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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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PettsWoodParadise · 20/04/2017 20:13

Good luck with the move tomorrow!

BruceyBaby · 24/04/2017 11:14

Hope the move went well!

Louise866 · 24/04/2017 15:52

Thank you all - the move went well! I didn't leave the house dirty but I certainly didn't go mad cleaning either. Didn't touch the bath 😝 I think it's going to take me a while to get over the rage towards her - our new house needs a lot of work and it is highly annoying that we are 5k short on our budget now whilst she has 5k extra in the bank and is sat in my beautiful old house which doesn't need a thing doing! Arrggghhh. We wish now we had called her bluff but hindsight is a wonderful thing....

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Impresionante · 24/04/2017 16:07

We had the same with buying this house... paid too much (paid extra for the Aga, should have called bluff and not! We got rid of it in the end anyway as it cost so much to run), they left things in a state, they hadn't cleaned... we should have called their bluff, they were the ones desperate to move quickly...

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 24/04/2017 16:13

louise
Believe in karma.
The boiler at your old house will blow up.
On Christmas Eve,
In a blizzard

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