Feedback Refused

rumandcoke

I am selling my Property and had my first two viewings last weekend. Today the EA rang me to share the Feedback he had received. I told him I didn't want to hear or discuss it. I am not prepared to do or make any changes/ improvements. I am only interested in hearing from my EA if there is an offer. Am I being awkward?

Hoenir

Pointless discussing something that you don't want to discuss. 

Grumpy_chap

rumandcoke said:

I am selling my Property and had my first two viewings last weekend. Today the EA rang me to share the Feedback he had received. I told him I didn't want to hear or discuss it. I am not prepared to do or make any changes/ improvements. I am only interested in hearing from my EA if there is an offer. Am I being awkward?

Yes, you are being awkward.
Even if you don't want to make any changes, if you wish to sell the house, then having the feedback is still useful to know.  The feedback might be factors you can't change - like location - or simply that the price is too high in the current market or very basic things that can be changed if need be - when my mother sold the feedback related to the clutter in the spare room.  All clutter that had to go in the skip at some point for her to move, so why not sooner than later.

Mutton_Geoff

I remember reading this many years ago ..

Dobbibill

It's a bit silly not to listen to the feedback. Will you come back in here in 6 or 12 months saying, my property hasn't sold and I've no idea why?

Having the feedback means you know what buyers may be thinking about your property. It could be that the garden is too small or the example above with the clutter in the spare room but having this approach you have means you will never know. 

I had a property on the market a few years ago and lots of the feedback was that it's was really big for a flat and if it was a ground floor flat they would be offering but as it's a first floor they couldn't as they would struggle with it as they grew older. There was absolutely nothing I could do about it not being on the ground floor but it reassured me, it was nothing that I could do to change it. 

Abbafan1972

Yes you are being awkward I think, as you can’t really change long term things, but there are temporary things you can change to make the property more appealing when a viewer comes round. 

FlorayG

I'm looking at this differently. You've told the agent you refuse to do anything to the house to make it more marketable and that's fine, it's your decision. That actually makes the EA's job easier because he will have a more limited pool of people worth showing it to and he can tell them in advance that what they see is what's on offer and there's no point to make an offer dependant on some work being done prior to exchange. Lots of people will buy a house under these circumstances as it saves an huge amount of back and forth over costs of work and who is going to do it.
When I sold my mom's bungalow I had lots of feedback 100% of which was for things I either couldn't or wasn't prepared to change; so no, I don't think you're being awkward at all, you know your circumstances and feedback is of no use to you

bobster2

rumandcoke said:

I am selling my Property and had my first two viewings last weekend. Today the EA rang me to share the Feedback he had received. I told him I didn't want to hear or discuss it. I am not prepared to do or make any changes/ improvements. I am only interested in hearing from my EA if there is an offer. Am I being awkward?

Feedback on your approach is that yes - you are being awkward.

But you probably don't want to hear or discuss this - right?

housebuyer143

This is akin to burying your head in the sand. You don't want to know what they say in case it is bad? 
When your agent comes to you in a month and asks that you drop the price you are not going to understand why because you won't hear the feedback. 

Tabieth

You’re being awkward and very silly. Presuming you want to sell and you want to get a good price? If so, feedback is extremely helpful to allow that. You don’t have to act on all (or any) the feedback. But to cut yourself off from valuable information is daft. 

Flugelhorn

reminds me of a vendor  who accompanied the estate agent (or was the other way round) on viewings - poor agent, vendor never stopped yacking or complaining about the British houses not being as good as in her home country. 
the feedback was the agent should do the viewings! I doubt she wanted to hear that