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Amusing unsolicited letter from estate agent

38 replies

Fightyouforthatpie · 18/10/2023 14:33

House is on market, not selling, zero interest. I asked the EA to reduce the price.

I had a letter today (just the address as they obvs don't know my name) from a different agent -

Dear Homeowner,

We have noticed that you have recently dropped the price of your property. Have you considered that it might not be the price that needs to change but maybe your agent? We are here to help.

With Summer upon us we are looking towards the prime selling time of the year and we have a strong number of buyers waiting for properties like yours.

Hilarious

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HollyBollyBooBoo · 18/10/2023 14:35

Idiots on so many levels...summer?!

Sack them off based on gross incompetence

Stephisaur · 18/10/2023 14:43

EAs are something else.

We had a phone call 2 weeks after we moved into our house asking if we were still looking, because they had a number of properties that we may be interested in.

Had to gently break it to them that we weren't looking because we had just completed on one of THEIR properties 😂

LakeTiticaca · 18/10/2023 15:18

We often get stuff like this through the letter box. Our house is not for sale but they post letters round the locality telling homeowners that nearby properties have sold at X amount of money and are we thinking of moving blah blah blah its a marketing ploy

KievLoverTwo · 18/10/2023 15:35

Cross 'summer' out with a massive sharpie, write 'autumn'

Write 'LOL' next to it in red

Mark as 'not known at this address' so they have to pay for the postage

CosyCoffee · 18/10/2023 15:45

Apart from the 'summer' mix up I don't understand what's funny about it?

KievLoverTwo · 18/10/2023 16:11

CosyCoffee · 18/10/2023 15:45

Apart from the 'summer' mix up I don't understand what's funny about it?

They are trying to take business from someone else. Before they even get a foot through the door they have illustrated their incompetence.

MrsScrubbingbrush · 18/10/2023 16:34

We had a letter recently from a local EA offering to rent out our property. Unfortunately the letter was addressed to our 17 yr old DD so the answer was no thanks (sorry DD)

Floopdifloo · 18/10/2023 16:52

I had one through today referring to the “buoyant market”

Ittybittytittycomittee · 18/10/2023 16:54

Generic letter but they do still have a point. The best agents are the ones that will actually point out selling points. I used to be an agent (don't hate me) and also worked in property so placement of furniture, smells etc do help.

LeefsPrings · 18/10/2023 17:16

Earlier this year, due to an unexpectedly large windfall, we were in a position to fund a home for adult dc. As in cash buyers. I contacted a local agency because I'd just seen an empty property in our town come on the market that very day, and arranged to view it the day after. Told them we were cash buyers and could proceed immediately. Next day I got to the house to meet the agent and nobody was there. I rang them and they said 'oh dear, we are cancelling the appointment as it has sold already'. What, in less than 24 hours? Apparently so.

Anyway, a few weeks go by, we find another property with another agent and our offer is accepted, solicitors engaged, survey booked, etc.

A month later, cue phone call from the original agent to ask whether we were still interested in the original property as the sale has fallen through. Hahaha. No. Whoopsy. That'll teach them to whip houses off the market as 'sold' without doing their homework first, won't it?!

ScottBakula · 18/10/2023 17:22

I have had similar letters , it is very tempting to sell ups I would like a bigger garden.

However I think my Housing Association may take a dim view of me trying to sell threre house !

LeefsPrings · 18/10/2023 17:52

ScottBakula · 18/10/2023 17:22

I have had similar letters , it is very tempting to sell ups I would like a bigger garden.

However I think my Housing Association may take a dim view of me trying to sell threre house !

Years ago I was constantly pestered by phone calls from people trying to sell me double glazing or a conservatory. If we hadn't moved, I think I might have arranged for them to come round and measure up our 3rd-floor council flat, just so I could see their faces.😂

Evenstar · 18/10/2023 18:25

I have just had an email from the estate agent who sold me my house in 2010, I forbade them to contact me again after numerous calls only 4 years later asking if I was looking to sell my house (I wasn’t) at a time when I had a gravely ill parent and subsequent bereavement. They have a terrible reputation and I would never have sold through them.

