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Gazundered day before exchange

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BenjiCat · 26/08/2021 20:48

We were all on track to be exchanging this week with completion on for the end of next week. We were waiting on our buyer's searches etc for some time and they finally came through earlier this week.

Call this morning from the estate agent. Buyer has dropped their offer by £15k due to 'immediate issues flagged in the survey' with no details about what these are, no copy of the report and no estimations on how that figure has been calculated. We've said we'd need to see the report to understand the basis for their drop (and to potentially renegotiate... No promises). But they've been reluctant to do this and says they'd be happy to proceed with exchange tomorrow still should we agree to the £15k Hmm

Fuming does not cover feelings right now Angry!!

OP posts:
TatianaBis · 29/08/2021 19:10

Even if they didn’t have a mortgage if they were buying another property rather and they wanted to move directly rather than rent, that would hold up the sale.

ozymandiusking · 29/08/2021 23:16

I'd be inclined to completely ignore them. Don't even dignify with a response. Ask your estate agent to avoid speaking to them for as long as possible, and put it straight back on to the market.
Bastards.

Trudij123 · 29/08/2021 23:49

Love it when people have read the thread…

@BenjiCat hope Tuesday goes well and you get the right outcome from it.

NumberTheory · 30/08/2021 03:22

@purplebunny2012

No, their vendors didn't have a mortgage either, it was definitely my parents' solicitors
We had what I thought were really slow solicitors when we bought about 10 years ago and our seller seemed to too. No chain and our mortgage was ready to go months before we completed - we had to redo it in the end because everything else took too long. Nearly 5 months from offer to completion. It was so bad that when we sold 5 years later, despite slight misgivings, we used our estate agent’s scheme that provided solicitors for the buyer and seller with the intent of avoiding long delays. The were way more responsive than our previous solicitor. Took about 2 months, I think, and the date was dictated by our moving plans not everyone waiting for the paperwork.
northernstar0412 · 30/08/2021 11:14

thinking of you Benjicat and keeping everything crossed for you!

NotBeforeCoffee · 30/08/2021 12:45

'In all my previous sales I'd gone to great lengths to leave the house absolutely immaculate. Carpets/ovens professionally cleaned, grass cut, windows cleaned inside and out, outside bins cleaned and emptied, checking every lightbulb worked etc and on moving day literally "hoovered" myself out of the door after leaving a bottle of Champagne and welcome to your new home card.*'
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Wow, my vendors left me debt on the electricity meter, a broken boiler and a rat infestation. We obviously didn't find this out until moving day and I was also pregnant and it was snowing out.

ToffeeNotCoffee · 30/08/2021 13:31

In all my previous sales I'd gone to great lengths to leave the house absolutely immaculate. Carpets/ovens professionally cleaned, grass cut, windows cleaned inside and out, outside bins cleaned and emptied, checking every lightbulb worked etc and on moving day literally "hoovered" myself out of the door

Hmm
knittingaddict · 30/08/2021 17:25

@ToffeeNotCoffee

In all my previous sales I'd gone to great lengths to leave the house absolutely immaculate. Carpets/ovens professionally cleaned, grass cut, windows cleaned inside and out, outside bins cleaned and emptied, checking every lightbulb worked etc and on moving day literally "hoovered" myself out of the door

Hmm

Why the Hmm face?

I've always done most of those things too. Didn't get carpets or oven professionally cleaned, but oven might as well have been because I did a good job.

I've never moved into a house where anyone's gone to anything like that amount of trouble. Most have been filthy, but I think it's the decent thing to do if you can.

Hungry675tf · 30/08/2021 18:05

Lady we bought from left her house immaculate and I actually saw her mop her way out if the door. We were excellent, no hassle buyers.

Now we are selling and I've promised myself I won't even hoover for them. They have been awful. Feel like I'm purposefully not cleaning the hob just so I can leave it more of a mess for them.

But thats because we went to exchange last week and they decided last minute they needed another 5k off. We said no. They spat their dummy out and agreed original price, but who knows if we will actually exchange ever.

Good luck op. You're not the only one in this shitty boat unfortunately

QueenBee52 · 30/08/2021 18:16

Ours (over 20 yrs ago) left their cat in the front porch with food and water for a day ...

We had a new born so didn't want to risk keeping it.. a near by neighbour took the poor cat in.. Im still appalled that anyone could do this to a family pet.. 😳

ThatWardrobe · 30/08/2021 18:46

Hope it all works out tomorrow! Stand firm!

LimpLettice · 30/08/2021 18:47

@QueenBee52

Ours (over 20 yrs ago) left their cat in the front porch with food and water for a day ...

We had a new born so didn't want to risk keeping it.. a near by neighbour took the poor cat in.. Im still appalled that anyone could do this to a family pet.. 😳

Our childhood cat was inherited like this! The owner was a school mum we vaguely knew. They moved away up north, but we kept seeing their cat. My mum rang her and she breezily said 'yeah, we didn't want her anymore so we left her. New owners must've kicked her out'.

We had her for about 12 more years. Lovely, friendly, slightly crackers calico. We all adored her.

Spaghettio · 30/08/2021 19:25

@LimpLettice we lost a cat this way when I was little. On moving day the cat did a runner and we never saw him again.

We let the new owners know that he might reappear.

We moved a long way away (rural Australia) but heard on the grapevine that the new owners and their children kept him and he lived a long and happy life. 💞

(Our new house coincidentally came with a cat too, so we got a new pet.)

QueenBee52 · 30/08/2021 19:36

@LimpLettice

Such s shame... they must be traumatised.. Im so glad your Cat had a happy home...

Ours kept popping back occasionally to hunt in the garden .. but never came inside I think the wailing baby it off ... 🤣

So sad that people can be so cruel .. it still bothered me that the previous owners could do this 🌸

Nsky · 30/08/2021 22:28

How awful to leave a pet, thar really is bad

SailingBuddy · 31/08/2021 09:40

Good luck today @BenjiCat !

HeronLanyon · 31/08/2021 10:10

Yes good luck !

custardbear · 31/08/2021 10:28

Good luck today @BenjiCat

season2 · 31/08/2021 13:28

Just came back to find out how it goes today OP. Crossing fingers your buyers see sense!

GettingItOutThere · 31/08/2021 13:39

any update OP?

PyjamaFan · 31/08/2021 13:44

Good job for today OP!

PyjamaFan · 31/08/2021 13:44

Good job?? I mean good luck!

MargotEmin · 31/08/2021 17:03

Let us know how you get on!

Notusuallydown · 31/08/2021 17:14

Come on OP, what's been happening?
I'm on the edge of my seat here!

T0pcat7 · 31/08/2021 18:03

@BenjiCat hope it all worked out x