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To refuse an Estate Agents viewing on my house?

23 replies

TheCokeMachine · 24/04/2012 13:12

My house has been on the market a week...

Estate Agent calls last Thursday and asks can someone view it Monday at 6pm, I say no problem. Estate Agent calls at 5pm on Monday to cancel the veiwing and asks to rebook for today. I say ok, I'll need to get my husband to finish work early again (to take the dogs out) but no problem...

Estate Agent calls again just now, to cancel todays viewing. Asks if the guy can see it tomorrow instead. I say no, I'm not interested in dealing with a messer, tell him to bugger off.

AIBU? Should I just give in and be at the Estate Agents and Buyers beck and call...surely if you were interested in a house you would find the time to make the appointment?

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typicalvirgo · 24/04/2012 13:14

YANBU.

If they try to mess you about at this stage imagine what it could be like if it got to completion.

worzelswife · 24/04/2012 13:14

I'd not let them come back, far too much mucking you about. Would possibly give them a third chance if they could come in at a time convenient to you, but otherwise no.

BoboksAndCot · 24/04/2012 13:16

No YANBU I'd do the same. I wouldn't trust them not to mess me about if they put an offer in, so what's the point in having the viewing?

crowface · 24/04/2012 13:19

Definitely not unreasonable. I'd also have a word with the estate agent and tell them to stop messing you about.

Viewer sounds like a tyre kicker, or whatever the house buying equivalent is!

tiddleypompom · 24/04/2012 13:20

How very irritating & rude - what an arse.

TBH though, I'd personally rearrange (though with a cats bum face) as it's a tough market and if you want to sell your house you'll have to do whatever is needed... Better to resign yourself to that fact that selling house is PITA till the very end, but then it's done.

Having said that, your agent should be working for you - make sure they do & keep on their case, or you'll end up at the bottom of their list.

CarolynR · 24/04/2012 13:21

YANBU that is completely unfair to cancel and rebook so many times - in all likelihood they would never put an offer on and follow it through by actually buying - he/she was almost certainly a timewaster. Or just someone nosey who likes to look at houses which come on the market.

HecateTrivia · 24/04/2012 13:23

Depends how badly you want to sell the house, but yes, I'd be tempted to tell them to bugger off too.

suburbandream · 24/04/2012 13:25

YANBU, it's really stressful trying to keep the place looking perfect, nipping out so they can do the viewing in peace etc! When our place was on the market I insisted on no viewings after 4.30pm when the DCs came home from school - it was a tiny flat so we could hardly disappear to the other end of the house and they were little so needed their tea etc. Sounds like a time-waster, if they were really interested they wouldn't muck you about

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TheCokeMachine · 24/04/2012 13:28

Thanks everyone, I'm in no hurry to sell and could easily rent the house out if it doesn't sell. I just assumed that the Estate Agent would at least 'vet' the messers out of the equation. Perhaps not?

I did think that if they messed over the viewing they'd be terrible to exchange with. Told DH what I'd said and he has agreed - messers will no be tolerated.

CarolynR - I think we could call them 'skirting board kickers'?

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TunipTheVegemal · 24/04/2012 13:29

Depends whether you are going all out to sell I suppose. Wouldn't blame anyone who decided this man was likely to be more trouble than he was worth, though.

I would have a word with the agent and ask them about this man - they may have had dealings with him in the past and know if he makes a habit of this or if he is normally reliable and just has something up at the moment.

valiumredhead · 24/04/2012 13:29

I am SO pleased we sold after one viewing, I could never have kept the flat tidy any longer Grin

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TheCokeMachine · 24/04/2012 13:32

And I have a six month old baby, I really wasn't relishing the thought to dismantling the Jumperoo again and hiding it in the boot of my car.

Feet up and back to squalor now :)

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BettySwollocksandaCrustyRack · 24/04/2012 13:33

YANBU!! Christ, if they muck you about this much just for the viewing imagine how stressful it would be to actually try and sell your house to them!

HaplessHousewife · 24/04/2012 13:41

YANBU. It took five months to sell my house and I could tell the people who weren't really interested the minute they walked in the door which is a complete pain when you've run around tidying up (I had two children under three so not easy).

I wish I'd had the guts to say no to some of the viewings ? I'm sure estate agents send people round who they know won't buy it just to make is seem like they're doing something to earn their money. I had one viewing at a couple of hours notice on the hottest day of the year, at the kids' tea time, it was hell and they seemed like they were out on a day trip Angry

bumperella · 24/04/2012 13:50

YANBU. We had folk who were OBVIOUSLY just making themselves some pre-pub-lunch entertainment for a "nice day out" .

MarySA · 24/04/2012 14:04

I wouldn't have this viewer. Too unreliable. They'd be a nightmare to deal with I would think.

SocietyClowns · 24/04/2012 14:15

YANBU Imagine they put in an offer, then kept putting off exchanging a few times, then pulled out at the last minute Angry. There may be a perfectly good explanation why they cancelled the viewing twice but to be honest I would also tell them to get lost.

TheHappyHissy · 24/04/2012 14:18

OK, tell them to arrange an open house day. Then you and your family leave them to it for a day, EA arranges the viewings for that day and it doesn't matter if the EA gets stood up.

ABigGirlDoneItAndRanAway · 24/04/2012 14:28

I see why you are annoyed but there might be a good reason for the messing about, we are looking for a new house just now and saw one online that we liked the look of so we set up a viewing for 2 weeks ago. The day before the viewing DD went down with an awful D&V bug and I couldn't bring her out of the house so DH went alone. I rearranged for the following week to go and see it but then went down with the bug myself and had to cancel, DH said they were pretty arsey with him when he called to let them know and basically implied we are time wasters. I really do want to see the house for myself as DH said it has a lot of potential and he could see us living there so this will be our third viewing appointment on the same house in 3 weeks.

SophieLeGiraffe · 24/04/2012 14:32

Don't do it!

I moved things around to my detriment to accommodate a potential buyer who, after the third viewing told the EA they were tracking another, much cheaper house and actually could never have afforded anything near our asking price. Both we and the EA were mightily pissed off at being messed around.

I sold a week or two later to a really nice couple who I am very happy to sell to.

Deadsouls · 24/04/2012 16:30

No YANBU - BLOODY ANNOYING!!!! We have been through this process and it's driving me a bit mad. Plus we are in a flat with 2 children so you can imagine the difficulty of tidying. We have a buyer who put in an offer the day she saw flat. Then she wanted second viewing, so more tidying. On 2nd viewing, she criticised everything in flat.

Then she said she wanted to come round with builder. I took kids out, DH tidied flat. Buyer cancelled on day she was supposed to come round. Then a week later decides she wants a survey done (this after she said she wasn't going to have survey) -

Oh...sorry seem to have hijacked with my own frustrating story - but anyways NO YANBU

Pandemoniaa · 24/04/2012 16:44

No, YANBU. This amount of faffing about has arsehole writ large upon it.

Although I do wish some EA would be a little more realistic. I once came home to discover mine attempting to winch two very elderly ladies up to my top floor flat. Well not quite literally but that (or a funicular railway) was what it would have taken to get them up there and I cannot think why he'd even thought to arrange a viewing.

Northernlurker · 24/04/2012 16:54

I think it could be a tactic - if you out up with this amount of messing about they can tell you're desperate and will offer low accordingly. Good for you for kicking them in to touch

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