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General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2
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Ha, I did ask the surname, my mind did go back to that old thread...ForeverAddickted said:
They didnt go round the house with a ruler measuring up did they?JohnBoyUK said:We've put our house on the market.
A family walked round, told the Estate Agent they absolutely loved in.
Then went in with an offer £170k under.
You cheeky f'ing bastards.
Exactly that. Mrs JB wants to physically harm them now, they have proper provoked her and she has taken massive umbrage.Arsenetatters said:Even if they came back with a sensible offer I’d tell them to poke it now.
To be fair, even the EA told them they were having a laugh.2 -
My wife had a similar thing with the house we're currently in.cantersaddick said:
We had an offer accepted on a house (we offered 5K over asking price such was the market at the time) and were so happy only for a couple days later after it had been taken off the market them to call us and say theyd accepted a higher offer and that they didnt think we could match it so no point countering.Arsenetatters said:
Even if they came back with a sensible offer I’d tell them to poke it now.JohnBoyUK said:We've put our house on the market.
A family walked round, told the Estate Agent they absolutely loved in.
Then went in with an offer £170k under.
You cheeky f'ing bastards.When I was selling my Dad’s house I had 3 offers after the open house thing. All over the asking price. I took the one that had no chain. One of the other two (who hadn’t sold their house) asked what they’d offered and said they’d give more. Nah. Just don’t like that.
We got the last laugh because a couple months later a bigger house across the road (sunny side) with bigger garden, bigger drive and much more potential came up and we paid £10k less for it than they did for theirs. Still subtly put the finger up at them when I see them though!
The house was previously owned by an old couple, who both eventually died, leaving it to the next door neighbour, who has cared for them for a good few years. But they took it on the basis that they needed to interview everyone who wanted to buy it, so basically, they could control who lived next door.
Mrs JB offered £500k. They accepted. Then a couple of weeks later, they claimed another family had offered them £550k. Mrs JB was heartbroken so either raised her offer or she lost it. She literally broke the bank to raise the extra. Only down the line for the survey to say the house was overvalued by £50k, so they reluctantly allowed the sale to go through on £500k, to save starting all over again. She had the last laugh.
We lived next door to the cheeky fuckers for 6 years until they retired down to the South Coast. They were the most interfering, nosey neighbours known to man.
Might be the reason why we are looking to move somewhere the nearest neighbours are about 200m away from us.3 -
depends what house is up for really.
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Tristan de Cunha is supposed to be very niceJohnBoyUK said:
My wife had a similar thing with the house we're currently in.cantersaddick said:
We had an offer accepted on a house (we offered 5K over asking price such was the market at the time) and were so happy only for a couple days later after it had been taken off the market them to call us and say theyd accepted a higher offer and that they didnt think we could match it so no point countering.Arsenetatters said:
Even if they came back with a sensible offer I’d tell them to poke it now.JohnBoyUK said:We've put our house on the market.
A family walked round, told the Estate Agent they absolutely loved in.
Then went in with an offer £170k under.
You cheeky f'ing bastards.When I was selling my Dad’s house I had 3 offers after the open house thing. All over the asking price. I took the one that had no chain. One of the other two (who hadn’t sold their house) asked what they’d offered and said they’d give more. Nah. Just don’t like that.
We got the last laugh because a couple months later a bigger house across the road (sunny side) with bigger garden, bigger drive and much more potential came up and we paid £10k less for it than they did for theirs. Still subtly put the finger up at them when I see them though!
The house was previously owned by an old couple, who both eventually died, leaving it to the next door neighbour, who has cared for them for a good few years. But they took it on the basis that they needed to interview everyone who wanted to buy it, so basically, they could control who lived next door.
Mrs JB offered £500k. They accepted. Then a couple of weeks later, they claimed another family had offered them £550k. Mrs JB was heartbroken so either raised her offer or she lost it. She literally broke the bank to raise the extra. Only down the line for the survey to say the house was overvalued by £50k, so they reluctantly allowed the sale to go through on £500k, to save starting all over again. She had the last laugh.
We lived next door to the cheeky fuckers for 6 years until they retired down to the South Coast. They were the most interfering, nosey neighbours known to man.
Might be the reason why we are looking to move somewhere the nearest neighbours are about 200m away from us.
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Edinburgh of the Seven Seas eh? Cold, wet and full of middle class english pretending to be jocks? No thanks1
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When people copy someone's joke.0
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UPS - Don't think they've ever completed a delivery to us on the day specified, let along the time slot. Utter fuckin shambles of a company.4
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As an update to this, they've just booked in for a second viewing.JohnBoyUK said:We've put our house on the market.
