Owning your own home

As above - 'at' if that's the language used, means on the day to me.

I would even argue that means when the job is finished (same day).

Tell them the offer expires on Monday? Then move on with your life. No sense in getting too worked up about how other people choose to behave.

Definitely keen - I don’t ride enough as it is

It’s Penberth

@Jameo I'd be telling these cunts to jog on with their full payment up front.

Hold back 15% and if they say the installation is cancelled, tell them "okay thanks, please refund me all that I've paid" and then look elsewhere. It's getting warmer for 6months now.

fancy shed and koi pond?

I expect if they aren't talking Turkey with tbc then they are either having discussions with another party or they haven't got another offer on the table but tbcs isn't in the ballpark where they can have meaningful discussions.

If the owners are a couple of old(er) people in my experience that also makes things complicated as they generally don't have the same sense of urgency to get things agreed.

Nice! That’s a quiet road near Abbotshall park (check it out).

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@leggy_blonde would know and as they said, 'at' doesn't mean before. Is the contact witten by the firm or a 3rd party. If a third party ask them their definition of at. And if the window people, then give them the dictionary and some good will.

Lesson learnt on reading contracts!

extremely jealous

Welcome to the neighbourhood. We need more LFGSSers

Offer (eventually) rejected today.

It's a power of attorney sale and mortgage free, and from what the estate agent implied it's two brothers trying to get as much as they can for the cost of care/their inheritance.

We offered x, apparently before they listed it they discussed hoping to get between x and x*1.04.

We've been told they would accept x*1.025 but I'm not sure they actually would, I feel like that might just incentivise them to try to hold out for even more. I'm also slightly hopeful that a couple more quiet weeks without offers and it might seem more attractive. But by then the cheaper place would be off the table I suspect.

Yeah i wouldnt play that ball tbh, people are greedy and think well get this but that was a year odd ago and the markets changed.

If you get it at the price you offered happy days if not onto the next oen.

We offered on a place under similar circumstances in the past. Went 50k over budget and they still didn't accept. One of the siblings just refused to sell.

If you really want the place I'd say make a final offer stating it's your last offer and you'll walk with a time limit to for them to accept. Then delete the house from your brain.

I'd also be hesitant to hit the estate agents ££

They sound like a couple of complete Herberts. I'd be tempted to leave the offer open for 5 more days then move on. Unless it really is your dream house, in which case pay them the extra 20k or whatever it is they want.

50k that's madness.

We got suckered into the process. Plus at the end we wanted to see what they would accept. These days I assume we would have failed at mortgage stage.

The house eventually got bought by a developer and a second house built on half the garden

That's what we basically did with the offer we've had rejected. The estate agent recommended leaving it on the table and seemed to suggest that it was a good offer and that he'd told the vendors we were good buyers (we've got a sale agreed from a chain-free cash purchaser 🤞)

The estate agent has a number of properties in the area which all seem overpriced, and some of which have been on for months now. This place seems well-priced in comparison, but by the same token you get the feeling the agent might also be advising them that the market isn't what it was and that they should take what they can get.

Does anyone know of a company or service which would turn carpet into a rug? We have leftover from our carpet fitting and would quite like to make a rug from it.

Carpet fitters probably could - not the ones who let you down though I guess.

We had carpets fitted on two floors and then turned into a runner on the stairs, and they just bound the edges similar to what you'd have on a rug.

How did they bind the edges? I've got to buy a lot of carpet in the next week or so and if I can use some of the offcuts for the two runners I need them that might save me a few bob.

I'm not sure to be honest, I wasn't here for any of it - I just came home from work and had the hoover shoved in my hand.

But the fitters were not very good at anything apart from the runners looking good - so maybe that was done in-store.

Gandhi carpets on East Ham High St North by the way - I'd definitely rate their prices and advice, but use a different fitter.

I get a Tapi Carpets discount through work (I work for Lord Harris of Carpetright) and it was still more than double what Gandhi quoted.

I saw that Tapi carpets do binding which seems to be what is required. Cheers!

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