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A Day Of Letters – Two

Dear Mr B,

We don't know if you remember us - we're the couple who were going to buy the house you were selling. Before you decided that you couldn't wait an extra day for me to complete on the sale of my flat and pulled out of our sale because you thought you could get more money if you put it back on the market.

We just wanted to let you know that things have worked out very well for us thank you. We've got a better house nearby that we've just completed on. It's just been redeveloped, so it won't have any of the additional cost involved that we were expecting to have to spend over and above the basic cost of yours to deal with the damp and the woodworm, and to completely gut and replace both the unusable kitchen and the bomb site of a garden. The brand new kitchen and established garden are just a couple of the features we love about our new house, which we'd never have found at all if you hadn't decided to try for a quick buck.

On which subject, we have been keeping an eye on our 'old' house on the estate agent's website. It must be very disappointing for you that no one immediately leapt to pay the new asking price, surely a snip at only £30,000 more than you were asking when we were buying it. How disappointing to have to drop that price down by £5,000 and find that three or four weeks later you still haven't had an offer you want to accept. I wonder if it's because it's still going to need that extra £15-20,000 spent on it to make it habitable? No, surely not.

So, really, this is just to say "thank you" for going for the possible extra cash rather than the guaranteed purchase. We're sure it'll pay off for you eventually. It certainly has for us.

Lots of love,

Us xxx

No, I haven't sent it. But would you blame me if I did?

PS - been waiting for the official word that we've completed before posting this. And we just got it.