Things not to do when viewing a property

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• turn up late
• repeatedly press the door bell (esp when you're late)
• complain about how houses in another area are bigger and cheaper (thereby assuming either the seller is clueless or doesn't have access to rightmove)
• point at DD10 and say "where's her dad?"
• come to see a small/mid sized house with three average size bedrooms, see photos and measurements online and then complain to the house owner that there's not enough bedrooms for your massive family in a tone suggesting that they've personally offended you by only having three bedrooms (go home and have those conversations)

Oooof!!

Steal loo roll and scented reeds!!

Bloody hell @bonfireheart - not fun!

Purple bricks?

Complain there are too many doors.

Complain that there are four bedrooms and you only need three.

Complain that the furniture is not to your taste.

Complain the rooms are too small.

Look at the flipping floor plan you moron!

Best one was a lady who brought 3 friends with her, one said she'd always wanted to know what the house was like inside. Nosey bitch it took me all my strength not to say piss off from the get go. I wish I had!

I feel your pain OP

Just dont complain. It is what it is. Dont like it. Dont offer. Simples

Ask for a reduction of £40k on a 190k because they need a 5 bedroom house and this house only has three
They got told to read the house spec details in future!

Why are you there for viewings? Isn't that what you pay the estate agent for?

Make a decent offer through the EA, then turn up on my doorstep with your three brothers to try to convince me to accept £20k less.

I don't think viewers realise how much their behaviour could affect the seller's decision on whether to accept their offer. I always think if they're awkward do I really want to commit to a sale with them? I also love reading the feedback they leave online about the property and wish I could leave feedback for them!
"Not enough parking."
"I think you'll find the property has a driveway with parking two cars and a separate garage for a third car. As clearly written in the ad. Shown in the photos. Please read before making viewings."

Turn up on the wrong day.

If you are standing in the hall talking to the vendor and an item comes through the letterbox, don't grab it as if you own the place already.

Children, don't point to the upstairs toilet and ask if it can be knocked out to enlarge 'your' bedroom.

Don't walk around the property detailing your plans for redevelopment (including a spiral staircase to the loft which would of course be converted) when you just told the vendor that you've dropped the price of your own property due to lack of interest.

If the property details say 'large garden', don't step outside and say in a shocked voice 'the garden is really big'.

Don’t turn up the day after your viewing, COMPLETELY UNANNOUNCED, with your wife, asking to be shown around again.

Me and DP had a proper WTF moment. Especially when they then offered £160k on our very sensibly priced £220k house!!

I do the viewings myself, I don't like idea of people in my house without me. Plus having viewed properties myself with various agents I've realised they do very little n don't even know the answers to basic questions like if the sellers are in a chain. I'd rather be there and answer their questions myself.

Let your child run riot opening drawers and picking up things while you point out 'faults' as you look round.
My tolerance for this family ran out and I asked them to leave. They were extremely rude.

This is why viewings with the owner present are hideous.

Don't let your children play with my children's toys without asking. Don't leave your children playing in the garden while you have a look inside.

Do people really leave comments on-line now?

I’m amazed people will consider selling without having met the prospective buyers- don’t you rely on your gut feeling about whether this is a good person to do business with, or a tosser who’ll lie/gazunder/ mess you around?

£160k!! I don't know how people do it with a straight face. I had one guy go on about how people are cheeky with offers so I said I was only accepting sensible offers. Mindful of the fact that houses on my street sell near enough the same figure. Then he offers £20k less than the asking price.

Or even more odd...Guy offers £185 whilst stood in my house so I say ring the agent and let them know. He rings agent and offers £182k...ok. Then I get another offer of £185k so he says he can offer £187k. I was ready to accept that and then he randomly drops to £185. In that time the other couple had another offer accepted. And I just said no to him because he sounded like hard work!

I would walk out of a viewing with the owner there. I'm not interested in their assessment of me but on the property I'm looking to buy. If that means they won't sell to me, that doesn't bother me a jot, I don't want to buy from someone like that, vendors from hell.

evidencebased this! Biggest sale/purchase of your life.
To be honest I've had some really lovely couples, quite a lot of newly weds who look smitten with each other and I can imagine them in the house. I have real sentimental attachment to my house and couldn't bear selling it to miserable people lol.

Rip wall paper off walls..
Straight up that's what happened when someone came to view my dad's flat.
It was only a tiny bit but even so.
I was toostunned to say anything.

Earlier this year we viewed over 20 houses. The only time an agent showed us round was when the property was empty, otherwise it was the vendor.

When we sold ours though I got sick of people complaining about lack of off street parking.... It was a terrace, much like most of the housing stock in the area and none had off street parking. Do some friggin research.

Don't accidentally drop kick the vendor's dog when you are viewing the garden.

FormerlyFrikadela01 I don't know what it is about parking! If i have a viewing now I move our cars to the next street. That was our driveway is empty and they can see how big it is. But yeah see the photos and if research the area (google street view) you'll see all the houses are the same!

I do prefer being shown around by the vendor. They can answer your questions. Plus agents play unnecessary games. The amount of times they'll tell me "get an offer in quick we've had really high offers" and months later the property is still for sale!

I showed a friend’s house while she was on holiday. The best/worst viewers were an elderly couple who introduced themselves as living round the corner and simply being nosy. They then talked loudly about the decor including making a dreadful racist comment about a shade of brown

Don’t do that