Silence is golden, or so the song says. Well the silence from our Estate Agent is worrying. After promises that we would see an drastic increase in viewings from Tuesday onwards, here we are Thursday morning and still we have had none since last Friday and no new ones scheduled in.
Yesterday we did something we should have done from the start. We started to talk to friends and people we know who have moved recently, are Estate Agents or just know people who are Estate Agents. These are friends we know and trust.
We spoke to a friend who is an Estate Agent in Barnet (no good for our area) but she works for an independant agency and she says the two we had been using are baiscally crooks and give Estate Agents a bad reputation. She said look at their stats on a site they use our price of 249K is vastly over priced for our area. They do this to get people to sign up with them, with the promise of selling it quickly for you.
Another person I know very well from when I was at Nortel, he was a supplier of mine and has a temp agency in Enfield Town, told me to talk to an agent friend he has also in the Town. The same agent was also recommended by an old guy I know from my Cricket Playing days. I spoke to them this morning and basically they said our property should not be on for anymore than £240k.
So in general terms we are over priced.
People who have just moved recently have recommended another agency, smaller one but where the owner is hands on and involved. They both said they had a great experiance with them and he looked after them very well. Helen is going to ring them lunchtime today, as to be honest I have had my fill of Estate Agents now for a lifetime.
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