What has been your worst viewing experience?

**Juice**

This thread has really made me giggle!

When we were viewing houses, our estate agent managed to step in dog muck on the drive and not realise...thus trailing it all the way through the cream hallway carpet before he realised! Luckily the people who lived there had gone out, so he just sneakily went and got some spray from the kitchen and got busy. He was actually by far the best estate agent we dealt with, so it's a shame that he'll always be referred to as "that estate agent that stood in dog poo".

We turned up for a viewing with a different agent, to find a bemused looking agent standing outside who said the keys he had didn't work and he thought the tenants were going to be there but they weren't. After 10 minutes of lurking around outside the house whilst he made frantic phonecalls he tried it again and it worked :embarasse So off we trooped inside, except the house alarm went off. And surprise surprise he didn't know the code...so we raced around the house as quickly as possible, alarm shrieking and practically deafening us, whilst he basically ignored us and was on the phone trying to sort it out. Luckily we had already viewed several similar properties on the same estate so we knew the ins and outs, we just kind of escaped sheepishly at the end and ran away. I'd love to know how long it took him to sort out! On the same day we had an agent that basically just hurried us round at warp speed, hardly spoke to us and seemed desperate to get rid of us.

When I was looking on my own a few years ago, saw a flat I wanted, and my mam came down (from 150 miles away) to view it with me. However no agent turned up, so I rang the office. My booking hadn't been written down so journey was in vain!

The house we bought in the end, the estate agent was a bit weird. Very kind of set in his ways, followed us round like an inch behind, didn't know the answers to any questions and was reluctant to do anything that required effort (like let us look in the garden or open the patio doors). But we loved the house despite this!

jonny_power

I'm really disappointed, our viewings were far too boring in comparison!

bouncydog1

Our favourite was the one where my husband had to open the roof window to stick his head out so he could use the loo! (Not super tall either only around 5' 11")

twirlypinky

I have mentioned this on here before, but for you newbs:

When my ex and i were trying to sell our house we had what we thought was an excellent viewing. We'd bought the house new, two years earlier and had kept it looking like the show home that it was. We'd paid more for the show home, and wanted to really reflect that in order to get a good price for it. The place was SPOTLESS. We were very pleased with ourselves. Everything matched, and looked fab. If anything, it looked better than the show home had because the garden had grown a little more, and I'd put up some trailing plants on the back fence which were in flower. Also, the couple we were showing round were from a rather rough area in the next town in a one bedroomed 2nd floor flat on the high street and she was pregnant. We had a two bedroom house on a lovely new estate (before they put "affordable homes" on new estates - affordable my !!!!).

So anyway, we show them round and they're all smiles and nods. I show them upstairs on my own because 4 people upstairs might've made it feel small, exHub put the kettle on (prob for the first and only time in his life) and offered them a coffee/tea. They seemed to love the house, liked that we had two parking spaces, mentioned how close it was to good schools etc etc. Actually stayed for a long chat, asked why we were moving 100 miles away, said they'd been on holiday to where we were moving too bla bla bla.

The next day we get a call from the agent, i'm sure they're going to make an offer. They don't. Apparently our house was "just like the Trueman Show".

What does that even mean????

googler

bouncyd!!! wrote: »

Our favourite was the one where my husband had to open the roof window to stick his head out so he could use the loo! (Not super tall either only around 5' 11")

Oh, c'mon..... can't use a loo whilst sitting?

Hezzawithkids

This thread has brought back so many memories! We're very settled now and have no plans to move for a long time, but we did go through a period of moving/selling/buying every year, or so it felt, so I could write a book about house viewings.

The funniest story was when OH and I viewed a 2-bed end terraced house in Harrow with the EA, we had been living in a 1 bed cluster home for 5 years so this place felt like a palace. It had a massive kitchen and lounge/diner and equally impressive bedrooms, even a nice long garden overlooking fields (we only had a 3 foot wide strip of grass at our first home!). It was a lovely, quiet, sunny Sunday morning and we fell in love with the house immediately and started to ask about the area, commuting to town etc, when the next door neighbour suddenly turned on his stereo system AT FULL BLAST. The walls literally started to vibrate and the music was so loud it drowned out all rational thought let alone speech. The EA just gaped at us and shrugged his shoulders. We fell out of the front door relieved to get away. The EA explained that the house was empty most of the time as the owner worked abroad, so we surmised that the neighbour was so used to having the house empty that he wanted to keep it that way! We suggested that the EA tell the owner what was going on since he was never going to get a buyer due to the neighbours antics. :cool:

We never knew what happened to that house, such a shame because it was perfect in every other way.

Hezzawithkids

twirlypinky wrote: »

The next day we get a call from the agent, i'm sure they're going to make an offer. They don't. Apparently our house was "just like the Trueman Show".

What does that even mean????

Obviously they had never seen such a tidy home before and didn't believe they existed outside the movies! :rotfl:

monkeymoomoo999

googler wrote: »

Oh, c'mon..... can't use a loo whilst sitting?

Looks like people have worked out googler we are the same person. Nice to see you are still on here.

traceynurse

Some years ago we were selling our house, we had both been working nights and were in bed asleep one sunday morning (it was around 10am), we heard a noise downstairs, my husband flew out of bed and found the Estate Agent with 2 people standing in the hallway, they had let themselves in for a viewing as they had a key, they said they had tried to contact us but couldnt get a reply so thought we must be away! Needless to say we were not happy, sent them away, and have never given an Estate Agent a key since!

ModernSlave

Worst viewing experience was a place for sale with tenants still in situ. They didn't answer the door when knocked so the agency person (not an agent because they were too busy, they employ people just to do viewings) let us in - on a scene of chaos.

Six Australian 20-somethings squeezed into a 2 bed terrace. There were 3 sleeping in the lounge (they'd covered the lounge floor with mattresses.

They had never cleaned the place. There was a layer of mud on the kitchen floor.

The viewer showed me upstairs (calling out and knocking on doors) and we managed to interrupt a naked man in the bathroom (who said come in!) and a woman wearing only tights in a bedroom (who also told us to enter!!)

Another fully clothed man was in the master bedroom but by this stage I was keen to exit. Even the viewer was appalled and I would have thought she'd seen it all.