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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 19:27:26 GMT
Oh shit what have we done? Oh shit what has the seller done more like  My gut feeling was we wouldn't get stiffed on this, I was half right. Lady of the house was desperate for us to have it. Man of the house was desperate to squeeze more money out of it. Upshot is someone else will be buying it but at more money than I was willing to part with. So the strategy of we will keep it on the market until yours is sold worked extremely well for the seller and cost the SSTC purchaser a few more beer tokens. With a rational head on I think we have dodge a bullet, no money has changed hands yet and a potentially difficult and slippery guy to deal with is someone elses headache. A beautiful house passes us by, but so does being in irons till retirement (for now!) Oh well, what's meant to be will be, we've a few more to look at, ours stays on the market and hopefully we will have a little more clout when ours sells. Sorry to hear that. Hopefully you will have better luck in the future.
This isn't meant to help, just explain things...
You were never SSTC and if others led you to believe that then they were hopeful at best. SSTC should mean that the property is withdrawn from the market and realistically should mean that the buyer is in a position to purchase based upon already agreed agreements. I could waffle on but the gist is about having money available rather than a very vague promise. When I finally sold my house there were 4 final people in the equation, all asked to provide their final offer, I initially went for the highest offer but after some serious checks by the Estate Agent regarding whether the offers were serious propersitions I took the lowest offer (only 5k above asking price), even then it took nearly 5 months to completion.
Get a 'good' buyer for your house and you will be in a much better position.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 19:30:30 GMT
Just buy a narrowboat and live Happily Ever After in Ely. There's a railway station and a Sainsburys in Ely, what's not to like? You'll get a boat and a load of spare cash to invest in Bitcoins. What's not to like? Hmm, Apply for a school place mid term in an area I have no idea what the schools are like. Find a childminder with space and flexibility to suite work patterns. Convince Mrs Gazza to live in a floating corridor. Find a floating corridor suitable to live on. Find a permanent morning for said floating corridor. Convince myself i could live with owning a floating corridor rather than a proper boat. Convince Mrs Gazza to move NHS trust. Convince myself a 3 hour round trip to work is sensible (I'm 17 years in to a life sentence and won't contemplate change) Convince myself to get a tragic economical car for said 3 hour round trip instead of the fun (and thirsty) kit we currently have. Wonder how an advancing in years 45kg vicious Rottweiler would cope with the upheaval of it all. Find someone willing to let said vicious Rottweiler out for a pee seeing as mother in law is now a 2.5 hour round trip away. Wonder where all my gear would go (although I'd be glad to see the back of the mower) Wonder how long it would take for matrimonial bliss (after 12 years married, 20 together) to break down and end up a sad bitter divorcee with limited access to an only child who could have probably done with her dad being around when she needed him. What's not to like indeed! I'll stick with bricks and mortar and dealing with awkward characters when faced with the above. Moving house all I'm faced with loosing is a few quid, moving on to a boat I face loosing the bloody lot! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 19:42:48 GMT
Oh shit what have we done? Oh shit what has the seller done more like My gut feeling was we wouldn't get stiffed on this, I was half right. Lady of the house was desperate for us to have it. Man of the house was desperate to squeeze more money out of it. Upshot is someone else will be buying it but at more money than I was willing to part with. So the strategy of we will keep it on the market until yours is sold worked extremely well for the seller and cost the SSTC purchaser a few more beer tokens. With a rational head on I think we have dodge a bullet, no money has changed hands yet and a potentially difficult and slippery guy to deal with is someone elses headache. A beautiful house passes us by, but so does being in irons till retirement (for now!) Oh well, what's meant to be will be, we've a few more to look at, ours stays on the market and hopefully we will have a little more clout when ours sells. Sorry to hear that. Hopefully you will have better luck in the future.
This isn't meant to help, just explain things...
