[victoria24]

what's all this talk about chestnuts? :-)

[Mickstim]

So sorry to hear the news Walshy. Just glad they didn't let you get all the way to exchange date before they pulled out. Real bummer.

Bx

[Janey]

Bad luck Walshy keep fingers crossed for further viewings what a roller coaster !

[Kerry and David]

Walshy, it's so horrible when that happens. We had the same thing happen to us - twice so we also went down the rental route.
It's not ideal but now I am in NZ and the house is rented for a year it doesn't seem so bad.
Good luck.

[andrewp]

Oh Dear Walshy - that's a real bugger! I'd also be gutted!!

We had a viewing yesterday afternoon. Whipped through in 15 minutes so was a bit worried about that. However, the agent says they want to come back on Sunday. Lets hope - we've had lots of 2nd viewing promises but not one has ever actually come back. Also meeting with a new agent this morning. They have recently sold a couple of houses in our area so it looks like they may be attracting the right buyers for our type of property! I think it's time to get an SA fairy together!

[NZ Hopeful]

What a bugger, it makes no sense - buying a house for virtually the same price but needs loads of work doing - crazy people! :uhoh

Sounds promising for you though catt - I will keep everything crossed for you!

[thewoodies]

Feed back from viewing monday they loved it! Going to see mortgage advisor tomorrow agent said she will be very surprised if they dont make an offer!
They are renting round the corner and want to buy!!!!

Trying not to get too excited

Will let you know :exit

[JandM]

Oh, fingers crossed! +++++++++++++++++++++++++

[NZ Hopeful]

Oh woodies! I have EVERYTHING crossed for you! Good luck!

[Hejwitch_uk]

woodies and catt....everything crossed. Just had a verbal offer from someone who viewed in June when price was offers over £140,00. We dropped to a fixed price of £130,000 and they've offered £120,000. Unfortunately we can't do it for that, as we owe too much to drop more than a grand or two. We still have 2 potentials in the bag though - both cash buyers, who are due to be in a position to offer or pull out within the next week. Still, nobody said it would be easy. OMG if only we could accept it......:wah Sorry to hear your bad news walshy.

[NZ Hopeful]

Aww Hejwitch, I feel for you, but on the positive side it IS an offer, not a good one granted but it's something in the right direction. :)

[Hejwitch_uk]

Certainly is. Their problem is that they've been trying to sell privately, and have now approached one of those companies that will buy your house from you, and they've offered her less than she was asking (duh!) so she wants us to drop because of that. Don't think they'll be in a position to up their offer. Realise though, that we're VERY lucky in that we still have 2 interested parties who are both cash buyers. We'll wait and see.

[catt]

Hejwitch n Woodies got everything cross for you too good luck.......by the way i crossed the dogs paws as well to add some extra crossing......told hubby to do the same but he said everything is crossed already for us but he said he will try to cross a little firmer for you all as well :nice1

Agent rang us this morning said the viewers from yesterday were really interested in ours....the other one they viewed was more expensive and smaller yet in the same area so they discounted it. They had two more to view in the same street as ours this evening one of them next door but one to me so i saw them go in and noticed the time as you do ;) they were in all of 15 minutes and they have to pass our house to turn around and they slowed down as they passed ours and oggled vigorously......no i wasnt peeping around the curtains i was in the kitchen putting pots in the dishwasher and took a sneaky look as they passed ......:D

We should have some news by lunchtime tomorrow hopefully one way or the other......:uhoh

[JandL]

I hope your feeding that fairy well, I need her over here soon!

[Hejwitch_uk]

Sincerely hope it's good news tomorrow for you catt, would be nice if you could raise our spirits with a successful outcome!! Good luck.

[Hejwitch_uk]

Another viewer for tomorrow - I'm at work so daughter will have to show them round. Still have house to sell, so not great, but the party that have expressed and interest officially are coming next week. Hope to know something concrete by end of next week. Keep it up everyone, there must be some kind of light at the end of this very looooooooong tunnel!

