowt from her so god knows what's going on.

Instructed a surveyor today as well! Gulp. It feels a bit more exciting now.

StepAwayFromTheThesaurus · 25/02/2016 16:19

I hope everything goes smoothly from this point onwards.

We've got 10 viewings this week. I did one this morning, there's another one tomorrow, 6 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. Hopefully (at least) one of them will want to buy the place. I'm already very bored of doing viewings (and particularly cleaning zealously before them).

sunshinemeg · 25/02/2016 18:45

Can I join the thread?
We decided to sell back in October. We found a house we loved but they would only consider our offer if we were proceedable. So managed to get our house ready, marketed and sold in a week. Only to have the house we want refuse to sell as they were waiting for a family friend to buy it. Our buyers were happy to wait so continued to hunt. Found several but nothing came together until the last week of January. Found the perfect house, offer accepted. Then a week later our buyers try to make us drop price significantly but we can't so they pull out. Our sellers have us a week to restore the chain. We manage it in 2 days! 2 days ago we were told the lady our sellers are buying from has changed her mind about selling. So we are now waiting for our sellers to find another house. I've not told our buyers yet, I'm hoping to give our sellers a bit of time before risking our sale. But this whole process is just utterly hideous!

Clockstooticky · 25/02/2016 19:10

Oh sunshine! That sounds bloody hideous! Yikes. What a nightmare. Why are people so flakey? Our system is just so awful.

Do we think it would be weird if I asked my vendor to make curtains for us? She does it as her job and the ones she has up are beautifully made (by her) but in some rooms, not to our taste... (mostly just DS future bedroom). It would be super convenient, but would it be odd?

sunshinemeg · 25/02/2016 19:21

Clocks it's a nightmare! Made worse that we are going to incorporate a granny annexe and it's horrible watching my DM get her hips dashed each time, so she doesn't know the latest development.

Curtains - it's work. I'd ask!!

JT05 · 25/02/2016 19:40

Sunshine hold on in there. Buying and selling is torturous. Remember the mantra ' trust no one!'

Maybe the sellers would consider renting?

sunshinemeg · 25/02/2016 20:23

We asked that but no. We have said we will wait so it's on hold till they find somewhere else. I'm just hoping it won't be a long wait.

StepAwayFromTheThesaurus · 26/02/2016 10:19

That sounds very difficult, sunshine.

It's sad that the sellers who gave you a week to re-establish the chain when your buyers dropped out, can't see that they also have a responsibility to keep the chain intact when it falls apart on their end.

lavendersun · 26/02/2016 11:39

That sounds horrid sunshine Sad. We are going to rent just because I can't face the sort of thing that has happened to you!

Got my first removal quote yesterday .... £3k, gulp, about £1k more than I thought. Apparently we need 3200 cubic feet of space - sounds a lot, I am sure they are over egging it.

Someone else is coming round at the beginning of next week but I need to instruct and pay our deposit on Wednesday.

If I put the size of house into an online calculator (added one bedroom and one reception room for good measure) and the distance I get £1500, although that won't include packing.

Did you get anything back from your quotes JT?

JT05 · 26/02/2016 13:09

Yes, just had one back from a long established local company. It was £ 600 to move to storage (including packing ), £57 a wheek to store and £400 approx to take to new home ( not found yet, but location will be 7 miles up the road)

That was for contents of 4 bed det. house. In a large Midland city.

Still waiting for exchange date. Allowing ourselves to look at the downsizing houses. It's hard to see yourself with less space!

sunshinemeg · 26/02/2016 13:40

Definitely shop around for removals. Our quotes varied a great deal. One company even said we would have to get insurance for while goods were in transit! Also check they won't be trying to do more than one property a day. I hope you find a more reasonable price.

lavendersun · 26/02/2016 13:51

Anyone I know who has moved locally has said that the company who gave our first quote was really reasonable. They told me £1800 ish on the phone.

Mind you £600 of the price was VAT and transit insurance. I suppose they must all do that sunshine, maybe some just itemise it.

The people coming round next week only have stately home type removal photos on their web page Shock, doesn't exactly fill me with confidence about their potential price.

Timescales are a problem, it has all happened fairly quickly and we only have two days when we can physically do it (as in DH is actually here).

Four bed house with two small barns full of 'stuff' travelling 170 miles with a packing, but not unpacking, service.

£3k just seems a lot especially as I haven't sold my house yet.

listsandbudgets · 26/02/2016 15:57

Shop around.

We paid £520 - that was from a 3 bed with 2 reception rooms. We did only move 5 minutes down the road though. It didn't include any packing but did include them taking apart 3 beds and putting them back together again. Look for smaller firms in your area as they will probably charge less. The big firms that advertise seem to charge a lot more.

Our buyers surveyor came a week ago but we've heard nothing yet. I'm holding my breath for a barrage of queries next week.

JT05 · 26/02/2016 16:54

Contracts are ready for signing! Buyer solicitor send everything by post! (Snail attached) He is recommending a pre exchange visit! She's only been round 8 times already and has booked another post exchange.

Shall I make her up a bed?

lavendersun · 26/02/2016 17:28

We signed ours on Monday JT, no nearer to exchanging though.

Got, she sounds high maintenance, amazing what you have to put up with when selling a house/

Confirmed that there are only two players in my removals game due to short timescale for both quotes and moving - oh well, as someone annoyingly says to me "it is what it is"!

lavendersun · 26/02/2016 17:29

God, not Got.

StepAwayFromTheThesaurus · 26/02/2016 17:38

Sorry the moving quotations are a bit on the steep side. At least you're moving. Smile

Good news on the contracts JT, even if delivered by actual snails.