[kellyfamily]

Been told by estate agents that 1 in 4 fall through. So the searches are done the surveyors have been in and now their buyers have pulled out!!!!hhmmmpppfffffff. Thats 3 times , 3 seperate buyers all at the same stage. It seems we have no problems getting people to buy our house just problems it completing. Its been a very bad weekend for us so its time to dig into that british resolve and start over again , this time though we have told the estate agent not to remove our house from their listings till a sale goes through as it seems we have lost more time in selling through people that cant complete.
Just gonna get out my biggest hammer and bludgeon that devil masquerading as a house selling fairy!

[holland]

oooooooooo Kelllyfamily, I feel your pain, I can only imagine what you must be going through. It is d day for us tomorrow and I think I will explode if it all crashes down around our ears....hopefully you'll get a buyer and complete very soon. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Karen, keep your chin up...you'll probably find you are woryying unnecessarily...and you NAt!! I am sure they will wait for them both, may just need to know for budgeting purposes, I think if you are honest all the way through and explain the situation they will wait.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Mickstim]

Welcome Lindsey! How long have you been on the market?

Karen - a 20 minute viewing is a very positive thing. We've had some 5 minute ones and you just know they aren't at all interested and the agent has pursuaded them to come by (one even told us it was way over their price range but the agent told them to come anyway!) But a viewer with some cash would be a better option for all of us!

Kellys - that is SOOOOOOOo frustrating but agree about not taking it off the market. Good luck for the next time around.

Nat - keep smiling and hope things come right very soon.

Jade - I will be watching with interest for your celebratory posting tomorrow. Have everything crossed for you.

Posivibes to all

Barbxx

[holland]

rrrrrr, Thanks Barb..I'm concerned for Grahams health as he will get the phonecall!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my goodness, such a mad busy week this week, shippers supposedly in Thur/Fri, finish work Wed..aghhh

I can't believe it is happening, what am I going to do when my phone line is off from next week????? I'll have to visit family and post there!!!

J xx

[holland]

PS- started a blog, if you fancy a gander pm me your email. Barb, Nat and Julie...you should already have a link??

j xx

[Belmont Babes]

Hi all

Have emailed Case Officer and hope to hear back soon. Let's hope all concerned will wait. ooooh so much frustration vented in this thread. It's got to change soon and become happiness all round. Well I am trying to think positively. Have we all got cauldrons at the ready for 31st? Cauldrons and spells, that'll do the trick!

[holland]

Cauldrons and spells mixed with purchser if things don't go to plan tomorrow;)

[holland]

Nat,

Is there a cut off point that you have to abide by to get to NZ??

Is that why you've emailed them? Its been so long since we sorted ours I am a bit out of touch with the whole process......

[Georgebulldog]

Welcome Lindsey! How long have you been on the market?

Barbxx

Hi
We only went on the Market on Friday, had one offer, too low, 1 second viewing so maybe word may come tomorrow on that. Accidentley turned someone away today, mix up in the times & the OH said no your due at 4.30 & sent them packing :uhoh

Keeping everything crossed

[holland]

Hi and welcome Lindsey..you sound like you have had lots of interest already!!!!!

Good Luck

J x

[Belmont Babes]

Hi Lindsey. Good luck with selling.

Jade - don't know how long we have got? It isn't clear on their letter. Hopefully the CO will email us tomorrow. X

[peebles16]

Welcome Lindsey and best of luck from us too!
Nat - hope you get response you need from CO soon :nice1

Duncan had really good phone call with employers tonight and they were dead supportive - even quoting back Northern Rock stuff to us so they know the situation we are all in. Kept saying that he is the one for the job so they will wait. Upshot is that they think they can mange till end of January which takes a bit of pressure off :D
We're going to lower the price and push new price to those folks who have shown interest. Scottish market is different in that if you've got property on at a fixed price that's it's value really so dropping is unusual but think we have to do it to get things moving. Have to say that after all the nasty things I've said about estate agents our's has been really helpful and honest :confused: Unusual I know but can't fault him at the minute.

Have posted the fairy on to the next in line with a wee token for luck from Scotland
Best of luck folks and cauldrons at the ready for next week :laugh
Kx

[holland]

Good Luck Karen, I am glad the employers are being flexible.

I am sooo nervous, I feel like I have an interview, tummy is in knots waiting to see what the outcome is today

[peebles16]

Thinking of you Jade and am sure everything will be fine :)
Kx

[Mickstim]

Excellent news Karen. Hope the price drop does the trick.

