I feel is a difficult thing to do....
We viewed 3 houses on Saturday, all 3 ticked the boxes. First one was the style we want, was on a street we love, had a decent sized garden, a lovely big garage and parking for 3 cars. It needed a ground floor extension, just like next door had done which would be fine and not too much work. I liked it a lot, Mr WT said he didn't have the 'warm and fuzzy' feeling about it. I had to explain to the EA selling it today that although it had everything we wanted, my husband didn't feel warm and fuzzy about it.
Second one again the style we want, had all the rooms we wanted, nice size garden, a sun room, big kitchen basically everything we were looking for. However although it rates in our top 3 the asking price was £20k more than a house that also ticked all the boxes in a better area. I told the EA that we loved the house (no lie) but as we are waiting for the bottom of our chain to complete we weren't in a position to progress. I felt guilty about that for some reason as I don't want to get their hopes up.
Third house wasn't a house it was a lovely dormer bungalow, it had been modernised by a young couple who had part exed it for a new build, so Barratt Homes were selling it. and they were prepared to take a £55k drop from its original asking price. It ticked all the boxes again and needed minimal spending on it to make it perfect. EA is aware of our situation and won't ask for feedback as we basically told her what we thought as we viewed.
The house at the very top of our list has been on the market for 6 months, no drop in price and with maybe £20k spend would be totally perfect, it's on 3 levels with a huge garden and on a quiet road in a so called 'posh' area.
I dunno, I'm just rambling but I hate giving negative feedback and always try and make it as positive as possible as I don't want to upset people.
The woman who viewed our house on Saturday was quite negative (her perogative) and almost instantly dismissed the house as it was 'too dark' and 'had steps' (her son is wheelchair bound) the first piece of description for our house advert states, 'large opening from living room with steps down to dining room' . What part of that description didn't she understand?! She then waffled on about 'Valley houses having too many steps'...... the clue is in the title 'Valley house' usually built on the side of a mountain, love.
Anyway, is there a sure fire way of giving feedback even when you dont' like a place that's positive and doesn't make you feel guilty?
