About to put our house up for sale.. anyone else?

[DomusAurea]

We are taking the plunge and it's happening - we are selling our house (and relocating 200 miles away but that's another thread I guess) - anyone else? I could do with a collective handhold!

This is where we are now:

• finishing the last small jobs such as painting a ceiling
• having meets with estate agents for valuation
• nervously searching rightmove for possible houses in our relocation area (there isn't a lot!)

Are you going for sale soon? Tell me how it's going!

(we are in the South East)

Just had a truly bizarre discussion with one of the agents. She called with the (hopefully good) news that we've got a second viewing tomorrow from someone who is very keen. But she did mention in passing that she'd suggested they could put a downstairs loo in where we've got washing machine and dryer stack. Fine, except that we've already got a full bathroom downstairs, and when I mentioned that she seemed flustered. I'm now slightly worried that she didn't open that door, maybe thinking it was a cupboard, and so they never saw it. Which may make a nice surprise for them on a second viewing. I have also found out that the 'small' bedroom they have written off as a bedroom - instead recommending as a study - is not actually the tiny bedroom I assumed it was, but the small double bedroom. So I'm even more confused now. When I said our teenager had had a double futon it in, and lived quite happily, she seemed astonished. I can imagine someone thinking it would be better with a single in, but that would make it a perfectly decently sized bedroom, so the idea that it's just too small to be a bedroom makes no sense.

It's a bathroom with an actual bath it in. Not tiny!

Another rejected offer of £275k. Its on for OIEO £280k and another house 3 doors down (identical layout, they have a conservatory but we have double sized garden) has just gone on for £285k. I feel really demoralised x

@Doubleraspberry

Just had a truly bizarre discussion with one of the agents. She called with the (hopefully good) news that we've got a second viewing tomorrow from someone who is very keen. But she did mention in passing that she'd suggested they could put a downstairs loo in where we've got washing machine and dryer stack. Fine, except that we've already got a full bathroom downstairs, and when I mentioned that she seemed flustered. I'm now slightly worried that she didn't open that door, maybe thinking it was a cupboard, and so they never saw it. Which may make a nice surprise for them on a second viewing. I have also found out that the 'small' bedroom they have written off as a bedroom - instead recommending as a study - is not actually the tiny bedroom I assumed it was, but the small double bedroom. So I'm even more confused now. When I said our teenager had had a double futon it in, and lived quite happily, she seemed astonished. I can imagine someone thinking it would be better with a single in, but that would make it a perfectly decently sized bedroom, so the idea that it's just too small to be a bedroom makes no sense.

Wow…maybe you ought to do a viewing for the agents!

Afternoon all.....little update from me.....5 viewings done today, 1 offer for £12,000 over 😱......another 9 tomorrow, 1 Friday & 1 Saturday....EA have wisely put a hold on viewings after that but have a list of other people interested if we need to.....feeling a bit 🤢🤮with nerves on how quick it seems 🤞to be happening......(Rightmove on refresh! 😂) funny how these things make you not want to feel like a grown-up at the age of 48!! 🤣🤣🤣

Newsflash: we are on Rightmove!!! I got butterflies in my tummy - it's real now.

@missmeg3leg - congratulations!!! :)

@Doubleraspberry - nooooo I can't believe it, but certainly they'd know from the floorplan that there is a bathroom there, no? You'd think?

So sorry @Dreamer1989 - but isn't the wording Offers in the Region Of an invitation to offer a little under? Wouldn't have 'offers over £280k' be better to achieve the price you'd like? Just asking, not being an arse.

@DomusAurea Offers in Excess of.

@Dreamer1989 - SORRY! it has been a long day :)

@Doublerasberry, I would either be doing the viewing myself or politely insist that the Estate Agent attends 20 mins before the viewing and has another walk around the house with you. She needs to tell you all the good things about your house that makes a potential buyer want to buy it. You are paying them to sell your house, they owe it to you.
Hope it goes well.

[quote BeryltheMenaceneePeril]@Doublerasberry, I would either be doing the viewing myself or politely insist that the Estate Agent attends 20 mins before the viewing and has another walk around the house with you. She needs to tell you all the good things about your house that makes a potential buyer want to buy it. You are paying them to sell your house, they owe it to you.
Hope it goes well.[/quote]
Our house is tenanted and we live hundreds of miles away unfortunately.

