Our house has just gone on the market and the first viewing booked for 7pm today. I work full-time and dh is sahd (dc 2.10 and 5) so you can imagine the immense effort it takes to get the house in order for a viewing. Dh also has MS, though he is well at the moment but we really try to avoid him pushing himself too much just in case.
So I rushed home from work as early as possible to help clean up. I was home at 4.45 (teacher) and spent a manic hour rushing about tidying up the evidence of the day, trying to put washing away etc. The plan was for dh to take the dc and dog out and go for a meal with them. He was about to leave at 5.45 when I heard him telling someone they were an hour early. I couldn't believe it and then I heard a woman say there must have been a mix-up and that they couldn't come back later as they were seeing a few other houses in the area.
Dh explained we weren't really ready but somehow they ended up coming in - said don't worry about the mess/children/dog etc. They were here about 5 minutes in all and, tbh, something didn't feel right. They didn't ask anything and when I asked where they live now the woman said, "oh just round the corner." She seemed evasive but only after did we think if she lived so near, why couldn't they come back at 7 as arranged.
As soon as they left, we took the dc out to tea as they had been promised and we discussed our impression that these people had been complete time-wasters who just fancied a look at our house. We planned to phone the estate agent tomorrow and ask them where they 'got these people from' and to find out whether it was they who were to blame for the time being wrong.
Anyway, we took our time over tea and then went home - got there just before 7. Needless to say, we didn't complete the tidying up and the hoover was out and the wooden floors (which seem to need sweeping 48 times a day) remained unswept.
At 7 O'clock prompt there was a knock on the door. It was the people sent by the agents to view the house 
. The dc were hyped up, the house was not pristine. I welcomed them by staring at them open-mouted for a bit...
Anyway, we told them what had happened and they were very understanding. They spent over half an hour here looking around (not a big house) and seemed to really like it. They looked right for it too, iykwim. I am absolutely livid that they have not seen it at its best due to that other pair of nutters. Towards the end, the dc were shouting - it was not what you want from a viewing. At all.
I don't know whether to be livid or scared as well. Who the fuck were those people who basically forced their way into our house. Dh went in the cellar alone with the man which makes me feel a little creeped. The woman was very strident, the man seemed a little shamed, tbh.
Anyone else have anything like this happen?