Viewers whose property is not on the market

babyblade41

turning it on its head. you find your dream home, decide to market yours and no takers
I always have a saved list of properties for about 6 months prior, when I have those I then market then keep looking
When I receive an acceptable offer go round all on my saved list, if nothing comes remove from market

John_G_Jones

amberstone99 wrote: »

How do you house sellers feel about letting people view your home which is up for sale when theirs is not even on the market?
It's a lot of work preparing your home for viewers if you have a big house and I now really feel like turning down viewers if they are not in a position to buy. In a sticky market, viewers are appreciated of course but I am starting to feel annoyed with people just looking around to see what the current prices and properties are like.
Then you get those who show a strong interest, come back for a second viewing then offer to buy at a price which is totally OBSCENE. Really wearing !

I viewed before putting mine on the market, assuming it’d sell quickly enough.

When it didn’t we found a way to buy before selling, making us even better buyers than someone who’d started selling a house that they absolutely had to offload.

If it annoys you go out for a drink and let the estate agents deal with the viewing.

Davesnave

It's your house, so your rules apply, but experience has taught us it works the other way too.
In other words the, personality type who writes "No tyre kickers" or similar conditions on an ad will never get to meet us. We don't feel deprived.

We showed our last house to about 40 -50 people. Among them, our buyers viewed without being on the market, never said a word and left, apparently disinterested. A few months later they were back with a deal. It's impossible to 'read' some people, just as it's equally hard to identify some purveyors of BS. Well, I can't anyway!

I don't understand 'obscene' offers. Offers aren't usually made in obscene terms, but they can certainly be very unrealistic. However, due to seller expectation, sometimes the person offering cannot help making a futile pitch. We've made two offers in our time that were treated with derision: one eventually sold for exactly the same amount, while the other went for £20k less.

This is just the way things are. We've walked away after upping our offer and coming within 3% of what a vendor wanted. The vendor is still there, ten years later. Neither of us got what we wanted.There have to be limits, but certainly no hard feelings. I'd sit down and have a cuppa with her any time.

PasturesNew

While it's a pain in the butt .... why didn't the first person rush to buy the s0ddin' thing.... you do have to go through the motions really.

It's possible their house will sell quicker than yours did; some do, for a variety of reasons....

You never know who will buy it, or why .... so you do have to bust a gut for each viewing.

I'm going through it myself.... I've a small house and that's just as much work. I keep "on top of everything" all day long, constantly scanning every room and thinking "if the phone rang now and somebody wanted to come in an hour, what would I have to tidy/put away/wash/sort out that I'll wish I'd done now while I have time"... it's endless, clearing up behind your every move

Then there's the "getting out of the house/finding somewhere to loiter" ...

It's a bummer... but has to be done. You're either selling, or not. You did the hard bit, to get to this point... just bend over and grin

babyblade41

PasturesNew wrote: »

While it's a pain in the butt .... why didn't the first person rush to buy the s0ddin' thing.... you do have to go through the motions really.

It's possible their house will sell quicker than yours did; some do, for a variety of reasons....

You never know who will buy it, or why .... so you do have to bust a gut for each viewing.

I'm going through it myself.... I've a small house and that's just as much work. I keep "on top of everything" all day long, constantly scanning every room and thinking "if the phone rang now and somebody wanted to come in an hour, what would I have to tidy/put away/wash/sort out that I'll wish I'd done now while I have time"... it's endless, clearing up behind your every move

Then there's the "getting out of the house/finding somewhere to loiter" ...

It's a bummer... but has to be done. You're either selling, or not. You did the hard bit, to get to this point... just bend over and grin

I would feel the same but don't think we would put our house in a good light with pig manure being tramped through the house and every conceivable obnoxious rescue wishing to hump, bite, trample on and a 2 x 14 stone Danes wishing to greet everyone by standing on their shoulders
We have to plan a wee on a day to day basis without an audience, so viewers have to be meticulously planned... also not many people like turkeys wandering freely :rotfl:

Thrugelmir

amberstone99 wrote: »

How do you house sellers feel about letting people view your home which is up for sale when theirs is not even on the market?

Not worth the effort. Let the EA earn their commision and vet potential buyers thoroughly.

Sibz

I won't be the first to post this scenario in this thread. But my wife and I viewed properties before putting ours on the market. We weren't definitely going to move, only if we found the right place.

We did find one and our house sold in 4 days.

That's another perspective too, you could have viewers that have had their property on the market for 1 day, 1 week, 1 month etc which could remain on the market for months and months making them unproceedable at the end of the day. Yet someone you've disregarded could have completed their purchase elsewhere within that time quite easily.

Thrugelmir

Sibz wrote: »

But my wife and I viewed properties before putting ours on the market. We weren't definitely going to move, only if we found the right place.

Therein lies the issue. There are serial viewers out there.

steampowered

Maybe just put less efforts into preparing your house for first viewings. Most people will see through the odd bit of washing up in the kitchen.

Sibz

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Therein lies the issue. There are serial viewers out there.

Yeah there probably are - invent a reliable detector and make a fortune selling it.