[thewoodies]

Another viewer for tomorrow - I'm at work so daughter will have to show them round. Still have house to sell, so not great, but the party that have expressed and interest officially are coming next week. Hope to know something concrete by end of next week. Keep it up everyone, there must be some kind of light at the end of this very looooooooong tunnel!

Good luck

[NZ Hopeful]

Fingers crossed Hejwitch :)

[victoria24]

www.ineedsomeviewings!.com

[NZ Hopeful]

www.ineedsomeviewings!.com

I thought you had messed up the link and googled it! :o:laugh

What I thought they could do for me I really don't know! :exit

[victoria24]

sorry! didn't mean to mislead. just trying to upgrade my desperation!

[catt]

Ok here goes...........whispering it so that the "lets pull out and upset the sellers" monster doesnt hear this.

oh never mind the whispering.........

WE ARE SOLD SUBJECT TO CONTRACT

...........still will not believe it until we exchange contracts and hopefully that will be sooner rather than later as these are a young couple first time buyers with a mortgage offer in place from a previous property which the seller withdrew from and so no chain to worry about, only worry is that everything goes through smoothly with no survey problems or that they decide to offer even less than the reduction we have given them from the price .......fourth reduction since putting on the market in Feb 2008 to a value of £40k in total.

can i have just one banana now and the rest when we exchange please ........thank you all for crossing fingers toes and everything else you can cross............just keep them crossed for us and we will continue to do the same for you all. :raebanana cups of coffee and digestive bicky all round :) well its still a work night will celebrate more when we feel more comfortable that it will go through. :cheers

[victoria24]

get in Catt!

[Hejwitch_uk]

OMG that's absolutely brilliant catt!!!! Here's the solitary 'nana you requested, :raebanana with bags more when you complete........ I'm soooooooooooo chuffed for you!!! :clap:clap:clap

[Mickstim]

:raebanana

Way to go Catt - you'll be in BOP for the summer. Lots more bananas in store for you too

Bx

[Janey]

Fantastic Catt I am so pleased for you

[peebles16]

WOOOhooo (very quietly obviously so as not to wake any monsters :D ) So very pleased for you Catt and here's your nana as requested :raebanana

Hopefully it's the beginning of a big rush of sales for you all :yes

Karenx

[macuser]

Congratulations. Really pleased to hear your excellent news Catt.

Helen

[cathgates]

Fingers crossed Catt XX :raebanana

Cath X

[janrzm]

Great news:raebanana

It seems there is still hope!

[macuser]

Yeah it gives you a boost doesn't it? Thinking,"Oooooh! We could be next!"

Here's hoping!

Helen

[nickydwuk]

A very quiet ' well done & congrats'. Here is the first of many nana's :raebanana

[JandM]

HOORAY! Fingers very crossed. +++++++++++++++++:raebanana:cheers

[andrewp]

Awesome news - holding thumbs....
:raebanana

[JandL]

Yeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

[walshy]

:raebanana:raebanana:bluebanana:bluebanana nice one

[NZ Hopeful]

Brilliant news catt! :raebanana

So pleased for you!

[Andy-Dee]

:cool::bluebanana:cool:

Here's a nana in disguise - let us know when you are finally out of the closet!!

[JayBee]

Shhhh! yay Shhh! Catt

[Red Devil]

... great news Catt, best of luck with everything :nice1

Simon

[ldlim]

Our turn ~

Our house is officially on the market as of today. DH and I spent the last 3 days touching up paint and packing misc items that just cause clutter.

The waiting begins.....

[NZ Hopeful]

Good luck ldlim! :nice1

[victoria24]

welcome to the groovy gang ldlim!

[lizzyplop]

We too are on the market as of today, wish us luck!!!

[NZ Hopeful]

Good luck Lizzyplop!

[thewoodies]

:nice1well our last viewers have fallen in love with our house - the mortgage advisor has sent off credit checks to see if they can get a mortgage - they havnt got much of deposit -they are currently renting - so i have offered that we do deposit paid or loan it to them and then just adjust price?

Agent looking into it for us.

If they cant get a mortgage they want to rent it ......no numbers been offered yet so trying not to get excited.

