We've exchanged and complete in 2 weeks - buyers want YET ANOTHER viewing

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We've exchanged contracts on the sale of our house - completion is in two weeks (we're in England).

Pre-exchange we accommodated multiple viewings - of course. We felt it was just part of the process and seemed fair enough.

We exchanged at the end of July. Since then, the buy has asked for (and we've accommodated) two more viewings, one really last minute while they knew we were on holiday and away (but we figured it out so they could come) and the second time one afternoon on a day they knew was a working day for us but was the only day/time that worked for them. We accommodated. They were here for four hours (the house is a pretty regular 4-bed detached house in a village - not some pile somewhere with a million rooms and corridors).

They're coming again today - for the third time. They've even asked me to push out a work call I have in case they need longer than 90 minutes here (I told them about that to try to get a sense of how long they'll be here for).

AIBU for feeling really quite put out??! The house is utter chaos - boxes everywhere, dust all over because we're actively packing. It doesn't look good at all and it's really stressing me out. I have been up until god knows what our the past two nights and up with the sparrows the following mornings trying to make things look a bit neater (not sure it's made a difference) but the more i do the angrier I get about it all. To top it off, the buyer sent us an email last night essentially saying "see you tomorrow" but jibed that "I guess you're more relaxed than we are". Well that's set me right off. I'm absolutely raging - they have no idea of all the shit going on in our lives at the moment (the house move is only one element and probably the least stressful one).

Please someone tell me I'm not being over-sensitive and they're truly CFs. Being tired and cranky isn't helping me no doubt, but we wouldn't dream of heading to our sellers' house now, when we'd been twice post-exchange already and when completion is in two weeks, so this is really pissing me off. I really need to not lose my shit at them when they rock up later this morning. Eeeeek.

Whilst I agree it's a lot of viewings, seeing it perhaps from their perspective, it is usually the biggest, most important purchase of their lives. Think how many fittings some women have for a wedding dress- that's usually only a couple of thousand. A house purchase is multiple hundreds of thousands of pounds; if that's what they need to do due diligence to be absolutely certain, I don't totally blame them!

Unless I've missed something I think the only place on mumsnet where your second extreme scenario exists is in your post.

@Lucyboat Yep, afraid you're still importing details that I've never given so you must have made up. So yes you're wrong.

Why are you so angry at OP? Relax

@Lucyboat High level so absent salient context, but at least that's more accurate (though using the word "complied" (which I didn't) is misleading l. I think I said "accommodated". So you still don't get full marks. But well done for trying.

But comments noted and thank you for investing so heavily in this thread, the subject of which is now pretty academic. As you say, MN is full of extremes.

No, I did. As a matter of correct grammar.

Right folks, before this thread is turned into something it was never meant to be, I just wanted to thank you all again for contributing. Peace out! ✌️

Whether they're CFs or not you've agreed to a final visit and you should really honour it. I'd be very clear though on the 'window' you are allowing them and suggest they prioritise their tasks as they'll be no extended or further visits.

It's not a buyers' market once contracts have been exchanged. It's not any market. Sellers are perfectly entitled to put a limit on viewings of their property.

The picture you give of buyers suing vendors regularly just doesn't accord with the truth. Litigation is expensive, not least because of the potential liability for opponents' costs, and most people just want to get on with their lives after moving house. They don't sue unless there is a really massive discrepancy. There is no indication whatsoever that that is what is happening here.

OP hasn't agreed to any more visits.

Where did OP say she trudged along behind them?

If my buyers had viewed multiple times before exchange and then three times after, with a fourth in the offing, and one of them had lasted four hours, quite frankly I’d be thinking the same thing. And not because a meeting couldn’t be moved, but because it’s becoming fairly obvious that the buyers are on fact finding missions with these viewings and are getting ready to present OP with a list of things to justify a substantial drop in the price before completion. Happened to us - same MO, multiple requests for viewings after exchange. The last viewing was a week before completion and lasted over 90 minutes during which time they wanted loft and garage access for a second time.

Then I told the estate agent enough was enough, we were busy packing so no more viewings - they came back to us saying that the buyers had requested a drop in price, citing ‘faults’ they had discovered while viewing. They threatened to pull out even though they knew it would cost them, but evidently they were confident that we would agree, to save the sale. We told them that they had had plenty of time to renegotiate in response to the surveyors report, we weren’t dropping the price, and would sue them for damages and costs if they backed out. The sale went ahead, but it was nerve wracking at the time. This sounds like the same CFery and I wouldn’t accommodate them any further.

It’s not just three though is it ? It was multiple viewings before exchange and three after - one lasting four hours and the latter 90 minutes. They’ve interrupted a holiday and demanded the OP delay a work commitment to accommodate them. That’s excessive and rude. They’ve exchanged, completion is in two weeks. They wouldn’t get over my doorstep again before moving day.

Fucking hell. Get a hobby. You’re relentless. 😂

But surely the point is that due diligence should well have been done before exchange. They should have been certain by the time they signed the contract and instructed the solicitor to exchange. By that time it’s a done deal and pulling out would be costly for all. This is just CF’ery because they think they are calling the shots, when in fact there is no good reason for further viewings. I’ve sold multiple times and this isn’t normal - it would give me the jitters and I’d be bracing myself for a price drop.

it’s becoming fairly obvious that the buyers are on fact finding missions with these viewings and are getting ready to present OP with a list of things to justify a substantial drop in the price before completion

But it doesn't work like that. They've already exchanged contracts. They have agreed a price and a completion date.

It would be different if they kept asking for visits in the run-up to exchange but this is past that point.

The buyer is committed and the seller does not have to accommodate any (more) CFery.

In your case they tried it on, but ultimately they wouldn't have wanted to lose their deposit. People really don't need to worry after exchange unless something terrible happens like the buyer dying, or perhaps losing their job (in which case they might decide losing the deposit is a necessary evil if they can no longer afford the mortgage).

Tell them you/member of family has caught covid. Or some dreaded lurgy??