Our viewer from Saturday has reported back that she is very interested and the only downside to our house is that the garage is a bit small (for goodness sake!) but she may come back in 10 days or so with her ex husband who is a surveyor. I'll still be more interested if she sells her country pile first!

Hope you get the email you want Nat and still got everything crossed for you Jade.

Bxx

[EngiNurse]

:sigh:

Well, house is now on the rental market as well. No viewers for the past week or so. The market here is stagnant at best. Oh well.

Good luck to everyone else! :)

[Mickstim]

:sigh:

Well, house is now on the rental market as well. No viewers for the past week or so. The market here is stagnant at best. Oh well.

Good luck to everyone else! :)

Mt step daughter in Florida has just sold her house after 18 months on the market, so it must be pretty slow to say the least.

Jade - where are you? What's happening?

Bxx

[holland]

Hi all,

Well, had a call from the estate agent today, the purchaser went to his solicitors today with a cheque for the full amount:raebanana :raebanana
It will take until Friday to clear, and he has signed the contract but because we haven't yet exchanged he can still pull out. So, the plan is to exchange and complete on the same day!!!!!!!!!not stressful at all then!! So its game on!

I cried when G rang today to let me know, I was happy and sad at the same time...does that make sense?!?

Bed is dismantled now, and master bedroom looks blinking huuugggeeee...their getting a bargain!!!!

Been very emotional today....crying one minute, laughing hysterically the next...oh my goodness, I hate goodbye's...what am I doing?????

J xx

[peebles16]

Fantastic news have some more :raebanana :raebanana
Folks on here say it's a rollercoaster and I would imagine your emotions are all over the place. Just think back to why you started this enormous journey :D

Take care
Karen

[holland]

Thanks Karen I will...people keep saying to me, 'Im sooo jealous...', and I just keep thinking its blinking hard work, emotionally, financially...etc etc etc...two weeks on Friday...oh my goodness, its all becoming very REAL now!

J xx

[Belmont Babes]

Way to go Jade :raebanana :raebanana :raebanana
I am sooooo pleased for you. Can imagine that roller coaster, but still want to ride if that's OK...fairy well the bleedin hell are you?

[Mickstim]

:raebanana :raebanana :raebanana :raebanana

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Way to go Jade!

So glad for you - now get off the rollercoaster and make room for the rest of us!!

[Belmont Babes]

Barb - I really hope something comes from that Lady but I know what you mean, can't take anyone seriously unless they are in a position to buy.

Our estate agent left a message on our phone today to "just touch base". i can't bring myself to call him back yet

[holland]

Hey....its a long rollercoaster...there's room for all of us!!!!!!!!!:yes

Wish you we're all coming over with us in November.......

Where is the fairy by the way??

J xx

[vixxann]

Jade - fantastic, I bet you would have like to have seen that cheque :laugh

fairy I believe is on way to me but not arrived yet - she seems awfully slow - maybe we should sack her and get a new one like I did with my agents :)

New ones came on friday to photograph, had it on rightmove by saturday (all be it with a few spelling errors) and their sign went up today in place of useless agents one:) :)

I think the new photos are MUCH better - anyone that saw old details and wants to cast their eye over new ones - send me a PM, they are ON RIGHTMOVE!!!! (useless useless useless old agents still didn't get it listed on there)

meanwhile new job going very well and I'm busy arranging a spooky halloween party at home!

[EngiNurse]

Congrats Jade!

[speckythecky]

Container arrived yesterday, not in Auckland and not on the ship that it left on 4 weeks ago but it is in NZ somewhere. just need to get things sorted in UK so we can buy the dream home that Kim has found, dream apart from the fact it is another 30 mins north of Auckland. Then we can actually see what is in the container and find all our stuff.

Godd luck with the packing Jade

[Shana F]

A couple came to view the house Friday and they are coming back for a second look tomorrow ... I know I shouldn't get too excited yet, but please send us good wishes & tell the fairy she needs to come by here ...

[Piper]

I read an article in The Sunday Times property section last weekend about how the most desirable properties in London at the moment are properties that have been flats in the past and have been turned back into houses...
Some people are making huge profits on doing exactly that - their buyers are happy that they don't have to wait for all the flats to come up for sale and then do the renovation work.

Also, my sister had the same waiting game with her buyer and the strange money availability thing... It all went through eventually, not without many tears from all the people in her chain though.

Try to keep thinking positive thoughts.

