Plea to all Vendors with Children

R_P_W

Think you need to put this in perspective! You need to see past the superficial stuff.

If you cant do that then suggest you buy a new build

thequant

R_P_W wrote: »

Think you need to put this in perspective! You need to see past the superficial stuff.

If you cant do that then suggest you buy a new build

I guess I must have been brought up differently to other people. When I grew up,if I wrecked my home, my parents punished me and made good the damage I did quite promptly. Or it might be, that as a Gay man, I'm very fussy about appearances.

Mrs.W_2

thequant wrote: »

I guess I must have been brought up differently to other people. When I grew up,if I wrecked my home, my parents punished me and made good the damage I did quite promptly. Or it might be, that as a Gay man, I'm very fussy about appearances.

And those tough parental attitudes culminated in... you.

eta: Sorry, that's not meant to be as harsh as I now realise it reads!

Wyndham

We looked at one house which had dirty hand prints by all the lights (each and every one of them). To this day we still refer to the house as 'dirty hand print house' as in when trying to describe where something is then 'it's by dirty hand print house' or 'just up from dirty hand print house'.

We didn't buy, and I agree with the OP. But our worry was more about the damage the children might have done that we couldn't see rather than the damage we could. And when I was a child, well, I just wasn't left unsuprervised with crayons by wallpaper, and if I had scribbled all over the walls, I knew I'd have been in trouble. There is something here about having respect for property, and that actually being important. I was allowed things if I looked after them!

cooltt

I agree with the OP on this, it's just ridiculous that parents these days feel its ok for kids to wreck everything and expect everyone else to be ok with it. Oh they're just kids you know!
Yeah we'll I was a kid once but I didn't go around wrecking what my mum and dad worked hard for. It's just scum bringing up scum these days and the sooner people get their heads out of the sand the better!

Old_Git

I viewed a house once (once was enough ) every room was shocking pink .Walls ceiling and carpets everything .

shegirl

thequant wrote: »

Nope, one of the recent places I had seen, had mould all over the building in addition to the kids graffiti on every wall.

I'm very tempted to call social services next time I see a place in such a state.

for the record I am looking in "middle class" areas, and not ex council properties. I find it shamefull the way some people in this country choose to live.

Now mould I could understand- I'd be right out.Kids scribbles on the walls wouldn't put me off though.

At least the bits that need doing are obvious- it wasn't until I stripped the awful,painted,textured wallpaper in the dining room until I discovered the untreated mould:mad:(No wonder that bit came off so easily!).I expected left over paper or bumpy walls behind but not that:rotfl:

ps I doubt social services will run around due to a bit of mould and scribbles on the wall

grifferz

I had a hilarious viewing last week in a house with two children, where the kids did their best to sabotage the viewing. I actually found it really funny and it's not like we were short of time so it didn't bother me at all, but the parents were so embarrassed and the agent was fuming!

I'd guess the boy was about 8 and the girl was 11 or 12. He was either shy or surly - at one point said to me "if you go in my room I'll chop off your head. I'm not even joking!"

The girl was very chatty and followed us around, repeated tapping me on the shoulder to get me to look at important items such as her clothes, her hamster, a thing she made at school, and so on. At the end she straight out said in front of everyone, "so do you like our house? Are you going to buy it?"

Initially I said to my partner, "I don't think they will be present on future viewings somehow!" But since then I've noted that the house has actually been on the market since March 2012 and was taken off for a few months in the middle when they obviously had a sale fall through. So I would have expected the parents to know what the children would be like in viewings in that case!

thequant

grifferz wrote: »

So I would have expected the parents to know what the children would be like in viewings in that case!

The wife probably spends all day on mumsnet, talking about how endearing her "Dear Children" are.

No baking bread or such tricks for these vendors, it's the kids she's dragging up that will add value, cos their so "special"

people are so blinkered these days.

grifferz

thequant wrote: »

The wife probably spends all day on mumsnet, talking about how endearing her "Dear Children" are.

No baking bread or such tricks for these vendors, it's the kids she's dragging up that will add value, cos their so "special"

Well just to re-iterate*, I actually found it funny and didn't feel that our viewing was disrupted very much, as we weren't short of time, got to see everything we wanted to, and asked every question we had thought to ask. But I can well believe that many people (like you I suppose!) would be extremely put off by the behaviour of these children!

I felt sorry for them and am not going to give them any abuse. I just would not advise anyone to let their children do this sort of thing.

* Not just because these vendors may be readers of these forums and we still might want to buy their house! It is actually the truth too.