Awkward Viewing Stories

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I had viewed a flat, which I told the agent I am not interested in but he insisted a worth to view. At the end I arranged a viewing. I can't even get pass the door due to the smell in the flat. I nearly vomit. The agent did not ask for any comment as he already knows my comment.

I had another story from one of the vendor. They said there was a couple viewed their hourse for half an hour (it is a simple one bedroom house) and asked a lot of questions and said that they are interested in it. When the vendor asked them whether they have the mortgage in principal or not. They replied "No" and said that one of them is a boxer and paid by cash and not a stable income while the other half is a student. It seems to me a waste of everyone's time.

Contessa

Talc1234 wrote: »

Viewed an apartment once (unaccompanied viewing) and got on so well with the seller that we ended up in bed

Didn't buy it though

What feedback did you give?!

Tosca3

We once viewed a house with a back garden swimming in sewage from a broken drain, spent shotgun cartridges all over the lawn and a gun on the bedside table. :eek:

I nearly forgot the gate posts were decorated with old toilet pans.

Gigervamp

I once viewed a house that was owned by an old man. It wasn't quite as bad as the homes you see on those hoarder programmes, but it wasn't far off it. The kitchen worksurfaces were covered in grimey cans of food, some opened. And the whole place stank.

It was the old man himself who showed us around, so we had to be polite and look at all the rooms even though as soon as we'd walked through the front door, we knew we didn't want it.

dell12

rosyw wrote: »

The worst one for me was being shown around by the vendor who had a massive nude portrait of he & his wife hanging above the bed in the master bedroom :eek::eek: We left very quickly after seeing that :rotfl:

Wierd, but if it's a nice house why let a rubbish picture put you off?

becominganobsessivesaver

We went to view a house owned by a lady in her seventies. She had no intention of letting us leave, to the point I got out of the door, but she had blocked my husband's exit route. We spent an hour viewing a house we had no intention of buying (after seeing the bedrooms) but we coukdn't escape!!!!

vjacx

Viewed one that looked great from details and outside, got in and within a few minutes felt like we knew the vendor's life history (bitter divorce forcing sale). She made me look in the loft. I mean made - would not take no for an answer! I was stuck in the loft with her for a good 10 minutes - strangely hubby got away with that - I think just getting one of us up there was good enough - it wasn't even converted or anything! Then we went out of the back door to discover the great double gates that we thought meant safe off street parking were actually just that - double gates - with a 6foot drop behind them into the garden! Add in a dead pet (plus headstone) buried in the garden and probably suffice to say it wasn't for us!!!

Callie22

We're viewing houses at the moment and I've been genuinely surprised at how filthy a lot of the properties are. There are a lot of people out there with a touching but misguided belief that lighting a scented candle will hide the smell of years of neglect ...

duchy

DiscoCat54 wrote: »

It really didn't put me off the house but in all seriousness the nature of the business that had been run from the place caused me 18 months of hell..

My brother bought a flat just off the seafront in Brighton. He ended up having to put up a sign saying the previous business had moved on to stop all the callers. The sign worked well apart from annual political party conferences which took longer - presumably because these were once a year customers.
He said he had assumed it was two girls flat sharing when he viewed and had no idea it was a brothel.

rosyw

dell12 wrote: »

Wierd, but if it's a nice house why let a rubbish picture put you off?

The house wasn't right anyway, but we'd never have been able to sleep in that bedroom without flashbacks of that picture :eek::rotfl: