Some house vendors are in la la land.

[eek]

Ok point taken. I thought they'd bite my hand off as a cash buyer. Apparently not

Unless they are really desperate why would they? If you are in no real rush to leave people will wait until someone else comes along.

If you want something cheap the best advice is softly softly catchee monkey.

If you want an example as to why you plan hasn't work look at the Northern Ireland housing market. There the bottom of the market has fallen 50-55%. The top has dropped 30% or so but the middle market has hardly changed as people don't have to move and so have no need to accept an offer and crystallise a perceived loss.

[manclarky]

They may have also just reduced the asking/market price so are reluctant to take less. Their problem, I know but think psychologically to beat them.

I think he's taking the pi$$ out of MF:

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...a-la-land.html

[BigTime]

How long's it been on the market?

It's a bit early in the season for them to take the 1st (and possibly only) reasonable offer that's well under the asking price. They'll be back around Easter to see if you're still interested.

[AtW]

Yes I got £750K in voluntary redundancy

They'd gladly pay that much to get rid of you for good.

[AtW]

You should have offered £700k first so you could have moved up to £750k later.

Even atw would have known that. Are you some sort of cretin?

I'd offer that amount payable in monthly installment over period of next 25 years.

HTH

[AtW]

I think he's taking the pi$$ out of MF:

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...a-la-land.html

Or the other way around.

HTH

[Mich the Tester]

Some house vendors are in la la land.

Is that where this chap comes from?

[eek]

Is that where this chap comes from?

Don't you mean

[SantaClaus]

I would have thought SASguru being as mean as you usually are, you would have made an offer above the asking price to eliminate the competition and then drop to 700k five minutes before exchange of contracts.

This actually happened to a friend of mine. Estate agent was accepting sealed bids on a very pricey property. Some lawyer type put in an offer way above the asking price. Competition disappears and then the buyer drops the price after survey or just before completion.

Uh oh, I've given you ideas now

[AtW]

I would have thought SASguru being as mean as you usually are, you would have made an offer above the asking price to eliminate the competition and then drop to 700k five minutes before exchange of contracts.

WHS

I do it all the time.

MarillionFan