Outbid by rich kid

[tenapenny2018]

Just a bid rant. Got outbid by some rich kid with parents buying.

Little prat basically emotionally blackmailed the parents until they caved in and upped offer on mine.

I have not taken a penny from my parents, since I turned 18.

Little prat

They are not the one who sounds like a prat TBH.

That's not really threatening is it, and if they're buying a house then they are not a kid.

You are acting just as entitled as the successful bidder.

PurpleFlowersInMyHair yea, I know. My head entirely agrees with you, which is why I pulled out, even though I can offer more.

Or they might love him and want to help him get on, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do if you have the funds.Move on, dwelling on it is getting you nowhere.

You know nothing of the details of why and what they are moving on from. From that snippet, you don’t even know if the parents are bankrolling it. The dad might have been urging restraint, the younger adult is adamant that this is th house for them and they will be upping bids until they get it.

Grow up OP.

Jealousy is an unattractive look OP.

If you say so.....

they will be upping bids until they get it yea... the agent of course asked if I would bid more and I said no.

What a very strange post.

You really know nothing about their circumstances but are making a massive judgement based apparently on a single remark.

Just read your OP back to yourself and then in true MN style, give your head a good wobble.

So you decided not to increase your bid and think it unreasonable that someone else did? And that makes them a prat? Grow up.

The money could be the ‘rich kid’s’ and nothing to do with their parents. They clearly aren’t a kid, if they are house buying. Think inheritance, or compensation, or even an insurance payout. Or even, shock horror, a young adult with a decent income of their own.

Jealousy is ugly.

Oh well, look at the bright side - that’s nice for the sellers who will have a little more to spend on their next home.

YANBU

Can’t stand fully grown adults who get hand outs from parents. Buying a house for adult kids is the worst. Ugh. Shameful all round.

This would annoy me, too. Working hard and scrimping and saving only to be outbid by someone who's had it handed to them by their parents. There's nothing you can do about it, though, so just forget about it and move on! I'm sure you'll find another house.

Sooooo....he hardly threatened his parents, did he?! How lucky he is to have the help of his folks like that.

No idea why that makes him a prat though.

If you're not willing to increase your bid, even though you can afford to, then you have nothing to complain about when someone else outbids you. Really, who do you think you are sitting in judgement of someone you know nothing about?

You chose not to offer more.

Someone else did.

That is it.

Move on and find another house.

When your kids hit a certain age, you don’t stop being their parent. If I can afford to buy a house for my kids, I will. Imagine life without the burden of a mortgage- who wouldn’t want that for their kids? My parents couldn’t but me a house but remortgaged theirs to help me with a deposit. I will never be able to show them how grateful I am.

I think your post says more about you than it does the ‘kid’.

You sound as if you think you are more entitled to the property than he is. Why?
Buying property can be frustrating & disappointing but the successful bidder's circumstances are really none of your business.

Sorry. I need to ask. What is a BoMaD?

I’m rooting for the rich kid!

Agree with Weedinosaurus.

OP you say you know the circumstances, but you don't really do you. You overhead a snippet of conversation to which you don't know the full background.

It's annoying to be outbid, sure, but as PPs say, this post says more about you than the "rich kid".

Me too!

Op sounds very entitled. Oh the irony.

GameOldBirdz So you would not accept an inheritance from your parents after their deaths?

As Weedinosaurus says, if people can afford to help their children, why wouldn't/shouldn't they? They are just giving it earlier, during their own lifetime, rather than later in their Will

Seriously? Back in your day did you have to walk 20 miles in the snow to work for thrupence a week too?