courier123
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I find it really difficult to trust this estate agent now.
You should completely ignore anything an estate agency tells you.
You have to check it out for yourself.
The example you give is odd. You should not have needed a surveyor to tell you that the windows were not double glazed. Though, I suppose if I saw that in a brochure, I probably would not have checked.
Estate agents work for the sellers and are paid by them. As Brendan said, never believe estate agents, their brochures or websites.
I doubt you'll get a discount, caveat emptor and all that.
Complain to whatever professional organization the estate agent claims membership of.
Would it be fair to say to the estate agent that we go ahead with the same offer they have already accepted, but, since it was made based on their description, we will require to have double glazed windows and no gun barrel piping?
Don't rely on the vendor to put in double glazing and remove the piping for you.
we still want to make a complaint as it is not morally correct what's happening. We wouldn't want other young couples like us to have the same experience.
What disclaimer was on the bottom of the brochure?
Thanks for your advice.
In this case, I think it is better to go ahead with the sale and ask the agent to honour what they are selling according to their promotional materials. We based our offer on their description, so can they change what they are selling now without giving us a reason for that?
€1,500 won't replace windows for you.
It's nonsense for you to think the vendor would change the windows.
Are you happy with the house, are you happy to put in windows of your choice, and fix the piping, later, do you like the house, it's in the location you want, the size is right, the garden and parking suit you etc.
Can you tell us the price, general location and size (3 bed semi d). Are you mortgage approved.
If you are happy, do you care if there are other bidders. Has your surveyer done a good job (I presume he pointed out the piping, though I'm a bit confused about the asbestos).
Forget about the EA misleading you, that's just a waste of time. EA = misleading. EA = don't trust. EA = works for vendor, not purchaser. EA = person with probably zilch knowldged of property. EA = person who does not want to know about problems in property = don't know, so can't be misleading.
(Apologies to the honest EA's reading this, they do exist ! )
Without knowing the house and the price you and the price you are paying it is hard for anyone to pass any comment.
If the house was priced to allow for all these issues that's fine. If it wasn't and priced in line with other good quality houses that would be a problem.
On the window issue I think you are over reacting. It may have said it on the brochure but anyone buying a house the first thing you look at is windows as in older houses its a given you will need to change them and that needs to be factored into your price and how much you need to spend on the house afterwards. Next comes the electrics and heating.
That's why you get a survey done and pay someone to tell you all the faults of the house and you should never rely on the agent because they really don't know. I was at a viewing where the agent said there was no flood damage and after picking up the carpet it was obvious the house had been flooded - I don't think the agent was lying as I'd met him a few times before I genuinely believe he just wasn't aware of it.
It's then up to you to price the house with all those faults in mind.
As someone said buying a house is very emotional.
On the face of it knocking 1500 off the price with the issues you describe isn't a whole lot. Especially if there is no other bidder.
Isn't asbestos a no no? If that was a problem I'd be running away. Again that's just a gut reaction from the little info you have provided. how would the agent even know of the asbestos unless the vendor told him?
Again with the little info my feeling is that you are jumping into this as you think it's the last house available in the area. I think you need to stand back and consider whether it is worth it. That being said it's probably a poster child for the state of our housing market at the moment.
This year I sat through 3 meetings with an Estate Agent who wanted our business. At each and every meeting he told us the same story about the named rugby personality that he was dealing with and who was looking at our neighbours house. The same story about the other Leinster guys who were all buying in the neighbourhood. The same story about the queues for viewings. He told us that he would have no problem achieving €xxx's for our house. Other family members decided to go with this flash Harry. In the end we had extremely poor viewings and the price achieved was way lower that the "no problem" amount. He still ended up getting a very large cheque for very little work.
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