Grrr, annoying estate agent – we’re looking for a 3 bed house in Belper. Which is a small town in Derbyshire.
Called her up about a particular house. First told me the house was sold, then I said erm it’s on your website, checked and turned out she was fibbing. Then, wouldn’t let me book an appointment until I’d a)given my life history, b)told her that I was looking for, and c)she’d told me about 3 houses she has that they obviously want to offload. Best one was (bearing in mind we’re looking for a 3 bedroom old house, within easy walking distance of the town centre, train station etc.), a 2 bedroom relatively modern house, 2 miles from the town centre, and I kid you not she actually said to me “they’ve had the cellar tanked out, they use it as an office, you could use that as a bedroom”.
Now she’s called me up today about a house we saw last month with another agent saying it was new on the market, I said, we’ve seen it, “no you can’t have, not been on the market for years”, so I booked an appointment, got back to check my lists, it’s the same one that was on last month like I said.
We’ve got a 35-45% deposit, both got good jobs (probably looking at borrowing 3x one of our incomes), first time buyers, so basically we’re exactly what the estate agents round there are desperate for, people who can actually buy a house, and can do it quickly with no hassles, and I’m sure they’re very keen, but for goodness sake why can’t they stop wasting our time viewing useless stuff that we obviously won’t be interested in, and find us stuff we might actually want, and stop blatantly lying to us.
Joe