How long do you take 'viewing' a property?

moneyistooshorttomention

No irony at all - I presume all my viewers are local. As I have commented frequently - I will be viewing properties the other side of the country (so cant go nipping in and out on a whim for extra viewings etc). Good sound logic prevailing there...:)

I'll forgive ya' for not having read any of my previous posts in which I stated that.....

sinbad182

So the vendors of properties you are visiting have to accommodate an hour long viewing because you choose to look at houses on the other side of the country?

Yet anyone who looks at yours has to be in and out in 5 minutes, not ask anything and not touch anything because you have pigeon holed them as local?

I'm sure that's very logical from your point of view, but as per every one of your other posts it shows you as completely unreasonable and out of touch with reality.

Ciderarmy1987

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

No irony at all - I presume all my viewers are local. As I have commented frequently - I will be viewing properties the other side of the country (so cant go nipping in and out on a whim for extra viewings etc). Good sound logic prevailing there...:)

I'll forgive ya' for not having read any of my previous posts in which I stated that.....

odd assumption to make. but never mind.

I haven't ever tried to sold a house but surely in the current climate that you have to expect to be as accommodating as possible to any potential buyer.
I don't think that it is unreasonable to for people to have the same outlook to viewings as you, just because they are local it doesnt mean that they dont have large constraints on their time, such as children or one partner working long/inflexible hours etc etc

Better_Days

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

mucked up a pair of curtains as they peered through them

Good grief - a buyer daring to move a curtain to look out of a window to gauge the outlook (and possibly also to have a look at the state of the window frames)

Deary, deary me.

Tancred

martinsurrey wrote: »

An informed buyer won’t get spooked by a survey, because they already have a good idea of what it will show and what they are buying.

What do you mean by 'an informed buyer'? When you view the property you inform yourself without having to look at every nook and cranny. As for being spooked by surveys, this is mainly spotty twentysomethings who need daddy to cough up the deposit.

Better_Days

martinsurrey can I share your popcorn please?

Ciderarmy1987

Tancred wrote: »

What do you mean by 'an informed buyer'? When you view the property you inform yourself without having to look at every nook and cranny. As for being spooked by surveys, this is mainly spotty twentysomethings who need daddy to cough up the deposit.

Since I have been posting on this board I have constantly tried to look at things from your point of view; however I dont think that I can get my head that far up my own !!!!!

Tancred

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Absolute and utter rubbish. If a house was just a house, all would make money equally, all would be as likely to have problems on survey, all would be equally looked after.

Your comments might just apply if one only looked at similar three-year old properties but the moment one looks at anything large, old, altered, interesting, expensive, cheap, poor condition, superb condition ... anything, spending a short time viewing becomes an expensive mistake - for the vendor, as much as for you.

I have, over the last twenty-five years, gone through the house buying process many times, and purely as a result of the above care, have had to go through house selling a few times less!

Time Saving Expert website... maybe
Money Saving Expert website.... nonsense!

It's truth, not rubbish. I am assuming quite reasonably that you are looking at a standard modern property (1980 onwards). If you are looking at 'period' properties, thatched cottages and the like then you will certainly spend more time looking at things, but unless you are surveyor or at the very least a builder you are basically just being an anally retentive pain the backside to any vendor.

Davesnave

We only looked at property with land, which usually means walking the boundaries, frequently owner accompanied, but occasionally alone. Estate agents didn't figure much - they don't do that stuff.:rotfl:

As a result, the viewings typically took about 90 minutes, but we were sometimes in and out in 20. The longest one took a couple of hours, as we had lunch with the vendors. No, we didn't like the property, but they insisted, and the soup was good!

There were also a few empty places, where we were just given a key. Even if we knew they weren't right, it was hard not to have a good look around, so again, they could take an hour.

The house we bought took one viewing of 45 minutes, another much longer one, and a third one of an hour where we did a 'survey.' Notebook & camera for that.

And we certainly didn't walk in and say, "This is it!" In fact, after the first two viewings, we said, "Nope, it isn't right!" and we moved on, but after a few days we reconsidered.

sinbad182

I think Tancred's hilariously flawed opinions on, well, pretty much every subject he's posted on makes his view on this one equally as ridiculous.