House hunting

I never realised how frustrating this process can be before I started out on it. I thought, I'm living in a nice house and in a nice residential area with good neighbours and a community of older people who generally keep their own counsel so where's the problem? Well no problem looking for that dream house for us but selling ours.......? I might have more luck selling a second hand wigwam!!! The recession, people in general and time of year and actual timing all come into play and are major factors. The problems are that some people have some really daft ideas, they view, they nod in the right places and then offer me a really derisory offer, what pigs!!! Others are just, as I would put it, professional viewers wanting to check out any property in the locale and then just destructively criticise it mercilessly and the worst are the ones with the really daft excuses. If people look at the details from the estate agents they ought to have some inkling as to what they are going to get. If I state that it is in a salubrious area and benefits from all the mod cons, does that help ? well possibly but then it can backfire on me, maybe I should say, it is positioned at the end of a problem estate with beautiful barricades on a backdrop of drug dealers and dirty needles, will that sell the property, well for those of us in that "special area of life" , it might!!!! but for the vast majority, NO so why do the potential buyers come up with so many feeble excuses. I cannot quite make up my mind whether they are time wasters or just mickey takers. I don't actually find it stressful but just DAMNED ANNOYING AND FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!   Thankfully for some of us, my wife, in particular, being back in Malaysia makes it easier for her to look at this topic far more objectively and less of an irritant that I am finding it. I prefer a bartering system myself, how about I'll buy your house for three pigs, a water tower and a year's subscription to your local Horse and Hound magazine!!!!  not realistic of course but somewhat more interesting than the current set up. Then I have the estate agents suggesting I lower the price as well, Aaaaargh  is there no end to this madness, at this rate by the end of the year I will be owning my very own tent complete with groundsheet. Surreal behaviour is alive and well in the Staffordshire/Shropshire borders and Mr Eccentric is alive and ranting again.........roll on 2011 !!!!!!