Foxtons opening date

[SimonM]

>>I should imagine they want to open in a blaze of glory, windows (sorry - giant plasma screens) packed to the rafters >>with property - so they need time to get the clients in.:D<

Got my third letter again today too....again addressed to me personally, ignoring the fact SWMBO also owns the place....

[*Bob*]

SimonM Wrote:

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> Isn't it Foxtons who have made a fine "art" of

> "flyboarding". So you might see your house up for

> sale in their windows even if you have not

> actually put in on the market!

Excellent. I wonder what it will go for..?

[tiddles]

my husband and I have had 5 letters each from foxtons, plus one each from our previous residence as redirected mail.

Drove past today, the size of the frontage looks like a supermarket. I hope they all overheat from that expanse of glass.....

[Louisa]

jan t please do not knock the expanse of glass, it looks most fetching and will certainly brighten up what otherwise has been a very bland local landmark for some decades now!

[kford]

I'm with Louisa on that - anything is better than that brick front. Will someone start on that KCH building opposite now?

[MadWorld74]

Myself and Mr MW74 think the place looks very impossing and slightly aggressive. I do not like.

Also I had the pleasure of seeing a Foxtons mini over the weekend parked in CPalace Road emblazened with 'Balham Boy' on it's arse. Oh God help us.

[ClareC]

Apparantly they open 22nd Sept - I had a letter last Friday.

[Jeremy]

I agree, the new shop front does not look nice.

No doubt its inhabitants will be even more unsavoury.

[MadWorld74]

come on...a car with Balham Boy over it's arse???? what next 'Dulwich Dude'...?

Vomit.

[Brendan]

It does look better than a derelict shop front but it is still fuking ugly.

And sorry to bring this up again, I know it has been done to death but; Allowing estate agents, in their current form, to exist at all is like tolerating a bunch of rude pushy cunts who walk around the aisles in the supermarket, tell you what you can and can?t buy, force you to a teller of their choice and then rob you.

But then again we tolerate being robbed by banks, insurance companies and government every day. We are so used to bending and taking it that we actually convince ourselves that it is all for the best. Like a dog who gets kicked repeatedly and still cowers back to lick its master?s hand.

So now we are all mildly ambivalent to the fact that another estate agent opening. We try to be rational, not be melodramatic. We had our initial rants so let?s see what they are like. Take the good with the bad, if you don?t laugh you?ll cry and a bird in the bush is great until the parky catches you etc. etc.

We live in a freeish market so everyone has the right to ply their trade and peddle their wares and if others are fool enough to fall for it then fair play. But we really have to stay guarded to markets being manipulated by specific industries. The banks already have complete control of us. Who is next?

Well that was a cathartic Monday morning rant. Sorry if it gets this loonged.

[*Bob*]

it's only an estate agent

[Administrator]

It was going to be Lounged before your posting Brendan because it's no longer about the opening date and is just a discussion about Foxtons.

Lounged

[Quaywe]

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[Brendan]

Hitler was only a head of state.

[*Bob*]

Honestly.. it's really is just an estate agent. Check it out. They're not supplying munitions to African dictatorships, or 'disappearing' political activists, or burgling your houses, or stealing the food from your children's mouths (ok, the last one is debatable) but do check it out.

It's just, like, houses for sale, or to rent. Like all the other Estate agents. I know they have a big glass frontage, and they have a plasma screen instead of scabby faded photographs like some of the agents have. You'll probably end-up looking at it when you're waiting for a bus. And the minis are irritating - but they're just cars, really, aren't they? Not the AIDS virus.

All we had before was a brick wall and 15 other companies doing exactly the same thing.

[LostThePlot]

Peckham native Wrote:

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> Foxtons 0% offer just dropped through the door.

> First 200 who instruct them to sell their property

> and sell it before 21st December pay no

> commission.

But for those of us who are not selling and received these letters, (I received 7 - I'm not joking!) anyone fancy joining me and gathering them together, and then in the first week they open, put all the damn envelopes back through their door?

[Brendan]

To be fair bob I am being intentionally over-the-top.

Estate agents can only exist if there are people willing to use them. I just think we should all think twice about how good the reasons are that some companies think up to get their hands on our money.

[*Bob*]

LostThePlot Wrote:

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> But for those of us who are not selling and

> received these letters, (I received 7 - I'm not

> joking!) anyone fancy joining me and gathering

> them together, and then in the first week they

> open, put all the damn envelopes back through

> their door?

Why not just pop them in the blue recycling bag and and forget about it?

[Brendan]

No fun in that bob.

[Asset]

I'm feeling left out - I've only had one letter.

[*Bob*]

WAIT...! I have an idea..

LostThePlot.. you take three of your 7 letters round to Asset so s(he) doesn't feel left-out. Then you can both march down to Foxtons together and post your unwanted mail through the door, and watch the office dogsbody get down on his hands and knees and pick them up, whilst the manager pins-up details of the hundreds of new properties they've just taken-on.

That'll teach 'em!

[Andyng]

whats do you guys think of the foxtons deal if I sell through them and get an offer by

christmas then its no comission.If it goes on till after christmas and no offers 2.5%?

Theres prob small print as well if I gave another agent and they sold it ill be paying double

comission

What if they delberately dont market it and ask me for 2.5% Thid idea makes me a bit unconfortable.

2.5% is astronomical.Dont know whether to just for a hight street agent for just 1.2%

[Brendan]

I wouldn't trust them.

Then again I wouldn't trust any other estate agents either.

[*Bob*]

At this moment, in ED, if they can't sell it for you before Christmas, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

However.. I can't remember exactly what the small print said, but I was under the impression it just had to be 'sale agreed' before Xmas.. if it completed in the New Year then you'd still be entitled?

[SimonM]

>>However.. I can't remember exactly what the small print said, but I was under the impression it just had to be 'sale agreed' before Xmas.. if it completed in the New Year then you'd still be entitled?<<

I cannot remember the full wording either, but think you have it right. Could it really be the case though that, if you and Buyer A agree the sale/purchase before Christams, then Buyer A backs out in January but you subsequently agree and complete a sale to Buyer B in February, then there will still be no commission payable? :))