How embarrassing: checking under rugs, in cupboards etc when viewing a house?

barnaby-bear

RHemmings wrote: »

What the OP could do is to claim that they are nudists and that they wish to look around the house in the nude to see if they feel comfortable in the environment. The vendor will probably be too preoccupied with the nudity to worry too much about what they are looking at. In the best case, the vendor may prefer to be elsewhere.

We viewed a house where the 16 year old son had bunked off school and was in bed with his (looked about 14) girlfriend - very funny as the estate agent got flustered and explained he'd have to tell the parents because we'd be put off by the 'non-aspirational' element.... the kids were trying to get dressed and grovelling with us to buy the house.... so check those wardrobes for shagging teenagers....

seven-day-weekend

When we bought our first house in 1976, we only really looked at the cellar, the attic room and the garden! We did ask if it had three bedrooms and had a cursory glance, but we were young and silly and were only interested in the 'original features'! The house needed a stack of work doing, but hey, it was cheap, we did the work and paid for the house, which we still have.

When we bought our house in Spain in 2004 we took loads of photographs of all the rooms (and the view) but didn't employ a surveyor as we knew it would not pass any test (very few of the old houses in rural areas will meet modern standards in any way, and one floor was derelict) and we were paying cash anyway. We had a builder in later to do corrective work. We did have searches carried out and made sure there were no debts on it (as the debt runs with the house, not the person).

I would not be offended if people wanted to open drawers etc if they were viewing a house I was selling, but would expect them to ask first.