Time-wasting viewer?

blue_max_3

You'll never sell with such small bedrooms, so give up now! 
Only kidding. There are smaller apartments in London!!!

SeaVixen

rach_k said:

I'd agree with leaving it to the agents.  Some people will feel like they have to fake more interest than they really feel if the home owner is doing the viewing, as they know it's personal for them and they want to be nice even if the place is a dump.  Others will be put off by the owner still being there and will talk less than they would normally.  

+1 to all of this. 
I'd only say nice things out loud when the homeowner was doing the viewing. Didn't want to offend them in case we ended up putting an offer in. This would mean that even if something was putting me off, I couldn't tell OH. He'd do the same. End result was we'd sound super keen, then walk down the drive, look at each other and say "erm....no" at the same time. 

If the agent was taking us around, we'd both talk more freely, and the agent gets to hear what our honest feedback is without having to call us for it afterwards.

csgohan4

everyone is a time waster until they put an offer/exchange

Crashy_Time

csgohan4 said:

everyone is a time waster until they put an offer/exchange

Maybe, but it is the attitude of some sellers that people who don`t immediately snap up their property are "time wasters" that winds people up. Maybe a price reduction would get people to see the small bedrooms differently?

robatwork

I would wager in the history of house selling, actual honest feedback has been given and received in about 2% of cases.

Don't get hung up on your bedroom size - it's almost certainly not the reason, especially not if it's really approx 4x4m which is cavernous.  Just give it some time and as mentioned above, make sure your rightmove listing is as good as it can be - floorplan, decent pic as the first one, 100% accurate with no typos.

daivid

MysteryMe said:

It's likely to just be a polite way of saying they are no longer interested without causing offence. 
The bedroom sizes are known before they set foot in the 

Very plausible, but...

MysteryMe said:

The bedroom sizes are known before they set foot in the door. 

To me this relies on a number of shaky assumptions:
That the details provided by the EA are complete, accurate and honest.
That the viewers have looked at said details.
That the viewers can visualise what x ft by y ft actually translates to.

 For the OP, if the useable floorspace of the room is 10ft by 12ft then it sounds like a perfectly reasonable size for a ftb home, especially if a good amount of storage is present the addition to the 10x12. If your bed is bigger than kingsize I suspect the room will feel cramped, particularly as the en suite adds to the restraints on placing furniture. If the bed is particularly large swapping it for a standard double would make the room appear much more generous - there are good reasons many show homes use undersized furniture!

NinjaTune

daivid said:

MysteryMe said:

It's likely to just be a polite way of saying they are no longer interested without causing offence. 
The bedroom sizes are known before they set foot in the 

Very plausible, but...

MysteryMe said:

The bedroom sizes are known before they set foot in the door. 

To me this relies on a number of shaky assumptions:
That the details provided by the EA are complete, accurate and honest.
That the viewers have looked at said details.
That the viewers can visualise what x ft by y ft actually translates to.

 For the OP, if the useable floorspace of the room is 10ft by 12ft then it sounds like a perfectly reasonable size for a ftb home, especially if a good amount of storage is present the addition to the 10x12. If your bed is bigger than kingsize I suspect the room will feel cramped, particularly as the en suite adds to the restraints on placing furniture. If the bed is particularly large swapping it for a standard double would make the room appear much more generous - there are good reasons many show homes use undersized furniture!

Agree with this.  We have a small box room bedroom (approx 9' x 7') and I've considered putting a 2'6" single in there to make it look more roomy when we come to sell.

Obviously you won't really want to get a double bed that you won't need other than for 'show' purposes so I'd ask the EA to make a point of mentioning the bed size when showing people round.  For example "A good sized bedroom that, as you can see, can accommodate a King size/whatever size with ease".  Sometimes buyers need the obvious pointed out to them.  If they have a similar sized bed then they know it will fit in okay, if they have a double they will realise there will be more space with their own furniture.

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I'm personally in the process of viewing houses at the moment - and while I want to come across as a friendly, yet serious buyer - I also feel quite awkward about saying negative things about the seller's houses when they're around (purely because I'm sure they love their property so I don't want to seem disrespectful about the size or condition of anything - it's something I would bring up with the estate agents). 

I will tend to view a property and have a good think about the realities of putting in an offer for a couple of days before asking for a second viewing - it's not intentional time wasting, it's just a massive investment, so it's something I want to make sure I'm 100% sure on. 

MysteryMe

daivid said:

MysteryMe said:

It's likely to just be a polite way of saying they are no longer interested without causing offence. 
The bedroom sizes are known before they set foot in the 

Very plausible, but...

MysteryMe said:

The bedroom sizes are known before they set foot in the door. 

To me this relies on a number of shaky assumptions:
That the details provided by the EA are complete, accurate and honest.
That the viewers have looked at said details.
That the viewers can visualise what x ft by y ft actually translates to.

 For the OP, if the useable floorspace of the room is 10ft by 12ft then it sounds like a perfectly reasonable size for a ftb home, especially if a good amount of storage is present the addition to the 10x12. If your bed is bigger than kingsize I suspect the room will feel cramped, particularly as the en suite adds to the restraints on placing furniture. If the bed is particularly large swapping it for a standard double would make the room appear much more generous - there are good reasons many show homes use undersized furniture!

"Shaky assumptions"  It was based on experience of giving and receiving feedback over several house transactions over several years but of course if you think a non buyers feedback is likely to be honest who am I to burst your bubble.......

getmore4less

When we were moving up from the modern 2up2down on paper you feel that will do the job.

Once you start viewing you soon realise that some spaces just don't work the way you want them after thinking about standing in the space, we thought we liked a very common design at the time but once we had seen a few we realised they were not for us and moved onto different layouts.

You need 2ft min around a bed that's 8' 6" sq min with a double. 
 If you have a door into a en-suite  and a big bed that may looked quite cramped along one wall 
If  it a long bed that can also shrink a room. 

whats the gap between the bed and the wardrobes