You were never SSTC and if others led you to believe that then they were hopeful at best. SSTC should mean that the property is withdrawn from the market and realistically should mean that the buyer is in a position to purchase based upon already agreed agreements. I could waffle on but the gist is about having money available rather than a very vague promise. When I finally sold my house there were 4 final people in the equation, all asked to provide their final offer, I initially went for the highest offer but after some serious checks by the Estate Agent regarding whether the offers were serious propersitions I took the lowest offer (only 5k above asking price), even then it took nearly 5 months to completion.
Get a 'good' buyer for your house and you will be in a much better position.
No, I knew that from the outset. I'm not on about us SSTC, the poor saps that now have to deal with him Village chatter has revealed a few interesting snippets, along with a pissed off estate agent - we were always going to be on the back foot until ours was sold. Matey had a tantrum in the estate agents at the value he agreed they sell it at for him. By sheer good fortune for him someone previously interested in it was now in a position to buy having sold theirs, only drawback for them was he used our offer to squeeze them for more dosh. As I understand it His Mrs is not happy about the way it has been handled, effectively using our offer as a way of squeezing the others. We were given the opportunity to significantly raise our offer as the sellers are not in a rush to move, my answer was go bollocks. We had a call yesterday to confirm that it was now SSTC and no longer an option for us. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 19:53:45 GMT
Some people are looking for max price, some people are looking for a realistic price and want to move. Go for the latter every time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 20:03:04 GMT
Some people are looking for max price, some people are looking for a realistic price and want to move. Go for the latter every time. [br That's my approach entirely. We've done Ok out of the housing market since 2001. Being a greedy shit isn't in my nature, that's why I'll never be loaded  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 20:28:33 GMT
Sorry it's not worked out, but it does sound like you're well out of it. Onward and upward. There'll be something better round the corner  Rog |
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Post by ianali on Oct 4, 2018 9:47:08 GMT
All sounds familiar to me. Fifteen years ago we decided to move house for similar reasons to the OP. In our case it was to be nearer to our two children’s after school activities, sport etc. We had SSTC our house and had an offer accepted on what we thought would be our next home. The seller then went very quiet to the point where I eventually knocked on his door to see him. He said he was having emotional problems and asked for a couple of weeks to sort himself. Three weeks later I again went to see him, his son answered door and told me to F... off. We decided to sell anyway and rent short term. Our estate agent rang me a week or so later saying the chap had had a better offer, asked would I like to increase our offer by 37 thousand pound. I didn’t. Did us a favour in the end, found a house that we still live in today. Lots of greedy people out there with no morals. As me mum says, things happen for a reason. It’ll work out for you in the end.
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 4, 2018 15:33:09 GMT
Gazza - can you name that man and give us his address so we can write some snide letters to him, without stamps, so he will have to pay the postage to find out what's in them?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 17:03:57 GMT
Gazza - can you name that man and give us his address so we can write some snide letters to him, without stamps, so he will have to pay the postage to find out what's in them? Err, No. Little known fact, I paid the insufficient postage fee on a large envelope addressed to me with some of my own SAE's in it. The insufficient postage fee was more than the value of the bloody contents |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 17:07:09 GMT
All sounds familiar to me. Fifteen years ago we decided to move house for similar reasons to the OP. In our case it was to be nearer to our two children’s after school activities, sport etc. We had SSTC our house and had an offer accepted on what we thought would be our next home. The seller then went very quiet to the point where I eventually knocked on his door to see him. He said he was having emotional problems and asked for a couple of weeks to sort himself. Three weeks later I again went to see him, his son answered door and told me to F... off. We decided to sell anyway and rent short term. Our estate agent rang me a week or so later saying the chap had had a better offer, asked would I like to increase our offer by 37 thousand pound. I didn’t. Did us a favour in the end, found a house that we still live in today. Lots of greedy people out there with no morals. As me mum says, things happen for a reason. It’ll work out for you in the end. Cheers None of the ones we have looked at this week have grabbed us. Not to worry, time is on our side. It is making me do a few jobs I've been procrastinating over for some time. The shed still looks like a hand grenade has gone off in there |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 17:16:30 GMT
