Nina343434
2020-10-24 10:06:02
- #1
Hello everyone,
I hope someone has advice, we are really despairing...
My boyfriend and I can only live in a specific area due to family reasons, but unfortunately house prices are very high there at the moment. (decent houses cost from €500,000, if you can even find one)
We have been looking for houses there on the side for several years.
He himself is employed full-time as his main job and works part-time as an electrical master/carpenter and is very skilled in handiwork. (he has already almost completely renovated several houses)
Recently, a house was offered through an agent that exactly matched our wishes and is right next to our little son's elementary school.
Location + size was perfect and we fell in love immediately. The purchase price was €140,000 -> the house basically needs to be fully renovated.
At first, there were almost 40 applicants, but since the agent was unsure about the renovation status and noticed during the phone call that my boyfriend knows his stuff, we were able to view it first. We immediately said we would take it, but the agent said he first had to see how to handle it, as there were so many interested parties.
We then “pestered” regularly and therefore also got the land register extract first. And we submitted the financing very promptly.
At the second viewing appointment, we cautiously asked, and the agent said something along the lines of: “the community of heirs wants to get rid of it, whoever gets the financing first should get it”…
On Wednesday afternoon we received the confirmation from the bank, called the agent, and he said:
“You are the first, send me the confirmation and I will forward it to the owner for a decision and we’ll talk when there is a decision. There are still 2 competitors who are almost ready and the neighbor, who has submitted a letter of intent, as I already told you.”
(but we knew nothing about that)
On Wednesday evening we sent him the confirmation immediately. The bank wrote that they confirm financing of €270,000 for us.
That Wednesday evening we became concerned about the neighbor and wrote to the agent asking if he had received the confirmation, that we would also submit a letter of intent if that helps, we really want the house… (We are also concerned that the agent might think we underestimate the modernization costs, but we do still have money in the bank to use, we just stupidly didn’t mention that in the email…)
Unfortunately, he did not answer.
It is now Saturday morning.
We would love to get the house. Should we call the agent again over the weekend? We could also say we are willing to pay a bit more, or pay the agent something. Is that allowed? Or how should we best behave?
Or maybe should we better not bother him?
Are we perhaps worrying too much?
We are happy about any tip.
Thank you very much,
Nina
I hope someone has advice, we are really despairing...
My boyfriend and I can only live in a specific area due to family reasons, but unfortunately house prices are very high there at the moment. (decent houses cost from €500,000, if you can even find one)
We have been looking for houses there on the side for several years.
He himself is employed full-time as his main job and works part-time as an electrical master/carpenter and is very skilled in handiwork. (he has already almost completely renovated several houses)
Recently, a house was offered through an agent that exactly matched our wishes and is right next to our little son's elementary school.
Location + size was perfect and we fell in love immediately. The purchase price was €140,000 -> the house basically needs to be fully renovated.
At first, there were almost 40 applicants, but since the agent was unsure about the renovation status and noticed during the phone call that my boyfriend knows his stuff, we were able to view it first. We immediately said we would take it, but the agent said he first had to see how to handle it, as there were so many interested parties.
We then “pestered” regularly and therefore also got the land register extract first. And we submitted the financing very promptly.
At the second viewing appointment, we cautiously asked, and the agent said something along the lines of: “the community of heirs wants to get rid of it, whoever gets the financing first should get it”…
On Wednesday afternoon we received the confirmation from the bank, called the agent, and he said:
“You are the first, send me the confirmation and I will forward it to the owner for a decision and we’ll talk when there is a decision. There are still 2 competitors who are almost ready and the neighbor, who has submitted a letter of intent, as I already told you.”
(but we knew nothing about that)
On Wednesday evening we sent him the confirmation immediately. The bank wrote that they confirm financing of €270,000 for us.
That Wednesday evening we became concerned about the neighbor and wrote to the agent asking if he had received the confirmation, that we would also submit a letter of intent if that helps, we really want the house… (We are also concerned that the agent might think we underestimate the modernization costs, but we do still have money in the bank to use, we just stupidly didn’t mention that in the email…)
Unfortunately, he did not answer.
It is now Saturday morning.
We would love to get the house. Should we call the agent again over the weekend? We could also say we are willing to pay a bit more, or pay the agent something. Is that allowed? Or how should we best behave?
Or maybe should we better not bother him?
Are we perhaps worrying too much?
We are happy about any tip.
Thank you very much,
Nina