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People who don't turn up for viewings

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  • skintlass
    skintlass Posts: 1,326 Forumite
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    happened to me again today - spent the morning clearing up and vacuuming up the dog hair (she sheds a lot) and they didn't turn up (it was an agent accompanied viewing) Its so annoying. Ho hum at least my house is clean and tidy now.
    Never let your sucesses go to your head and never let your failures go to your heart.:beer:
  • Best one i had was on a friday afternoon - my mobile rings, its the estate agents receptionist in a bit of a state - she has had a call from a couple insisting that they have a viewing of my place on the spot as they are parked outside in my driveway and only in the area for a day, if they cant view "right now" then no possible sale. - could i pop out of work and do a viewing.

    I explained to the ea receptionist that I appriciated that she had to pas the call on put please call them back and tell them to get the hell off my drive before i call the police for trespass - there are some right idiots about
  • The worst no show we had was when the EA called me while I was on the train on the way home, saying they had someone who wanted to see the house right now. I said that wasn't possible as I wouldn't be home for another 20 minutes, but that I could manage a viewing in 30 minutes for them (thinking that would give me 10 mins to throw all my rubbish into cupboards/under the beds etc!) EA said yes to that, so like a fool I got home, ran round like a loon for 10 minutes... and then waited and waited....

    How can someone change their mind about seeing a house in the space of half an hour?!
  • CharleneUK
    CharleneUK Posts: 3,206 Forumite
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    How frustrating. That's one thing I could never do. Even when I forgot the address and the EA's were closed, I drove back home again to find it!! Ended up 25 minutes late, but the person was just glad I actually came to view!
    "I did then, what I knew then. And when I knew better, I did better"
  • u2o
    u2o Posts: 349 Forumite
    i admit i've "not turned up" to a viewing before - for a rental property. it's entirely my fault - i had scheduled about 8 flat viewings that day and when i wrote out my itinerary for that day (and 2 other days on either side as i was visiting the city for 3 days) , i mis-typed the building number i was viewing. In the end i ended up standing around at the wrong place just 2 doors away from where i was meant to be, waiting around aimlessly like an idiot whilst i said to myself "what an incompetent landlord". i didnt have his number nor did he have mine... so nothing i could do.

    it was only after getting back home few days later (and having secured another property) that i realised my mistake!! How foolish i felt then. I did send an email to apologise though!
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    I am impressed by people who manage to do several viewings. My experience of buying and renting has been that getting a viewing can take up to 2 weeks!

    But I have always had a problem buying anything. Something about my body language makes people think I am not serious. I get shoo'ed away, dismissed, sneered at. I even had one EA sneer down at me "you do realise mortgages are linked to incomes???". And the most recent one was where I walked into an EA and said I was wanting to look at properties, gave them my exact spec, asked them what they had and they asked me budget. I cast a hand sideways at their board and said (honestly) "looking around, it would not be possible for you to have a property out of my budget, so what have you got?" and they dismissed me immediately with a "Look on the Internet" and refused to take it further!
  • 3plus1
    3plus1 Posts: 821 Forumite
    u2o wrote: »
    i admit i've "not turned up" to a viewing before - for a rental property. it's entirely my fault - i had scheduled about 8 flat viewings that day and when i wrote out my itinerary for that day (and 2 other days on either side as i was visiting the city for 3 days) , i mis-typed the building number i was viewing. In the end i ended up standing around at the wrong place just 2 doors away from where i was meant to be, waiting around aimlessly like an idiot whilst i said to myself "what an incompetent landlord". i didnt have his number nor did he have mine... so nothing i could do.

    it was only after getting back home few days later (and having secured another property) that i realised my mistake!! How foolish i felt then. I did send an email to apologise though!

    I'm scared that's going to happen to me tomorrow... My OH has scheduled a viewing for me, but doesn't know the landlord's name, or which flat I'm seeing. :rolleyes: Well, he does know the number, but there are six flats there according to the council tax banding site... I'm not even convinced he's written down the right number, to be honest.
  • missimaxo
    missimaxo Posts: 393 Forumite
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    I am currently a FTB and I have turned up at every booked viewing, even when I have realised before going in that the house is not for me.

    I am buying in a town 50 miles away and did block viewings, one in particular I had driven past the night before and realised that it was not suitable (no garage and not enough space for a garage). My biggest problem was my viewings were all booked for a sunday and I had no-one to phone to cancel as the agents didn't open. I duly turned up, but must admit to not being particularly eager!

    To me it is ruder to leave someone hanging around!
  • 3plus1
    3plus1 Posts: 821 Forumite
    missimaxo wrote: »
    My biggest problem was my viewings were all booked for a sunday and I had no-one to phone to cancel as the agents didn't open. I duly turned up, but must admit to not being particularly eager!

    To me it is ruder to leave someone hanging around!

    I would have done the same. After all, even if you think you probably don't want to live there, you still might change your mind after having a look inside - so you're not totally leading on the person whose home it is. You're giving the property a chance - and that's all they could reasonably ask from you!
  • terrierlady
    terrierlady Posts: 1,742 Forumite
    idea catching on now is open house viewings done perhaps on a saturday with any offers in writing by the end of the day.depends on how good the agents are in getting proceedable people .
    my bark is worse than my bite!!!!!!!!
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