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.... to think it should be illegal to put a for sale sign outside a house before it goes on Rightmove?

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HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 01/09/2017 20:15

How am I meant to look at the asking price and be rude about their furniture?

awaits posts from people telling me not to be nosy

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ScissorBow · 01/09/2017 23:14

I have found my people Grin

Watched Location, Location, Location tonight and had to pause every floor plan. DH hates me now Grin

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HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 01/09/2017 23:19

I love LLL. DH doesn't understand as I have no desire to move.

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HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 01/09/2017 23:31

I've found it on the estate agents website. I have disapproved of all their furnishing and been suitably shocked by the way prices have gone up since we moved in. (Our house was £160k 4 years ago, this is £250k and no bigger)

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PickAChew · 01/09/2017 23:34

Our EA came and took pictures and measured stuff at 9:30AM and it was on rightmove by teatime.

Not that it mattered because our buyer saw the board that went up 2 days later, when they walked past and gave the EA a ring. All our neighbours have had a good nosey, though :o

Hippiechic · 01/09/2017 23:39

I totally agree with this thread. It's torture waiting for them to come on rightmove.
Also I hate it when 'arty' photos are used and just show a random ornament or light fitting. It's an advert for a house not Dunelm!

officerhinrika · 01/09/2017 23:43

Hippie chick, yes this. I hate photos of the furniture that give you no idea of the size or shape of the room. They won't be leaving their dodgy bedlinen!
Neither do I understand why some agents don't use floorplans, puts me right off. I'd like a plan of the garden too.

BabsGanoush · 01/09/2017 23:58

I can't believe there are areas in the country where houses are selling without going on Rightmove, without boards going up, without photos being taken,numerous people knocking on doors to look around. It's a different world.

My town was shocked when a house sold within 3 days Shock

Motoko · 02/09/2017 01:02

I hate it when they don't show a pic of the bathroom. It always screams to me "to mouldy to show it, it will put people off"!

Motoko · 02/09/2017 01:05

Oh, just though of something else! I wish they would put the pics up in order. So, front of house, then hall, then living room, dining room, kitchen etc. Also, they should label the room pics, so you know which is the master bedroom etc.

Nefer795 · 02/09/2017 06:50

The historic price section on Zoopla should ALSO ARCHIVE THE PHOTOS. Last owners did a lot to our current house and I NEED to know what it looked like before they painted everything magnolia. Including the dining room skirting. And the metal window frame in the kitchen.
Floor plans should be accurate. We were booked in to see a house that looked lovely but in need of work, though it was on a busy road so very unlikely we'd have bought it. The floor plan didn't show any internal doorway into the kitchen. No photos of the kitchen either so you were left with the impression it was truly horrendous and only accessible from the outside.

ForalltheSaints · 02/09/2017 06:54

I would be quite happy if For Sale signs were a thing of the past.

Believeitornot · 02/09/2017 06:59

I hate pointless photos eg close ups of wine glasses or a picture of the town centre's road sign Hmm

When we sold a couple of years ago, our estate agent did a great job with photos and a floor plan. It made our flat look like a show home as they strategically placed the dcs crap out of shot.

Am now off to right move for a browse Grin

NotACleverName · 02/09/2017 07:01

I used to work for an estate agents (the admin side of things) and some were just lazy bastards who couldn't be bothered to draw floorplans.

I used to love drawing them myself, though. Grin

OurHouseAtTheEndOfOurStreet · 02/09/2017 07:10

Completely agree OP.

It's a breach of our human rights for the sign to go up without the accompanying ability to nose at it.

Am really hoping the absolutely vile, awful people who bought our old house will sell eventually so that I can confirm my opinion of them by seeing what they did to the house.

NotACleverName · 02/09/2017 07:19

By the way, I'm in total agreement, OP. The house at the end of my road (that had a lot of work done it) went up for sale, with my former employer funnily enough, and it never went on Rightmove. Gutted, I was. Gutted!

KanielOutis · 02/09/2017 07:29

The flat I bought made it to Rightmove, but it only had one photo of the front. No internal photos. It did the vendor a dis service because it is a huge flat and they knocked a chunk off as it wouldn't sell.

KitKat1985 · 02/09/2017 07:40

Ahh, I've found my people. Grin

I agree that I get very suspicious if some rooms aren't photographed. Does it mean that the third bedroom is a mould infested cupboard? Or was the Estate Agent simply being lazy?

Oh, and yes, yes, yes to floorplans being obligatory.

Jaxhog · 02/09/2017 07:55

Floor plans are a must. Also a photo of every room with a proper caption.

Start a residents association and take turns to host. Then everyone can have a nose at everyone else's house. That's what we do!

PickAChew · 02/09/2017 07:58

It's the ones with no picture of the front of the house that get to me. Suggests that no matter how thoroughly magnoliaed it's been, how light and airy the rooms are, it's in a shithole.

Nessalina · 02/09/2017 08:19

Totally with you! How do EAs expect to sell a house without a damn floor plan? You shouldn't have to stare deeply at every photo to work out where the door is, and how it actually connects to the rest of the house.

I also loathe ones with 19 photos of their immaculate garden which I can already snoop at on Google maps ffs but no photo of the third bedroom Hmm

TheJunctionBaby · 02/09/2017 08:20

My pet peeves:

No floor plan

Either no pics at all or just one of the front

Pics of the town (even if it's 5 miles away) or of vases of flowers etc

No floor plan (it's that important!)

Having to scour right move, zoopla and agents websites for weeks to find a house I've seen with a for sale sign, only to then find its waaaay over budget

Missing rooms - if they're not pictured I fear the worst

And just to add, floor plans with accurate measurements of EVERY bit of wall space would be so much more useful!, along with a garden plan (also accurately measured)

TabbyMack · 02/09/2017 08:46

Agree with you all about the necessity of a floorplan. I found one house a few weeks ago that I thought would do very nicely for when I win the lottery. No floorplan...not even in the brochure that I downloaded. Apparently it's "available upon request". They can fuck right off, frankly.

But my biggest, biggest bugbear is when they include photos of all the rooms....except the fecking kitchen. I want to see the kitchen before I see anything else. If I like it then I may trouble myself to look at the rest.

When the first five pictures are of the garden, I've learned not to bother looking at the house. It will be a shithole, guaranteed.

JustKeepDancing · 02/09/2017 08:52

I sold my flat in Edinburgh recently and it never made it onto Rightmove or Zoopla - it went on the estate agents website (and ESPC, a local site) at lunch time on the Wednesday, I sold it on Thursday morning. Annoyingly it took nearly a week to come off the ESPC site which had an open viewing and my phone number listed, so I spent several days fielding phone calls from some very angry people (seriously, several people shouted at me!) and hiding when people turned up unannounced and knocked on the door. One of my neighbours commented that they'd not been able to find it online too, cheeky gits Grin

Estate agents still charged me for the Zoopla and Rightmove insertions though Hmm

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HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 02/09/2017 08:58

I won't post a link to the house in question as it's not very interesting, but what the hell is going on with this living room?

.... to think it should be illegal to put a for sale sign outside a house before it goes on Rightmove?
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TabbyMack · 02/09/2017 09:10

What's wrong with it, Hiding?

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