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Gazundered and worried!

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Louise866 · 08/04/2017 22:09

We sold our house in early February to the first person who viewed it - she offered 10k under the asking price and we rejected because it had only been on the market 4 days and we had more viewings booked. She upped her offer to asking price the next day and we accepted. She then came round for another viewing and we were very accommodating - let her spend about 40 minutes looking round, didn't follow her around, made her a cup of tea even! All seemed to be fine until about 6 weeks later we were getting close to exchange and we get a call from the EA saying she's dropped her offer by 10k and if we don't accept she's pulling out! Of course by now we're invested in buying a house we love, which she knows. We were absolutely furious as there was no basis for the price drop, no survey issues etc, just because she felt like it. Anyway purely out of not wanting to lose the house we're buying we agreed to drop by 5k, but not 10. She agreed to this. Then she asked (via her solicitor) us to pay for a boiler service. We said no, because it's a 3 year old boiler and we've just dropped the price by 5k! She persisted with this for about 3 weeks before giving in and saying she'll pay for it and is sending a plumber round. Her solicitor has also pestered a lot about us taking out various indemnity policies for silly reasons (not anything like unauthorised extensions etc!) and the buyer has kept threatening to pull out if we didn't bow down to her demands. We've stood firm and she's given in on them. However we're due to exchange next week and she's insisting on coming back for another visit. I initially said no because she had a lengthy second viewing only in Feb and she's messed us about and blackmailed us into giving her 5k off! However of course she's said she'll pull out if we don't let her so I've agreed to a quick visit this week as long as exchange takes place soon after. I'm pissed off that I have to clean and tidy the whole house now and worried that she's not really sure she's going to go through with it or try get more money off.... apparently her solicitor has advised she must be allowed to come round again before exchange to check we haven't done anything to the house?! I've never heard of this and we're not going to view the one we're buying again. I don't really know how she's got the cheek to insist after her gazundering stunt or why she would want to see me after that?! She knows we are not at all happy about the whole situation.

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SparkleSoiree · 11/04/2017 14:01

OP when do you expect to exchange? Is there a date set for that?

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Louise866 · 11/04/2017 21:50

SparkleSoiree I was told earlier today that it might happen this afternoon but I didn't hear anything so I'm assuming it hasn't happened, so I'm hoping tomorrow! I won't be able to relax until it's done, I've been on edge about the whole thing ever since she pulled her price-drop stunt a month ago. It's so stressful not knowing if you're moving or not... I just wouldn't put it past her to try again and I don't know whether my 'chat' with her today will have helped or made it worse! 🙈

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3luckystars · 11/04/2017 22:04

What a funny idea! Imagine writing something in the garden with daffodils. Just a few letters, keep it short.

RandomMess · 11/04/2017 22:11

Cress seeds on damp carpet trick in the spare room "C*nt" should do it!

SparkleSoiree · 12/04/2017 14:11

OP, hoping for news today that you've exchanged....

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Louise866 · 12/04/2017 15:51

Not as yet SparkleSoiree 🙄 Although I'm told it's a delay with someone else in the chain (there's 6 of us) rather than my buyer but no idea what's actually going on... it's so nerve wracking 😬

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TreeTop7 · 12/04/2017 18:33

Hope you exchange tomorrow OP. Would be nice to enter the long weekend with it sorted.

Loving the daffodil idea - ha!

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Louise866 · 12/04/2017 18:42

Just spoken to my solicitor and basically we haven't exchanged because our buyers solicitor has been completely blanking mine all day. I don't even know what to say 😞

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user1484830599 · 12/04/2017 18:44

I'd say (to your EA) put it back on the market. Simple. You've been reasonable and she's proven time and time again that she cannot be trusted. You just know that she is going to pull another stunt.

She's monumentally taking the mick now O/P

LemonBreeland · 12/04/2017 18:45

Oh what a nightmare OP. I hope it all goes ahead.

EineKleine · 12/04/2017 18:46

Ugh, how frustrating. Give you time to buy those daffodil bulbs Wink

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Louise866 · 12/04/2017 19:22

EineKleine 😂😂 indeed! We set her a deadline to exchange of tomorrow afternoon (but everything is ready today so it should have gone ahead today) so tbh I think she's just taken her bat and ball home that I didn't accept her fake apology and roll over, so she's pushing it to the limit to make us sweat. She's a pathetic human being. That's best case scenario anyway at the moment. I'm going to ring the EA at 9 in the morning and tell them to let her know if I haven't heard from my solicitor by midday to say exchange is taking place then it'll be straight back on rightmove and we won't sell to her.

