comedy EA moment

sparklystar_2

just wanted to share what happened earlier, after no viewings for a couple of weeks the EA called at 4.55pm today to ask whether someone who was viewing the house down the road could pop in to view my pad at 5.10pm... i was standing in my kitchen with my 2 little ones, burning sausages under the grill and our house resembing a war zone. I said I didn't think it was a good idea to which the EA said the viewer had told them she didn't mind if it was a bit of a mess...umm. well I decided best not as I was too ashamed to let them in!;)

why do things like that never happen when the house looks sparkly clean? :rotfl:

QTPie

When we were selling, I had a phonecall from the estate agent one morning (about 12) to ask if someone could view at 2.30pm. The person was only in town that day and was keen to view. I reluctantly agreed (house is very well kept, but I always made sure that the house was PERFECT for viewings...) and ran around the house like a mad woman getting ready for the viewing. Next day we received a reasonable offer that we accepted and we sold it... So worth it.

HOWEVER I now have a 4.5 month old and I FULLY appreciate the chaos of living with children!

QT

skintchick

I had similar. our last EA forgot to tell me about a viewing, I found out by accident an hour or so before when I was out with no chance to go back and sort it out - pooey washable nappies waiting to be scrubbed in the kitchen, clothes on floor to be sorted for washing, total mess basically. I had to tell them to cancel and the guy never came back. We're still on the market but he wouldn;t have bought it in that state anyway!

sharon1982

My sister is selling her place and the EA keeps trying to people round at v short notice. She normally works very long hours but yesterday finished work early and went to bed as soon as she got home. She then woke up a little while later to find the EA and two people in her bedroom!!

Keith

We viewed a place where the bloke was enjoying a glass of wine when we arrived. It was obviously not his first. Viewing booked late in the afternoon via the agent.

"Sorry to come at short notice" says I.

"No problem, the agent said it was the only day you were available" he replied.

"oh, I told the agent we were free any time apart from tonight!"

The seller wasn't happy with them, on the way home we passed our current home and viewed that the following day

sonastin

I had the EA knock on the door, with a couple standing at the end of the drive asking if they could just "have a quick look round" because they'd just been viewing one around the corner!

My friend had just arrived to pick me up to go to the pub so we had to hang about while they wandered round the house. Apart from the 10 houses in my row which are newish (built '98), all the houses round here are tiny victorian terraces or huge victorian semis so I think this was more of a "see how poky and small new houses are. you'd be much better off with this old place with high ceilings and more character" visit. Old EA seemed to do a lot of them...

azkaban420

My DH mixed up the time of a viewing (thought it was 45 mins later than I told him) so the EA turned up with viewers at the door whilst he was in his shorts and apron, with a mop in hand, three kids chomping at his leg, and half the work still to be done...needless to say he blamed me for telling him the wrong time...I just said 'you're a man, you make mistakes, get over it' ROFLMAO!!

Az

tabskitten

This thread is comedy!!

Thank you for making a tired person smile at the end of a long day!!

Eton_Rifle

My wife once let in a couple of viewers who just happened to be walking past the house, saw the 'For Sale' sign and decided to knock on the door there and then.

She didn't know I had just got out of the shower, I didn't hear them come in because of the water and suddenly they were all coming up the stairs when I was naked on the landing. I didn't have time to go back for a towel and I panicked and shut myself in the nearby linen closet, hanging on to the moulding on the inside of the door (no handle on that side) with my fingertips to keep the door shut.

I couldn't believe it when my wife started trying to open the door to show them the closet and I had no spare hand to grab a sheet to wrap round me as I was hanging on to the door with all my might. I had to keep the door closed, it was all or nothing. Luckily, after what seemed like an eternity but was probably only 10 seconds or something, she finally twigged there was something amiss and gave up and I could hear in her voice that she was stifling laughter.

I can't imagine how it all would have played out if I hadn't managed to stop the door being opened ....

azkaban420

Eton_Rifle wrote: »

My wife once let in a couple of viewers who just happened to be walking past the house, saw the 'For Sale' sign and decided to knock on the door there and then.

She didn't know I had just got out of the shower, I didn't hear them come in because of the water and suddenly they were all coming up the stairs when I was naked on the landing. I didn't have time to go back for a towel and I panicked and shut myself in the nearby linen closet, hanging on to the moulding on the inside of the door (no handle on that side) with my fingertips to keep the door shut.

I couldn't believe it when my wife started trying to open the door to show them the closet and I had no spare hand to grab a sheet to wrap round me as I was hanging on to the door with all my might. I had to keep the door closed, it was all or nothing. Luckily, after what seemed like an eternity but was probably only 10 seconds or something, she finally twigged there was something amiss and gave up and I could hear in her voice that she was stifling laughter.

I can't imagine how it all would have played out if I hadn't managed to stop the door being opened ....

ROFLMAO!!

Az

CWCDiver

We had 2 viewings scheduled for one Saturday lunchtime. Left the house (clean & tidy), wandered round the shops. Got home, blissfully made a mess, cooked lunch etc. Suddenly EA shows up..... Sent them to the garden while we 'tidied'.... the washing up went in the oven & the lunch plates under the sofa......... they claimed tube problems...

But like others, we got lucky, it was something like their 4th viewing & they put an offer in!!!!