Owning your own home

Daily Mail wants to run a story on the EWS1 fiasco

Prepare your best 'sad person in newspaper' face

Don't wear the Omega for the folded arms pic tho...

Ha

this should be in the forum book!

Should wear all my watches.

Ha! yeah we wondered where all the mirrors (And robot?) had gone. He sounds like a great guy. It is a very nice house and basically what we were looking for.

Had the sandblasters in today to remove all of the staining from the wooden beams and panelling. The DUST! The guys did a brilliant job of sheeting everything up but it's still fucking everywhere. It's why we got it done as the first job.

Wasn't that @edmundro 's old employer?

Anyone put offers on more than one property at the same time with the intention of going with the one that offers the better deal?

Feels shonky but we are in a dilemma

The amount I’ve been messed around by estate agents I wouldn’t hesitate in the slightest...

Yeah - don’t see a problem with this.

Would you keep them blind to it or actually tell them?

No reason to tell them. What would be the point?

Hey agent of overpriced house that’s slightly better than the other house but at least £100k too much: we are making an offer on this other place at £x and they’ll probably take it - if you can get your seller to match that or at least drop the pretence that 1.2M is not enough we’d go with you instead.

You could let them infer it, by saying that you are also actively interested in another property.

That seems to be the working theory, yes. What a small world/large forum, hey?

Guy is a cunt to have as a neighbour, but he might be boss of the year for all I know. He certainly seems to love his work.

It's not really the estate agents that are being screwed though, it's the people trying to sell. Obviously depends at what point you come clean but accepting an offer, stopping viewings and then being told "we've decided to buy somewhere else" would be a pisser for the person selling.

If it's just an offer then that's one thing but it depends how far you take it.

@Howard I guess your guidance is probably, would you be pissed off if someone did it to you. Generally a decent indicator. In your scenario I'd tell the overpriced one that although you prefer their property you'd also made another offer as you felt it was overpriced.

In a world of gazumping though, as a buyer it’s dreadful and i think you’re the most vulnerable in the whole process.

The whole process needs regulating.

I think he means making two offers at once (and possibly using that fact to help bring about a decision) rather than having two accepted offers at the same time.

I wouldn't expect to get to the point where a seller would take the place off the market and then have us pull out, if that helps. It's more about expediency and using reasonably priced place as a lever on expensive place, but it might be that seller of expensive place wants to take an empty Edwardian semi through a winter unoccupied rather than have 1.2m in the bank.

Would be perfectly happy with reasonably priced place and they have a better incentive to sell.

Or what @tbc said.

Are you looking at becoming @E11_FTW 's neighbour?

I find I can't deal with East London estate agents without wanting to murder them - we are looking in Ealing. The agents might - just might - be actual human beings rather than lizards!

Pretty pleased with the sandblasting - there’s the Essex coat of arms (?) engraved in the timber above the inglenook - which became apparent once exposed

Also looking in Ealing / Northfields. Don’t hold your breath...