CF? Would you park on the driveway of a house you were viewing to buy?

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This happened to us today and DH & I can't quite workout if we were the CF or not lol.

Went to viewing, no where to park, 1 car already on 3 car drive.

We parked on drive and got out of car

Vendor opens door, asks why we have parked on drive.

Explained we had a viewing

Again she said why have you parked on drive, her son will be home shortly

I said if it's a problem, we will just leave; so we did!

Her EA was gobsmacked when I explained why we didn't do the viewing.

Who is BU?

@PantsandBoots

Its not your house. Why would you park on the drive without asking?!

Do the delivery drivers ask you before they park? The plumber?

@godmum56 I know right! This isn't some random person parking on the drive!

I think it's absolutely reasonable to park on the drive of a house you are visiting with a view to purchasing.

Near me, parents of pupils at the local oversubscribed CofE high school park ON THE DRIVES OF NEIGHBOURING HOMES. OR ON YELLOW LINES. ON PAVEMENTS. ON BOTH SIDES OF NARROW ROADS. They block access to properties and clog up roads all around for the drop off and pick up hours. Then, they give their sixth formers cars, so they can be a bloody nuisance to the neighbourhood all day. The teachers are as bad, parking anywhere they damn well like with no concern for the locality. The school takes no responsibility and the parents are as entitled as fuck. Now that is unreasonable.

I wouldn't park on the drive, I think that's pretty cheeky

The fact that there was nowhere for visitors to park would be a black mark against the house for me.

How wrong would it be to ask for a link? 😀

@Jux

Rude.

" hi, we've come for a viewing, but couldn't see where to park. Is it OK there, or would you like us to move it?" would have been polite.

If you'd turnedup if we were selling, I'd have gone through with the viewing and then told the EAin private that I would not sell to you - my neighbours deserve better, as does myhouse.

Your house deserves better than someone who will park on its drive??

You are very odd

I don't think it's the done thing to park on the driveway of someone without being invited, even tradesmen and deliveries, unless it is more of a private road than just off street parking. I don't know why

I probably wouldn't say anything if a visitor of mine did, but i'd be surprised.

Yeah that's weird and I would park on her drive too. That's your destination 😂

I don’t understand those who don’t park on driveways, it’s what they’re for!

I’ve done lots and lots of viewings over the past couple years and I’ve never not parked on the drive. I can’t see why you’d park anywhere else. 🤷🏻‍♀️ We have politely waited when busy for the previous viewing to finish and reverse our before parking. I’ve truly never seen anyone not park in the drive. Surely, you’d want people to see how much space you have.

When people came to view our house, we moved both our cars so people coming to view had the whole drive to themselves.

@Blinky21

I wouldn't park on the drive, I think that's pretty cheeky

Why is it cheeky? It’s a drive - they’re for parking on! Parking on the next door neighbours drive would have been cheeky but the house she’s actually visiting is just, um, normal!

@LadyMacduff

I don't think it's the done thing to park on the driveway of someone without being invited, even tradesmen and deliveries, unless it is more of a private road than just off street parking. I don't know why

I probably wouldn't say anything if a visitor of mine did, but i'd be surprised.

Whaaat? Is there some sort of social etiquette mentioned in Debrett's about this? Or are people just making up rules on a whim here? I've never heard such nonsense. It's a fucking DRIVEWAY!!! For parking cars - both owners' cars and VISITORS TO THEIR HOUSE. And I should have thought there are fewer more important visitors to your house than people you'd like to pay you hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy. This is insane. only on MN.

A drive is for parking on! We have a really long drive and NO ONE ever parks on it when they visit I can't understand it.

@AlternativePerspective

This thread deserves to go into classics.

Haha, should I take a bow 😉🤣

My husband thinks it's hilarious, some of these holier than thou responses are cracking.

But I'm glad on the whole people get where we are coming from...it was an odd reaction, we would have been there 10-15mins max 😂

Ps those that asked, it's been reduced since listing 6weeks ago, so not it's not a "hot" property that they can perhaps afford to lose potential buyers. As it stands the next house we saw we may offer on 😇

Some people just should be around when selling houses and she is one of them. It reminds me of an awful viewing we went to. The lady insisted on following us around with two Great Danes even in the downstairs toilet. We left really quickly and the estate agent apologised and said he knew he’d never sell it if they were there.

When we were selling our house last year, a couple of the viewers parked on our drive. I mentioned to DH at the time I thought it was a tiny bit rude/presumptuous but of course didn’t say anything to the viewers as I wanted them to buy my house!!

I wish you'd have done a poll for this one! I think YANBU.

We have viewed SO many houses. We always park on the drive. Where did she want you to park? About to put ours on the market. Fully expect potential buyers to park on the drive……I always think it kind of settles you into the viewing.
We had a viewing cancelled at the last minute. The house had been on the market for months. Vendor knew we’d travelled 120mikes to see it. Said ‘she didn’t feel very well’. If I wanted to sell my house I’d crawl into my car and drive round the corner for potential buyers who’d just driven for 2 hours. We didn’t reschedule.

@RaleighDurham i think it can depend on the nature of the housing estate, but unless I really had no other option, I definitely wouldn't park on the drive of someone unless I'd been previously told it was ok.

I agree it's not logical, and I can't articulare it, but to me it sort of feels akin to walking straight into someone's house without knocking. I'd do it at my mum's but certainly not a stranger.

Maybe it varies between regions? I'm in the far north.

To the people who don’t park on the drive if you visit someone, do you also not sit on their furniture unless you’re invited to?

I wish you'd have done a poll for this one! I think YANBU. I suspect a pole would have shown about 98% yanbu. I think that some posters make up the most outrageous answer they can just to be seen no-one can be serious when saying that. It’s just not possible.

@AlternativePerspective

To the people who don’t park on the drive if you visit someone, do you also not sit on their furniture unless you’re invited to?

If I don't know them well, there's usually a bit of "come in, sit down, would you like a drink?" going on so I would go with that. People usually indicate non verbally whether we're going to be on the sofa, at the kitchen table, in the garden or whatever, surely? I wouldn't just walk in and stretch out on the sofa, no.

I found it really awkward going to view a house when the sellers were still in it. They had just had dinner too so the place was stinking. Luckily that only happened once.
I would normally expect the sellers to not be at home during the viewing, so the driveway is fair game. Better park there than take a neighbour’s space anyway.

@Tweedledeeanddum

‘Middle class - horrified that you would park on the drive
Working class - of course I should park on the drive’

I was wondering if it’s the other way around. i.e. is a driveway somehow considered special and sacred amongst some groups? I can’t figure it out!