revtothelimit - motorbike forum

Potter wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 3:19 pm

Tricky wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 1:57 pm
I'm genuinely surprised that you are surprised at that- I'm currently in the process of selling my old house, it's vacant and the agent is free to book viewings at any time but that is indeed how it works and you need to be in a proceed-able position if you want to view- If you're not, you can look at pictures but you're not going inside.
Means you get fewer viewings, but everyone wastes less time too.

What if I want to view your house but I'm £50k short? I could get a loan for £50k in a few days easily, but I wouldn't bother unless I'm actually about to put an offer on it - and I'm not putting an offer on it until I've had a good look around it.

Maybe your house is £100k more than I was going to spend and I'd need a mortgage, but if I fall in love with it on a visit I'll do it, whereas otherwise I'll settle for a cheaper one.

Maybe I should ask for your bank statements in case you don't have very much money and you're selling it in a distress sale and you've cut corners looking after it? Maybe you're so skint you'd allow someone to gazump me at the 11th hour?

Unless house viewing as a hobby is a really big problem then I don't see the problem.
Our current house is also unoccupied and for sale, I don't give a shit who views it as long as someone buys it sooner later.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 3:49 pm I fucking hate buying and selling from the general public.

Rather than setting arbitrary viewing rules or saying "no time wasters" I just don't do it.

I reckon a house purchase is just about the only transaction that will lure me into dealing with the great unwashed.

Tricky wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 4:10 pm
Now you are being silly

It's just what anyone who knows what they are doing does in any business transaction, namely, simply qualify you in or out as a prospect.
Now that doesn't have to mean that he/she has to have evidence that you have every last penny of the asking price, but if you want to view, any professional salesperson worth their salt will want some detail (and possibly evidence ) as to how you would fund the purchase, and your desired and possible timescales to see if they match - it's almost always very soon apparent who's serious and who's a time-waster from a little bit of probing and information exchange.

It just sounds to me like you haven't done a very good job of convincing whoever it is has upset you that you're serious about potentially buying that particular property and they're viewing ( ) you as a time-waster...

DefTrap wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 6:38 pm
I'm damn sure the last few UK houses I bought my wallet wasn't checked. I didn't look far out of my own price range because I don't need my own time wasted.

Yorick wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 6:50 pm If I was selling and the estate agent did that, I'd call them lazy wankers and change to another.

Horse wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 7:12 pm

Were you selling a property? If so, that sort of answers the "do you have sufficient funds?" question.

DefTrap wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 7:19 pm

Horse wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 7:12 pm

Were you selling a property? If so, that sort of answers the "do you have sufficient funds?" question.

Yebbut I was buying 'up' and they had no idea whether I was good for the difference or had a bazillion pounds owing on my Burton's store card.

DefTrap wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 7:38 pm I thought he already had a mock Tudor mansion in the grim Northern wastes somewhere.

Count Steer wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 8:18 pm what's the point of asking for bank statements when often, most of the £ is in a buyers existing property?