Sorry it's not worked out, but it does sound like you're well out of it. Onward and upward. There'll be something better round the corner Rog Thanks Rog, I'm using a good amount of common sense too. There is one we possibly could stretch to to buy. Heating it, paying council tax and looking after it for the next twenty five years is a different story. It would be like buying an exotic sports car and not having enough money to run it |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 17:27:53 GMT
Good luck with it all. I've never done houses and since my kids have been at school (3 years) its been three schools the latest of which was a default placement by the local authority "nobody wants to go there". turns out its better that either of the other ones. One of my kids has ASD like me so the school's reaction to this was important. First school waste of space second school the head and one teachers denied both my diagnosis and my older daughter. They over ruled medical professionals. Bye bye. I can understand you going for the "best school" and good luck with that We did it got into the school which would give any normal middle class mum who could not afford private an orgasm and the staff were scum you want to throw under the nearest bus. This is inner east London parasite slums though to be fair !! I guess its different in normal Englandland. Moan over ! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 18:20:42 GMT
Good luck with it all. I've never done houses and since my kids have been at school (3 years) its been three schools the latest of which was a default placement by the local authority "nobody wants to go there". turns out its better that either of the other ones. One of my kids has ASD like me so the school's reaction to this was important. First school waste of space second school the head and one teachers denied both my diagnosis and my older daughter. They over ruled medical professionals. Bye bye. I can understand you going for the "best school" and good luck with that We did it got into the school which would give any normal middle class mum who could not afford private an orgasm and the staff were scum you want to throw under the nearest bus. This is inner east London parasite slums though to be fair !! I guess its different in normal Englandland. Moan over ! It's an absolute bloody lottery the education your kids can receive. My friend's lad is autistic, he obviously had a statement of SEN, they wanted him in mainstream with his sister's. The school less so despite there being no major reason he shouldn't attend Main steam - he wasn't so far up the spectrum to be the next rain man. Having a mother who knew her shit meant he didn't get edged out by the school and they did ultimately provide a good education for him up to age 16 when he then went on to further education geared to those with SEN'S- this was in deepest darkest Wiltshire. For us it should be a piece of cake, potentially not though It definitely is more parochial around here, I had the unbridled joy of the harvest festival this week. Times have changed though - no longer do they sing we sow the fields and scatter, nor do they recite the lord's prayer, that said it's 30 years since I was last involved with a harvest festival. We are down a packet of pasta, a tin of tomato soup and a tin of tuna along with a bunch of bananas. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 18:49:06 GMT
My main school challenge is trying to explain to the younger daughter who is 6 that you do not need to have a religion. All the other kids are "Muslim" (bengali) so when she says she "hates Allah" to them it gets interesting. I never told her to hate allah I just said that kids aren't old enough to be religious* She loves the school and the other kids though and she knows I'm right that small children can not choose to be religious. I just tell her that their parents obviously don't want their children to think for themselves. Thankfully my older daughter who is 8 has got past this stage and despite the fact all the kids in her class are also "Muslim" she isn't bothered. To be honest I think there is always going to be shit in schools so its best just to accept it and get on with it. As long as they are smiling when you collect them from school then its OK Being a parent is a nightmare I just hope I wake up one day. * I do tell them every day that I hate wogs. All wogs. Not just the ones they are at school with but all wogs. Hate the lot of 'em. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 20:22:22 GMT
When my kids were young and we lived down the other end of the county the local village school was Ok but not exceptional, so we moved to a village that had an excellent school. All well and good for my eldest but the Headmaster left as my youngest came up from infants. School went down the pan and my youngest suffering from dyslexia never got the help she needed. Meanwhile the previous school became one of the best in the county.
Both children went through Sponne which was not much better for my youngest, wasn't until she got to Northampton College that help arrived.
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