Buyer wants to see house 2 days before completion

Silvertabby

I expect my friend wished she had done this. She went from 'just need to re-paint the lounge with a different colour' to 'a major re-plastering job after the vendors had ripped out the surround sound system from the lounge and dining room'.

pimento

We're buying a house 5 and a half hours away and we've only seen it once.
I will be driving down to have a look just before exchange to make sure it's all in order the the vendor's tenants have left.

I'd be super suspicious if he wouldn't let me.

ethank

Silvertabby wrote: »

I expect my friend wished she had done this. She went from 'just need to re-paint the lounge with a different colour' to 'a major re-plastering job after the vendors had ripped out the surround sound system from the lounge and dining room'.

That's disgusting, we filled every hole and patched up the paint.

Smodlet

ethank wrote: »

That's disgusting, we filled every hole and patched up the paint.

Absolutely disgusting. To say it is dishonourable is purely to show my age; I am not at all sure the word has any meaning for most these days. It also goes to show what pathetically amateurish idiots were the vendors; I wonder what else they might have damaged.

In our last house, OH tacked the wires directly under the curtain batten, against the edges of the patio doors and behind curtains, where they were invisible and easily removed with minimal damage; no more than a drawing pin would do.

This house was bought from an old woman without a clue; I think her worse-than-useless son did the "work"... Four inch nails used to secure curtain battens in the bathroom! Who puts curtains in a bathroom? You can imagine the damage when removed. We lost count of the tubs and tubes of filler OH used trying to make this hole into a home.

Chin up, OP! The harder the climb to the top, the better the view at the summit, right?

Skiddaw1

Silvertabby wrote: »

I expect my friend wished she had done this. She went from 'just need to re-paint the lounge with a different colour' to 'a major re-plastering job after the vendors had ripped out the surround sound system from the lounge and dining room'.

Oh that's awful.... people's capacity for behaving badly never fails to amaze me. Your friend must have been furious...

RelievedSheff

hazyjo wrote: »

Know you have a short time between exchange and completion, but I'd never advise boxing anything up before exchange! If timings are that tight, pay for removal men to pack.

We exchanged and completed on the same day so had little choice but to get everything boxed up and ready to go!

To the OP, I don't think it is uncommon for buyers to want to see the property again close to completion. We visited our new home four times in the four weeks from reserving it to completion. But this was a new build so we were not putting anyone out.

We did encourage the people who bought our house from the developers (we part exchanged it and the developer marketed it straight away) to visit the property as many times as they liked while we were still there so that they could get a feel for the place, measure up and make a note of anything they needed or wanted to change.

Buying a house is a big purchase and you can't really expect your buyers to do that based on one 20 minute visit.

hazyjo

RelievedSheff wrote: »

We exchanged and completed on the same day so had little choice but to get everything boxed up and ready to go!

Been there myself - but that's different to a couple of days ahead. You have to accept the risks if doing it all on the same day