What has been your worst viewing experience?

claire16c

My sister was looking at online pics of houses the other day. The picture of the bedroom, had a couple sleeping in the bed :rotfl:

My aunt is a part time EA. She said the other day she was showing a couple round a house, and the owner was (unfortunately) there. The owner said to the couple 'We've only been burgled the once.'


Then another time she said she walked into a house and luckily the people she was showing around were behind her, because there was a used condom on the living room coffee table, she had to grab some paper and cover it up!

Another time she opened a bedroom door and a couple were asleep in it! :rotfl:Had to say 'Uh sorry you cant look in there right now!'

G_M

Lovely story, especially....

22rescueyou wrote: »

...A viewer was booked to see my house, but just half an hour before the appointment, my uncle, who had been mending a cupboard door for me, very suddenly died. just conked out with his head in the cupboard. This had never happened to me before, so the viewer went completely out of my mind .....

What - this was the first time your uncle had died in that cupboard? No wonder you were a bit distracted!

cattie

I went to view a house where the fireplace & surround had obviously been ripped out at some point & the vendors had pinned a piece of material to the wall in an effort to hide it. I did spend some time pondering over it in the following days & came to the conclusion that the most likely scenario is that they had ripped it out with a view to re-plastering the wall or perhaps even having another fire surround installed, but then decided to move & just couldn't be bothered to finish the job & hoped nobody would pick up on it.

Another house I viewed had had the garage turned into a living room, nice patio doors onto the garden too. Plus the house had been extended to provide an ensuite bedroom above the garage. The strange thing was, the living room that was once the garage still had the original wooden garage doors & I could never work out why,

BobQ

Claire_UK wrote: »

Hi all, Just wondering what your experiences of viewing other peoples houses have been? Ever see anything strange?

The same question if you are the vendor, has a viewer ever done or said anything strange whilst viewing your house?

The reason I am asking is because we had our second viewing today and everything seemed to go wrong, about an hour before they showed up we had a power cut and had no electricity, our neighbour had to come and help us out as we couldnt figure out what the problem was.

Our estate agents are supposed to do our viewings and they didnt show up, instead the viewers turned up alone asking where the EA was.

They brought their newborn baby and their 3 year old who insisted on screaming the house down for ten minutes whilst running up and down the kitchen. His mum only saw the living room and kitchen because she decided to take the kid outside to the garden until her husband was done looking round the house.

On top of that the viewers didnt speak much English so communicating was quite hard.

He ended the visit by telling us that they are not even sure they want to live in our area.

So, all in all it went quite well,

How about you? anything strange, embarrassing or just a case of everything going wrong?


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taram_2

I was finishing up looking at a house one hot August day and the estate agent went to open the garage for me, and I heard him vomiting. The garage was packed with rubbish with maggots and flies everywhere, we had commented on a smell as we got out of our cars, but thought it was the drains or something. Yuck!

jc808

planningforthefuture wrote: »

She said my questions were strange (i.e. how wide are the stairs - is there sufficient width to take our chosen furniture up?)

To be fair it is a strange question!! Only you and you alone will know if the stairs are wide enough for your purpose - bring a tape measure!

asharon

After one bloke viewed my last property he spoke to the agent and said he would make an offer but it had to be reflected by what he saw. he went on to say he had walked around a local footpath and seen so much litter that it obviously showed it was a troubled area and so promptly knocked 60k off the asking price. I walked round a few hours after he had and found one bag of crisps.

DVardysShadow

asharon wrote: »

After one bloke viewed my last property he spoke to the agent and said he would make an offer but it had to be reflected by what he saw. he went on to say he had walked around a local footpath and seen so much litter that it obviously showed it was a troubled area and so promptly knocked 60k off the asking price. I walked round a few hours after he had and found one bag of crisps.

Not a bad return if you can pull it off. Spend 30p on a bag of crisps, drop the bag, claim £60k off the asking price.

Kira000

Not as bad as some of the stories by half, but my very first every buying viewing was an eye opener into EA speak (i.e fibbing). Went to see a flat, which the EA was really pushing me to view. I was told it was an "excellent investment opportunity" and only required "a little updating". Not a problem doing cosmetic updating i had told them, just nothing major works wise. Of course said the EA.
So we arrive, living room, bit tatty but fine, bedroom the same. Started to go towards the kitchen, and the EA grabbed my shoulder suddenly and pulled me back and to the side, saying this way, at which point i looked down, to find a hole in the floor, about 3ft x 3ft, through which you could see the corridor of the hallway below... having navigated our way into the kitchen skirting past the hole, i was surprised to find quite a substantial sized room for the size of 1 bed flat- needed slightly more than cosmetic - the only thing in there was a sink on a stand, and one cabinet, half a floor, blank plaster, wiring sticking out etc. I asked to see the bathroom, at which point the EA looked a little sheepish, and said, erm, this is it.. Me being confused, said, i thought this was the kitchen. Yes, he said, but its the bathroom as well..the owner decided to remodel the flat and combine the two rooms...
Ermm.. !!!!!!? Needless to say, i decided the flat wasnt really for me...

MissMotivation

I can't believe I haven't seen this thread before!

I've had so many hilarious situations over the years....from an EA's point of view but two occasions that always stick out for me

1) I had been asked to go an value a property in a very nice village, I got there and the Vendor was a lovely old man, he bought out a tray with a china tea-pot, cups and saucers and cake, it was all going well and he asked me if I would measure up and take photos that day which I agreed to. So he left me to wander around the house doing what I needed to do. When I needed to measure the master bedroom there were full-length mirrored wardrobes across the whole width of one wall, as I needed the full meaurement for the floorplan I opened the wardrobe an it was absolutely crammed ful of fetish/bondage gear.....whips, canes, masks, rubber clothing etc, I don't think I've even been as shocked in my life because the guy looked like a frail old Man :eek:

2) A local Solicitor asked me to go an look at a bungalow that needed to be sold as part of an estate, he agreed to meet me there with the keys and when I got there he admitted that he hadn't been in there before but the guy that had owned the place had committed suicide which was why it was being sold. As we walked in the smell hit me first but not being squemish I carried on and noticed that the carpet was crunchy :eek: when he turned the lights on I realised the floor was covered in dead flies which should have prepared me for the sight that met me when I walked into the living room. I won't go into too much detail other than it was obvious that all that had happened was that the body had been moved and the house just left as it was :eek: