October 20th 2007 Western Magic Part 2

[Karen Mouse]

Guess Karen is sorting, School, house, sister, Mum or at the gym. Her life is hectic at the mo isnt it ?

Nope...I'm here now...I'm just drowning my sorrows.. just found out our sodding buyers have pulled out without a reason.

Lifes a real *****

 

[medicalman]

Hi goofeyfreak,

my daugher has not been on the childrens site for a while to busy on msm!!!! but she will be signed on as medicalman , i know a little strange but we tryed to get her on the site and the form we had to sign would not fax through so she is under my name.

i am sure she would love to chat and maybe they could swop MSM stuff what ever it is they do on there!!!!!!

olivia loves the clubs in the hotels we have stopped in so they sound suited , i agree its hard to get them out sometimes.

if you want you could send me your daughters msm( PM ME ) and i will pass it onto olivia and they can accept eachother ( i think thats what they have to do!!)

 

[A fat english gent]

Nope...I'm here now...I'm just drowning my sorrows.. just found out our sodding buyers have pulled out without a reason.

Life's a real *****

Sorry to here that Karen love you'll get another buyer no problem,you know what they say are the three most stressful things in life...buying and selling houses,divorce and planting flowers with your mother....Keep smiling dear....

 

[dizneycrazy4]

Nope...I'm here now...I'm just drowning my sorrows.. just found out our sodding buyers have pulled out without a reason.

Lifes a real *****

Oh Karen, I am so sorry. Another buyer will come along, we'll just have to send lots more of Pixie dust your way.

 

[dizneycrazy4]

Oh I forgot.... Welcome to the new family.....from your neighbors in WI

 

[Karen Mouse]

Oh Karen, I am so sorry. Another buyer will come along, we'll just have to send lots more of Pixie dust your way.

Thanks Janice I should have known something would go wrong

 

[dizneycrazy4]

Is this the same couple that looked at it a couple of times?

 

[JLDSMD]

Nope...I'm here now...I'm just drowning my sorrows.. just found out our sodding buyers have pulled out without a reason.

Lifes a real *****

Karen,

Sorry to hear that.

Do you have what is called "earnest money" (sp?) in the UK?

We have that here, well at least in WI, and if a buyer backs out, they lose the money (you get to keep it). You may want to increase the amount of earnest money you require with any offer.

I think the normal practice is 1-2%. I've gone as low as $1,000 and as high as $10,000 on the last house we bought. The higher one came from someone who did get screwed by someone pulling out. I don't blame them. BTW, the higher one was for the house we are in now - if someone really wants it, they will put in the extra $.

Good luck.

Are you still moving forward with the purchase or was that contingent on selling your current home?

 

[Karen Mouse]

Is this the same couple that looked at it a couple of times?

Yes! - 3 times - he even went in the loft! God knows why they changed their minds - they didnt bother to tell the agent in the letter.

Karen,

Sorry to hear that.

Do you have what is called "earnest money" (sp?) in the UK?

We have that here, well at least in WI, and if a buyer backs out, they lose the money (you get to keep it). You may want to increase the amount of earnest money you require with any offer.

I think the normal practice is 1-2%. I've gone as low as $1,000 and as high as $10,000 on the last house we bought. The higher one came from someone who did get screwed by someone pulling out. I don't blame them. BTW, the higher one was for the house we are in now - if someone really wants it, they will put in the extra $.

Good luck.

Are you still moving forward with the purchase or was that contingent on selling your current home?

Hi Jeff, the english system is rubbish fo selling houses...people can pull out the day before they excahnge contracts (ie weeks ands weeks down the line)and not lose a penny. There are laws which will be changing eventually but at the moment the sellers can be left high and dry and the buyer loses nothing while all around them people in the chain lose everything.. The scotish system is totally different and seems to work well....wish I lived in Scotland

A woman I know - her buyer pulled out the day of contract exchange (thursday)- they were all due to be moving on the friday . She was devastated. It cost her a fortune in fees, cancelling removal vans etc.

At least I hadnt started packing

If you see a mad english woman on the cruise with no hair come over and say hi to me - I'll have pulled it all out by then

 

[A fat english gent]

Yes! - 3 times - he even went in the loft! God knows why they changed their minds - they didnt bother to tell the agent in the letter.



Hi Jeff, the English system is rubbish fo selling houses...people can pull out the day before they exchange contracts (ie weeks ands weeks down the line)and not lose a penny. There are laws which will be changing eventually but at the moment the sellers can be left high and dry and the buyer loses nothing while all around them people in the chain lose everything.. The scottish system is totally different and seems to work well....wish I lived in Scotland

A woman I know - her buyer pulled out the day of contract exchange (Thursday)- they were all due to be moving on the Friday . She was devastated. It cost her a fortune in fees, cancelling removal vans etc.

At least I had started packing

If you see a mad English woman on the cruise with no hair come over and say hi to me - I'll have pulled it all out by then

Karen love would you prefer we call "britney" OR "baldy"?....Keep smiling kid...

 

[B9erSteve]

...people can pull out the day before they excahnge contracts (ie weeks ands weeks down the line)and not lose a penny.

That's Crazy! Man I thought the American system was hair raising.

 

[JLDSMD]

Karen love would you prefer we call "britney" OR "baldy"?....Keep smiling kid...

Sorry Karen.

Maybe your mom paid them off. Just kidding.

 

[JLDSMD]

Hi Jeff, the english system is rubbish fo selling houses...people can pull out the day before they excahnge contracts (ie weeks ands weeks down the line)and not lose a penny. There are laws which will be changing eventually but at the moment the sellers can be left high and dry and the buyer loses nothing while all around them people in the chain lose everything.. The scotish system is totally different and seems to work well....wish I lived in Scotland

A woman I know - her buyer pulled out the day of contract exchange (thursday)- they were all due to be moving on the friday . She was devastated. It cost her a fortune in fees, cancelling removal vans etc.