Piper

Okay I hate to say I told you so, but...

Everyone who wants to sell, KEEP THINKING POSITIVE THOUGHTS :)

I'm putting my own house on the market soon - can't wait - should only take a few weeks - days even!!! :D

Piper

[holland]

A couple came to view the house Friday and they are coming back for a second look tomorrow ... I know I shouldn't get too excited yet, but please send us good wishes & tell the fairy she needs to come by here ...

Good Luck Shana, sending you positive vibes, keep us all posted

J xx

[holland]

Container arrived yesterday, not in Auckland and not on the ship that it left on 4 weeks ago but it is in NZ somewhere.

Oh my goodness, have I got this right??Your stuff is somewhere in NZ and you don't know where??? If so, you sound remarkably calm about it! Glad you've found your dream home...you probs don't want to post a picture in case someone else puts an offer in!! You'll have to post a pic when it is all sorted out.

How is your house sale going through in the UK??

Nice to hear from you

J x

[Mickstim]

Good luck Shana.

Vicki - so glad you have a new agent, that sounds much more positive. Wanna PM me the rightmove details so I can compare with your last one?

Hope the house sale is going well for you John.

Bxx

[speckythecky]

The container is in NZ just not in Auckland yet but should be by tomorrow. it is then going to be unloaded, checkde by maf and put into bonded storage until we have somewhere to deliver it to.

I must say I am missing my knifes, my bed and some clothes but apart from that I don't need anything from the container yet.

The house we are going to look at on Saturday is close to Orewa
http://www.harcourts.co.nz/listing/details.do?rul=%2Fsearch%2Fprocess.do%3Fpg%3D1%26b ed%3D3%26ts%3D139418513%26sta%3D1001%26sub%3D1627% 26zon%3D1005%26typ%3DLSB%26reg%3D1002%26lam%3DMin. %2BLand%2BArea&id=389410

As for the house sale in UK, don't know, the agents are useless, still waiting for searches and survey info.

[holland]

Wow!!! What a house...love the driveway, the gardens, the sheep, the kitchen worktops and the large windows...hope the viewing goes well, keep us posted.

J xx

[Mickstim]

Love the house John. Beautiful surfaces in the kitchen and such a fantastic garden - I hope it turns out to be everything you want.

Why are you missing knives? Just curious!!

Bxx

[Belmont Babes]

John I love the house too...and the cute sheep, good luck with it all

[M&J]

wow, nice house!!!!

[Hibiscus]

It has been hours now and the sign outside my house -still- hasn't been updated :D I am going to be a stranger to the vacuum cleaner and gratuitously messy for a couple of days now - when I'm not sleeping and regrowing my fingernails.

[peebles16]

Fabulous News :clap :clap
Can we all have sold signs soon please :nice1
Karen

[holland]

congrats :cheers

[speckythecky]

Why are you missing knives? Just curious!!

Bxx

I like to cook and in my rental I only had 6 steak knives, not brilliant for preparing meat or veg. OH would not let me go out and spend a fortune on new knifes when I have a good set in the container so I have had to survive with just one.

[Mickstim]

Whew John - I'm glad it's just for cooking!!

Well done Hibiscus - please may you be a trendsetter and the first of many (well, the first in the last couple of months at least!!)

Anyone heard from Lesley? I'm wondering where she is and how she is doing.

Bxx

[Belmont Babes]

Yes where has Lesley gone? Maybe she is with the fairy??

Hibiscus - blinkin fab news. Can only hope the tide is changing. What is it all with the news and housing slump etc?...what a load of POPPYCOCK

[Mickstim]

How's it going with you Nat? Hanging in there?

Bxx

[holland]

Hi all,

Oh my goodness...the shippers are in, I am surrounded by boxes as we speak, loads still left to do.....don't think it has hit me yet.....

Our daughter ( cat) Maceymoo is going tonight at 6.30pm, oh my goodness I just don't know what I am going to do...I hate goodbyes so so much

J xx

[Mickstim]

Just don't forget to breathe Jade. It's hard and exciting at the same time but eventually all this will get you where you want to be - and that has to be a good thing!

Bxx

[Belmont Babes]

Hi all

Barb - I am fine(ish) for the most part and trying to enjoy my limbo life whilst waiting for my new one to begin. Some days I do wonder if it will ever happen?! How are you and M?

Jade - I am so happy for you. I can't wait to hear all about it when you get there. Where is Maceymoo going? I can't remember where you said.

