Had an offer accepted on a house in January- only just got a completion date for the end of this month.
The vendors have dicked about all the way through. Losing paperwork, not letting the surveyor in three times, despite them being able to say exactly which time and date suited (the last time they wouldn’t let him in it was because she had just made a sandwich and didn’t want him there while she was eating).
In April, the estate agent called us and said they would like us to up our offer as they said they could get more for the property if they were to put it on the market now. Told them to crack on abs do it then….they changed their minds.
They did the same thing in August; again, we said fine, don’t sell it to us then.
I know they are going to pull the same trick now. The house would probably go on the market for at least 10k more if they were to put it on now looking at similar. That would have have taken it out of affordability for us anyway.
Chances are they will back off again when we say no (we couldn’t even afford a grand more and I’m not pandering to them even if I could afford it).
They went awol for 6 weeks at a time, no one could get in touch with them. I honestly don’t know what their problem is. Either sell your bloody house or don’t.
They seemed so upfront when we went to view! They are a couple of GPs in their 40s. I don’t know what they are playing at.
Why are some people such dicks?
And yes, we have continuously been looking for other properties but there was/is nothing else even remotely suitable in our tiny budget. Nothing has come up in all that time or we would have told them to sod their house.
Thankfully we are in rented, even though it’s covered in black mould (the rental market here has gone crazy, luckily our rent hasn’t been put up in two years, but we couldn’t afford to rent another property here now), so we want to get out. So if they do start messing around, it’s not like we have to get out, we won’t be giving a months notice until contracts are exchanged.
This whole thing has just been a nightmare.
Apparently they couldn’t remember if they had put the (really blood big) extension on their own house 
. It took them 6 weeks to remember that they did. They kept saying they needed to check paperwork and remember dates. How could anyone not remember building an extension 6 years ago?! They made a huge song and dance over it. You can’t make this up, I don’t know what their game is.
Sorry for the moan, I just want this over with.