Imagine the beginning of a classic horror movie - a young (or not so young) couple arrives to look at an old house and, completely oblivious to the disturbing music playing in the background, signs all the papers. And then the actual plot begins...
Okay, and what if the customers didn’t like something and refused to buy it? You will say that then the whole movie wouldn’t have existed, and you’ll be right. But, according to real estate agents from this viral online thread, there have been many stories when a deal to buy a house fell through at the very last moment due to some petty whim of the buyers.
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In this list, collected for you by Bored Panda, there are stories for literally every taste - from completely crazy situations when buyers left the deal for a reason that looked incredibly petty in the eyes of the realtor, to fierce disputes between spouses, where both sides flung arguments, and only at the last moment the deal fell through. It’s likely that if Netflix decided to make a series about the everyday life of real estate agents, it would be an undeniable hit.
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“In fact, there’s another fairly logical reason why the deal could fall through,” says Yulia Shurinova, a real estate agent from Odessa, Ukraine, with whom Bored Panda got in touch for a comment here. “It is quite possible that the buyer has already chosen another property and came to look at this house simply, as they say, ‘to clear their conscience.’ And at the same time they don’t want to upset the seller and agent with a direct refusal.”
“At least in my practice and the practice of my colleagues, there were many similar cases - and we learned about the true motives of the buyers in retrospect, when the deal to purchase another property had already been signed. And sometimes the buyers themselves admitted this later. Somehow no matter what, I believe that some of the stories told here also have precisely this background,” Yulia ponders.
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On the other hand, buying a house is, in any case, a situation that causes stress, because you are making a purchase for a long time, if not forever. And it’s not surprising that a person wants to avoid possible negative factors such as poor infrastructure or entitled neighbors. After all, they have to live there. So, when a choice of this degree of importance is made, hesitation and vagaries are almost inevitable. Well, or the new residents become entitled neighbors themselves... This option also cannot be discarded.
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Either way, even if you've never bought a home, we highly recommend reading all the stories on this list. At least for two main reasons. First, the vast majority of these tales are really amusing. Second is that perhaps when (or if) you buy a house yourself, you will probably remember one of the stories you read today and in time refuse the dubious purchase. And then the alarming music behind the scenes will end in confusion - who actually knows?
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