Owning your own home

Didn't realise EA acted like that outside of London too...

You do mine and I'll do yours, that way we can get he insurance, I won't press charges if you don't.

Manchester is up and coming though isn't it.

Leeds EA's are still fairly laid back and don't give too much shit as long as you aren't selling a CC 'apartment'.

My advice for Leeds is don't buy South or East.

Or Headdingley, unless you like students.

Bolton is nice. Electric trains soon.

Has the agent actually said that you can't see the house because are too many people viewing it?

Yeah. Maybe there's something I'm unaware of, like they only have an hour or two available, but the least they could have done is written this on their listing. Limited spaces. First come first serve. Some kinda clue.

Looking North. Houses are so weird in Leeds.

Are you looking to work in Leeds or commute outside of it?

This is the first time I've ever heard this said. (Not the electric train part.)

Self-employed. I largely work from home. I've been in Manchester for 18 years ish. So am looking there mostly, but also Leeds 'cos that's where I'm currently staying with my brother. If I was commuting it would be to Manchester (for work).

anyone know of a decent plumber sw london. toilets just gone kaput.
girlfriend and small child at home with colds, so needs fixing asap

Daft question: if a server goes down does it affect faxes too?

Sat in cafe waiting to complete. Buyer solicitors claiming server down and that lender has emailed to confirm, but he can't get the funds until he replies. And he cant reply.

Slowly. Dying.

We used
http://www.restorerepointrepair.com/

Ferdi and his brothers.
Decent lads.

Did a full render strip, re render and paint for us.

Can send you pics if you want.

Thanks! Managed to get someone in last week to sort.

Yes, could be genuine. Faxes via a software application (relying on a server) are a thing.

Ok, ta.

Also anyone saying "the server has gone down" is likely actually saying "I have no idea how any of this works, but it's not working and that sounds dramatic so I'll say that".

That definitely fits the profile of this awful awful solicitor.

Also anyone saying "the server has gone down" is likely actually saying "I have no idea how any of this works, but it's not working and that sounds dramatic so I'll say that"

So much this

Putting our flat up to sell.. Purplebricks? Any thoughts?

From both recently buying, and selling, I say they over value your property to get your business, and then take a long long long long long time to sell it, if at all. Check out how long purple bricks properties have been on in the market in your area on zoopla etc.

I had really wanted to use an online estate agent, as they should be able to rival a 'real' EA. However, as they take 100% of their fee to list the property, and they don't get anything else if they sell there's no incentive for them to actually bother selling the place.

Interesting! Thanks,

Our valuation seems right, we are having a standard EA come out to talk too, on a tight budget so the lower fees certainly temp us... but we do actually need to sell and ideally not in months and months time!

We had them over and the agent we had was good, obviously had a lot of local knowledge and valued it at the same as most of the other agents. We’re going with a local agent for 8 weeks who’s confident of getting a higher price but will consider Purple Bricks after that.
On the flip side we went to see a house on with them and the agent was pretty rubbish - didn’t have the answer to some simple questions and gave the distinct impression she’d rather not be there. So it clearly depends who’s in your area.
The transparency for both sides is an excellent - we get alerted when a viewing or an offer is made on the house we viewed so not reliant on an agent to keep you in the loop.

Thanks! We like the idea of being able to talk direct to buyers / answer questions etc, rather than all going through the EA which seemingly takes forever! Our PB agent seemed open and honest, will just have to see how we go I guess!

Yopa are doing no sale no fee contracts now.