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[Duck n Dive]

Personally I would have appointed the agent to do viewings and then gone to Spain for a week.

Just saying, like.

With faultless logic like that I'd have made sure your travelling was luxury

 

[derek kelly]

Face it. They are better at it than you. It's what they do. They aren't emotionally involved and will get you a better price. Well worth the 1% they charge. And you won't have to endure an endless second visit while they wander around for two hours deciding where their furniture will fit. Before making you a silly offer which you may well accept because you like them.

Sorry but that is a load of bollox, an ex colleague got a job with Richard kendall estate agents in Wakefield, no training or anything just given the address & the keys & told to show people round, he left less than a week later.
A house we once looked at we were shown round by the ceo of Wilby’s, he had no clue about anything to do with the house.
We have never used an agent to show people round & so far managed to get the asking price or damn well near it on 8 houses so far going back to 1983.

 

[andyBeaker]

Sorry but that is a load of bollox, an ex colleague got a job with Richard kendall estate agents in Wakefield, no training or anything just given the address & the keys & told to show people round, he left less than a week later.
A house we once looked at we were shown round by the ceo of Wilby’s, he had no clue about anything to do with the house.
We have never used an agent to show people round & so far managed to get the asking price or damn well near it on 8 houses so far going back to 1983.

How do you know that you couldn’t have got more using an agent?

I am pretty apathetic on that but Oldandbald made me ask.

 

[Oldandbald]

You'd need to have used a good local agent who you have spent a few years building up a relationship with for it to work. I've sold a good few houses sat by the pool in Spain.

 

[derek kelly]

You'd need to have used a good local agent who you have spent a few years building up a relationship with for it to work. I've sold a good few houses sat by the pool in Spain.

As most estate agents are on a par with traffic wardens I wouldn’t like to build a trust with them

 

[andyBeaker]

You'd need to have used a good local agent who you have spent a few years building up a relationship with for it to work. I've sold a good few houses sat by the pool in Spain.

You are bang on. There are six here, two I personally wouldn’t go anywhere near, two are OK and two are very, very good. Both small outfits owned and run by local people. I frequently pop in for a natter and a coffee, amazing what you learn……

Same with letting agents…I use one of the very good local estate agents for all bar one of mine, the other ended up with a National chain…and they are totally, 100% useless. Their idea of dealing with a problem is to reduce their commission rate….although in fairness they did find me a good tenant when inexplicably others couldn’t a few years back.

 

[Jaws]

Serviced an OLD Carver water heater in a motorhome for someone

 

[ogr1]

Got up, bonus.
Shower.
Lounged about....
Still lounging about.

 

[slim63]

Got up late, waited for the postie while drinking enough coffee to sink a battleship then wandered to B&Q for a light fitting part
finished off the gunstock table lamp and took a few pics for facebook

Apart from that i have been lounging around the same as ogr1 but obviously with much more style

 

[Squag1]

Got up late, waited for the postie while drinking enough coffee to sink a battleship then wandered to B&Q for a light fitting part
finished off the gunstock table lamp and took a few pics for facebook

Apart from that i have been lounging around the same as ogr1 but obviously with much more style

Including several coffee generated trips to the bog

 

[derek kelly]

Accepted an offer on the house, very near the asking price

 

[DLN1965]

Had my 5 yearly work medical
Passed with flying colours ….

Walked around London too !
It was a bit hot !

 

[slim63]

Including several coffee generated trips to the bog

Not at all, i have been drinking lots of coffee most of my life and it just does not have that effect ..... tea as much as i like it is 1 cup in and 6 out so i rarely bother

 

[derek kelly]

Accepted an offer on the house, very near the asking price

The Estate agent valued it at £20,000 under our valuation, we insisted he advertise it at £5,000 over ours, when the first lady made the offer of £25,000 under the asking price he tried pushing us to sell, I asked him who he thought he was working for, so despite Birdy & Baldy’s piss taking & attempted wind ups I was proved right

 

[Oldandbald]

No I was right. You need to find a decent estate agent. Fact.

 

[slim63]

Woke up to 27 FB messages about the lamp i made and put up for sale late last night, spent half an hour sorting out the serious buyers from the time wasters and have someone coming to view at 1pm

Since then I have made a brew and got on here to see what todays argument is all about

 

[derek kelly]

No I was right. You need to find a decent estate agent. Fact.

I did, me, not “me” as in me but “me” as in myself

 

[Oldandbald]

What did you do about making sure your buyer was proceedable? I was thinking of offering you 27 million quid for it.

 

[Duck n Dive]

What did you do about making sure your buyer was proceedable? I was thinking of offering you 27 million quid for it.

That's like JAWS old price match promise

As in: "I'll match his price when I haven't got it in stock either"

 

[derek kelly]

What did you do about making sure your buyer was proceedable? I was thinking of offering you 27 million quid for it.

No chain, mortgage agreed in principle.