Offer!

We put in an offer yesterday on a nice 3-bed mid-terraced place. It already had the asking price, so we bid higher... Seems to be the kind of thing to do given our experience. If we don't get it with this we'll seriously have to consider what the hell we have to do because bids are going mental everywhere. Sigh. 

The estate agents was closed Saturday afternoon through to Monday morning, so we'll have to wait until tomorrow to hear anything back, or even to hear that they've received our offer. Seems kinda stupid to have a day full of viewings, but then be closed for nearly 48 hours so you can't take formal offers, although I bet that's tactical so it allows load of people to put in bids and then we can all fight it out later. Boy am I not looking forward to that.

Open Houses

3-bed terraced house popped onto the market last night that looks interesting. Ooo let's phone up the agency (for anonymity we'll call these Luung) and book a viewing for tonight/this weekend. No. Don't do that because we're only allowed to see it in 8 days time at an open house because they can't be bothered to send someone out for a mere 15 minutes to show us around it on our own. 

Cram in the buyers, and forget the customer service. That's how they sell houses in Cambridge! 

That's them off my list for when we sell a place ourselves.