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JT05 · 12/04/2017 19:27

Flowers Wine l feel your pain. Hope it all ends well.

goldenlilliesdaffodillies · 12/04/2017 19:57

Sounds a nightmare! We moved house recently and the whole process is just awful. We had a lady who came 3 times and pulled out which was annoying. However she was a newly divorced lady and a very nervous buyer and stressed by the whole process.

Our actual buyers viewed 3 times. They also asked for a boiler service (also a newish boiler) and also for the fireplaces and chimneys to be swept and have safety certificates (even though we had just put a brand new wood burner in). For the sake of a couple hundred pounds we paid for these as didn't want to loose our new house. It was worth it to keep the sale moving and to get our 'dream house'.

On the other hand our solicitors insisted we went for a 3rd viewing at the house we were trying to buy. We hadn't see the house we were buying for several months and a tenant was there. Thank goodness we listened to the solicitor! We turned up with the estate agent who was also the rental agent. He clearly hadn't checked on the tenant at all. The tenant had caused masses amounts of damage inside and outside the house. It was really shocking and very upsetting! We still bought the property but were able to insist that the owners put everything right before we completed.

Good luck- hope everything works out.

scaryteacher · 12/04/2017 21:04

OP, not just back on the market, but if she still wants it the price has gone up by £5k.

user1484830599 · 12/04/2017 21:48

@scaryteacher I love your suggestion, do this O/P!

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Louise866 · 12/04/2017 22:24

Goldenlillies that's awful and I can understand why people sometimes feel the need to view again before exchange but it's just in this scenario it seems suspicious and to be honest downright cheeky after the gazundering stunt. As it happens the estate agent said she didn't even go upstairs while she was here, spent 25 minutes hanging round the kitchen.... plain odd.

Scaryteacher haha definitely doing this if it comes to it!

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JennyHolzersGhost · 12/04/2017 22:33

Do you actually need to move ? For job or other deadline I mean. If not I would be very much inclined to call the whole thing off.

user1484830599 · 12/04/2017 22:39

Agreed O/P, she's definitely up to something. Fingers crossed for exchange tomorrow

Mummytobe11 · 12/04/2017 22:52

Fingers crossed for you, when selling a family house we had buyers mess around with unnecessary checks etc and then gave the cheek to ask for £1K off for the delays!

Polly2345 · 12/04/2017 22:57

We were recently gazundered. We offered to drop a v small amount rather than the full amount she asked for (she had some, largely spurious, reasons she gave for gazundering - one of which half made sense so we offered to go halves on that). When she didn't accept that we put it back on the market and were willing to do so even if we lost our new house. We couldn't accept her new offer and afford our new house anyway. In the end the sale went ahead because our seller was desperate to sell (he'd gotten to the day of exchange twice with a previous buyer and then had it fall through) and he dropped his asking price so that we could drop ours - so essentially he took the hit instead of us.

Needless to say we did virtually no cleaning before we moved out and I cancelled my plans to spend time making her a folder of useful info about the house. As we were moving things on moving day we spilt printer ink all over the bedroom carpet. We also took absolutely everything we hadn't listed in the Fittings and Fixtures form, even if we didn't need it. Things we had planned to leave ended up coming with us - some went to the charity shop, some in the bin. She lost all our goodwill.

During her second visit I became aware her relative runs a company my employer has used in the past to do work for us. Her solicitor advised is it was probably her relatives telling her to gazunder us. We won't be using that company again!

Polly2345 · 12/04/2017 23:05

Oops - just realised I accidentally deleted part of that message before posting it! What I originally wrote was that we spilt the ink by accident - we didn't deliberately damage anything, we just didn't put any effort into cleaning. If she hadn't gazundered us I would have been mortified and offered her cash to clean or replace the carpet. As it was we cleaned it as best we could - my husband spent about an hour with some vanish spray and it got most of it out. Then we left it without explanation. My point was, we would have totally fessed up and paid to have it cleaned if she hadn't been so horrible. I don't think gazundering pays in the end.

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Louise866 · 12/04/2017 23:18

We don't NEED to as such, we could stay put it would just be pretty disappointing as we love the house we're trying to buy and want the extra things it offers us. But we are not prepared to be completely walked over without limit just to get that house. We're not dropping any more ££ and we will 100% be sticking to tomorrow's deadline. She's taking the piss and the fact that she tried to apologise to me only yesterday and act innocent but is already delaying things again just shows her true colours. Untrustworthy liar through and through.

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Polly2345 · 12/04/2017 23:36

FWIW we've now been in our new house a few weeks and the gazundering thing is becoming a bad memory we're putting behind us as we enjoy our new house.

Definitely stick to your guns but if it all goes through, or even if you do have to find a new buyer, then soon it could just be a bad memory.

notapizzaeater · 12/04/2017 23:54

I'd be sticking my heels in now and putting the price back up, cheeky mare !