Would you still view the house?

[JollyGreenLemur]

My house is up for sale and we have a reactive dog, its a collie, barks and bounces about in the window like a wild animal when people pass, would this stop you viewing a house?
Yes - yabu
No - yanbu

No, I like dogs. But I'd always take my dog for a walk when I have a viewing programmed.

It wouldn't put me off because I love dogs but it's probably best if he's somewhere else while viewings are going on.

Will it be there when people are shown around? I would think it would be better if you take him away from the house when you have viewings. A lot of people just leave the house for estate agents to show around these days.

I think the dog needs to be taken out for a walk during viewings. Even if people like dogs it's distracting. I'm wary of dogs I don't know as well so I wouldn't like it.

I'd wonder, if you hadn't trained your dog well enough to stop him going nuts at passersby, what else you might be very slack at. I'd also be very wary of moving into a house where you must have pissed off your neighbours so badly, if your dog is continually barking.

I have friends who are afraid of dogs after bad childhood experiences. They wouldn't even come through the gate.

No - I like dogs and it wouldn't occur to me to be afraid of one. Having said that I once bought a house (VERY cheaply) which I viewed with a very large, noisy doberman in situ. Two other sets of viewers couldn't get out of there quickly enough! I'm pretty sure one of the reasons I got the property cheaply was many people were too nervous to view properly.

Yes I’d be concerned about any DIY not done properly due to lack of ability to train a dog properly likely equaling lack of ability to do tasks to a good standard as well as damage to the house from the dog (edited to fix typo)

that being said I’m not a fan of collies specifically so maybe I’m being biased

Do you mean it's there when buyers arrive for a viewing? If so then no, I wouldn't come in.

1 because I don't like dogs, but 2, because I'd think who on earth keeps a large reactive dog in the house during viewings? If I put an offer in on a property I'd like to think that the sellers are sensible people, in the hope that everything would go smoothly. This would be a huge red flag in terms of how good their judgment is

We have a large GSD and one of us takes him out whenever we have a viewing

Definitely don't have the dog there during viewings. Are you do the viewings yourself? If not you probably shouldn't be around for viewings either

We were advised to take ours out when people viewed. We were told if people like dogs then they tended to fuss the dog and not pay any attention to the house and if they didn’t like dogs it would put them off staying for any length of time. We just went for a drive in the car.

I’d wonder why you hadn’t screened the window off as a start. I’d also been concerned about maintenance and the dog so probably be too distracted to view properly

Me too and I'm a fully paid up member of the 'dogs are my babies family' club.

Posted before the edit 🙄

Irrespective if the dog is reactive or not I’d take it out during viewings. Not everyone likes dogs.

If the dog was going to be there while I viewed, no I wouldn’t view it.

Do you have neighbours?

I wouldn't know anything about your dog until I got there so I guess not. But the second I came inside I'd leave again - I'm very, very allergic to dogs and also terrified of them. And when we were viewing we often had our toddler with us so I'd be out of there crazy quickly.

Yeah i would expect the dog to be taken out during viewings. I wouldn't take my children into a house with a reactive untrained dog and I wouldn't be keen either

No because i would assume the dog wouldn’t be there during the viewing.

The dog won't be there during viewings and the estate agent will be doing the viewing so we can leave with him but I haven't had a single viewing and theres a family debate over wether the dog is the reason why so I wondered if you personally would still view the house if you drove by and saw the dog in the window

Yes totally, it would be a struggle to bond with neighbours as no one wants a noisy dog living next door to them. Then there is the smell, there is no masking the smell of a dog household.

I would want assurance it wouldn't be there during a viewing if it looks aggressive, and I would be thinking about doggy smells during the viewing.

Oh weird 😂 No I seriously doubt that's the reason

Yes it's a semi and surprisingly not had any complaints and all talk to us

It could be. If I was house hunting I'd do drive/walk bys of what I was thinking of viewing. A noisy nearly bouncy dog in the window means dog smells, destruction, and pissed off neighbours.
Wouldn't make my viewing list