To think if you know people are going to view your house

[NotSoChicAfterAll]

You should at least tidy up a little before they come.
I've just been to view a rental, it looked lovely in the photos, all brand new inside, and it's not cheap.

When I first walked in it stank of sweatyness, there was junk everywhere!
there was dirty knickers and socks on the floor, ice cream wrappers in the bathroom, some kind of weird comic/animation naked lady pictures up.
The estate agent who showed me round and apologised for the mess, and said the guy who lives there with his mrs had just left and had tidied up before he'd gone and it was a lot worse before

Aibu to think that if you should at least tidy up things off the floor if you know people are coming to view your house? Especially if it's rental as it's not even your house!

It's a common myth that tenants have to accommodate viewings during the notice period if their contract says it does. In fact, the law says the tenant had the right of quiet enjoyment, which means they don't have to accommodate any viewings, regardless of what their contract says. Where there's a conflict between what the law says and what the contract says, the law wins. So this term about viewings isn't enforceable.

However most tenants, landlords and letting agents don't realise this. Or the landlords and tenants do know, but rely on their tenants not knowing

Oops, meant landlords and agents do know

That's what I don't understand. We are asked to renew before the dat of expiration of the contract and surely if the contract is 6 or 12 months, you are still within the terms of your lease

When I lived in rentals and waa moving out, quite often there'd be viewings two or three times in a week, quite often without the letting agent/landlord present.

I really couldn't have given a flying fuck about the srare of thr flat. I couldn't ha e cared less if the landlord rented it out again or not.

Not only have I never done any extra tidying for viewing on a place I was renting, I have certainly never 'decluttered', magnolia'd and removed any semblance of personality from the flat I sold. Honestly, I have no patience with the 'there must be no sign that anyone actually lives there, apart from fresh flowers, and a single butternut squash in a black bowl on the kitchen counter' philosophy. Presumably if I can see past other people's bad-taste decor, they can imagine my flat without my floor to ceiling bookcases, bunches of dried herbs and kilims.

Or can someone point me to objective evidence that 'decluttered' houses get more viewings and sell for more, rather than just being the USP of Sarah Beeny TV programmes?

This is reinstating my faith in common sense. When people post photos of perfectly nice houses and other people say things like, Oh that kitchen looks very cluttered because there's a breadbin and a kettle on the worktop, or that children's bedroom needs to be SPOTLESS because there is one teddy on the floor and a book on the bed, I start to wonder.

Our house was a rental and was a complete tip, on the photos too. Worked in our favour as no one wanted it and it was worth a HELL of a lot more than we paid for it!!
Beware, however, if you do decide to put in an offer, it took us 10 weeks to gain access for our mortgage survey as they didn't want to move, and the owner wouldn't give them their 2 months notice until we had our mortgage offer!! It was a very lengthy process and in the end we demanded the agent give them 24 hours notice and they left the surveyor in, which they did.
Subsequently they were given notice and were out with 2 weeks so for us it was great.
We were so desperate for the house (moved 9 times in 12 years and this is our forever house) we were persistent ??