A family walked round, told the Estate Agent they absolutely loved in.
Then went in with an offer £170k under.
You cheeky f'ing bastards.
Mrs JB wants to show them around herself. I'll probably come home to find them tied up with her going at them with a baseball bat!7 -
These people sound like idiots. I hope your missus beats the shit out of them.JohnBoyUK said:
As an update to this, they've just booked in for a second viewing.JohnBoyUK said:We've put our house on the market.
A family walked round, told the Estate Agent they absolutely loved in.
Then went in with an offer £170k under.
You cheeky f'ing bastards.
Mrs JB wants to show them around herself. I'll probably come home to find them tied up with her going at them with a baseball bat!
In the highly unlikely event that your house is ridiculously overpriced, they should have politely told the agent that they won't be making an offer as they feel that the current asking price is too high.
Making a derogatory offer, one that is too low to even use as a starting point for negotiations, is only going to cause offence and irritation.
I wouldn't even let them see the place again. An improved, but still offensively low offer forthcoming.6 - Sponsored links:
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Agreed. Not sure why you’re allowing them the courtesy.As someone whose sale/move looks like it’s collapsed today after we picked our buyer with a (marginally) lower offer than the other two involved and he’s just decided to pull out on the cusp of completion I can’t bear the thought of having to meet a bucket load of more idiots.These lot will come back still £85k shy of what you want and even if they get to an agreeable number they’ll still piss you about later on.
I wouldn’t have entertained them twice8 -
Spies complaining when they get caught on motorbikes in Iran.
The Foreign Office hiring terrible spies.2 -
You should increase the price by £170k.JohnBoyUK said:
As an update to this, they've just booked in for a second viewing.JohnBoyUK said:We've put our house on the market.
A family walked round, told the Estate Agent they absolutely loved in.
Then went in with an offer £170k under.
You cheeky f'ing bastards.
Mrs JB wants to show them around herself. I'll probably come home to find them tied up with her going at them with a baseball bat!3 -
I can only assume the agent has put them straight, and maybe they have had a re-think, I understand about wanting to tell them to go fu*k yerself, but a sale is a sale, everyone deserves a second chance, just don't entertain them for a third time...🙄0
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I wouldn’t let them come round. They won’t offer you what you want and I don’t think I’d trust them to stick to it.JohnBoyUK said:
As an update to this, they've just booked in for a second viewing.JohnBoyUK said:We've put our house on the market.
A family walked round, told the Estate Agent they absolutely loved in.
Then went in with an offer £170k under.
You cheeky f'ing bastards.
Mrs JB wants to show them around herself. I'll probably come home to find them tied up with her going at them with a baseball bat!What’s their situation? I bet they haven’t sold their house or are just thinking about it.I honestly wouldn’t waste your time.2 -
Just a quick call to the agent “please let the viewers know that we won’t be accepting an offer below the asking price- please confirm that position with them before the viewing”.6
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Sounds like good advice, SA.SporadicAddick said:Just a quick call to the agent “please let the viewers know that we won’t be accepting an offer below the asking price- please confirm that position with them before the viewing”.
We'll be putting our house on the market in about 3 weeks time when we return from our week's break and these posts have reminded me of the cons of the whole process.
We collected the keys to our downsize flat in central TW this morning so just the sale of ours to deal with now.
Fingers crossed we don't have too many problems.
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Threads getting taken over by house buying discussions.8
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Only know in this instance because they are relations of a friend- and naïve and/or stupid.Chizz said:1 -
It’s not as if Iran have a history of detaining innocent people, or was Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe also a spy?Chizz said:1 -
Who knows? Does the Foreign Office publish a list of the spies it recruits, or do they usually attempt to keep that information from the public?SporadicAddick said:
It’s not as if Iran have a history of detaining innocent people, or was Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe also a spy?Chizz said:0 -
Didn't have you down as a conspiracy theorist.Chizz said:1 -
Top sports pundits still saying Athletico Madrid.4
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Nice try mate,,,anyway back to the world of James Bond...🙄buckshee said:Top sports pundits still saying Athletico Madrid.1 -
We all know they should be saying Madreeeeeeeeed.0
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They were seemingly doing a blog about their travels in the countries they were travelling through en route to Australia I think, apparently she blogs an awful lot about everything. There were some unwise comments made about the country, which surprisingly doesn't fit very well with the tolerant regime that is the Islamic Republic.MrOneLung said:
I don't really think that 2 fools on a bike can add an awful lot to the information that Israeli/US intelligence community can provide. They were advised of the risks by the Foreign Office and knew of the dangers so it seems a ridiculous thing to do.0
