My husband and I were planning to buy next year. There’s an amazing house for sale near us that we’ve been keeping an eye on. At first it was listed for 875k, over the past month price has dropped to 850k then 825k which we feel is a great deal. Got our tour scheduled within 12 hours of the most recent price drop and got pre approved specifically for this house. 1 hour before the tour… seller cancels. Says “something came up”. Try to reschedule for a different time, they say no without explanation. Seller’s agent says there’s no other activity on the house and that sellers are “interesting”. This seems like odd behavior. One might speculate that they don’t want to sell, however the price drops tell a different story. There’s no real purpose to this post I’m just annoyed. I guess we go back to our next year plan.
Posted by HornetLivid3533
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Stick with it. Keep saying you understand and rescheduling. The “interesting”’ sellers could make for an awkward and zig
Zagging purchase experience but it may also leave you with little competition and a good house for a good price.
I had one set of clients who made everything- and I mean everything- difficult for no reason other than that they wanted everything to be their way. They wanted to be the one in control, making all of the decisions. They nearly blew the deal up many times but we ended up closing on time. They did want to sell, but they didn’t NEED to sell, so they were okay with it taking longer than it should just so they could have it their way. Some people are just wacky.
I wouldn’t give up just yet, but yeah this may not go much further. Sometimes people have weird personalities, cold feet, or family drama. You may not ever know the whole story.
something could have changed their mind, someone they know might have made an offer, who knows?
Did you mention planning to buy next year? They might have missed that you are willing to buy now and are just “kicking the tires” on their house?
We went through something similar and just pulled out of the contract. They needed to sell the house and we need a place to live as of May 31, but throughout the entire process they behaved as if they did not want to sell this house (and this was a military move for sellers who only owned it 2 years so it wasn’t like selling their family dream house). When we finally got it under contract, inspection revealed one major but fixable thing that we ballparked at $15-25k but we’d be fine if they kicked $10k towards closing/lower sales price. And it was a kind of thing that must be addressed and nothing else could be done to the house until, and for sure the next inspection/buyer will immediately pick up on. They said no, take it or leave it. So we said if this is just what one inspector they barely let us schedule finds on the first try, imagine what’s waiting undiscovered. Something better came along so we pulled out.
But I feel you, if you have time (we do not) then I can understand making it clear to their realtor that they have an out.
They could be sick or something Be persistent.
We once bid on a house where the couple selling it were planning to get divorced, then they got back together, then they decided to divorce again. Rinse and repeat. And the house went onto the market every time they were planning to divorce, then off it when they made up temporarily.
They have personal reasons that you don’t need to know. Just move on.
Maybe they had a family emergency.Or someone got sick and they really don’t know
From a seller’s perspective who recently had to cancel showings, just keep trying to reschedule. We had several showings but my father had emergency surgery and we ended up needing to travel out of state. We didn’t know how long we would be gone and didn’t want to cancel additional showings. Life happens and it’s often inconvenient.
Hard to really say as it could be a myriad of different things. I’ve had a seller cancel a viewing because they got wicked sick from the flu. A friend once had to cancel a viewing because her mom had a heart attack.
We just bought a house and the sellers tried pulling something like this. Apparently they were starting to get cold feet and were thinking about maybe not selling.
What they did was they tried pulling some shenanigans after our inspection that we had done came up with some relatively minor things that needed to get fixed.
It was absolutely ridiculous behavior on their part, saying they’re “outraged” that we would even ask for XYZ thing to be fixed.
Fortunately our real estate agent finessed things with theirs. And their agent admitted that they had been expecting us to back out after they pulled their bullshit. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
There was another house (more a mansion really) that I was really starting to love the more I looked at it, so we would have been fine. But the god awful nerve of them, throwing a tantrum like toddlers just blows my mind.
Sellers may be thinking of delisting their house.