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If someone came round to view your house with a spade

To check the soil in the garden how would you react?
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  • mrcow
    mrcow Posts: 15,170 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I'd laugh and tell them to go for it. At least it means they're serious I guess!
    "One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
    Because by then you've blown your chances. That's it."
  • picklepick
    picklepick Posts: 4,048 Forumite
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    For some people who really enjoy gardening, I suppose soil quality is an important part of the viewing process!
    What matters most is how well you walk through the fire
  • SuzieSue
    SuzieSue Posts: 4,110 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper I've been Money Tipped!
    People have different priorities - for some it's the school catchment, for others it might be the quality of the soil. I don't see why it is a problem.
  • Tiglath
    Tiglath Posts: 3,816 Forumite
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    I'd be fine with it but I'd steer them away from the bodies under the patio ;) I have to confess that when we viewed our current house, I did dig into the soil with my hands and have a rummage around.
    "Save £12k in 2019" #120 - £100,699.57/£100,000
  • propertyman
    propertyman Posts: 2,922 Forumite
    I'd think twice if he said

    " This is my current wife" :)
    Stop! Think. Read the small print. Trust nothing and assume that it is your responsibility. That way it rarely goes wrong.
    Actively hunting down the person who invented the imaginary tenure, "share freehold";
    if you can show me one I will produce my daughter's unicorn
  • Soot2006
    Soot2006 Posts: 2,185 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I'd laugh - but point them to a border. Problem is any accessible soil is likely to be improved topsoil anyway
  • BASFORDLAD
    BASFORDLAD Posts: 2,418 Forumite
    I'd think twice if he said

    " This is my current wife" :)

    Ha I like it
    For everthing else there's mastercard.
    For clampers there's Barclaycard.
  • Hump
    Hump Posts: 519 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    It depends whether they have a sheet of plastic, rubber gloves, wellies and a bag of lime - or have I been watching too much CSI?
  • BASFORDLAD
    BASFORDLAD Posts: 2,418 Forumite
    Hump wrote: »
    It depends whether they have a sheet of plastic, rubber gloves, wellies and a bag of lime - or have I been watching too much CSI?

    Or you have been busy in your own garden?
    For everthing else there's mastercard.
    For clampers there's Barclaycard.
  • tizerbelle
    tizerbelle Posts: 1,921 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    As long as they didn't also bring a dead great dane with them - not a problem.
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