David has emailed our best offer to Rob - so now all we can do is keep our fingers crossed!
I spoke with Emma [another estate agent] yesterday, and she's not surprised we are bidding on a complicated sale or a property that needs massive amounts of work doing on it. Perhaps she knows us [me] better than we know ourselves? She said she can't imagine us moving into a house that needs no work, even if the grounds are a complete "project"...
Have a horrible feeling she's right. If the Old Old People's Home doesn't come off, it will be back to the drawing board, but fixer-uppers are so hard to find [well, at fixer-upper prices, anyway].
I asked her about a particularly stinky place she showed us around - had she shifted it yet - and she said the vendor ignored all her advice [which I suspect involved a lot of bleach and a certain amount of light-coloured paint, and reducing the asking price], and just registered the property with another agent.
Doesn't mean the place will sell any faster, just gives the illusion of forward movement?
I don't know, because I really can't understand the thought processes of some of the vendors - the ones I can totally "get" are the ones like us who [did the whole Ann Maurice House Doctoring thing, and] sold their beautifully-presented homes in superfast time.
I'm rabbiting; just trying to keep my mind of the OOPH until we hear something from Rob [bids close at midday, so less than three hours to wait; I hope].
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