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    I put in and offer to rent a property and I wait while the landlord considers my offer. Since she was considering(Read, buying time for a better offer), for two days she must have thought about it and had no better offers.

    Agent phones me and says that in order to proceed I need to increase my offer. So I ask why has she had another offer?

    Agent says no, but landlady will not be able to pay her mortgage so I must offer more. So I said my offer stands, if its the best she has she should take it. The fact that the rent will not cover her mortgage repayments is not really my problem. I could hear the agent making a long face in the background.

    WTF! If the ladlady overextended herself, does the agent really expect me to pay over and above the market rate to accommodate the landladies financial requirements?
    There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think

    #2
    Oh stop being such a skinflint and just pay the woman. It is Xmas after all!
    “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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      #3
      Xmas

      Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
      Oh stop being such a skinflint and just pay the woman. It is Xmas after all!
      Not what she would have said if I could not afford my rent payments.
      There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think

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        #4
        If you have a better choice for same money then move - actions speak louder than words.

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          #5
          Since when did people start putting in offers to rent
          "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

          Norrahe's blog

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            #6
            Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
            Oh stop being such a skinflint and just pay the woman. It is Xmas after all!
            If it's no biggie, you pay the difference for sunnysan.

            Afterall, it is Xmas.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Clippy View Post
              If it's no biggie, you pay the difference for sunnysan.

              Afterall, it is Xmas.
              Certainly not. I have never advocated stingeyness and I won't start now!
              Bleeding renters, they don't know they're born!
              “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                #8
                Originally posted by norrahe View Post
                Since when did people start putting in offers to rent
                You mean you don't?
                Every commercial transaction is subject to negotiation.
                Hard Brexit now!
                #prayfornodeal

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                  #9
                  Offers

                  Originally posted by norrahe View Post
                  Since when did people start putting in offers to rent
                  Well in London, you put in an offer and the landperson(?) will either accept or reject it. Usually what happens is that more than one party end up putting in an offer and then the agent manipulates this to parties to increase their offers above asking price.

                  At the moment however, there is less demand and some landlords are finding themselves high and dry with big mortgages on overpriced properties.
                  There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                    You mean you don't?
                    Every commercial transaction is subject to negotiation.
                    Do you also haggle in supermarket? Or when posting letters?

                    Some prices are take it or leave it.

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