Owning your own home

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NickCJ in reply to @Hefty

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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Hefty in reply to @NickCJ

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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NickCJ in reply to @Hefty

I feel that engaging a solicitor is usually a good sign of that? Agents we have used to sell (& I've only done it twice) have always insisted on the buyers having a solicitor engaged before drawing up the memo of sale. Have to be an odd fish to spend £500 in abort costs out of boredom.

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