Buyer visiting 5 weeks after offer - I'm worried!

phoebe1989seb

Thanks for the update & pleased to hear it all went well

goodwithsaving

I've viewed the place I'm buying 8 times and am going back twice again. I'm forking out 250k for heavens sake. The next two times are for furniture measurements and testing all switches etc.

My buyers are coming soon too and that's okay by me. I've continued looking after the place and done all the things e.g. painting I promised I would.

It's completely normal.

Fuzzyness

we revisited the house we ended up buying at least twice before we bought it and after we had had our offer accepted. people can only remember so much in the ten or 15 minutes they look round initially and just want to go back to refresh their memory. not much you can do if they do change their mind so try not to worry about it.

agrinnall

goodwithsaving wrote: »

I've viewed the place I'm buying 8 times and am going back twice again. I'm forking out 250k for heavens sake. The next two times are for furniture measurements and testing all switches etc.

My buyers are coming soon too and that's okay by me. I've continued looking after the place and done all the things e.g. painting I promised I would.

It's completely normal.

I'm not sure that 10 times could be regarded as normal, more like obsessive . What on earth are you looking for after the third visit, and why couldn't you do the measuring and switches in one of the visits you've already had? If I was your vendor I'd be seriously reconsidering the sale.

GLM71093

I have viewed the house I am buying with my partner twice. Once before we put an offer in and once after. We would have viewed again but didn't want to pester the owner etc... (she doesn't live local). I am a FTB and we would view again just because were so excited and keep having ideas about decorating/ furniture... `
I wouldn't think its anything to worry about at all.
Fingers crossed for you.

Hoploz

Sorry, don't wish to appear rude, but 10 times?! Is it a brand new house? If not then owner and agent must be really fed up. When my elderly mum sold a few years ago the people came five times at various stages, last time was arranged on what was supposed to be exchange day. They had decided in the solicitor's office that actually they wanted to come round and feel each radiator with the heating on, just to make sure they work ... but they couldn't make it that day, it'd have to be one day next week. I made it clear when they came that unless they exchanged ASAP the deal was off and I'd buy the house myself so mum wouldn't lose her lovely new flat, and add it to my own rental portfolio.

Glad it went well ElsieMonkey. Hope it all goes smoothly this time and you get to the end of the transaction very soon.

barbiedoll

It's weird how we'll spend hours looking around the shops to buy a new dress or coat, possibly visiting the same shop several times and looking at the same items several times. Or when buying a car, we'd expect to have a good look round and to have a test drive.

Yet we're supposed to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds (and land ourselves with debt for decades) on something which we may have only seen for around an hour in total.

10 visits does sound excessive as we're used to only expecting to visit a potential new property 2-3 times. But if you think about it, we're the stupid ones....how many of us have moved into a place, only to find that the switches/radiators/boiler/toilet doesn't work?
:rotfl:

SunReader

Barbie, your 'electrical inspection' ... you have the appropriate test equipment and training?

Testing an installation isn't whether sockets and switches actually work, that is the easy bit to bodge. It is checking the circuits are wired correctly and protected with the right rated RCD MCB etc.

If the consumer unit had been updated from the old style fusebox then if it was done right a test certificate will have been issued. If not you really -really want a modern split load RCD protected 17th edition board as soon as you move in.

Old fashioned fuseboxes protect house from burning down - just about but offer very little protection from electrocution.

Agreed, 10 visits seems rather barking to me.

Smodlet

When we bought our last house, our vendors actually encouraged us to visit regularly. He was as nervous as a hen sitting on dynamite and we found it no hardship whatsoever, since we loved the place and lived only a mile or two away. He seemed reassured each time we went there, which only goes to show not everyone is the same.

It is incredibly difficult for anyone lacking a photographic memory/the gall to take loads of their own pics to remember all they need to on one or two short visits and excitement does tend to cloud judgement sometimes. I certainly looked straight past any and all faults on this house as I was hopelessly in love with it and, as we all know, love is blind.

Best of luck with your move, ElsieMonkey.

ElsieMonkey

Thanks all After a year of bad luck and it now turning me into a nervous wreck I've decided to step back and let my fiance deal with the solicitors, EA's etc, which he is happy to do (we were sharing the burden before but me being me I can't switch off unlike him). I'm hoping to wake up in a few weeks time and be told "it's all done"! Lol.

I do agree 10 visits sounds like a lot! I clean and tidy my property to show home standard for viewings and after a year of it, the thought of doing that 10 more times after agreeing a sale would be a nightmare! It's so exhausting! I'd also panic with every visit thinking they've spotted something to put them off which they didn't before. However, I agree it's hard to remember a place. I've seen the place we're buying twice. I would like to see it again but can't think of a good reason to give the vendors?? (I know, I'm spending 100's of 1000's, maybe I don't need a reason apart from that)?! I also worry about putting the the vendor's out too much. Maybe I could say we'd like them to show up how the boiler etc. works?