Recently selling mum's house, and the buyer was so keen they offered to put down a 5k deposit in advance.
The agent said that was a waste of time, because the solicitors at both sides would have had to draw up a special agreement outside the normal process (costing the buyers more money of course), but more importantly, by the time the legal bods and agent would have finished arguing amongst themselves about exactly how to frame that and make it legally watertight, it would be impacting on the time taken to just sell the darn thing in the usual way.
So we just said "that's nice" and ignored it, but sold it to them anyway.
It was on Rightmove for less than two hours before pulling it as the agent was swamped.
Even so, we did have 32 viewings in a few days, and 20 odd of them made offers, of which six were straight cash (estate agent saw their bank balances). We picked the second highest offer because we preferred the buyers, and asked them to match the top offer, which they did in a heartbeat.
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