House Buying Help - Knocking on a Vendor's Door!

[WyldChyld]

Hi all,

I am fully prepared to be told I am unreasonable having never bought a home before!

I've seen a property last night which I very, very much like the look of. DH likes the look of it too, good area, good price. I suspect it will go quite quickly and wanted desperately to try and see if we could avoid a viewing today. However, the estate agency is not open weekends and for a variety of reasons, this week is a nightmare for us! There is a slim possibility that we could be free for an evening viewing on Thursday if the agent will agree to it, but it's likely to be next Saturday and I'm concerned someone else will get there...

We're going to be in the area and I wondered AIBU to consider knocking on the vendor's door and asking if it would be possible to arrange a viewing and explain the above? Obviously if they say no, I won't be arsey and will just go through the estate agent! I'm 50/50 either way - it would just be myself and DH and we'd go at a normal time (so no 9pm at night etc!)

If you were selling your house (board up etc) but still living in it and someone did that, would you be hacked off?

Good on you wyld, sometimes you just have to go for it, if you don't you will never know.

If I was selling my house I'd be fine with this. My area is quite desirable and people need to be a little competitive to get onto the street they want, so this wouldn't be unreasonable around here at all.

We've done it successfully. We were in a new city for the weekend with lots of viewings lined up. We happened to see an ideal house that we wanted to view on the Sunday. The estate agents were shut and we couldn't visit the city again until at least the next weekend which we didn't want to do. So rather than just putting an offer in on one of the other houses we'd seen, we knocked at the door and explained our predicament. We agreed to go back half an hour later and bought the house. If we hadn't have knocked they'd have missed our sale. Win win.

A man moved into a neighbouring house here. Other people round here had no idea that the previous owner had put it on the market. She'd put her house into an estate agent's hands and it stayed there. He knew how dreadful it was inside so bought it himself for a substantially smaller amount than the other houses round here would fetch. He knew he had a bargain that needed some internal restoration so made an investment for himself!

WFT. Where do you all learn your manners from ? On what planet is it deemed acceptable to cold call someone's front door while they are probably busy doing something else and expect them to let you wander around their house ? This happened to me once before. I told the vendor to blacklist the buyer, regardless of whether they were genuinely thinking of buying it or not. Learn some respect.

The same planet that resurrects Zombie threads presumably. Did you search for this for some reason?!