Taking children to view property

[almostbutnotquite]

AIBU to take my dcs to view a property?

My offer was accepted over a week ago, is this too soon in case it all falls through? Dcs are 9 and 6.

What did you do?

If you've already had an offer accepted, then it's a bit inconsiderate to bother the vendor with the visits that aren't strictly necessary..

But then my DC came on all our initial house viewings because we didn't have anyone we could leave them with. And they were younger. Although at 6 and 9 I would have thought you could talk them through the new property via the estate agents pics, Google maps and Street View.

Take the children to view, it's their home too. Will help them get excited and start thinking about how they'd like their new bedrooms/garden.

We are buying. Haven't thought of asking to view it again to show DC.

We drive past it and look at it on right move though.

Let them wait until you move in

We’ve taken our children to house viewings. It never occurred to us not to tbh.

My house is on the market at the moment - it certainly wouldn't bother me in the slightest if potential buyers bought their children with them when viewing .That goes douBle if they're actually going to buy the place - it's quite reasonable for a family to want the kids to see it, choose their rooms etc.

....brought their children with them. Sheesh.

It's a house that needs a bit of work so that's why I've booked to see it again so soon. I need to start working out how much it'll cost me to do the work. I'm also meeting a decorator and a bathroom fitter there.

I say take them! They can start understanding that it needs work on it.

If you are visiting appropriately in order to price up work etc, then that's the time to take your children as long as they won't get in the way while you are talking to the tradespeople. I seem to remember doing something similar with our place when we wanted to check flooring / measure up for a couple of new carpets - though my eldest was smaller and their children took her out to the garden and played with her!

We took ours to see one that we were in the process of buying (offer accepted), took the kids who were wildly excited about the swimming pool and choosing their bedrooms. Then the vendor suddenly pulled out . We bought a lovely house after but no pool and they mention it lots! Wouldn't have in hindsight.

We haven't even told eldest DC (7) that we've had an offer accepted. I might take him after exchange if there's tine and it's appropriate to visit for another reason. Before this house we had another house fall through right at the point of exchange. We'd told him about that one and shown him the outside and pictures on the inside. We planned to take him after exchange. Then we had to explain it had fallen through which was hard.

We've always taken our children to see houses. They give us good insight, and point out things that an adult wouldn't spot. They are all well trained to be "polite in the house" and discuss negative stuff in the car afterwards.

If you've already had an offer accepted, then it's a bit inconsiderate to bother the vendor with the visits that aren't strictly necessary

That's ridiculous. Of course you might want to go back every time we've sold/bought there have been post offer visits.

I think take them.. They are old enough to explain that it may fall through.

I took our 3 year old to see the new house. It was hard for her to imagine moving. The elderly lady we were buying from was lovely with her and showed her around.
After that she was very excited!

We always viewed houses twice and took DC for the second viewing. Vendors/agents never had a problem with this but we only ever did it when we were really serious about a house - we never put an offer in after only one viewing but then again this was quite a few years ago when the housing market was different

I took them to a second viewing.
Didn't think it was fair to take them on the first - I could see them getting all fired up about a certain aspect of the house and then having to talk them down when everything else was unsuitable for us.
I preferred to take them along once we'd found a house that was a strong possible. In the same way that we adults get a 'vibe' about a place, I think DC do too, so as soon as I saw them happily playing the garden whilst we spoke to vendors, I was reassured and put in the offer the next day.
They're teens now and I can't get the little buggers out of their rooms and into that garden for love nor money nowadays.

It’s never bother me as a vendor when kid come.

When we moved the kids didn’t see the house till they moved in. They went from one house to school in the morning and came home to another after Didn’t appear to do any harm.

We took them on all first viewings as they have to live their too, never occurred to us not too.

We had to as we had no one to look after them.
Even when we were moving 250 miles across the country we had to take ds.

To the viewing I mean

My DC came to view property with us each time (places we didn't make an offer on, our current place before we made an offer, after it was accepted). I don't see why we wouldn't.