Originally Posted by
PJT
Well, we got ourselves in kind of a mess. We are still overseas, and the estate agent has told us that we can sign the contract after arrival.
Now she says when we paid the holding fee of one week's rent we agreed to take the property. Which is not what she said when we enquired about it.
In fact she herself said that the holding fee would be lost if we were to change our minds the last minute.
Estate agents: As always passing on the pressure they are under unfiltered!
Of course, if you're still overseas, and don't yet have a NZ address, if you just broke of all contact with the agent it would be very hard for them to do anything more about it! You'd lose the "holding fee" obviously.