[M&J]

Anyone heard from Lesley? I'm wondering where she is and how she is doing.

Bxx

I was only thinking of Lesley yesterday? I expect she is busy settling in.

[Perksy]

Not been on this thread for a while as it has a tendency to depress me and make me very irritable with my estate agent.

Oh to be in your shoes Jade. Soak up every positive minute and put the negative dips down to experience.

Kim

[Belmont Babes]

Hi Kim - "here here" about Jade.

Sorry you find this thread depressing. I have to admit I too get down about no selling but reading the posts helps me feel I am not alone. I do however frequently have rather nasty thoughts about my agents. The Boss phoned me and left message on Monday to "touch base". I called them back Tuesday, Boss was out and he still hasn't phoned me back. I am not going to bother chasing him again. I would of thought with the market being slow he would have plenty of time to call me :uhoh

[Perksy]

Hi Belmont,

Not a criticism of the people on this thread it's great to hear when things are going well but like you I'm in limbo land.

Got a call about a viewer wanting a second viewing at the weekend. Thought it odd as hadn't had a viewer recently, then realised it wasn't my estate agent and he was supposed to be ringing my neighbour!!! He had my details on file from a valuation and got confused.

My agent got short shrift as our houses are identical and the last viewers that came to both preferred ours to theirs but they seem to have them streaming in and we're getting nothing - and they are priced higher!! I will be patient 'til Christmas but cum new year and he'll see a not so pleasant side of me.

[Andy-Dee]

Well here's interesting!!!!!!

The house over the road - which is detached and priced higher than ours has just sold. They switched their estate agents about 4 months ago and its been for sale much longer than ours.

Any how, their estate agents rang us yesterday to say they had noticed ours was for sale and did we remember they had quoted for us. We said Yes but went with others due to better positioning of shop frontage, etc

They have said they believe they have people who would be interested in ours and are coming on Sat 17th to chat and discuss further.

We'll see what happens - but can this be true - is this really a proactive estate agent or are we so fed up we are delusional???? :uhoh

[speckythecky]

That's incredible, how do the agents decide on fees for that one? If the viewers are interested, why did they not go through your agent in the first place?
Good luck, hope something comes from it.

[holland]

Oh my goodness Dee...how interesting?!?? Why Saturady the 17th, thats ages away!!!!

Sounds good to me, we had a ring from an agent a couple of weeks ago, who we didn't go with and they said we had someone who is interested....my initial thought was, 'if you are interested in my property, why aren't you going to the agent that it is up for sale with?'....maybe I am a cynic!!

Let us know how you get on...

J xx

[peebles16]

All the best with that one Dee! One of our very first viewing back in the dim and distant past was booked for two weeks cos they were travelling up from down South so maybe a goer :)
Everything crossed
Karen
P.S. Vicki has the fairy arrived yet?

[EngiNurse]

Dropping the price on our house listing by $7500, as if it will make any difference. The market here is deader than a doornail.

[holland]

You never know Enginurse...stick in there xxxxx

[Mickstim]

Lots of interesting developments here then. We haven't had any other agents actually phone us but get lots of personally delivered notes through the door saying they have an interested party but we always think 'well if they are interested why don't they go to the agents we are with then?' but who knows? The house across the road from us has changed agency 4 times and dropped the price by £75 000 and still isn't sold, so I tend to think anyone who is interested would go to the agent you are with.

Dee - I guess it's the agent who is coming to talk to you and not the potentially interested people? They are going to pursuade you to change agency I would think.

Perksy - I would be getting very fed up with your agency too!

Enginurse - I do hope the price drop helps to get some viewers!

Lets hope for a positive weekend for all of us. Ha ha.

Bxx

[Mickstim]

Nat I would be so annoyed with that agent of yours. Ask him what he is so busy doing!!!!!

Bxx

[dharder]

Well, I hardly dare to write it (would have started a new thread if I thought this was definitely the end of the saga), but it appears that we have a completion date! (I am shaking as I'm writing 'completion', surely I'm jinxing the whole thing now?)

Anyway, hopefully, next Wednesday it will all be over. We're selling to our upstairs neighbour, and thought 'piece of cake.' She told us basically she wants the flat in January, we agreed on a price in May, and then, a week before the movers came in, she started to talk about the price, and wanting to reduce it, etc.

Then she went on holiday for two weeks, and then her lawyers kept coming back to us with questions that actually, she would have been more able to answer (she's been living in the house much longer than we have), and then they didn't get mail, and this and that, and of course by now, we have actually all left the country and are staying with my mum in Germany.

