To request people don’t use my toilet at house viewings?

[Diamondeye]

Just that really ...

As obviously it has been used today and it’s grossed me out.

So they left the seat up? How on earth do you cope with everyday life if this grosses you out? Seriously precious and weird. Yabvu

I've never encountered people who are so precious about their toilets as on MN.

This. It's so bizarre. I don't drink out of my toilet, I shit and piss in it and that's it. I doubt anyone else's shit or piss can be much less pleasant than mine. What are people meant to do if they've travelled some way to view their house? What about people who suffer from IBS?

The toilet seat was left up...

Dear Lord.

Seriously though, the viewers may have travelled a distance or the agent might have been away from the office all day. Does it really matter if someone took a (clean) pee in your toilet?

When I viewed the house I now live in, I’d been out for 3 hours viewing houses, and was desperate for a wee. It’s in a rural area so no public loos nearby. I asked the estate agent if I could use the downstairs toilet. No problem. It was either that or me squatting in the front garden.
Also in the house I was selling, viewers with children often needed to use the loo.
And workmen, visitors, etc also need to use the facilities.
I really don’t get why this is a problem.
Only on mumsnet......,

I wouldn’t buy a house if I hadn’t flushed the toilet.

We went to a house viewing (multiple ones in a day as we were relocating, so no time between them really) and my DH asked to use the toilet. The homeowner looked a bit reluctant but couldn’t reasonably refuse.

She and I made awkward smalltalk as the entire house reverberated with groaning from the plumbing after he flushed. It was literally screaming, I’ve never heard anything like it!

I think it’s pretty reasonable to ask to use the bathroom.

Someone did the toilet in a toilet. Oh god, call the town elders.

Fuzzyend, male friends and family know my point of view. What is wrong with my house, my rules?
After all I have to clean it!

I think it really is strange to expect someone to clean up your pee because you refuse to use the toilet in a way that keeps it tidy. I hate the entitlement of men who think their right to pee standing up tops my right to keep my toilet as clean as possible.

I wish I had tried all the (3) toilets in the last (tiny) house that I rented.

None of them flushed.

I would assume someone that checked that bathrooms worked was a more serious buyer and would be pleased.

You are being very unreasonable to expect that your facilities won't be used and checked out.

I flush toilets and turn taps on to check the water pressure and function, but YANBU if someone left it a mess.

I asked when we were buying our new build and used the office loo. It was either that or the floor as I was desperate.

YABU

When we were house hunting we had a 90 minute minimum drive to look at the properties. Rural so no cafes and there aren’t service stations everywhere so DH would have had to go in the bushes if he couldn’t use the loo.

I've never encountered people who are so precious about their toilets as on MN.

This in spades ^^

It's a load of pretentious old bollocks.

Thank goodness it doesn't reflect real life for most people.

To be honest if I encountered such a weirdo as would have specifications about who could use their toilet and in what manner, I wouldn't buy the house because I would assume the toilet thing was only the very beginning of their strangeness and there would likely be endless other odd things they had done to the house that would need to be sorted out.

It could have been the estate agent...

I hate the loo seat up. It’s disrespectful of males to not leave the loo as they found it. However you’d be bonkers to object.

Hold the front page!

'Person used a toilet to ummmm go to the toilet!!'

Whatever next.

Maybe if you stipulate no one is allowed to use the toilet, your house might be on the market for a very long time.... as said, it would put me off buying as I would think 'this will be the start of a tortuous process with a nitpicker, think I'll forget this house sharpish'

If they had smeared shit up the walls you would have had a point. But a toilet seat left up? Massive overreaction to say or so anything

Hang on, you're freaking out about the toilet seat when somebody's been around the place closing all the blinds?
I think you could have more to be grossed out about than somebody taking a piss in a designated taking-a-piss amenity.

I wouldn’t be worried that someone used the toilet, but the blinds being put down is a bit odd.

YABU people need to use the loo. I've traveled an hour or so to a viewing so I'd be in trouble if the person said I couldn't pee

Perhaps the sunshine coming through the windows made the place look dusty?

at home I want the freedom of not having to cover the seat with toiletpaper as I do in public toilets

Wtf 🤣

I always wonder exactly what germs people think they’re going to catch on their own bare arse off of other people’s bare arses.

OP I wouldn’t have minded if he’d done a pee but I’d have found it a bit grim if he’d done a shit and left skid marks/stank the place out

Why on earth would someone want to use the toilet on a house viewing? I think it's rude and would never dream of asking. I suffer from ibs so quite often need the loo pretty urgently but still would not dream of using one on a house viewing.

Ha ha ha ha ha