Intresting vendor led viewings - add yours!

polki

TBeckett100 wrote: »

Can't believe the dead dog thread is still remembered

It has brought great amusement to many and will never be forgotten.


Neither will the author ... (There should be a winky smiley here but for some reason it is not playing out tonight.)

basil92

TBeckett100 wrote: »

Can't believe the dead dog thread is still remembered

I remember it very well..along with the motorhome in the driveway...

Happy days ...MSE ain't what it used to be;)

walwyn1978

Many years ago when viewing flats (our first flat) we were shown around by Mrs Seller. (Can't remember surname) 'Oh, Frank will be with you in a minute, he's in the bath'. Fair enough, we were a bit early. Get to bathroom, knock on door. No answer. 'He must have got out and got dressed' says Mrs Seller, flinging open the door of the bathroom, we march in, to reveal a naked Mr Seller in the bath with his head under the water. He sat up to find the three of us staring at him....

kilby_007

We went for one viewing a week before christmas. The woman opened the door and complained straight away that we had arranged a viewing when she was looking after her grand children, and so close to christmas! The house was filthy and stunk of dog. She clearly had money but no taste, she'd got a TV in the foot of her bed and glitter/gold/mirrors everywhere. The laminates were new but very poor quality and were all torn up by the dogs; two pugs which were incidentally "going at it". She took us into one bedroom where her slob of a son was in bed. His room smelled like a necrophiliacs den (sorry for that but it was reallly horrendous). We left pretty sharpish. Unsurprisingly, it's still on the market 2 years later!

hazyjo

Just remembered another when me, my BF and my mum viewed. The vendors were obviously very reluctant to let their house go and had a lot of love for it still. We were all chatting on the landing and my BF made the mistake of leaning against the wall. OMG she nearly bit his head off and pretty much shouted at him to stop leaning on her wall!

The shame lol.

Jx

Tygermoth

Hahhhah I am glad to see its not just me!

A few weeks ago we viewed a house with a really lovely garden and we were rather sharply told off for walking on the grass. I didn't include with the originals as it was rather tame in comparison but as one of my first viewings it was a introduction to what was in store for us!

sam3103

Some of these are hilarious! I haven't experienced anything on that kind of level.
I recently went on one with my sister where the owner followed us everywhere and just kept going on about how the blinds were hilary blinds and very good quality. We didn't find much out about the rest of the property.
My sister also went on one which was an absolute tip, an elderly man was living in it on his own. There was a hole in the ceiling so you could see directly up from the lounge to the bedroom upstairs and he had a parrot flying round the house. I didn't go on that one with her, sounds like a missed a corker!

cloo

I remember one viewing where the tenants seemed to have their entire extended family over, the radiators were covered in laundry and we couldn't see one of the bedrooms because someone was asleep in there. My husband and I theorised this could be because the owner was a landlord (letting to family) and they didn't want him to sell. We told the agents that they might need a word with the owner/tenants about viewings.


A friend of ours years ago was flathunting in a dodgy part of south London and several times came across flats with adult sons living at home where the mums wouldn't let him see the son's rooms/rooms were locked and he couldn't go in - he reckoned they must all be storingstolen stuff in there.

DKLS

1. Viewed house, went to living room, and the woman loudly announced, "ignore that fat lazy good for nothing" as she pointed at her snoozing husband.
2. Woman invited us to look at her "fantastic garden" we both refused as there was more dog eggs than grass.
3. Vendor overheard my wife say " House is crap, Plot is perfect lets buy it and flatten it" turns out she was incredibly proud of her house and she ended the viewing there and then stating she could never sell to vandals like us.
4. Went to see a Bungalow, the vendors were extremely friendly bordering on flirtation, they took us into a room off their living room, the walls and floor were leather and there was two sex swings and a hot tub plus assorted instruments of pain/pleasure along the walls.

TBagpuss

I can't belive I forgot to add this when I posted my first reply:
Years ago, househunting for my first property (so a single woman in my early 20s) shown round by a vendor who seemed perfectly normal until we got upstairs when he propositioned me.
Not at all pleasant and actually quite scary. Fortunanately he wasn't between me and the door and I got our and left. The next morning I got a call from the agents to ask me if I was interested in the house as I have apparentyl 'left suddenly'.