What’s the most bizarre reason someone had discounted your property on?

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One viewer had looked inside a freestanding chest of drawers in dds bedroom. Bedroom was otherwise tidy and neutrally decorated. But she’d shoved a load of clothes and random bits in the drawers, as teenagers sometimes do.

The feedback to the estate agent was that the mess inside the drawers “showed our characters”and indicated that we had probably hidden structural issues in the house.

One viewer who I showed around stated properly having a go at me as my house was too close to her mums. I asked her why the hell she had come to view it then, it was hardly a surprise where it was situated. She told the agent she wasn’t interest in the property as I was rude to her.

Someone else started bashing the walls as he walked around taking about blown plaster. The entire house had been renovated two years prior and all taken back to brick. Every single wall and ceiling was new plaster. He insisted that he was a builder and it was still the original 1930s plaster hidden by lining paper. There was no lining paper on any wall at all, it was all painted plaster. I pulled up some photos on my phone of the house all back to brick two years prior - he told me that those photos were AI generated He did put in an offer, 15k under, as “the house needs to be completely gutted and re plastered”. The estate agent said she was actually embarrassed telling us.

A friend of mine had someone who said they would put in an asking price offer, if they emptied the house of all furniture and belonging so they could see it empty. Funnily enough, she told them to jog on.

Between those viewers and the two sales that fell though, I was very glad when our circumstances changed and we didn’t have to sell after all. I honestly don’t think I could put myself though it again.

We’d have moved.

We were going to move half an hour in the other direction of the school.

Where we live is a bit of a dump of a town, but we have good friends here and more importantly, no mortgage.

We were going to move to a nicer, more expensive area, where we would have had to have taken out a mortgage.

When we knew she would get into the school and the buyers pulled out, we weighed it all up and decided we didn’t want to borrow £150k to buy the same house in a nicer place..
We like our friends where we are, it’s not the greatest area, but having no mortgage gives us a lot of financial freedom. So we didn’t put it back on the market.

But if the sale was still proceeding, we had settled on moving. The school commute would have been the same, just in the other direction.

Who knows!

But hey. It all worked out in the end.

Woah… you’d have moved even though you actually wanted to stay!

The area we wanted to move to is far nicer than where we are now. Far nicer.

But we weighed it all up again when it fell through and decided that we would stay. It’s really not that deep!

I also have a chronic pain condition in my back which would have made moving a bit of a ballache, so there was that as well.

It just seemed like a bit of a sign that it happened at the same time as results.

We can move later on if we feel like it.

Presumably you had to pull out of the one you’d put an offer in or actually you got the excuse of “oh the chain fell through” so it really did work out!

Seriously? You think we need to Mari Kondo what's in our drawers before showing anyone around?
Blimey. I'd make sure fitted wardrobes were fairly tidy incase someone wanted to check how much room they had. But not the contents of my own furniture!

We hadn’t put an offer in yet. I have moved a few times and I never put an offer in on a property until everything is settled with mine and I know the offer I have is secure and they can actually get a mortgage. I’ve lost places I’ve loved before due to things messing up.

Our buyers pulled out five days after they had put the offer in on our house. They too had waited until they had an offer, and thought they were safe, but sadly, they weren’t. They were aware that we hadn’t put an offer in yet.

We were due to have second viewings that weekend and were going to put an offer in on one place we really liked then (it was chain free).

Oh so barely along the process, no money spent or anything. Got it

My friend was selling her property years ago, and got feedback that it had no potential to extend.

It was a second floor flat.

One viewer’s feedback was that there were too many toys in the playroom and that they didn’t like seeing DDs (empty and clean) potty in the bathroom.

Oh god no. It was right at the beginning.

The people who offered on our buyers house had an issue with getting their mortgage. So they decided to stay put after a year of the same crap happening to them with other buyers.

Would have been tight if she had failed getting her in to the school half and hour away?

They wanted £25k off because that's all the money they had. Yeah right. Go buy a cheaper house then CFs. Wouldn't we all like that.

