Anyone fancy starting a Sellers support thread?

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Just that really!

Hope it all works out for you Cat, your house sounds like a good buy.

How are we all?

A bit in limbo, thanks for asking. We are waiting to exchange and have put forward completion dates subject to the removal company.

The house we found has another offer so we have put our buying situation to the EA. The other offer will outline their ability to complete and the seller will then make a decision.

Hope e erroneous else is progressing well.

*everyone else. of course!

Hope the exchange happens soon, JT.

We had a second viewing on a house today and we think we're going to put an offer in. It was nicer and bigger than we remembered. There's no upper chain and our buyers completed today (they've moved in with family), so it could (at least theoretically) be done pretty quickly. One of DS2's friends from school lives in the house opposite it too.

I'm puzzled reading this thread as to why so many of you feel the need to vacate the house during viewings? Couldn't one of the adults sit with the kids in the kitchen or living room whilst the other shows the viewer around?

I really don't think that would be a good idea. DH and the kids being anywhere but in the house definitely made it easier to show people round. My experience of viewing other people's houses is that most people also think it best to keep their kids out of the way.

We did all our viewings,mainly dh as I didn't fancy randomn people wandering around when it was just me and DD. We just put DD in front of the TV. Not sure our estate agents even mentioned doing viewings.

Our EA didn't say anything about doing viewings either.

My DH is not allowed anywhere near our buyers (nor was he getting anywhere hear potential buyers). He'd only have put people off. It's bad enough having to take him to view houses ourselves. I have to tell him to stop being odd as it will put the sellers off.

Estate agents prefer vendors to do the viewings, they have a limited amount of slots for accompanied viewings and the majority of people want evenings and weekends, its tricky to fit them in. Probably why they didn't offer to do them.

Just had a friend message me to tell me my house is up on Facebook with a letting agent! We don't officially move out till monday

Hope you exchange ASAP JT.

Had feedback from Saturday's viewing today, I thought it had been a total disaster but they loved the house and would like to put an offer in BUT they haven't sold theirs yet, so back to square one. Sundays viewer seemed really positive, first time buyer, she had put an offer in on a house a few doors down but somebody got in before her. she loves the area, asked all the right questions, said we'd hear from her soon......never got back in touch. Last minute viewer this evening, hopefully it went ok. Estate agent was late again, so I had to show them around myself (OH took the kids to the drive thru for tea). So fed up already, the last 3 houses in our small road sold 2 in the first day, and one in the first week, so I think I had unrealistic expectations about how quickly we could sell.

With regards to having the kids in the house for viewings, I have 4 kids including 15month old twins and a son with special needs. It's constantly like feeding time at the zoo here. There is no way I would do a viewing with all of the kids present!

Pauline I wouldn't worry too much about having children around. We sold our last house to a couple who unexpectedly turned up when my DSs had a play date, mess and tea everywhere and one child refused to come out of the downstairs loo!

I think they bought because they saw the 'lovely family lifestyle!

My agent was supposed to do viewings but I had an offer from the first people who viewed, which was on a Sunday so I did it.

Whoever said why did we feel the need to vacate the house upthread - our agent said they would prefer we weren't here when they were showing people round.

We are moving next week, packers arriving on Monday along with a second surveyor on the house we are selling .... we still haven't signed a lease.

First time on this thread. We are selling our flat in south london and viewing houses now. Are place went on the market yesterday and we have an open day on Saturday. It's all very daunting!!

Good luck Mummyme87!

For those of you of mentioned leaving the house during viewings. We left the house for nearly all 75 of them. It was so stressful. However the 2 viewings that DH did resulted in 2 sensible offers so it does make you wonder if it is best to do them yourself. We even had a viewing on New Years Eve! (Fortunately they put in an offer).

We still haven't exchanged yet but have a provisional date of 2nd week of April. The searches are taking so long. Our buyers are really keen and visited and brought along their children and parents at the weekend.

I am finding the whole process of decluttering and getting ready to pack really daunting. We are trying to decide whether to pay for packers but this bit seems really expensive unless we just have fragile items packed for us.

Hope everything is positive for everyone else too.

New problems... apparantly tehy want the planning documents for the extension that was believed to have been built in the 1940s or 1950s!Sigh

New on here too. We are actually trying to sell my mother's house and buy a place together. We thought we had a buyer so put in an offer on a house we really like only to find the buyer didn't have enough money because of the stamp duty changes, similar problem with another potential buyer who keeps changing his mind, finally offering too little for us to to purchase the property we wanted.

Getting pushed by the vendors' agency to go dual agency/switch to them. Our EA says it isn't them it's the house, well they would say that wouldn't they?

However, we have had about 50 viewings in all, including about 10 in the last week since reducing the price, so the EA may have a point.

All three EAs said it was a good house that should sell easily.

Potential buyers seem to think it "needs a lot of work", new kitchen and bathroom chiefly.

Should we change estate agent, should we go dual?

Not exchanged yet, but all agreed on exchange date April 5th. Major de cluttering. We are going into storage, so are having the packing service. But don't want to pay for storing rubbish.

Marestail our EA was over optimistic on the selling price. We dropped it to what we though was more realistic and got and got the offer.

Good luck mummyme. I hope the open day goes well.

Lists: it sounds like they've got a proper jobsworth solicitor (presumably that's a fairly desirable quality in a solicitor, except when they want you to magic up documents from 70 years ago).

Marestail: it's a hard one. The thing about being on with 2 agents, rather than one agent, is that buyers might see that as a sign of utter desperation or think there must be a problem with the house rather than just wanting to get on with it. My experience of looking at houses is that being on with two agents just means your house comes up twice on rightmove, but that doesn't make me more likely to want to view it.

There are also some slightly annoying situations where the house is listed as sold stc with one agent but still advertised with another.

I'm sorry I've not posted on here for ages but I need to vent. I am so stressed! Ours is up for overs over 130k and has been since October. We've had an offer today for 12k that they won't budge on. We have seen a house we love and have offered but I only want to accept our potential buyers offer if our potential
House accept our offer iykwim.

This is so stressful. I absolutely hate it.

That does sound stressful. Would you still be able to afford to move even if the seller won't accept your offer and your buyer won't come up?

We've discussed and I think we can. It'll mean a bit of a stretch but not massively, just more than we had planned. We love the house so have fingers firmly crossed!

Good luck!

Stepaway... I think you are right, dual agency is not the way to go you have summed up my hunches. A couple of revisits to the house today so will see how these went. JT05 we have reduced the price, but you would think EAs would know appropriate prices. That said another EA said we weren't getting the price we should but maybe just a ploy for us to get on their books. Aaaaahhh