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

I am scared of dogs

it wouldn’t put me off viewing

I wouldn't want to view it if l knew a dog lived there beforehand.

Yes I would view a house that had a dog barking and bouncing around in the window.

Not if it was the house next door that was for sale though.

We wouldn’t as my husband is allergic to dogs.

Unfortunately they make houses smell so that would be a bigger concern than the barking

When house hunting I found cat smells far worse than dogs for some reason

What timescale for not a single viewing?

If you feel brave, post up the link for some brutal reality appraisal from MN dwellers.

It might put me off buying the house next door but not your house

I don’t think that would be why. I don't think every single person interested would drive past the house before doing a viewing.

It’s a working dog.
They need a LOT of exercise.
Your poor neighbours. Trust me it will get on their nerves.

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It wouldn't bother me in the slightest. The dog is not gonna be living there when the house is sold, so I can't see a problem.

I have 4 dogs myself and would love your dog being there as long as I could make a fuss of them 🤣

If I drove past and saw it in window barking it wouldn't bother me either. How odd for anyone to think that it would!?

If I saw a dog next door who kept barking it wouldn't bother me either as my dogs are just as bad 🙃

YES I know im a bad dog owner...

No I wouldn’t view any house that had a dog. The smell takes ages to go away.
Collies are working dogs. Great on farms. They need lots of exercise and stimulation. Poor dog. Poor neighbours.

It wouldn't put me off viewing but I'd be sniffing really hard to see if the house smelled doggy. We once viewed a house where, when we asked to see the back garden, they said no, because their dog was locked out there because it was vicious with strangers. We didn't go back!

It's usually price. Did you get multiple quotes? Did they agree and are you taking the agents' advice on price? Is it priced ambitiously or proved to sell?

90% of the time I wouldn't drive by first so the chances of me doing so and seeing a dog and deciding not to view for that reason are tiny. If you have made sure the dogginess can't be guessed at from the pics, I don't think that'll be the problem.

If you post a link you'll get dozens of people telling you what's wrong with it, but you have to have a thick skin because some will be quite rude about completely normal houses and tell you no one will buy it unless you burn it down first to make it look less dingy or pokey, or do an £100k refurb because a house without a massive living-kitchen-diner and separate living space is unsellable. But there are often some genuinely helpful posts in there too.

Yes. Remove the dog for viewings.

But the dog isn't being sold with the house so I'm not sure why any of those reasons would be issues. Presumably the house would be cleaned and your own furniture etc put in there after the owners and their dog moves out. Not sure what pissed off neighbours means? You mean they're pissed off with the neighbours dog/ Surely that means they will be happy neighbours once he/she moves out!

Only had 1 estate agent out and they priced it so went with that there is another house for sale on the street for £35,000 more than mine and its the same apart from the garden and that does have an outbuilding but its just 1 room with a toilet in it that needs work

I would turn down a viewing if there was any evidence of dog. I appreciate you can’t always tell, but when we were looking, if I saw a dog bed or dog paraphernalia I turned down the house. No thanks. I accept that this is an extreme perspective of course.

I'm now house hunting, and the dog wouldn't put me off if I walked past to look. I would be put off if he was there at the viewing - I mostly like dogs but a reactive or bouncy one would scare me.

I'd assume you were planning to take the dog with you when you moved out, not sell it as part of the house; therefore, it wouldn't put me off. If you were selling the dog with the house, that would change things. I'm too old and lazy to look after a collie.

We took ours out for all viewings...I still associate a certain Starbucks at a petrol station near our old home with house viewings!

Some people really don't like dogs and even if they do, they may not want the dog in the way.

If I'd driven or walked passed and saw a dog bouncing around/barking, and I wanted to view the property. I would call the estate agent and ask if the dog would be there during viewings. I don't dislike dogs but my husband is wary, and if there was any chance the dog was there during the viewing, he wouldn't view the property.

I went with my parents to view a property, the owners had 2 large dogs. In fairness, they were with the dogs in the conservatory, so they were out of the way. The entire house smelt of dog. It was horrible, and put my parents off completely. I did tell the estate agent, that the owners needed to clean the carpets and upholstery, to try and get rid of the awful dog smell.

By that logic the neighbours should be delighted to see new owners