Clean oven in a sale house

[MeltorPeltor]

If you were buying a house, would you look in the oven? Selling our house and it's a lovely range cooker I have said I will sell with the house if needs must.

But I've been told no one would bother checking the over, it only took 5mins to get it sparkling but apparently that was a waste of time.

So if the oven is dirty it's a sign that the rest of the house is poorly maintained. Okaaay.

Yep, for us anyhow - 4 for 4 here - 2 houses clean, well maintained - great places to live, very little expense on moving in

2 houses dirty - but with the cracks papered over and a paint job done to hide the bad stuff , wish we hadn't bothered

But we are only talking about a dirty oven. You can see the rest of the house and how that is maintained.

I said "points to", it just might make me look a bit harder at everything.

Regardless of anything though Meltor it is still currently your oven and therefore none of your relative's business.

Surely you look at the house as a whole? Dirty oven but well maintained house... fine. Dirty oven but dirty, poorly maintained house... not so good. Clean oven but poorly maintained house... also not good. I'd never judge a whole house by one aspect of it.

I'm shit at housekeeping. Hate it and very busy so it's nowhere near MN standards. I look after tha place though. Everything works. That's one of those stupid things estate agents say, I'm afraid.

In fairness, it's a self cleaning over so cleaning it just involves a quick wipe and scrubbing the metal shelves with a scouring pad. It's a lovely lovely oven and it has taken me a few weeks to come round to the idea of selling it with the house, I'm hoping someone is so wow'd by my amazingly wonderful and clean oven they buy the house for asking price!! :D

19lottie82 If I could clean ovens in 5 minutes then I would be rich enough to buy a mansion!

I was just baffled as to how it took the OP so little- she later explained . I want a self cleaning oven too.

No. It wouldn't occur to me to look in an oven when viewing a house. Even if it were dirty, it wouldn't influence if I bought a house or not - when you are spending potentially 3 or 4 hundred thousand on a house, the cost of getting an oven cleaning company in (£40?) wouldn't come in to it, tbh. I'd be considering things I couldn't change (location, parking, garden size, proximity of neighbours, etc.) not if I needed to clean it thoroughly on moving day or not.