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Excuses for not buying a house V real reason

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NanaPurple · 20/02/2025 18:13

What reasons have you given for not buying a house to cover up the real reasons? Or are you always 100% honest?

My recent house viewing feedback was: "Sorry we've decided to buy elsewhere" when asked. None of the Agents asked for any more detail.

For one house it was the terrible smell at the entrance hall, the staircase that felt like it was about to collapse and next doors messy garden with rubbish everywhere.

Another was when the seller who showed me round insisting we buy as he had purchased elsewhere. All the time his partner and 3 children huddled around one corner of the lounge as if they were trying to hide something. House was ok but folk really put me off.

Should I have been honest with the agents?

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CandidHedgehog · 22/02/2025 09:08

I will if it’s due to a misleading description - i.e. ‘move in ready’ when they are only half way through renovating and major work is still needed (pictures only showed the beautiful renovated rooms). How on earth did they think people going around the property wouldn’t notice?

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