Bear in mind that Estate Agents are in a "Turnover & Commission" business. The price they will suggest is one that they know they can shift the property in the quickest time with the least effort on their behalf for their extortionate fee.
My late BIL always told them to add another 20 grand to their suggested price and then go earn the commission by actively selling it, or they were off the gig and he would engage a different agent. Worked every time.
Foolishly, I always accepted the agents suggested price and my houses (all 7 of them) always sold to the very first "Viewer"....I wonder why?
Too true. On my last move to the present Wimblowdriver Towers which I had already bought, I had a couple of months work just to make the new one habitable. I got a valuation on the old one but needed to put it on hold until the new one was fit to move into. I knew the agent had a customer waiting in the wings. Once I was ready I told them to put it on the market and I added £10k to what they had suggested. It sold the same afternoon.
 
Ooohhh exciting!
Bear in mind that Estate Agents are in a "Turnover & Commission" business. The price they will suggest is one that they know they can shift the property in the quickest time with the least effort on their behalf for their extortionate fee.
My late BIL always told them to add another 20 grand to their suggested price and then go earn the commission by actively selling it, or they were off the gig and he would engage a different agent. Worked every time.
Foolishly, I always accepted the agents suggested price and my houses (all 7 of them) always sold to the very first "Viewer"....I wonder why?
I would echo that.
I have a mate whose pa and bruv are both estate agents.
They say the average git has a short list of houses he knows he can sell quickly, usually cos they are underpriced and they push these like mad. Quick turnaround, quick profit.
If you are asking a bit more then the agent will pay lip service to you and then your stuff gets filed at the back of the cabinet, as it were. An extra £10k to you is only about an extra £150 to them, not worth the extra hassle for them.

So I learned, the hard way with a slow agent who couldn't sell an ice-cream to a rich kid, to give the new agent the house to sell but to tell them they would only have it for 6 weeks. Sold in no time at the right price.
If they have trouble selling it they ring around all their mates and sell it jointly, without telling you and split the commission. You get the price you want or a near figure and the agents get summat, maybe not as much as they would like but better than nothing. (Maybe there is some law to stop them doing it now, but I bet they still do it.)
Mind you this was in the 80s when you could sell anything.
Once had a sale fall through on a Saturday morning, it went back on the market straight away, ex wife and I went out shopping it had been sold again, or an offer received by the time we got back!

With tinternet there are sites where you can check the Land Registry for houses like yours even in the same road, to see what they actually went for. so you can accurately price yours up.

Best of luck to all trying to do this at this difficult time. don't envy you one bit.
 
Big lick on that. Not unlike the pair I made for getting an extra 4 inches of squeeze room under modern cars at oil change time. The steel proper ones I gotted in 1976 foul on the front valance of modern cars. But (unlike Stanley) I can still get under me fender and do all the service jobs without problem, my corpulence has not got that far yet and I don't get stuck :D:D:D
Oy!
I could get under a Fender, tis the sidesteps on the Disco that jigger me!
 
Ooohhh exciting!
Bear in mind that Estate Agents are in a "Turnover & Commission" business. The price they will suggest is one that they know they can shift the property in the quickest time with the least effort on their behalf for their extortionate fee.
My late BIL always told them to add another 20 grand to their suggested price and then go earn the commission by actively selling it, or they were off the gig and he would engage a different agent. Worked every time.
Foolishly, I always accepted the agents suggested price and my houses (all 7 of them) always sold to the very first "Viewer"....I wonder why?
Cheers Dan, I understand they are just about profit. We really want to move quick so will also probably accept a lower offer. Checking Zoopla etc we have an idea of what sells for what. We are getting three quotes so that will also be interesting :)
 
Sounds fair to me. :)
I hope it all happens as you want it to (on both sale and purchase). :)
We have some leeway as the place we are interested is less than half the value of what we are selling. I don't mind dropping 20k for a cash buyer as the one we want is vacant possession. We will have missed the stamp duty holiday by the time it all kicks off unless they extend it.......
 
Finally came in and did the dishwasher. (Brownie points, hmmm!:D:D:D)
Got the 9/16" nuts off.
Bloody Nyloc cr@p, hate em!
Invention of the devil!
Now I'm gonna have to delve into my stock of used imperial fittings for lockwashers.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
It's been raining here off an on, mostly on, as the bottoms of my legs told me, seeing as they were sticking out from under the Disco:rolleyes:
At least the screw holding the brake drum on looks pristine but I think I'll give the impact driver Wifey presented with me a coupla years back its first outing.:):):)
What fun!:)
 
Cheers Dan, I understand they are just about profit. We really want to move quick so will also probably accept a lower offer. Checking Zoopla etc we have an idea of what sells for what. We are getting three quotes so that will also be interesting :)
Have a look here to see what they actually sold for, as opposed to what they are "on" for!
https://www.gov.uk/search-house-prices
 
I didn't know about that gov site, thanks for the link!!
I suppose it must tap into the Land Registry, you used to have to do it through one of the estate agency sites, can't remember which one.
It's like doing a special search on eBay filtered for "sold listings" where they come up in green with the actual price made.

When we last sold a house it was interesting that no matter how good any house was in our street, none of them went for more than £250K, due to it being the stamp duty threshold, so no point it doing it up to the nines!
 
Get yerself some HippoRamps (tm)

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/hipporamps-how-to-guide.257760/

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Could you not achieve the same by driving up a pair of white stilettos, or would that be too much fer a hippo
 
Handbrake drum removal fell at first fence.
Nuts ain't 14mm reely, nor 15mm.
So inside trying to see if there is an imperial equivalent to14.5mm, and or ordering the special tool to gerrit off.
HATE having to get special tools. You're supposed to be able to repair this stuff in a jungle or a desert, NOT down the High Street outside an LR stealer!
Anyay sprayed it with some release agent to all is not lost.
But Madame is not happy to see me indoors, even though it is raining.
AND I'm too fat to get easily under the flipping vehicle, without jacking it up etc.
I have had better days.:(

I removed both props an my mates 90 last week same issue with the sizing. lucky I have
a worn 14mm snap on spanner which worked a treat although 2 nuts were solid & were
on the verge of rounding so I lined up the nut so I could get a 3/8 14mm socket & hammered
it on once nearly off just wiggled the socket off. :)
 
I removed both props an my mates 90 last week same issue with the sizing. lucky I have
a worn 14mm snap on spanner which worked a treat although 2 nuts were solid & were
on the verge of rounding so I lined up the nut so I could get a 3/8 14mm socket & hammered
it on once nearly off just wiggled the socket off. :)
Don’t you have a proper prop socket?
So easy to use & worth the few quid
 
I removed both props an my mates 90 last week same issue with the sizing. lucky I have
a worn 14mm snap on spanner which worked a treat although 2 nuts were solid & were
on the verge of rounding so I lined up the nut so I could get a 3/8 14mm socket & hammered
it on once nearly off just wiggled the socket off. :)
It's just so funny that British Leyland/ Austin Rover, despite the model/make etc, stuck with 9/16" for the propshafts. Those who have not been mucking about with cars back in those days, prolly don't know what it is to deal with imperial nuts and bolts, and threads. I started in 1972 and didn't get my first metric socket set until 1980 or 81.
I find myself using a calliper a heck of a lot to make sure, when this sort of thing rears its head, should have done it today.:rolleyes:
 

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