to think that if you are selling your house, you should at least clean it first??

[PussinJimmyChoos]

Now, before I get flamed, I am not talking about houses where someone has died or an elderly relative/disabled person unable to clean

No, I am talking about the house of two doctors with kids that I viewed today...walked in and it STANK of dog...I mean REEKED! Carpets everywhere smelling of it (even the downstairs loo) and although things were superficially clean eg kitchen work surfaces, no deep cleaning had been done for yonks - manky walls, skirting boards, stains on carpet...the dog, which was a Great Dane btw, slept in their bedroom on a dog bed bigger than the Queen Mary and had graced the room most successfully with eua de canine...the poor fish in the fishtank looked like their water was grey and they probably do not know what the world outside their tank looks like as it was manky!

I was appalled...I actually went around in manner of Anthea and ran my fingers on things...

Could not believe people could actually show their house in such a state?!!

Oh, no I MUST disagree.

The dirtier, the more untidy the house the bigger the "discount" you get because so many idiots can't see past it.

The smellier, the worst decorated the house the bigger the bargain!

I thought the same as Georgi on that toilet thing - if you always put the lid down, most people doing a small viewing would think it looked very tidy and they wouldn't see your bloody tissues.

v shocked at doctors' house though.

I don't think there is anything wrong with leaving the loo lid up - if the loo is clean and sparkling - which mine was...it just had bloody tissues in it!

lol, this thread made me smile, I'm currently selling my house and have been viewing houses and the estate agent said to me it was ok to have a few toys lying around (as I have a toddler) but always make sure its clean (which it usually is). However I saw an ornament yesterday that said "cleaning your house while your children are growing is like shovelling snow while its still snowing", made me think about it!!

puss - putting the toilet lid down means that you never have to have arguments with the men about leaving the seat up - the lid is always down, so everyone in the house has to lift it to go and put it down when they've finished.
Equality working.

DH used to put the lid down down after his last wee of the night...cue me, 5mths pg, staggering in at 2am for the first of my usual pee visits and sitting down on the lid and feeling puzzled as to why it felt so cold....I HATED it!

Still, I should be grateful that I am not yet at that pg brain forgetful stage and actually pee'ing on the lid

I worked with a woman who went to view a house once where in the lounge was a fish tank that ran the entire length of the room. But there weren't hundreds of fish in it - just one pirana-type fish that followed you as you walked along the room .

When she went into the kitchen she was horrified to discover that all the doors had been taken off the kitchen cupboards, and that they had instead been covered with wire mesh, and in all of them was.... hundreds of birds! in the kitchen! She said the whole kitchen would have had to be replaced.

I also knew someone else who went to see a house that was in such a state the agent warned her about it before she went in. The owner apparently kept ferrits and the whole house stank and was covered in dirt. She said though that the weirdest thing was that in one room was a wall unit with loads of brass ornaments on it, and all that had been beautifully polished.