This is hilarious. I always watch kirsty and Phil with my jaw on the floor wondering if those people live int he real world, they certainly don’t live in mine.
So, here it is, I’ve sold three houses, and bought four. I’ve viewed hundreds. I’ve got DC and I’ve got a dog.
This is the way viewings happen. I get a call from the estate agent who says they’ve got some people in the office, can they come now, and they send them round. Often you get home at 5.30pm to a message on the answer machine from the estate agent saying someone is coming tonight at 5.45pm, can you be ready, ten minutes later the person is at the door. You’ll have people wandering past who see the for sale sign and knock to see if they can have a look. At least half of the viewings arranged more than a day in advance will not show up, because they are either rude, forgot, or just found a house the hour before they were due to see yours.
Only once did the agent show people round and that was the day we had an open house for two hours on a Saturday, and one family arrived.
When we were viewing properties, the same applied. We were often sent up from the agents office immediately, or if we rang about something we’d be told to pop round that day. We once bought a house that didn’t have a sign up by knocking on the door. Second viewings have never been a thing, I’ve never had one and nor have any of the people that have bought my houses.
We have viewed houses with active dripping leaks, houses in which the owner recently died down to having paramedic/medical mess still on the floor, houses that aren’t even built yet, houses with mould, houses that aren’t for sale, houses where you can’t even see the garden under twelve feet of brambles, house with active pest infestations. We’ve found families with pets, including dogs, cats, snakes, tarantulas, rabbits, guinea pigs, with DC including several toddlers, whilst they were having their tea, whilst they were having a bath, we’ve been unable to see one room because there was a teenager in residence. We’ve visited families with disabilities, adaptations for elderly and disabled people, wet rooms, rails, light up doorbells, etc.
It’s always the person who lives there showing you the house, unless they are dead. I’ve sold houses with dogs in, DC in, I can’t think of a way on earth we could remove the dog from the premises for viewings and I can’t think of a single way we could avoid taking dc to view. Kirsty and Phil it ain’t.