To get pissed off at people viewing my house...

[Cherrypieplum]

Opening cupboard doors without asking! Really, really fucking rude!

All built in cupboards can be seen from side so depth can be seen. It's just nosiness. I was just amazed they didn't ask. And it's the second viewing and I was out the first time so god only knows what they did then!!

The one woman went through every drawer in my kitchen cos 'they are the first to go'. Well no actually cos one door is held together with no nails (courtesy of previous owner botching!)

I have just moved into a rented house to discover a lot of the drawers were fake. I've been told it was my own fault for not looking.

I always looked in understairs type cupboards when househunting, because that is almost a room.

Didn't open fixture and fitting type cupboards (e.g. kitchen cupboards) unless they looked like they were falling apart (as we didn't want to have to replace kitchen).

Free standing cupboards - nooooo that would be rude and wrong.

Haha! Vivi good plan!

Actually I'm not even selling. I'm part exing so this is just a courtesy to developers!

Er yes YABU. If I am buying a house, I would look in every nook and cranny and fitment that is coming with the house.It is the most important purchase anyone will make, so it will be put under the microscope.

If I was selling I would be expecting my possible vendors to do the same.

Yab very u. If the cupboards are built in, they come with the house, so potential buyers have every right and business having a good look at them. Have you never sold a house before?
Carry on like this - and it will stay that way.

YABveryU. If the cupboards are fitted then people have got the right to have a look. I hate tiny kitchen cupboards to like to have a real good look at them, having said that if I was looking at a house that was occupied I would always ask first.

I also like to see the shower running for a minute or two and flush the loos as I've ended up in houses with horrible water pressure and it makes life miserable after a couple of months.

You'd hate me as a viewer....

Haha! I can see who the cupboard nosers are. Sold many a house. Not encountered quite so much impolite behaviour! In real life obvs! I thoroughly expect rudeness here!

I'm all for checking but manners cost nothing!

Bloody hell Pictish! Dramatic much?

Dramatic how?

You don't know the basics of selling a house.

Lurked too long you can flush away. I'd just ask that is all!

All built in cupboards can be seen from side so depth can be seen

Measuring the exterior with your eye and making guestimates is not the same as opening a cupboard and seeing that you CAN actually fit 30 tins of beans in there.

YABU. You're selling the house, they are examining it to see if they want to buy. If a vendor wouldn't let me open cupboards or was reluctant I would assume there was a fault and that the door would fall off or the shelves were rotting or there was mould they didn't want me to see.

When we let our house, we put all new doors and handles on the kitchen cupboards, it looked the business. No one looked inside them but if they had have done they'd have seen what a shabby state the carcasses are

Thanks, and of course I'd would definitely ask first.

Mooching round cupboards is hardly a thorough bloody survey is it? I've bought and sold plenty cheers.

Again, don't mind the looking but asking is polite. It's still someone's home whether you are buying it or not. 9/10 the nosers aren't actually buying. You can spot it a mile off. Root through cupboards but don't ask for any proper info.

Yeah this house had some Bodged bits we noticed after but I'm more concerned with leaking roof than a slightly wonky kitchen door :/

It wouldn't occur to me to ask if I could look inside the kitchen cupboards that came with this house I was considering buying. People need to know if a kitchen needs replacing.

I wouldn't think to ask either. If the kitchen comes with the house, I'm going to be inspecting it. Obviously.

I'm a cupboard looker as well. I want to know exactly what storage is available and no you can't always tell from the exterior. And why would I need to ask? If you've agreed to the viewing then I assume you've agreed to allow people to actually view the property in it's entirety and that includes fitted storage units, understairs cupboard, kitchen units etc. It's the biggest purchase you'll ever make so you need to be sure as to what you're getting.

Mind you I did get a bit carried away at one viewing once and as I was examining the cupboards in the kitchen realised I'd opened the fridge - it wasn't an integrated one .

You would hate me then as when we bought last time i looked in cupboards felt the wall behind them for signs of damp, turned on taps, flushed the loo and even opened and closed the patio doors.

Do people really decide on the largest purchase they are ever going to make just by walking around and looking at your wall paper choices?

I have better things to do that "root" through people's cupboards. But if anyone expects me to spend several hundred thousand on a house, damn right I am going to see if your kitchen cupboards need replaced.Inside and out.Or whether there is enough space for MY stuff.

I am really not interested in your coats,plates,cutlery or whatever else you have lurking in there.

YAB a wee bit U, don't tidy stuff into cupboards, tidy it into the boot of the car! I did that when I was selling my last house

I'd want to see storage for myself. While I can guesstimate cupboard depth from outside, I have seen fitted cupboards that turn out to be hiding all sorts of things which mean the storage available is less than Hal if what it looks like from outside. Or they have those stupid spiny things in that swing out, vastly reducing the actual useable space.

If a cupboard is fitted, I'd be buying it and therefore I'd be looking.

Shesparkles when we sold our last house, I remember putting the huge ironing pile in the car to make the bedroon look tidy!

Also had a viewer who went round knocking on both sides of all the panels of all the internal doors - hello - cant you actually see they are new varnished solid pine doors?

The cupboards are tidy, nothing lurking. I think it's attitude of people stomping around thinking they already own the place. If fact, I've just realised it's the first experience I've had of people nosing to such an extent. Is it a common way to try and knock money off then maybe? Find something behind a cupboard to justify not paying the asking? Not that I care as we're not selling it in that way :)

I must be in the minority. Certainly would ask and I don't assume that every house seller is out to rook me :/

And the 'paper' I'm most interest in is the survey.