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crazy house question

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Nabster · 14/03/2009 17:51

We saw a house today we would happily live in. DH wouldn't go and knock on the door and ask if they would consider selling.

I would be really interested to see what the house would sell for. Any ideas how I could find out?

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Sorrento · 14/03/2009 17:55

I'm not sure i'd take kindly to people knocking my door and asking me to sell them my house and if you asked me how much I'd add at least 10% because you seemed so keen
For sale signs are a good clue that somebody is happy for you to buy their house, otherwise maybe a note through the door.

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Nabster · 14/03/2009 17:57

lol

I have heard of people asking if they owner would sell and them then doing so.

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gemmiegoatlegs · 14/03/2009 17:59

if you want to find out what houses on that road have sold for , sign up to www.ourproperty.co.uk/

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Nabster · 14/03/2009 18:03

nothing sold in that road for years

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wombleprincess · 14/03/2009 20:53

we have had a few personal letters asking us to contact them if we consider selling, and have always wondered how you price it. perhaps talk to an agent or try and find similar properties even if not on that road.

lalalonglegs · 15/03/2009 09:08

Notes through the door giving your contact details. We did this once in a square where very little sold and found out most of it was owned by a housing trust...

FigmentOfYourImagination · 15/03/2009 09:20

DH and I fly posted a house too when we were looking to move last time. We were very careful with our wording (wanted to make the best impression) and popped it through the door. We heard nothing for about a week and then the DH contacted us and we began negotiations.

Sadly our buyer pulled out 3 days before exchange after 9 weeks - bastards, turned out they'd made about 7 speculative offers on other houses and were proceeding with 3 purchases at one even though they were only buying 1 house, they were always going to pull out of 2 of the purchases at the 11th hour . We couldn't proceed with the purchase. Once we managed to resell again (about 3 weeks later) we contacted the the people who we wanted to buy from to see if they were still prepared to sell to us but they'd decided to put their house on the market properly and had since recieved an offer which they were proceeding with.

We offered on this house (which we both love now but originally this was DH's choice and the other house was mine) and had our offer accepted. We got about a week from exchange and the estate agent handling the sale of my dream contacted us and said that their sale had fallen through and the couple wanted to give us first refusal. We talked abut it for a couple of days and ended up continuing with this purchase. I have no regrets but also no doubts that if we'd have bought the other house we'd have been just as happy in it as we are here, but c'est la vie. We were very fortunate to find 2 dream houses in our chosen location and within our budget, that doesn't happen often !

ShortBlack · 15/03/2009 13:05

Ooh Figment, what sort of thing did you say in your leaflet? I was wondering about possibly doing something like that as we need to move soon.

Fizzylemonade · 15/03/2009 18:19

Sometimes people may have discussed moving but their house hasn't yet gone on the market so there is always a possibility that they would take you up.

I would be impressed and a bit smug if someone liked my house enough from the outside to want to buy it!

Pop a letter through, what have you got to lose?

wombleprincess · 16/03/2009 08:39

the only letter i would pay attention to would be one which gave a firm price ... eg show me the money.....

part of me does feel a little bit smug when we have got letters... then i realise how large our mortgage is and i feel decidedly less smug...

FigmentOfYourImagination · 16/03/2009 20:08

I did put a figure in the letter and we played up the young family thing and wanting a family home in which to put down roots etc, also gushed about how beautiful the place was etc etc.

Millarkie · 16/03/2009 20:21

We had a letter put through our door this weekend asking us if we wanted to sell our house. Was a bit strange because I had heard someone giggling and scarpering over the gravel earlier in the day but hadn't noticed the note stuck in the letterbox. What I don't understand is how anyone knows that they would want to buy a house without seeing it inside! I'm sure if scarpering giggler had seen our inherited decor with original avocado and beige bathroom suites they wouldn't have been so interested!
We bought this house as a private sale but that was because I mentioned wanting to buy in this village to a friend, she told her work colleague who grew up her and she told a childhood friend who's parents were thinking of selling...so moral of that is...tell everyone where you want to buy and see if there is any connection made!

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