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That’s probably the point of those forms isn’t it? To try to help understand who is efficient and committed and actually likely to buy.
The way @ReekBlefs described it, it sounded like the point of the form was to allow sellers to select the most "worthy" buyer for non-financial reasons. I guess it makes you feel better about trousering £X00k in tax-free gainz if you think a nice nurse got to own their own home?
If you have proof of deposit and a credit-checked AIP I'm not sure what more you can learn.
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In sales jobs they teach you to look for motivation first, then ability to buy.
If you work at Rumbelows there’s no point spending a load of time with someone browsing tellies while their kid is doing gymnastics next door even if they have just won £5k on a scratch card. The customer you need is the one whose washing machine blew up this morning.
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The way @ReekBlefs described it, it sounded like the point of the form was to allow sellers to select the most "worthy" buyer for non-financial reasons. I guess it makes you feel better about trousering £X00k in tax-free gainz if you think a nice nurse got to own their own home?
What they tell their buyers is 'in the event of two similar bids your story may make a difference'.
But because they undervalue everything - last time we were seeking £300k minimum and they put it on for £275k - that leads to loads of people with a max bid of £276k and £277k thinking they're in with a chance if they put the saddest story possible. It genuinely upset me because I wished I could accept the bids but it was just never going to be possible for us. We learned next time to put it on for only five grand under asking, but it was a painful learning.
Hefty
ReekBlefs
That’s probably the point of those forms isn’t it? To try to help understand who is efficient and committed and actually likely to buy.
I’m sure they’re not foolproof, but when there are a load of very similar offers from people in similar buying positions you need to somehow decide who to go for and info on who they are - work nearby as a nurse, kids already in the school, friends with Tristan and Freya at no 23, dad’s a mortgage broker etc. - is at least something.
I don’t know anything about that particular agent being good, so that’s not a recommendation, indeed I remember one of them not wearing socks in their early marketing.