Estate Agents are useless!

[Argyll]

I had a couple of viewing's on a house up here in Scotland which I loved. It needed a lot of work on it but that didn't scare me off only the price the vendor was asking for it.

Anyway I put in a couple of offers which I actually reduced after adding up exactly how much it would cost to put right. My conveyancers registered a note of interest on my behalf as you have to do up here. Basically what this means is if any other bids come in then the Estate Agents have to inform you.....or so I thought.

Last week I got a phone call from the Estate Agents asking me if I was interested in the house going to a closing date. This means you put in your best bid and immediately after the closing date the highest bidder wins. I was prepared to put in that wee bit extra even though I knew I would be paying over the odds.

I called the Estate Agents today to ask about any progress and they told me the vendor had accepted a bid and it was now 'under offer'! I was furious with them because:

1. The estate Agents never had the common courtesy to pick up the phone and inform either me or my solicitors even though I had registered a note of interest.
2. If they had then I would have increased my offer and perhaps won the bid, even though I would be paying over the odds in my opinion.

Maybe I'll reflect back in a few days and be glad I lost out but I'm just furious with the Estate Agents in how they handled it. Hopefully now the prices here will start to drop and I'll get a better deal.

[Nibb]

I agree mate most of them are schysters!

[ant3b]

They are all like this.. i had problems with a few.. one house i put a bid in of 120,000 and they rejected because before that i put 110,000.. accpeted the other persons 120,000 and then 3 months later asked if i was interested still cheeky bastards

[Thrush]

There are more rules and regulations for opening an off-licence than there is opening your own estate agency.

Hopefully the cowboys out there will suffer due to the current housing market.

Bastards.

[Argyll]

Don't you just hate people that don't read your post properly before throwing in their tuppence worth?

This is from another forum I posted in.

Yes I dislike some of them.

However, you'd given them your final offer and it was'nt enough. Why would they waste time informing you of other offers, afterall if you had put in the highest offer and then found out the agents had gone to the other interested parties to conduct a dutch auction and then you lost out............

Really, try and see it from all angles not just your own

I don't think your getting this mate.

I put in an offer, not my final offer which the vendor refused. I obviously was wanting it for the cheapest price for me. I was prepared to add a little bit extra on top of my original offer so I was waiting for the Estate Agent to get back to me and they never did. If they had like they had said they would then I was about to add an extra £2000 to my original offer. However that never happened and I lost out.

Does this help?

What a cock!

[DannyLad]

Don't you just hate people that don't read your post properly before throwing in their tuppence worth?

This is from another forum I posted in.



I don't think your getting this mate.

I put in an offer, not my final offer which the vendor refused. I obviously was wanting it for the cheapest price for me. I was prepared to add a little bit extra on top of my original offer so I was waiting for the Estate Agent to get back to me and they never did. If they had like they had said they would then I was about to add an extra £2000 to my original offer. However that never happened and I lost out.

Does this help?

What a cock!

I hope that forum has the equivalent of our flame pit Argyll, if so you could take him in there and kick his ass

[crashtestmac]

I agree mate most of them are schysters!

Don't you mean Scoucers.....

Robbing gits...!!!!!

I await your flames...!!!

[Nibb]

Don't you just hate people that don't read your post properly before throwing in their tuppence worth?

This is from another forum I posted in.



I don't think your getting this mate.

I put in an offer, not my final offer which the vendor refused. I obviously was wanting it for the cheapest price for me. I was prepared to add a little bit extra on top of my original offer so I was waiting for the Estate Agent to get back to me and they never did. If they had like they had said they would then I was about to add an extra £2000 to my original offer. However that never happened and I lost out.

Does this help?

What a cock!

Call him a cunt and run away!

[flumperino]

Annoying I know mate, but might be a good thing in the long run.

It's quite widely believed that now is the absolute worst time to buy (granted, Scotland might be different). Give it 6 months and you can hopefully get yourself a better bargain

[B B Leo]

sorry to hear it m8 in one respect but i think he done u a favour.......
in a few months the prices are still going to drop and ull get a real good deal