Short notice viewings - how tidy is your house?

[Graciescotland]

Our tenancy ends on Thursday, landlord got in touch yesterday to arrange a viewing for today. I explained that the movers were here today and that the house would be both messy and chaotic. Also that I have an agency coming to do an exit clean tomorrow morning so by tomorrow afternoon the house would be clean and tidy. He insisted it had to be today.

I considered them warned and did not spend the day running about cleaning. The viewing agent was not impressed but I was also trying to pack / keep toddler out of mischief and I'm paying people to come and clean, don't really want to do it before hand. WIBU?

yanbu
you explained the situation.
until your tenancy ends it's your home and you can do in it whatever you like (within reason, of course).
you don't even have to let people in for viewings if you don't want to.

YANBU.

YANBU

The wankers who managed my last property let themselves in to do a viewing, without notice, and then had the cheek to complain that it was a tip! OF COURSE IT WAS A TIP, I was moving house by myself with 3 kids under 6!

The wanker said that his wife managed to keep a tidy home, and he had 3 kids... I wanted to kill him dead.

YABU

Moving day is always chaos - even for those who have paid an army of assistants.

Who wants to negotiate a viewing around removal men shifting boxes and the clearing of the last bits of kitchen clutter? It's not a state you can assess a property in at all. Pre-move view, post-move view, but to look at a property when the tenant/owner is in full-flow mid-move is just nuts. Landlord is an idiot.

Thing is, it probably says in your lease he can do it, but you've explained the situation so Hess really only shooting himself in the foot at this point.

YANBU.
I had an estate agent once who never let me gave me notice about viewings.
One day I came home and found people wandering round.
So I thought it Sod it.
House was a tip, no beds made, dishes in sink, toys everywhere.
Funnily enough agent started calling well in advance after that.

I hate landlord inspections full stop and get myself really upset about them. YANBU, but your proper assessment will be when you hand over keys surely so try not to worry x

Yanbu. We had a barking landlady who let herself into our flat to show people round while DP and I were lying naked in bed watching a film. I was a tad miffed tbh. I would have been somewhat more embarrassed if they'd arrived half an hour earlier however.

rhondajean even if it says so in the contract, she doesn't need to let anyone in. she needs to give express permission beforehand.

No way wybu and if they dare to complain, I think you would be perfectly entitled to tell the landlord to fuck off.

Woohoo my first ever unanimous IANBU thread. I shall stop feeling now. I did think it was a bit mad to insist on showing the place at it's worst rather than at it's best 24 hours later.

YANbU. It's illegal for people to let themselves in without notice except in a limited number of emergency scenarios.

yanbu, if they can't wait then that's their problem, everybody's house is chaos when in the process of moving.

He's a twat. And I'd need more than a day's notice to get my house fit for a viewing.

I think he assumed because we'd always done short notice viewings before and I have cleaned that'd despite me saying it would be a tip that'd be fine.