What has been your worst viewing experience?

Boz86

Lol! I viewed a house a couple of months ago & it was a nightmare. The first viewing was fine, but it was our second viewing it all went chaotic!

We went into the back garden only to find that the next door neighbour had taken a fence panel down that separated the 2 gardens. (The house was vacant). As we got to the end of the garden we noticed a wheelbarrow full of garden trimmings and shears??! Very confused we made our way back down the garden towards the house, when the neighbour poked her head through the gap in the fence and started shouting at our estate agent!!! We were so confused, and gob smacked.

She started shouting that the house had already been sold & asking how she is showing us round when the place is already off the market. Hahaha! Now we can laugh at it. So there was a row in the middle of the garden.

Needless to say we left & never went back & the house is still on the market. Who needs neighbours like that.....:rotfl:

WestonDave

The only one I can recall was a nice 3 bed 1960's terrace on a fairly steep slope. All was going well as we looked around the bedrooms and the living rooms. At this point matey offered to show us the cellar. "Cellar?" I queried as there was nothing on the particulars. "Ah" says vendor. "Well you won't find anything on there about it because I just hollowed out amongst the foundations myself" Suddenly it seemed like a very good idea to get out of there before the whole lot collapsed around our ears!

isplumm

Once visited house ....there was a cloud of smoke in the front room ... bloke smoking fag .... couldn't see a darn thing ....

Quickly left ....

Mark

LandyAndy

WestonDave wrote: »

The only one I can recall was a nice 3 bed 1960's terrace on a fairly steep slope. All was going well as we looked around the bedrooms and the living rooms. At this point matey offered to show us the cellar. "Cellar?" I queried as there was nothing on the particulars. "Ah" says vendor. "Well you won't find anything on there about it because I just hollowed out amongst the foundations myself" Suddenly it seemed like a very good idea to get out of there before the whole lot collapsed around our ears!

When I was first looking looking to buy a house in about 1980 we viewed an late Victorian/Edwardian semi in, I think, Withington in South Manchester.

It had a genuine cellar (:)) but in the middle of one of the two cellar rooms there were two small walls each about 3' long and about 2'6" high. They were parallel and about 3' apart. Laid across them was a large stone slab and wedged between the slab and the ceiling was a tree trunk about 18" in diameter.:rotfl:

We didn't buy.:D

thegirlintheattic

Worst (as a renter) was going to a place that had a permanently open kitchen widow and a shower in the hallway (complete with almost see through curtain). The EA kept saying that will be fixed, that is being done etc and as it was so cheap when we got back to the EA office we said we'd take it, on the proviso that all the promises made when walking around were put in writing and that I could have an hour to look through the tenancy agreement before signing (as it wasn't a mainstream EA). At that point the EA started yelling at the top of his voice, saying that we were trying to con him and we had to sign there and then or else, why would we need to read the agreement when its the same as the agreement they give to everyone etc. Suffice it to say I walked out. Lucky escape, I later found out that the EA in question regularly screwed their tenants over and threatened tenants for more money.

MacMickster

I once viewed a house where the homeowner showed us around. He was particularly proud of the fact that he had knocked through the back of the garage and utility room and converted the back garden to hard standing. This enabled him to drive his car all the way through to the back garden, so that he could use the garage for other things. He didn't specify what those other things were - not storage obviously, as you would need to move anything stored to get your car on the road.

We didn't buy.

FireWyrm

As a renter, my OH and I went to view a house in a Victorian Terrace. We got there before the EA and were having an unobtrusive peek in the window. The outside was a little shabby, but I thought not to judge a book by it's cover. The EA turned up and I swear, the first thing she said was "I know you wont want this, but I have to show it to you anyway"....

Well, we walked in and oh my god, was it THE worst case of DIY ever. The hallway was purple, the stair banister was orange. The carpets were all see-through and you could see daylight around one of the window frames. All of this was pretty off-putting, but it was the rows of stuffed animal heads in the living room that really did it for me. The thought of those dead impala/antelopes staring down at us....:eek:

I did at least ask if the landlord might remove them and the EA said she would "check". I looked at her, she sighed and then said "However, we have a freshly decorated house just around the corner that only came on the market this afternoon....", "perfect" says me......

shisslemopp

My Mum was telling me about a house they went to see back in 1983. The house was across 3 floors, and was being use as bedsits at the time. The man showing them round was very pleasant, but Mum & Dad could smell something, but just couldn't work out what it was. They got to the top floor where the smell became unbearable. There was loads of newspaper screwed up into little packages all over the landing floor, it turns out the smell was coming from these little packages, they were full of human excrement! :eek::eek::eek: Mum just looked at Dad and they both turned round and headed back down the stairs, with this, the man started chasing after them screaming obscenities at them till they were back out in the street!

Sufficed to say, they didn't buy the house LOL but it scarred them for quite a while.

thegirlintheattic

shisslemopp wrote: »

My Mum was telling me about a house they went to see back in 1983. The house was across 3 floors, and was being use as bedsits at the time. The man showing them round was very pleasant, but Mum & Dad could smell something, but just couldn't work out what it was. They got to the top floor where the smell became unbearable. There was loads of newspaper screwed up into little packages all over the landing floor, it turns out the smell was coming from these little packages, they were full of human excrement! :eek::eek::eek: Mum just looked at Dad and they both turned round and headed back down the stairs, with this, the man started chasing after them screaming obscenities at them till they were back out in the street!

Sufficed to say, they didn't buy the house LOL but it scarred them for quite a while.

lol, do we have the same parents? My parents first house was covered in human *droppings* as well.

shisslemopp

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

lol, do we have the same parents? My parents first house was covered in human *droppings* as well.

LOL, brilliant! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: We must be missing a trick somewhere!