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  • What i'm saying is we were happy with our offer. But we dont have hard cash to make up the difference.

  • But we dont have hard cash to make up the difference.

    Dunno. I would look quite sceptically on anyone who can buy £x hundreds / thousands of house but can't find £30k. ISAs? Raid pensions? Sell some shit? Try another lender?

    The truth is you could probably find the money (it's not £100k were are talking here) but it would be agonising, right?

    So. FWIW I don't disagree that you have to renegotiate here, if it's too painful to get the money it's too painful. Just the way you go about it. I would lean towards 'well the bank said this but that's their opinion, I've tried to make up the shortfall as much as I could and can pay £x'. That way you get the house.

    I was fully expecting our valuation to come in under our offer and I would have ignored it (unless it was £100k off, but then I would have walked, and checked myself, and started again). But they reckoned it was worth what we offered. That came in last week.

  • lol just that £30k he keeps behind the sofa then?

    im with @Señor_Bear ; offer them £30k less and be prepared to walk

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