@SellingBee
I found out the offer we accepted was from a family because I asked the Estate Agent after we had accepted the offer. Sounds ridiculous but the house has been rented out for a long time (the last two Tenants both moved out to buy their own houses) and I feel that it deserves somebody to buy it, own it, look after it and love it!

Sorry, Doublerasberry. Despite that is there anybody you know who could arrange a "viewing" ? Could give you some feedback on how the Agent is conducting the viewing. We bought our current home three years ago. It had "sold" previously but the buyer had pulled out so the house was back on the market. There had been many viewings, the Estate Agent was very apathetic, when I asked why the house hadn't sold she said "people either love it or hate it, nobody wants to do all the work it needs." She was leant against a wall as she spoke to us, arms folded. I think she thought we were just timewasters. I would have been very unhappy if I had been the Vendor.

@BeryltheMenaceneePeril

Sorry, Doublerasberry. Despite that is there anybody you know who could arrange a "viewing" ? Could give you some feedback on how the Agent is conducting the viewing. We bought our current home three years ago. It had "sold" previously but the buyer had pulled out so the house was back on the market. There had been many viewings, the Estate Agent was very apathetic, when I asked why the house hadn't sold she said "people either love it or hate it, nobody wants to do all the work it needs." She was leant against a wall as she spoke to us, arms folded. I think she thought we were just timewasters. I would have been very unhappy if I had been the Vendor.

I have friends about to do this!

@Doubleraspberry Yikes. When we viewed the house we’re in now, the estate agent told us about a great park “about half an hour’s walk away”, gave us complex directions and we set off on a hot day with a baby in a sling. Made it there and there was a cafe, so we stayed – needed it after that walk. Got our phones out to locate the tube station so we could go to our next viewing and on checking the map, saw that half hour walk could have been 10 minutes, one road. Which would have sold us on the house no question, whereas the big trek had us questioning things! Sometimes estate agents are barmy.

This is my “bijoux terrace” (small house):

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/121403093

Second big round of viewings this Saturday when the weather is basically freezing fog and gloom, not looking forward to dragging the toddler out for hours of frozen fun.

[quote stuntbubbles]@Doubleraspberry Yikes. When we viewed the house we’re in now, the estate agent told us about a great park “about half an hour’s walk away”, gave us complex directions and we set off on a hot day with a baby in a sling. Made it there and there was a cafe, so we stayed – needed it after that walk. Got our phones out to locate the tube station so we could go to our next viewing and on checking the map, saw that half hour walk could have been 10 minutes, one road. Which would have sold us on the house no question, whereas the big trek had us questioning things! Sometimes estate agents are barmy.[/quote]
Argh. That’s exactly the sort of thing I’m worried about. Our house is in one postcode but much nearer to another one, and these agents don’t talk about all the cool stuff it IS near, just the things it’s further from. We talked about this before we chose them and they promised they got it, but they don’t.

@Doubleraspberry We chose our agent for his “local, independent” vibe vs the big chains but to make sure, I also gave him an A4 bullet-point handout of all the house improvements, garden plants, and local attractions and amenities with bracketed walking distances and bus routes, because I am a terrible control freak

[quote stuntbubbles]@Doubleraspberry We chose our agent for his “local, independent” vibe vs the big chains but to make sure, I also gave him an A4 bullet-point handout of all the house improvements, garden plants, and local attractions and amenities with bracketed walking distances and bus routes, because I am a terrible control freak[/quote]
This lot are local and long-standing, and also I have given them a list of facts and benefits of our house. They don’t use it - each agent asks me the same questions (post viewing) repeatedly. They don’t know basic facts about the house. I am beyond irritated.

OMFG - house on rightmove on Thursday eve, just heard from the agent that there is already so much interest that they are doing an open day on Saturday - I feel a bit sick. This is getting real.

@stuntbubbles - absolutely lovely home :) 91sqm not too small either :)

Sorry my first message should have said 'Wednesday evening' - yesterday.

Good Luck OP with the Open House on Sat. It worked for us