We're in an even worse position than last week. Estate agents constantly told us this buyer (call him Mr X) would get a mortgage, lack of updates were due to him being "soooo busy, poor Mr X man" DailyFail sad face from agent (Apparently we aren't busy). An almost identical house down the road from us sold a few weeks before ours at a higher price, so we missed out on those possible buyers, and then their sale fell through - they went back on the market mid August, sold again straight away again at higher price. Because our agent kept on telling us to wait and give our Mr X more time (5 months) we didn't go back on market and subsequently missed another opportunity when there were clearly buyers looking in our road again.
In the meantime, I've moved out and this weekend I went back to help Ex-H get the house ready for new viewings, the place is now in a real state, half the furniture missing, no mattresses so we're throwing bedcovers over slats, most rooms need re-painting, garden all gone over, we've been trying to sell for over 18 months and all the stuff we had done to prep in the first place seems to have been fruitless now. I'm thinking if we try to move agents and have new photos done the place will look awful.
We did have another first time buyer ready and willing, made identical offer, but agent persuaded us there was no benefit in going with them over Mr X, he got a survey arranged immediately so we said oh ok, lets just go with him. This is our 3rd agent; I honestly thought they were in the business to make money but their priority seems to lie with Mr X's interests.
Feel overwhelmed and defeated by it all.