Welcome new forum members
- hope your not on here for long - !!!!laugh:laugh
- meant it in kindness

[NZ Hopeful]

Sounds good woodies, keeping everything crossed for you!

[tea drinker]

Welcome to Idlim and Lizzy

...joining us in the waiting game...

[Andy-Dee]

Feeling like the sage Matriarch of this thread now - welcome to the newbies

[Hejwitch_uk]

Welcome to new fellow vendors, and good luck to woodies.

[ldlim]

Thank you for the "welcoming".

So, this is going to be quick, right? *twiddles thumbs waiting for first viewer*

Oddly enough the first day our house was posted we had a call from a realtor who wanted to come look at the layout of the house for some clients - he never showed up. I hope this isn't common practice. I was all excited called OH at work saying we already had interest...bleh too good to be true.

[Mickstim]

Feeling like the sage Matriarch of this thread now - welcome to the newbies

Absolutely time you left this thread Dee. Any fairies in your vicinity???

Bx

[NZ Hopeful]

Feeling like the sage Matriarch of this thread now - welcome to the newbies

Still no news then? Silly question I suppose, I'm sure you would have told us! :exit

Absolutely nothing here, not one viewer in the 6 weeks we have been on, EA reckons we should drop the price - goodness knows why, even if we did drop it's not really going to put us in a different price bracket and surely if the price was the problem we would have had viewers and silly offers?

Or am I kidding myself? :uhoh

[JandL]

Welcome new ones!

Investor who looked at just bout every house in the area has decided to take him time choosing which house to buy. However did have a couple want a viewing today (2 hours notice) who are "ready to go" whatever that means, so a possible candiate for NZ moving cash there.

There was a house round the corner from me, exactly the same as ours. Both started on the market about 170, within 4 weeks the other house changed it price to offers over 110, sold very quickly (no idea at price, its still undergoing transfer). I guess having loads of people look you may get a number of low offers and if you are in the "must move now" bracket thats what you may have to take. We dropped our price 2 times before we got our first visit, then 1 more drop got us 2 visits.

[Andy-Dee]

[QUOTE=NZ Hopeful;251466]Still no news then? Silly question I suppose, I'm sure you would have told us! :exit

NOPE, NOWT, NADA - nothing to report yet, you'll be hit by a flying banana when it happens, as I fling them about willy nilly!!

[JandL]

Our visitor on Monday does not want the house. They are looking for a house they can move straight into without any work doing, that also must be decorated in a way they like.... I wonder how long they will be looking for!

[Hejwitch_uk]

We have a couple - cash buyers, need to rent land for their 6 dogs.... think we have sourced it, hope to find out over the weekend..... NEED to sell house before my sanity takes a huge nosedive,,,,,

[lizzyplop]

Well our first viewers today, spent all morning cleaning and they were here for exactly 8 mins!!!!. Not expecting a great deal, although they have sold and are desperate to buy, sounds ideal. Will keep you posted.

[NZ Hopeful]

Brilliant lizzyplop! Fingers crossed for you!

We have still had NOTHING!!! Found out yesterday that one of our neighbours has bought their daughter a house in the next street - they completed 2 weeks ago, they had no idea we were on the market, we didn't bother with a sign as it's a cul de sac and no one ever passes! :wah:wah

[ldlim]

We had a viewer yesterday. Talked to RE Agent and the couple didn't like the color of the paint in the house (*grumble* big deal paint is cheap!). Also felt our ad was misleading because even though we are on a golf course lot, you cannot see the greens from our backyard (the greens are blocked by trees and shrubs) ~ :( guess they want the golfers to see them every morning.

I did get a call this afternoon about someone wanting to view the house on Wed, so fingers crossed.

[TipTopAddicts]

Well, we finally decided that we had to join another rollercoaster ride (as if the immigration one wasnt enough on its own ;) ) and put our house on the market last Tuesday.
Had our very excited estate agent ring us up the day after telling us we had someone coming on the Sunday to have a look - cash buyer, no chain (there is a God :D). Sunday came, viewing went well, feedback on Monday from agent was that the viewer is going to see accountant and solicitor towards the end of the week :nice1 Just had another phone call to say can someone else come on Saturday to view... dont know what my emotions are at the moment ...excited?, apprehensive?.... I'm trying not to get my hopes up but blimey, it would be a huge weight off my mind if this all went to plan...is it ever that simple? someone please tell me it can be.

