Owning your own home

come on then, wheres the link to the kentist dream house....you got us all wondering!

good on the vendor for having the morals to stick with the original offer and not letting greed fk over the other interested party. you should hang your head in shame!

It's dead to me now.

Although to be fair, it wasn't really a gazump attempt. Our best and final offer was made early having been forced into a blind bid type situation with five other bidders, which I felt was pretty underhand as it wasn't advertised as such. I'm pretty sure we were highest bidder because they kept us hanging for 48 hours then announced thay were going to wait to see if we sold our house over the weekend.

Our place had only been on for 36 hours days at that point and we only had two viewings booked, one of whom had already stated that he definitively didn't want to live in a ground floor flat. Got our agent to thank for that. It was gloomy and p*ssed with rain all day and unsurprisingly it didn't sell. Dream house vendor decided to go with the other lower offer on the Monday. I was resigned.

We had a few viewings and offers the following week and weekend and accepted an offer this Monday. On the same day we were considering putting a bid on the haunted house but my heart wasn't really in it and before we committed, I wanted to make damn sure the ship had sailed on dream house. So we went back to them to see if they were still tied to the lower bid, mentioning of course that we were now under offer. They said they were.

It was a folorn and half-hearted one last attempt to get them to revert to our existing best offer. It's not like we increased our offer or anything. I don't feel bad about it. If anything I feel like I SHOULD have upped our offer. If I'd known then just how unpromising the prospects apparently are for finding something similar, I probably would have.

Now looking at smaller terraced places with potential for cellar and loft conversions. Hey ho, something will turn up!