So, even though I am not holding my breath, everthing seems to be signed and ready to go, and I'm carefully optimistic...

Daniela

[Shana F]

Good luck, everybody ... here's to hoping for lots of viewings this week ... :nice1

We actually got an offer yesterday, $339,000 (house is listed at $375,000). We made a counter offer for $360,000 and then they countered our counteroffer for $343,000. (Kind of insulting, really, but then again it is a buyer's market right now)

After talking it over we've decided to hold our ground at $360,000 for now because the house has only been on the market for three weeks, our realtor has neighborhood comps to show that is a reasonable price, and we're not set to make the NZ move until April. So now we're just waiting to see if the offerors will walk away.

It seems like a good decision on paper, but I'm terrified that this buyer will disappear and we'll be looking back in 6 months and wondering why the heck we didn't get out while we could ... the real estate market really is a wild ride, isn't it?

[vixxann]

I have a fairy
I have a fairy
oooh oooh oooooh I have a fairy (I was singing that - can you tell ;) )

Thanks Peebles (Andy-Dee and Jade)
Are we all a little mad do you think?????????

I will keep only a day or so (she requested a weekend stay to check out our new estate agents for sale board) so will need next persons details to send on as soon as she's done her stuff here (Nat is it you?? PM address if so)

Good luck one and all :)

cuckoo :p

[Georgebulldog]

Hi
I posted back on pg 117 & have bee reading all your posts since, what a pain house selling is, can't beieve some of what Ive read.
I have been very lucky & we sold within 5 days on the market for the full asking price, I might add this is only because our house suits 1st time buyers, there's nothing to be done in it, the kitchen is massive & where we are there is a shortage of houses like ours. I really an't believe our luck, it's about time I had some.
Also our EOI has been successful today so ITA is on it's way so ths week couldn't get any better for us.

I'm hoping now my good luck will rub off via the web to all of you :raebanana

[vixxann]

Lindsey thats fantastic - two excellent bits of news for you :raebanana

hope your luck spreads :)

[Mickstim]

I'd like a visit from the fairy at some time guys - when she's all worn out from visiting up north we could give her a trip to the deep south??

Brave Shana, but I know how you feel. We turned down an offer about 2 months ago and still wonder if we should have taken it, but it really was too low for us to feel happy about and if we had taken it we would probably have regretted it.

Daniela - well done you and have some bananas. Hope it all completes without a hitch. :raebanana :raebanana

[Mickstim]

:raebanana :raebanana :raebanana :raebanana

Lindsey - congrats and bananas to you too.

[peebles16]

Daniela and Lindsey well done to you both have some :raebanana :raebanana and hope it's the start of a run of sales for us all :)

Shana no easy answer there as don't think we would have anticipated the slowdown in the market. Hope it works out.

Vicki glad you got the fairy and yes think we are mad otherwise we would never have got on this rollercoaster :D

Best of luck folks
Kx

[holland]

Daniela and Lindsey...congratulations xxxx...Daniela, have you exchanged contracts yet????

:clap :clap We have exchanged everyone:clap :clap

No going back xxxxxx

We move out on Monday....my house is now EMPTY, we have a couch and a laptop!!

J xx

[james the mechanic]

Hi,

Well, this is our third week on the market, and no viewers as yet.
We are hoping to travel to NZ in November, so we are not panicking at the moment, as people keep saying 'we've loads of time'...I seem to be the only one that thinks its only 20 weeks away!!

Are we being realistic thinking we should get sold/packed up for November?
J and G x

:raebanana it only took 1268 posts on this thread start to finish. Not only were you being realistic, but you were ahead of schedule, all that panicking for nothing then.:laugh :clap
Well done guys:nice1
James

[holland]

Ha ha James...talk about cutting it fine eh!!!!

Was nice to read the first post back again!!

J x

[Mickstim]

:clap :clap :clap :clap

Amazing news Jade. Brilliant. Wonderful. Well done!!

Bxx

[peebles16]

We've got viewing tomorrow - fingers crossed everyone :D
Karen

[holland]

oooooooooooooooo Karen congrats, Good Luck:clap

What time is it at??

j x

[holland]

Have a fun day cleaning!:nice1

[peebles16]

2pm - I'm just about to start cleaning now :D
Poor Duncan it's his birthday today and now he has hysterical cleaning woman barking orders at him!!
How you feeling Jade - not long now?
Kx