house up for sale - how do you show people round?

[fio2]

Our estate agents said show them the downstairs let them go outside on their own and then say go and look upstairs on you own. But they have been disappearing for ages upstairs- he says it gives them time talk, but it makes me feel funny. What do you guys do?

If you're showing people round, see it like they've already move in. "You can have breakfast out here in the summer" rather than "We have breakfast...". "There's plenty of space for YOUR things here". These are also the sort of personal touches an estate agent can't give. I insisted on an agent showing round viewers once (I was alone with a newborn baby) and he was cr*p. "This is the living room, this is the dining room..." Useless waste of space!

Good luck!

sos we sold it yesterday 3 or 4 days on the market so great!!!

looking in knicker drawer must be fashionable

Great news, fio!

Great news fio2, just a bit of advise, still have the estate agent market the property, we sold our property pretty quickly to somebody in rented accommdation - thought brilliant - quick move - 7 weeks later nothing had happened, apparently the guy couldn't get the mortgage he wanted and the agent kept stringing us along, in the end we went with another agent - I got so stressed out with it. Sorry to sound like I'm putting a downer on things, but it really devastated me cos we found and lost a home in that 7 weeks. Best of luck though to you and hope all goes well!

Great news fio2, just a bit of advise, still have the estate agent market the property, we sold our property pretty quickly to somebody in rented accommdation - thought brilliant - quick move - 7 weeks later nothing had happened, apparently the guy couldn't get the mortgage he wanted and the agent kept stringing us along, in the end we went with another agent - I got so stressed out with it. Sorry to sound like I'm putting a downer on things, but it really devastated me cos we found and lost a home in that 7 weeks. Best of luck though to you and hope all goes well!

Great news fio2, just a bit of advise, still have the estate agent market the property, we sold our property pretty quickly to somebody in rented accommdation - thought brilliant - quick move - 7 weeks later nothing had happened, apparently the guy couldn't get the mortgage he wanted and the agent kept stringing us along, in the end we went with another agent - I got so stressed out with it. Sorry to sound like I'm putting a downer on things, but it really devastated me cos we found and lost a home in that 7 weeks. Best of luck though to you and hope all goes well!

sorry about that, machine just froze!