I'm very serious about buying - I have my deposit and mortgage ready, I'm just waiting for the right place at the right price. I'm not in any huge rush to buy, nothing really pressuring me to buy and I could quite easy wait out another 12-18 months for prices to drop further, but if I can get something today for a 2010 price, why not? means I can start getting on with my life in my own actual house.
That flat offer only came about because there was a bigger flat in the same block as that one, but only asking for 150k. Pointed that out to the ea, who didn't seem to care. I just said good luck shifting the flat, because you wont.
I was looking at flats about 2 months ago as the area I want to live in has a real lack of smaller houses for my (quite small) budget, but then I got a promotion at work (Which I count myself incredibly lucky getting at the moment) which has meant I can now suddenly afford almost twice as much as I could before...
Not that I want to spend twice as much, you understand
I appreciate what you're saying and understand where you're coming from, but where's the harm? They might come back and tell me "absolutely not", in which case it's no big deal, right? It's not like I have to pay to bid. But if they come back and say "well we really can't accept that, BUT if we did this and that then maybe...." well then you're getting into some dialogue with them and can maybe bang out a deal that you're both happy with.