Re: Your House Buying and Selling stories.
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 6:19 am
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.
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.
