Slippery lying sleaze bags who will sell their granny to make a sale or a valuable asset to the nation who smooth the path of a stressful transaction?
Estate Agents
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None of the above!
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No idea and I cannot be arsed to look. This is a venting of my annoyance and the timing of this is to suit me and my current situation and feelings.
P.S. I'm not bitter because I've just lost out or something.
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What then?
SULLY COULDNT SHOOT
Loyal2Family+Albion!
Wheres Gareth?
It would be nice if the fuckers did something other than just rely on Rightmove to bring them leads !!!!
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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they dont do anything once you've made an offer, if you don't chase them you never hear from them. i cant believe i had to pay thousands of pounds to my agent, when i had to get information about my buyer from the agent i was buying from (saving grace, at least they did follow up queries, even if you had to call them to find out the replies)
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
I have more of a problem with these self-styled novice property developers, who buy a delightful property and then turn it into an MFI showroom with shitty wooden floors, poor imitation kitchens, nouveau bathrooms and all that sort of bollocks. Dressing up an old property as if it were some sort of showroom/new build. One prick even had a bottle of champagne in the sink and candles all around the bath. I laughed at the estate agent and walked out.
I was looking to buy back in '07, as a joint venture with my sister and brother-in-law, the amount of properties that were on the market that had been done up for a quick buck was inordinate.
I was looking to buy back in '07, as a joint venture with my sister and brother-in-law, the amount of properties that were on the market that had been done up for a quick buck was inordinate.
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The worst offenders are developers who carve up a roomy flat to 'add' an extra bedroom and increase the resale value. There are lots of shoe-box 2 bedders out there which are really decent and roomy one bed flats. It's a shame we do not go down the euro route and value apartments by the floor space as opposed to the number of bedrooms. This would put an end to such nonsense.
Dick Knights Mumm
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Having spent some time in estate agents offices - they are dealing with stressed people in a process that seems designed to bring out the worst.
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Fair point.
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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all my stress on two moves, has been due to lack of information or inaction from estate agents.
bhaexpress
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I thought that Estate Agents here were dodgy but I've met far worse in the US. I nearly bought a house in Georgia a few years ago. The realtor advertised it as in A1 condition and a real bargain. Not unreasonably I had a full structural survey done on it. It's as well that I did because it was nearly falling down and would have cost a third of the purchase price to repair. The realtor then got her tame builder to have a look at it and he said it was a few days work. Well I'm no builder but even I could tell how serious the damage was so I told the realtor not to bother (none too politely). She then got the owner of the house to call me in tears saying that she couldn't now afford to move to Florida to be with her daughter because of my meanness !
I wouldn't mind but the same house was re-advertised the next week with exactly the same details as I saw originally. I doubt that too many Estate Agents here would stoop that low but I could be wrong.
I wouldn't mind but the same house was re-advertised the next week with exactly the same details as I saw originally. I doubt that too many Estate Agents here would stoop that low but I could be wrong.
- Aug 7, 2003
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I've got a house to sell in BN1. I've obtained 4 separate valuations and they differ by up to £200k. Can anyone actually recommend an Estate Agent from personal experience?
Or in other words: "thread closed".
- Aug 7, 2003
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bhaexpress
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A good few years ago I was trying to buy a home in Wigan (ex wife's home town). It was just when the mortgage rate went to 15.25%. I had a buyer for my house but with the hike in interest rates my seller couldn't afford it so all fell through. At the time I had made an offer on a place in Wigan but I made sure that the agent knew that I was waiting to sell so no money changed hands and no solicitor was involved. However, I have no idea what my seller's estate agent told the owners but I got a phone call from them some months later saying that they were ready to exchange contracts. I reminded them that I still hadn't sold my house in Surrey so was in no position to do anything. I pointed out that I'd had no contact with them since I made the original offer (which was when I told them that I needed to sell my place). What happened next was I got a phone call from the wife of the property I was trying to buy demanding that I come up with the goods. She was actually quite abusive (can't say I could blame her but it was the agent who had let her down not me). I had some fairly serious words with the agent and retracted my offer.
Mind you, I find that solicitors can throw spanners into the works. The house I was selling had had a conservatory added to it which the builder had assured me did not need planning permission. I should mention that I had also had a double garage built on my allocated parking places which I had got planning permission for. The same builder did the work and he had told me to get the permission. Anyway I eventually got another buyer. This woman had just got divorced and was using the same solicitor for the purchase of my house. Long story short the buyer's solicitor kept agitating about the lack of planning permission on the conservatory, despite my insistence that it wasn't required (the council agreed with this). Suffice to say that the day we were supposed to exchange contracts this same solicitor advised her client to reduce the purchase price by 10%. Bearing in mind that several months had elapsed since the original offer and that the solicitor had raised no further objection in that time I told the buyer to make love elsewhere. I have little doubt that the poor buyer had been led up the garden path by the solicitor who was trying to pull a fast one. I have no doubt that the buyer still had to pay the solicitor's fees of course. The estate agent was entirely blameless and were every bit as annoyed as I was.
Mind you, I find that solicitors can throw spanners into the works. The house I was selling had had a conservatory added to it which the builder had assured me did not need planning permission. I should mention that I had also had a double garage built on my allocated parking places which I had got planning permission for. The same builder did the work and he had told me to get the permission. Anyway I eventually got another buyer. This woman had just got divorced and was using the same solicitor for the purchase of my house. Long story short the buyer's solicitor kept agitating about the lack of planning permission on the conservatory, despite my insistence that it wasn't required (the council agreed with this). Suffice to say that the day we were supposed to exchange contracts this same solicitor advised her client to reduce the purchase price by 10%. Bearing in mind that several months had elapsed since the original offer and that the solicitor had raised no further objection in that time I told the buyer to make love elsewhere. I have little doubt that the poor buyer had been led up the garden path by the solicitor who was trying to pull a fast one. I have no doubt that the buyer still had to pay the solicitor's fees of course. The estate agent was entirely blameless and were every bit as annoyed as I was.
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