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

[Cherrypieplum]

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

I didn't think of hiding things! I just did the bloody ironing! Doh!

I'm sorry OP but I have looked in cupboards when buying a house. If I was serious about the house I would be checking out the storage situation and ensuring that the cupboards weren't knackered and needing to be replaced if in the kitchen etc. I'd also be checking for hidden damp, rot etc.

I would not be looking in freestanding items, that were not part of the household inventory though.

It is much easier to leave viewings to the Estate Agents too: showing your own house, can make others either overly polite, or even worse forget themselves and moan about your bad taste to your face!

I would want to look in cupboards but I would ask. Just seems like normal manners, in the same way as you don't come in until they invite you and say thank you afterwards.

Tunip I'm glad someone else has manners!

Well if you open a cupboard door and it comes off its hinges, you're going to be knocking some off for the poor state of repair it is in.

When we viewed this place the second time, I went to open a kitchen cupboard and she (the seller) went to stop me saying 'is there any need to look in my cupboards' all haughty like.

I said there was, as I would potentially be buying them, and did so - and yup you've guessed it - it was a wreck. One door completely off the hinges and another two hanging on by one. Also holes in the cupboards and missing shelves. The 'newly fitted kitchen' was a total botch job of new doors pretty much sellotaped onto ancient carcasses. Was easy to see why she didn't want us looking in her cupboards.

We knocked three grand off our offer as a result. Sneaky cow.

That is really deceitful!

I definitely look inside fitted cupboards for the same reason as everyone else. I don't look into freestanding ones, as I'm not buying those.

However, last house we sold, a viewer DID look into a freestanding one, and quickly shut the door when I murmured that the cupboard was not included in the sale. They were just being nosy.

If viewing a house, I'd like to look in cupboards, but only on a 2nd viewing and only fitted cupboards - they often harbour damp or mildew if they're against an outside wall / under the sink. On a first viewing, I think it's cheeky, you're only really getting a general idea of whether you like the house at that stage.

Oh, and I'd ask the vendor if they were showing me round.

This is why I won't look at houses when the buyer is in. Asking permission to look in fixed storage? Nothing worse.

Of course people are going to look in cupboards.

Nah don't bother to wipe your feet either! I mean you might, perhaps buy it!

Fixed or not it still has belongings. It's just common decency.

If someone asked me not to be in I'd be very wary indeed!

who is the developer as some pay you a fee if you sell it on thier behalf

It's not, we checked :)

YABU. Did you not look in the same cupboards yourself when you bought the house?

Nope. If a few cupboards needed replacing its not a big deal.

The survey said no damp, sagging etc. that's important.

If sopmeone wants to do viewings while the owner is not there, it's nothing to worry about.

I prefer it as it means I can talk to DP openly without the owner hanging on to every word and (as happened in one case) presuming that just because we seemed to like it, it was tantamount to making an offer and hassling us later on.

If a few cupboards need replacing it can be a very big deal. When we moved house 6 years ago, we just didn't have the spare cash to replace kitchen cupboards. All the spare cash went on the important things like removal fees, etc.

There or not some people get like that. It depends how desperate they are to sell.

I've got a good poker face too. DH has had to develop one!

Estate agents are there to supervise viewings - they allow people to be blunt in their discussions, take measurements etc. The reason you're supposed to take down personal photos etc when you sell is so it's earsier for the potential buyer to see themselves (and their stuff) in the house. That's bloody hard when the current family's present!

Well it's easy to see personal stuff if you go through drawers!

O hate the "feedback" from the estate agents. The bedrooms are a bit small wtf ? That's not something I can change is it

Well how about when you are legal tenant and you over hear the viewer saying that they can just throw us out (by changing locks) when the contracts exchange and the estate agent agrees! Er no you can't! So i think cupboards you are lucky and if fitted should expect them to be opened. Sorry.

If you're buying fixed storage you need to see inside.

Ledkr, you can't change that, but you can present them with as little stuff in as possible.

I look in cupboards and definitely will in future. Best mate has just moved to a house with no drawers at all, but all the doors had 'false' drawers on them IYSWIM. She's having a mare with storage.

YY ledkr we sold a house with an upstairs kitchen once, couldn't have made it clearer on the particulars, even put a floor plan in, but at least half a dozen viewers said 'oh, I don't think I like having the kitchen upstairs'