How many times can your (house) buyers come by before

Sounds like it's getting a bit much, but I agree about checking with your realtor. How long have they got to sell their house? If it was me, I'd be concentrating on that!

I wonder if you could talk to the realtor and let them know you will allow ONE more visit to the house, so they need to make sure they get everything they need then. After that, they will need to wait until they own it to enter again.

Big red flag right there. Are you sure they are going to follow through and buy your house? How long time have you accepted to wait for them to sell their own? 

And I would definitely have my realtor tell them that they can visit once more, but that's it until they get the keys.

Wow. That's a lot of visits. I would never have the nerve to do that!

Maybe instead of a flat out no just say the next time is an inconvenient time frame, another visit will have to be postponed. ( til hell freezes ? Lol ) until they get their crap together and act like serious adult buyers, and get a contract on their house. Or start charging a fee.

Like, come on, they need to grow up and be responsible do things in time and get everything they need at once.

I hope you are still showing the house, because the above doesn't make me feel very comfortable about them actually buying it. 

How long did you give them a contingency for?

In other words, they have been ridiculously demanding for people who haven't actually made a non-contingent offer. I would never dream of asking for all of those visits when I hadn't really gone further into the process. And even then, I'd be very hesitant to ask for more than 2 visits. Especially given that handrail bait and switch, I'd be telling my realtor that the visits were over until a real offer was made. Or that if they wanted to see the house again, they could come to the next open house my realtor is hosting. At most, I'd give them one more visit in pre-designated areas.

When they ask to come again, tell them sure, but that specific day/time won't work because other potential buyers are viewing the house then. Make them sweat. Ha ha ha.

I hope you are still showing the house. We bought our house while someone else had a contingency contract on it. I guess it was written in such a way to give them "x" amount of time and then after that time had passed, "x" amount of time if another offer was received to commit to the house. We were shown the house but had to wait two weeks because they were in the second time period and then it was ours.

No way would I keep letting those folks in your house when you don't really even know if their buying it is going to work out.

That would be too much for me...I would definitely be showing the house to other buyers.

I would say no further visits unless/until there is a contract on the house. If they are serious about the house, there not going to walk away just because they can't get the handrail measured.

I'll bet those contractors think there is a contract on the house and the new owner is ready to proceed and just needs an estimate. I don't think they would put that much time in a contingency sale.

I'm curious if there is a time limit on the contingency? Just saw your reply.

I would be getting annoyed too, especially since there's no full contract on the house. If you had an actual closing date I think I would be able to tolerate it a little more.

So if their house is not sold by April 15, the offer is over at that point, correct? I don't know how possible it is that they would sell their house in 3 weeks. I think I would be done with them. Let them remove their offer. If they are that willing to do so, I don't think they are going to follow through anyways. Get your house back out there for others to see.

The peas are smart. They are being totally ridiculous. You are with in your rights to refuse to allow anymore visits. Once you repaired the deficiencies needed for the sale, all necessary visits were done. All the other times you've let them in have been you allowing them a favor. Having an open house to show that you are actively interested in other offers is a good idea, although I might not ask the CA people to go away just yet. It's only a few weeks. They won't sell their house in three weeks though unless they miraculously have a cash offer show up.

Both as a buyer and a seller, we've always had these visits written into the sales contract.

We did a contingency offer on the house we bought and we very aggressive with trying to sell our house meaning we lowered the price a lot because we wanted to get into the new area before the school year started and it worked out for everyone but there is no way we would have kept going into the house we bought - We went in two times the day we first saw it - the day of inspection and then I think the walk through - that was it. The person that bought ours came by a few times - once was a surprise visit but I was happy because we talked about a few things that his realtor said he wanted that he didn't. His realtor would say one thing when he wanted something else and vise versa. I know on our end messages didn't get relayed either which would have saved the previous owners some stress and work. Our original offer from the people we bought the house from was a 45 day escrow and we ended up moving in right on time.

I have to say though that I am not sure I would agree to a contingency sale if/when we put this house up for sale. I watched a lot in our old neighborhood fall through. I know we had so many days to sell the house and if we didn't the people we bought from could start showing again and the deal would just go away - we really wanted the house and we made sure they knew we really wanted it. Thank goodness it all worked out. Houses sell with contingencies to sell all the time - I hope yours works out but I would say you have been more than accommodating - I would say no more visits until the contingencies are removed and then just maybe one quick visit but that should be when you are almost out of the house anyways. Good luck I hope the deal goes through or someone else buys it and you don't have too much more drama. In the best case scenarios selling and buying a house is hard and stressful.