to suggest its poncey NOT to have a for sale sign up

[Coderooo]

fgs
unless you iz on witniss protekshun

SPB, our estate agent did point out it would make our house easier to find for viewers - we did respond that it was quite clearly numbered so we didn't think they'd have too much trouble finding it !

hahahah champagne

oh i know eddie & it sounds pathetic but we did struggle. roads bend rounbd and sometime the numbers continue along the straight, sometimes they disappear off into what you thought was a different street
plus when you're running late it saves finding a house where you can see the damn number, then counting up or down, then realising they don't do odds on one side/evens on thded other, but now you're in a one way bit and can't just turn round...

I like the signs. They are good for nosy people like myself

Plus, someone might have had their eye on your house for ages and was just waiting for the sign to go up.

There was a house in my parent's hometown, gorgeous but really run down. I bet there were lots of people waiting for the owner to die move out so they could snap it up.

• oh, we found them very useful when finding other people's houses, we just didn't want one outside ours !

yes, that's the higher end of the moerket round my way.

signs are necessary surely to stop the inevitable stupid people ringing on every door on the road demanding entry and looking at you in disbelief when you refuse to sell them your house.

the american stylee ones are hilarious.

I like signs. When we were looking for a house, we spent the evenings driving round looking for houses with signs up. It's all well and good seeing them on Rightmove but I like to know what kind of street it is on/house it is next to/genereally be nosy... and you just don't get that from Rightmove alone.

I know this is seriously off topic, but Coderoo, are you trying to be ironic or is that seriously the way you spell ???

yanbu
Our neighbours had house up for sale for ages and we never knew.
Poncy gits.

coderoo is dyslexic

Right Move and google street view is all you need.

I'm looking at the moment and street view has saved me many a wasted viewing where I'd just know I didn't like it as I turned onto the road.

The neighbour I mentioned earlier who was selling sans sign must have realised that he wasn't getting much interest because of it and he hand-painted a really shite For Sale sign with big blobs of primary colours and sloping words. My DS aged 3 could have done better

we have a sign up but it is ATTRACTIVE with pink and green circles. I chose the estate agent based on their logo. and TWO people have viewed after walking past and calling on the off-chance. They are the two which are coming back for second viewings this weekend.

YOu are all far too provincial sub-urbe. In my shithole corner of up and coming urb we LOVE signs because it means that another load of UPVc windows might get replaced with sashes

We don't. Never have. I hoped to avoid the 'ooh what are you selling for' and 'where are you going' chat from neighbours but as our street is a little 'close-knit' I got the questions anyway.

And also if a house has a sign up for ages it makes it very clear it isn't selling and suggests there is something wrong with it. Whereas actually nothing is selling fast round here atm. A tatty fading ea sign says a lot about a house

Any most people I know like to nosey about property websites so they'd see it anyway.

LOL at attractive EA logo which sells your house to passersby
Not the house itself - UPVC windows or lack thereof

It wasn't entirely serious champagnesupernova

But to avoid charges of poncieness I will rign EA right now and beg for a sign to be erected at once.

In these days of rightmove et al the need for an estate agent's board is not what is used to be.

When we sold our first flat, one of the neighbours came out while the agent was putting the signup & told him 'We don't have For Sale signs here.' The agent ignored him and put it up anyway.

The neighbour took an axe to it. When we got back from work, there was just a jagged stump...

I shall beg them to 'Give me a sign!"

lol to base agent on logo

oh we had a mystery round here a few years ago. next door suddenly had sign appear up. looked out few hours later it was gone.

thought had prob hallucinated.

next day same thing.

this time i checked the lawn and there was a definite sign shaped hole in the earth.

caught neighbour next day shamefacedly removing sign and hiding it round the bak

FWIW they still live there now

we have recently sold and didn't have a sign. Whenever we mentioned moving dd would immediately burst into tears. Neither of us could face that every time we walked out the front door so we did without. It sold within 5 days so it obviously wasn't needed.

I shall pretend from now on that we did it it purely to be poncy though!