Your House Buying and Selling stories.

[Nobby]

A recent house sale story.
A "friend" puts her house on the market back in June and is looking around at other properties.
Within 2 weeks has an offer on hers and accepts.
First week of July sees something she likes and puts in an offer, which is accepted and all is good.
Her buyers are pushing for a quick purchase as is possible (yeah ,as quick as solicitors will go)
The finger is pulled out and her sale is going ahead with a target of mid August.
Her purchase though is not running as smoothly. After several emails and phone calls it is found out that her sellers haven't been looking at properties because..... they didn't want to start looking until after their holiday, which was the last week's of August!!!!!!!
So as not to hinder the sale of hers, she plans to put furniture in storage and move in with her daughter.
Her sale goes through mid August,and now hopes that her buyers get a shift on. She finds out that they have been travelling 200 plus miles every fortnight looking at properties in the Lake District.
September. October. November. Then in early December they have found a house of their dreams. An empty house too with no chain. Great she thinks, it shouldn't take too long......... except her sellers have other ideas. They want to slow the process down even more...... because the husband wants to give 3 months notice to his work......
But my "friend" had started to look at other properties in November. One found and offer accepted. Her Solicitor says that she is doing nothing wrong and they push on with the purchase.......
Begining of January, her first sellers are informed that she is pulling out. Their Solicitors on on the phone, twice in 10 minutes offering first a 5k reduction followed by 10.
It's too late. The second house is better, and all go for mid Feb.
Word from the solicitors is that the couple are devastated that they might loose their dream home. Everyone else is thinking that they wanted it all to be done by their agenda regardless of others. Tough luck.

[Nordboy]

We're just about to put our house on the market. I HATE the moving house shitshow. My lad left home a couple of years ago and the daughter is now in University so we really don't need our 5 bedroom house between the two of us. Downsizing is going to be tough, I think we're going to get rid/ sell pretty much everything and start over.

i'm also retiring from my current job at the end of August, so this year is going to be hugely stressful no doubt?

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

We put an offer in on a house, seller accepted it, but then started being really weird about moving dates, we got the impression he wanted to sell his house but carry on living in it, we told him to stick his house up his arse.

[Scotsrich]

Bit of an odd one.

In our box of legal stuff we have a sales brochure for an old flat of mine. It's with one of our local estate agents.

This dates back 20 odd years just after my gf (now wife) moved in with me.

The odd part is neither of us can recall putting it up for sale, why we would put it up for sale as we were perfectly happy there or even where we would move to.

There's just this brochure.

[Rockburner]

Bit of an odd one.

In our box of legal stuff we have a sales brochure for an old flat of mine. It's with one of our local estate agents.

This dates back 20 odd years just after my gf (now wife) moved in with me.

The odd part is neither of us can recall putting it up for sale, why we would put it up for sale as we were perfectly happy there or even where we would move to.

There's just this brochure.

Is it the brochure you got when you were buying it?

[Scotsrich]

Bit of an odd one.

In our box of legal stuff we have a sales brochure for an old flat of mine. It's with one of our local estate agents.

This dates back 20 odd years just after my gf (now wife) moved in with me.

The odd part is neither of us can recall putting it up for sale, why we would put it up for sale as we were perfectly happy there or even where we would move to.

There's just this brochure.

Is it the brochure you got when you were buying it?

No it was a sales brochure, several years after I actually bought the place.

[Felix]

Bit of an odd one.

In our box of legal stuff we have a sales brochure for an old flat of mine. It's with one of our local estate agents.

This dates back 20 odd years just after my gf (now wife) moved in with me.

The odd part is neither of us can recall putting it up for sale, why we would put it up for sale as we were perfectly happy there or even where we would move to.

There's just this brochure.

Is it the brochure you got when you were buying it?

No it was a sales brochure, several years after I actually bought the place.

Is that the flat in the High street. Do you remember me coming for a strimmer you were giving away? I think you were packing u for the house move at the time. I would have been Rolfe66 on TRC at the time. Say no means you got old

[Scotsrich]

Is it the brochure you got when you were buying it?

No it was a sales brochure, several years after I actually bought the place.

Is that the flat in the High street. Do you remember me coming for a strimmer you were giving away? I think you were packing u for the house move at the time. I would have been Rolfe66 on TRC at the time. Say no means you got old

Ha, I can’t remember that but I remember you getting some bits off my old Fiesta.

[gremlin]

We moved into our current house on our wedding anniversary. For reasons beyond comprehension, we decided to host a bit of a party on the day we moved in. How fecking stupid an idea was that?

[Newey]

So a typical Victorian terraced house popular across the country with the chimney stacks running from the downstairs up through the bedrooms above out through to the roof, so the bedrooms had at some stage had a cupboard built between the chimney and the outside wall, really tight in there to hang and see clothing, anyway on the day we were moving I found out the the hanging rack slid out beyond the cupboard door, what an idiot I felt, I also had to shout to the wife to come take a look as you do.

[Felix]

No it was a sales brochure, several years after I actually bought the place.

Is that the flat in the High street. Do you remember me coming for a strimmer you were giving away? I think you were packing u for the house move at the time. I would have been Rolfe66 on TRC at the time. Say no means you got old

Ha, I can’t remember that but I remember you getting some bits off my old Fiesta.

I must have got old then as i dont remember that. I did have a fiesta right enough with power steering leaks.