House viewers refusing to give feedback??

princeofpounds

Indeed, there is no assumed contract. Whilst it's nice to receive feedback there is no 'favour' being done by the vendor - you want to sell your house, you have to show it, that's just how it is. As a buyer you don't even have to view a place (although you'd be pretty stupid if you didn't). Buyers are looking at many houses, you are only selling one - there is no privilege offered to the buyer in this situation, thats a mentality straight out of the boom years.

It's a business transaction and let's not forget that the seller has no duty to give honest 'feedback' on the house to the buyer until the SPIF is completed.

Mind you, having said that I would always encourage people to give feedback where they can, as being nice costs little and as pointed out it does help the EA.

Seanymph

Thanks Orpheo - I don't feel that I've entered into a contract either - that's why I put it.

They are keen to sell their house, I feel, having inspected professional details that it MAY be something that is suitable for me - so I go look. They aren't doing me a favour, they want to sell it - I don't owe them anything. I have tried on occasion to do that, and been talked down to by estate agents arguing with me. So I stop. Sometimes nothing can be done about whatever puts me off, so I say nothing - sometimes it can (one smelt awfully of dogs) so I say something. But I don't feel OBLIGATED to.

Davesnave

jjlandlord wrote: »

What is that?
Plus, it's a bad example as if there is no such sub-clause, it implies that you're free to "keep all your thoughts to yourself".

On a more serious note: It is the EA's job to follow up after visits. If they don't bother I would question how keen there are to do business...

Shouldn't have used the word 'contract,' should I? Gets all you legal eagles all excited. Well, didn't mean it in a legal sense, more a sort of moral one, but hey, moral is another word to avoid on this board.

As the previous poster implied, I'm bu99ered, aren't I?:rotfl:

BugglyB

From the other side of the coin, as a buyer I work more than full time in a very busy job and frequently see five or six houses at the weekend. Come monday morning that means five or six separate conversations on work time, not including any conversations back and forth about offers or future viewings. And I'm lucky, my boss is very supportive. Others might not be so.

What I would suggest is being nice to buyers, I tend to give vendors names in my head to remember them and their houses like the surfing guy, the lady with all the shoes, that horrible man etc. Why not just say to viewers 'I'd really appreciate it if you could leave feedback with me or the agent even if you don't like the house'

Orpheo

Davesnave wrote: »

Like I said, some people are not aware of a lot of things others of us take for granted. It's OK.

You being a paragon of manners, surely you should have admitted the fallacy of your 'assumed contract' and therefore the above quoted post should truly have read:

Davesnave wrote: »

You are right Orpheo. I am completely wrong and there is no such thing as an assumed contract, I appear to have plucked that out of my a$$. Allow me to apologise again for being a complete thickie.

ess0two

Silverbantam wrote: »

I've had my house up for sale for just over a week and last Saturday we had 2 viewings.

However the estate agent has told us that they have tried to contact both viewers a couple of times for feedback with no success.

Why can't they contact the estate agent to give feedback? Even just to say they weren't interested? Aren't they being very rude?

I have looked at houses myself and have always given feedback when asked.:(

What you have to realise on here is that people are doing YOU a favour viewing the house.
Also when you do get an offer you have to take the very lowest,its all about MSE.:cool:

jjlandlord

People giving constructive feedback after visiting a property are doing the vendor a favour, it is all to his benefit.
A vendor should be grateful to receive feedback instead of moaning that he does not.

There seems to be a sense of entitlement for everything nowadays...

hcb42

I give feedback if the EA rings, would be unlikely to ring them, unless I was ringing about another matter.

If they ring me during the day, they will more than likely get voice mail and it might not be so easy to ring them back.

Davesnave

Orpheo wrote: »

You being a paragon of manners, surely you should have admitted the fallacy of your 'assumed contract' and therefore the above quoted post should truly have read:

Think I already have.

My point was, some people, including seanymph, get pretty teed off by the whole selling process, so a bit of basic consideration along the way costs no one anything. People wait for feedback, and as I've said, although it might be useless, not getting it prolongs that wait and causes unnecessary stress.

That's it.

Iris_Blue

Why would you want to hear from some complete stranger that your decor isn't up to their taste or you can't swing a car around in your 3rd bedroom?

It's someones elses opinion at the end of the day ..that's all. If they were seriously interested then they would put in a offer after viewing.

Unfortunately there are a lot of people about that just like to look around in other peoples houses.