Owning your own home

What a shower of c**ts.

Really sorry to hear this. People can be so horrible and greedy.

Fuck.
What a kick in the balls.

Firebomb the place and move on.

This has happened to me in the past.

The long and the short of it was that despite assuring me (and their agent) that my purchase would be chain free, it wasn't. They had found a house that they couldn't afford and panicked, demanding £20k more for theirs.

My solicitor told me not to worry and to proceed nonetheless at the price they wanted. I obviously informed him that I didn't have £20k and he told me not to worry.

On the day of exchange, my solicitor and I chipped the price by £20k and told them that because it had taken so long to process, values had dipped and that the original price was the only one I was prepared to pay.

They soon found the money, but my solicitor and I were called everything under the sun by the agent.

I bought the property at the price I wanted to pay.

I couldn't care less what the vendors had done but they'd been acting under the advice of the cunty agent.

Obviously I'm not advising you to chip the price on the day of exchange because it is extremely bad practice and morally unacceptable, but I thought it might be nice to out cunt the cunts.

This happened to us too. It really should be a standard warning for any house buying (and especially in London) that there is a very real possibility of this happening. I think if we buy again, and there is any hint of delay, we will just make it very clear that we won't pay a penny more than what was agreed and if they want more money they can fuck off back to the market.