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To think, if you're trying to sell your house for half a million...

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AndOutComeTheBoobs · 27/04/2019 19:45

..then you should really vacuum the stairs and hall way?

Seriously, it was absolutely covered in crap. I saw a toe nail.

Same goes for people selling stuff on Facebook.
"Could do with a clean".
Are you kidding? Clean it!

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Raspberry10 · 27/04/2019 19:49

I saw a 600k house where the bathrooms were covered in black mould, and the toilets hadn’t been flushed 🤢

Beachbodynowayready · 27/04/2019 19:50

I viewed a house with a sleeping teen in one of the bedrooms!

formerbabe · 27/04/2019 19:51

Half a million sounds like a lot but it's not really...500k would just about get you a very average 3 bed semi where I live if you were lucky.

Leafyhouse · 27/04/2019 19:52

Depends. Half a million round here would be bloody bargainiferous. However, some people just don't have a clue do they? I saw some 'remote control vibrating love balls' out on the bed once during a viewing. Do people just not think to set an impression?

Vulpine · 27/04/2019 19:52

If I liked the house not sure I'd care

brizzlemint · 27/04/2019 19:52

How nice.
One near me was on sale for 1/2 a million recently and was beautifully presented, that said there are no shortage of 1/2 million £ houses in Bristol so there is a lot of competition. If you are in Blackburn it might be different.

Greeborising · 27/04/2019 19:52

I saw a toenail 🤣

FiddlesticksAkimbo · 27/04/2019 19:53

Can I suggest if the stairs need vacuuming you play hardball and knock £50 off? Let the vendors bear the cost. Why should you have to?

maddiemookins16mum · 27/04/2019 19:53

Half a million in London is nothing you know 😂😂

StoneofDestiny · 27/04/2019 19:53

Not sure it's price related. Surely you'd tidy up for viewings out of a sense of personal pride if nothing else.
I'm amazed looking at some property pictures to see underwear drying on radiators and even unmade beds.

TheDarkPassenger · 27/04/2019 19:54

Up here that would get you the kind of house that it really wouldn’t matter to you!
I agree though, even if I sold mine for a quid I’d hoover

Alsohuman · 27/04/2019 19:55

Are they charging extra for the dirt?

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 27/04/2019 19:55

How random, is the sale being forced it sounds like they don't want to sell. Its not too hard to whizz a hoover round before prospective buyers arrive.

Having said that we viewed a house once where we couldn't go into one of the bathrooms because their partner was having a shower. We were at the house about 40 minutes and he was in there when we arrived and still there when we left. Neither the agent or his wife considered it odd.

My favourite however, was the ones who had decided to start painting a beige wall red since the photos had been taken. I would have understood painting a red wall beige but not the other way around. It was half finished and very patchy and all I could think of was how long it would take to cover the newly applied red paint.

I concluded very quickly that many people selling houses are odd.

PurpleDaisies · 27/04/2019 19:57

£500k isn’t necessarily that expensive depending on where in the country you are. It would be a doer upper around here.

brizzlemint · 27/04/2019 19:57

We once viewed a house where we couldn't see the bedroom because the 'man of the house' was asleep having been on nights - why book a viewing for in the morning then? We left and didn't bother going back for another viewing.

Oakenbeach · 27/04/2019 19:59

Not sure why £500k has anything to do with it... Why is it more ok if it’s £100k?

Besides, although it’s a bit grim, does whether the toilet is clean really makes any difference as to whether you put an offer on the house?

Frouby · 27/04/2019 20:02

If you buy it I bet that turd is gone by then.

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AndOutComeTheBoobs · 27/04/2019 20:02

Half a million in London is nothing you know

Half a million pounds is exactly the same amount no matter what part of England you are in.

Whether you buy a mansion or a match box, it's still a fuck load of money and the carpet should be vacuumed in my opinion.
Even a tiny matchbox carpet.

LOL @ the teen in the bed though.
That was probably me when my folks divorced and spent 9months trying to sell the house.

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HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 27/04/2019 20:03

does whether the toilet is clean really makes any difference as to whether you put an offer on the house

Truthfully if a seller couldn't even manage to clean the toilet I would be deeply worried about the condition of the rest of the house, the bits I couldn't see. It would be a red flag that any problems had just been masked or botched and that they had not been looking after the property.

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AndOutComeTheBoobs · 27/04/2019 20:06

Truthfully if a seller couldn't even manage to clean the toilet I would be deeply worried about the condition of the rest of the house, the bits I couldn't see.
My husband was wondering the same thing.

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AlexaAmbidextra · 27/04/2019 20:08

I look at some photos on Rightmove and wonder what on earth the EA was thinking. Surely they should advise sellers to at least pick up the dirty underwear and take dirty crockery off the kitchen surfaces before they take the photos?

Flustercluck · 27/04/2019 20:10

I once viewed a house that was on for just under a million. SW not London or Bristol, so a big house and a lot of money. The couple selling were splitting up and the husband didn’t want to sell. He let us and the estate agent in and left to go for a walk. He had done the stinkiest crap in the downstairs loo. It smelt like his insides were rotten and he’d been eating putrid eggs. The whole house smelt of shit and sulfurous farts. The estate agent apologised, told us the back story and to try to ignore the smell. Apparently he did it for every viewing.

We bought a different, much cheaper house nearby. 8 years later we still call the other house Turd Towers when we walk past it

Yesicancancan · 27/04/2019 20:11

Half a million will not buy a particularly big or magnificent home.
Yes it’s a lot to pay for shoes, for a home, not so much.
Just because the owner lives in a home worth that much doesn’t mean they have high standards. Therefore yabu to assume correlation.

Sashkin · 27/04/2019 20:12

Half a million pounds is exactly the same amount no matter what part of England you are in

I think the point was that a full house (not a two bed flat) on sale for half a million pounds in most parts of London is likely to be derelict. So a toenail on the carpet is neither here nor there, compared with not having a roof.

But yes, stupid to put a house on the market and not show it at its best. You’re likely to get a lot of offers under the asking price if you do. FB selling is slightly different, I think most stuff on there is just crap people are trying to get rid of so they’ve got no incentive to spend time making it look nice.

HirplesWithHaggis · 27/04/2019 20:14

Maybe the house is currently tenanted, and the resident is a bit narked at having their privacy invaded by estate agents and judgemental buyers.

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