That was the gamble though, wasn’t it.

We weren’t in a position to move sooner due to my health. We would have either dropped the price to rock bottom for a really quick sale, probably rented for a bit in a better area so we would be there for secondary applications while we were looking for a house (the bonus on having no mortgage on this one is that we could have rented a flat or something there for a bit), or we would have home educated her if we hadn’t moved by the start of year 7 instead of sending her to the secondaries here.

All the secondary schools were we were going to move to are excellent, so any we got a place at would have been good.

Things have a habit of working out in the end and they did.

They would’ve loved my house then I just had my Hen do before we put it up for sale and there was a huge great big black vibrator standing proudly in prime position on top of the bathroom cabinet.

That reminds me of the time a student midwife used my loo when my youngest was a baby. She came out of the bathroom and was really shitty with me afterwards. The midwife she was there with actually ended up apologising to me for her behaviour, it was so obvious she’d taken a huge disliking to me.

When the midwife visited a few days later on her own, she said the student midwife had mentioned seeing something in my bathroom that she didn’t think was appropriate with young children in the house, she was quite shocked and that’s why she had been off with me.

It was this toilet plunger. She’d taken one look at it and decided it was some sort of giant dildo left on show in the bathroom. I showed the midwife and she almost died laughing.

"Giant dildo" ?!?!

For a Dalek, maybe 😂

Fucking hell!! And this person is going to be a midwife!!!! I have one of those plungers.

What a ridiculous thing to say.

The state of your drawers has nothing to do with the presentation of your house, particularly in a child’s room.

The nosey bastards shouldn’t even been looking in your drawers.

Some midwives cannot tell the difference between their personal opinion and reality.

We had one that harassed us, she didn't like cats and made it very clear she thought they where unsafe and unhygenic. She DEMANDED we buy all these ridiculous 'cat proofing' baby stuff and came back every couple of days to find new things to demand we do and kept suggesting we just get rid of the cats. Said she couldn't 'sign off' until its 'safe' and if we didn't follow her advice she would report unsafe conditions.

She constantly visits (over a dozen in like 4 weeks) must have flagged something because at the last one she came with another midwife (I'm guessing a much more senior one from how meek the first one went) who walked in saw our cats and utterly gushed over them. How amazing and beautiful they where, how she dreamed of owning that bread, comparing them to her own beloved cat who is best friends with her own young child (clearly a cat lover).

The original midwife sat in silence with a face like thunder the whole time, then they looked around and the new midwife said everything fine and told us to take down the silly 'cat proofing' because it cause more hazard (things like cat nets over the cot which as we had explained to the first one is equal to the dangers of a bumper etc...).

I'm still annoyed the first one bullied us and made us buy useless shit.

Most sellers take their teens with them when they move.

@housethatbuiltme

We had one that harassed us, she didn't like cats and made it very clear she thought they were unsafe and unhygenic. She DEMANDED we buy all these ridiculous 'cat proofing' baby stuff and came back every couple of days to find new things to demand we do and kept suggesting we just get rid of the cats. Said she couldn't 'sign off' until it’s 'safe' and if we didn't follow her advice she would report unsafe conditions.

how long ago was this?

You get all sorts selling houses. For my favourite house (2 bed terrace in a good area) I had a two page email with feedback that including due to Brexit my home would be worthless so I should accept their very low offer, the bedrooms were too small, because it was old they had to consider works they'd have to do and they could get a new build cheaper. This house was my pride and joy. I refused the offer.

I sold it to the sweetest man who called my home elegant and it went for the asking price. Then the rude couple popped back for a second viewing. No. There's no point.

With my next house (3 bed 1930s end terrace in a decent area) I was told by a variety of people she needed 4 beds, the garden was too small, there was no side access, their home was nicer, they could get more in a less desirable area and it wasn't a new build.

Time wasters.

the irony is that it says a lot more about her than it does you, if her first thought when seeing a plunger in a bathroom is 'giant dildo!'

Both times I have sold…. It’s sold on the first day of viewings. So never had to put up with this thankfully!