This time they had seen I had put my house up to let and less than a week after the advert went live on Rightmove they wanted to know if they could handle that for me. I blocked their email as I couldn’t face dealing with them again. I have let the house anyway!

When I first put my house on the sales market last November another local estate agent known for aggressive marketing and underpricing properties sent someone to the door, wrote to me and then the manager phoned me all in one week to try and get me to change agents. I had to threaten to report them to the property ombudsman to stop them harassing me.

WorkCleanRepeat · 18/10/2023 18:38

Their shoddy attention to detail re seasons would put me off but they might actually be right about the first part.

Not all agents are equal!

imnotsickbutimnotwell · 18/10/2023 19:33

These types of letters from rival EA’s are normal where I live.

Edwardandtubbs · 18/10/2023 19:37

Yup we had one through our door saying Mr and Mrs X are looking for a property just like yours in this area, 3 beds and a large garden.

We lived in a 2 up 2 down mid terrace with a tiny yard…

ScottBakula · 18/10/2023 20:34

@LeefsPrings please do this and video their reactions, I could do with a good laugh😀

XVGN · 18/10/2023 20:35

EA's can be so dumb. I usually exercise the "accomodation" test. Any EA that can't spell that correctly, given the availability of spell checkers, is not one that I would trust to sell my property.

Amusing unsolicited letter from estate agent
XVGN · 18/10/2023 20:36

Oh! Can't spell contemporary either. Utter uselessness.

PerpetualStudent · 18/10/2023 20:44

We were once being show round a flat by a very young, chatty EA who was cheerily telling us this was his company’s whole MO - find properties already on the market and offer the sellers to undercut their existing agent. Didn’t seem to realise he was essentially telling us that both his company and any unscrupulous sellers who went with them were clearly not be be trusted 🤣

m00rfarm · 18/10/2023 21:20

LeefsPrings · 18/10/2023 17:16

Earlier this year, due to an unexpectedly large windfall, we were in a position to fund a home for adult dc. As in cash buyers. I contacted a local agency because I'd just seen an empty property in our town come on the market that very day, and arranged to view it the day after. Told them we were cash buyers and could proceed immediately. Next day I got to the house to meet the agent and nobody was there. I rang them and they said 'oh dear, we are cancelling the appointment as it has sold already'. What, in less than 24 hours? Apparently so.

Anyway, a few weeks go by, we find another property with another agent and our offer is accepted, solicitors engaged, survey booked, etc.

A month later, cue phone call from the original agent to ask whether we were still interested in the original property as the sale has fallen through. Hahaha. No. Whoopsy. That'll teach them to whip houses off the market as 'sold' without doing their homework first, won't it?!

But if the OWNER of the property instructed them to take it off the market, as part of the negotiation agreement, then why would the agent be at fault for not letting you see it. It was rubbish they they did not let you know the appointment was cancelled, but these things happen. The fact they followed up shows they are a decent agent. It could have fallen through for a number of reasons - maybe it had a rubbish survey result, maybe someone died, could be anything But to blame the agent then criticise when they did their job and followed up with you? No - that is not really acceptable.

2023shady · 18/10/2023 22:42

Local estate agent has described the area outside my apartment block as "a relaxing patio area"
It's a path of paving slabs. Where the bin store is ConfusedGrin

Honeysuckle16 · 19/10/2023 00:20

Our EA sent in a description of our house and garden, and wrote that we had a “Plumb” tree. Sacked immediately.

romatheroamer · 19/10/2023 07:04

Want to move but dreading this because they don't seem to have got any better. Had a letter the other day, recently sold near you and have two buyers looking for sthg nearby. Even if the buyers actually exist, they might not like your property and then you're stuck signed up with these agents who you might not have chosen otherwise.

Mildura · 19/10/2023 07:38

Honeysuckle16 · 19/10/2023 00:20

Our EA sent in a description of our house and garden, and wrote that we had a “Plumb” tree. Sacked immediately.

I once saw a sales brochure for a house where the agent was advertising the garden had a ‘coy carp fishpond’