At least I hadnt started packing

If you see a mad english woman on the cruise with no hair come over and say hi to me - I'll have pulled it all out by then

Don't you have any kind of contract law there? That is just amazing. Can a person sue for damages in the case of the woman with the fees? She obviously had a contract she had to uphold.

You need to have instant closing there. You want it, you close immediately. Get pre-approved from your finance company. You just need to tell them where to send the check.

That is just crazy.

 

[A fat english gent]

Sorry Karen.

Maybe your mom paid them off. Just kidding.

Jeff your far braver than i to suggest that (even if i was wondering was she "mooning" then from across the street)....

Don't you have any kind of contract law there? That is just amazing. Can a person sue for damages in the case of the woman with the fees? She obviously had a contract she had to uphold.

You need to have instant closing there. You want it, you close immediately. Get pre-approved from your finance company. You just need to tell them where to send the check.

That is just crazy.

Some 17 years ago i paid about $1000 for a survey to be done on a property I'd agreed a price on with the owners only for them to sell to their neighbors son,it later transpired they'd never had any intention of selling to me in the first place they were just looking to see what someone was prepared to pay for it.....

ps...I never got my money back but we do have a saying over here "thiers more than one way to skin a cat".....

 

[Karen Mouse]

Karen love would you prefer we call "britney" OR "baldy"?....Keep smiling kid...

Either suits me just fine

That's Crazy! Man I thought the American system was hair raising.

Yep - stupid system, stupid government, stupid country, stupid buyers....stupid is my favourite word today...well..., not my favourite but this is a family thread.

Sorry Karen.

Maybe your mom paid them off. Just kidding.

It had crossed my mind

Don't you have any kind of contract law there? That is just amazing. Can a person sue for damages in the case of the woman with the fees? She obviously had a contract she had to uphold.

You need to have instant closing there. You want it, you close immediately. Get pre-approved from your finance company. You just need to tell them where to send the check.

That is just crazy.

The so-called system -

You sign a contract with an agent so they have exclusive rights to sell your house for x amount of weeks

You clean your house from top to bottom

they send around idiots to look at the house and ask stupid questions like is the furniture included

You clean your house from top to bottom

loads come round a second time - just for fun cos they have nothing better to do

You clean your house from top to bottom

Someone offers....they change their mind

You clean your house from top to bottom

Someone else offers...they change their mind

You clean your house from top to bottom

Someone offers and you find a lovely house you wnat to buy and get your offer accepted.

You appoint solicitors and pay a fortune for surveys on the house you intend to buy

You stop cleaning!

WEEKS GO BY... your solicitors pretend to be busy so they can charge you more

You still dont clean

Solicitors apply to land registry etc and get loads of stupid reports like "was the house built on land belonging to an ancient church" - I kid you not - you now have to make sure your land wasnt previously owned by a church or holy thingy cos it can be snatched by the local vicar otherwise - or something like thta) no-one looks at these stupid reports.

You all agree on a contracts exchange date - usually about 8 weeks after you agree the sale- this is when things are legally binding.

You now wade through dust and the tv is just a bleary haze through the muck and grime sat on the screen

Uusally the exchange of contracts is followed by "completion"
the next day.

Monies are transfered and the house is yours.


However....alternative scenario....

the buyer pulls out and ........ You start to clean your house from top to bottom and begin the whole bl**dy process all over again.

Jeff your far braver than i to suggest that (even if i was wondering was she "mooning" then from across the street)....

If I mooned them there would be an eclipse

Some 17 years ago i paid about $1000 for a survey to be done on a property I'd agreed a price on with the owners only for them to sell to their neighbors son,it later transpired they'd never had any intention of selling to me in the first place they were just looking to see what someone was prepared to pay for it.....

ps...I never got my money back but we do have a saying over here "thiers more than one way to skin a cat".....

Buyers are B*st*rds - I might get a t shirt printed with this slogan ready for any new potantial buyers - what do you all think? - good idea?

 

[JLDSMD]

Jeff your far braver than i to suggest that (even if i was wondering was she "mooning" then from across the street)....

I was very hesitant on posting that.

I'm hoping Karen finds the humor in it. Sorry Karen if not.

 

[JLDSMD]

If listing my house will get Suz to clean as often as you cleaned yours, I'm calling the Real Estate agent this afternoon.

 

[JLDSMD]

Solicitors apply to land registry etc and get loads of stupid reports like "was the house built on land belonging to an ancient church" - I kid you not - you now have to make sure your land wasnt previously owned by a church or holy thingy cos it can be snatched by the local vicar otherwise - or something like thta) no-one looks at these stupid reports.

Do they have to pay for the house/land if the Church wants it back?

Here we have "Eminent Domain", which means the Government can take your house/property, but they are suppose to pay you fair value for it. Still, you don't want your house taken away.

 

[Karen Mouse]

I was very hesitant on posting that.

I'm hoping Karen finds the humor in it. Sorry Karen if not.

I do find it funny - no worries...you arent top of my hit list - the pulled out buyers are though




you're 2nd on my list

 

[Karen Mouse]

Do they have to pay for the house/land if the Church wants it back?

Here we have "Eminent Domain", which means the Government can take your house/property, but they are suppose to pay you fair value for it. Still, you don't want your house taken away.

We have something similar here too - "compulsary purchase order" its called - you have no choice but to sell your house to the government etc - for things like they want to build a new road and your house is in the way etc. They are meant to give you a fair price though.

No idea about the church thing though