We are selling our house. We are not it living in at the moment and some building work is being done before the sale can be completed. We haven't yet exchanged as the work had to be done first. We have been in regular email contact directly with the buyer about the progress of the work and have been sending photos. He asked on Wed last week if he could go over and have a look at the work that had been done as it was due to finish on Friday. We arranged for someone to show him round (not the estate agent) on Sat morning. We then postponed this as the work ran over into this week. The builder told us today that the buyer appeared at the door on Wed, told the plasterer that he was the buyer and asked to have a look. Plasterer obviously had no idea who this guy was and turned him away. We emailed the buyer again this morning about rearranging the visit. He hasn't yet responded but we have been told that he turned up today and tried to get the decorator to let him in. Again, he was refused. DH thinks we should tell explicitly tell the buyer not to turn up unannounced. Whilst I see his point I can't actually see that it serves any useful purpose as actually we desperately want the buyer to stick with the agreed completion date. Our pet sitter has kindly agreed to let the buyer in one evening/weekend to look around but I'm wondering whether to bat it over to the estate agent/solicitors from now on. I suspect we are partly at fault for agreeing direct email contact with the buyer in the first place as I think it has created this informal relationship which seems open to abuse. Any advice on how we should deal with this? We just want the bloody house sold so the path of least resistance is probably wisest right? I'll just take all the light bulbs in revenge...(joke!).