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Just the usual shenanigans.
We had gazumping. A lot of “we’ve had an offer 5K under asking, and if you offer the asking price we’re certain you’ll get it”. Discrepancies between EA and seller stories regarding PP and building regs. General poor/slow/protracted communications. There’s plenty more, but we have been looking since we moved back to the UK a few years ago. They weren’t all like this, but I’d say over half were.
The EA branch manager for place we eventually bought was a thoroughly obnoxious prat who behaved like he was negotiating on the apprentice. In fairness the rest of the staff we’re nice, and the manager had “moved on” by the time things got going again two months ago.
TBH I was expecting this hassle. However, it doesn’t happen where my wife is from, so having to explain all this agro and seeing her disappointed many times over made it all more stressful than it should be.
esstee-
Cheers.
Had a weird one yesterday where we viewed a Edwardian terrace and in an otherwise well presented house they had pulled all the doors off and replaced them with flat unfinished fire doors. I asked why the fuck they would have done that because it looked like vandalism in such a well turned out place, and the EA couldn't really explain it. Wondered if it was because the place was tenanted at some point. Can't see the reason for it in any other scenario but I'm sure someone on here knows better than me.
Howard
Oh do tell. What happened?
We have friends who just bought there, sounded reasonably painless.