[JandL]

Pfff your not allowed to post in this thread! Your only allowed once you have been on the market for 6 months with no visitors!! (grumbles :))

Good luck with your ride. :nice1

[victoria24]

tiptop, where are you in cornwall?

[ldlim]

That's awesome Tiptop! Fingers crossed it all goes well for you.

[victoria24]

tiptops' cornish luck has rubbed off and we have a viewing next monday!

[thewoodies]

they say that an average sale takes 20 viewings:wah - must be there by now surely - had another viewing no feed back yet - havnt heard anything from couple going for a credit check before they put in an offer either .....:exit

[NZ Hopeful]

An average sale takes 20 viewings?!?!? :wah :wah

I haven't had one yet! :(

Good luck to those that do have some lined up though.... :p

[ldlim]

Good luck Victoria24:D

[victoria24]

thanks ldlim, btw, i thought it was 8 viewings unless its been adjusted for the current economic climate?

[TipTopAddicts]

Pfff your not allowed to post in this thread! Your only allowed once you have been on the market for 6 months with no visitors!! (grumbles :))

Good luck with your ride. :nice1


Thanks JandL and ldlim for the crossed fingers and good luck, must be working already - we got another viewing Saturday, (pssst...dont tell JandL :exit)

NZ Hopeful and thewoodies - keep thinking positive thoughts- have some Cornish good luck icecream from us - you never know, it might just work. People talk about the luck of the Irish, but the Cornish branch looks like it might work too.. it did for Victoria!

Great news Victoria! Hope all goes well! We're in the North of the County...cant say too much as not many know we're doing this yet so mums the word! (for just a little while longer anyway)

[victoria24]

ooh! now i feel like i have a mission of intrique! i come from bude but live in bodmin. if you fancy a meet up, give us a shout!

[Hejwitch_uk]

Good luck to everyone who has viewers/buyersin the pipeline, have to say though, I'm very envious! Still, promising viewing booked for Tuesday next week - couple have already expressed interest via solicitors and are coming to view us in Scotland all the way from Devon -hoping it's serious.....

[catt]

Good luck to everyone with viewers and hope that the people who havent had viewers get some soon :nice1

We are still sitting on our hands waiting for our buyer to pull out and i think she is sitting on her hands waiting for us to pull out because thats happened to her already. They are coming round for coffee and cake on Friday evening to discuss what stangle holds we can put on solicitors to get this through fast so we can at least exchange contracts. Both parties do not like being out of the driving seat so we are the same but on different sides of the fence. We are just keeping everything warm from our point of view.

If things go through smoothly i will be finishing work on the 31st December and the house completion will go through on the same day then we will be homeless for a month before we head out to NZ in early February 2009....it will give us time to travel the 4 corners of england to go say bye to our 3 kids and their families as well as my brother and his.......well thats the plan lol

STILL SITTING ON MY HANDS THOUGH ;)

[NZ Hopeful]

Catt I'm going to have everything crossed for you until you exchange/complete, hope things go smoothly! :)

[adacakes]

Our house has been on the market for 10 weeks,
1 viewing and they had'nt even sold their house. Our EA said we were priced out of the market........WELL HELLO!!! IT WAS YOU VALUED OUR HOUSE!!!!:wah
The "buyers" said our 24 foot kitchen was small??? and no cupboard space WE HAVE A WALK IN PANTRY!!!! and 10 base cupboards duh?
We dont have a conservatory YOU KNEW THAT WHEN YOU GOT THE DETAILS!!
My EA also added wrong photos, put wrong price on house an xtra £15.000
we have terminated the contract with this EA, and gone with a new EA.

but due to current market we dont seem to be going anywhere.
We did think of reducing price further and my mum has said we can move in with her and my dad and the money we would be saving without our mortgage would level out with a reduction in house price.
But we shall see what happens
ada