When I was leaving the UK a couple of years back, I was tempted by some of the marketing blurb from some similar organisations there. We had a house to sell, a

When I was leaving the UK a couple of years back, I was tempted by some of the marketing blurb from some similar organisations there. We had a house to sell, and were hoping to get it wrapped up before leaving, so "we buy all houses, we can close the deal in a few weeks, great prices offered!" sounded interesting. But then you look up people's experiences and the shady practices start to show. They give slightly low-ball offers, but nothing outrageous, 5-10% under market to hook you in. Most people who use them have some sort of extra motivation to sell and these arseholes know it, so at the last minute* they drop their offer significantly, in the region of 20-30%, and try to really screw you. So we stayed well clear! (*and there are a lot of last minutes in UK house sales, in fact several last months sometimes... our eventual sales process took about 4 months from acceptance to completion, and either party can drop out with no penalty up to roughly the last two weeks. It's a terrible system) (The above does not apply to Scotland, who have sorted this out long ago!)