Buying a house

[Churchill]

In in London and I can't even get an offer accepted, last offer I put on a place was this weekend turned out there was another 11 offers from 23 viewings, 3 cash at over 800k, I can't compete even with my place sold (buyer willing to wait but how much longer...) and no mortgage needed, its fecking depressing, god knows how first time buyers manage.

Sell your house.

Get a short term rental and then you're in a chain free position - always an advantage.

[vetran]

Sell your house.

Get a short term rental at 3-4 times your mortgage payments and then you're pouring away cash - always a disadvantage.

ftfy

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

Sell your house.

Get a short term rental and then you're in a chain free position - always an advantage.

Yeah looks like I might have to go that route, just prices are moving so quick I worried of getting priced out of what I'm after, I could move in with gf for a while.

[ZARDOZ]

Have a mortgage in place so all boxes will need to be ticked or indemnified as you say. They wanted to take teh fire surround which took me by surprise but apparently they will replace but lets see what the replies say...

We bought an expensive period property off an older couple and tight doesn't come into it, they wanted to charge top rate for light fittings, curtains and even curtain poles! I wouldn't mind so much if the said items were not several years old. We would have ripped them out at some stage anyway. But the prospect of moving into a house with young children without even a curtain poll really peed me off. I understand if it's someting of value like an Aga but getting tight over a few hundred quid for tat when the house sale is worth several hundred thousand leaves a bitter taste in the mouth and is not very classy. In the end we called their bluff threatened to pull out and they left 90% of it for 'free'.

Contrast that with the house I sold where I left all fixtures and fittings (much newer than the ones above) and did not ask a penny for them.

[vetran]

We bought an expensive period property off an older couple and tight doesn't come into it, they wanted to charge top rate for light fittings, curtains and even curtain poles! I wouldn't mind so much if the said items were not several years old. We would have ripped them out at some stage anyway. But the prospect of moving into a house with young children without even a curtain poll really peed me off. I understand if it's someting of value like an Aga but getting tight over a few hundred quid for tat when the house sale is worth several hundred thousand leaves a bitter taste in the mouth and is not very classy. In the end we called their bluff threatened to pull out and they left 90% of it for 'free'.

Contrast that with the house I sold where I left all fixtures and fittings (much newer than the ones above) and did not ask a penny for them.

must admit I'm taking the water softener but leaving the curtain poles and dishwasher.

[ZARDOZ]

must admit I'm taking the water softener but leaving the curtain poles and dishwasher.

White goods sometimes for negotiation I get, especially if newish/good quality.
Their attitude was if you don't buy it will will rip it out including carpets. When it comes to light fittings they were reminded that by law they have to replace them with a basic fitting, ultimately would have cost more than they were worth so they left them in situ. Curtain polls was just very tight as they would not have fitted in most houses, I mean who takes the curtain polls in a move? FFS

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

We got our fixtures and fittings list through from our sellers and whilst they are leaving most things that you'd expect, they want to take the curtain poles too. I don't get it. How do they know they will fit in their new place anyway?

Just checked the form again and they are also taking the toilet roll holder.

[Churchill]

ftfy

You really are a clueless fuqwit.

[vetran]

I think I love Vetran

ftfy

[Scrag Meister]

Sort of a chain but they are buying a probate flat (downsizing) i am praying that isn't complex (apparently only 1 enquiry left there)

As long as the probate is all cleared up then should be straight forward, but a colleague has just had a 9 month completion due to delays in the probate side of the process

Looking on the bright side they didn't try to renegotiate as London house prices went up over that timeframe.