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Post by cmpeter on May 28, 2024 2:03:48 GMT
These aren't for the easily annoyed.
We have our house listed. Just this past week:
- agent messes up and books the wrong day. The cats and I head out of the house for an hour for nothing
- customers come and try and open the door to get in to see the house without an agent (happened twice)
- agent shows up 45 minutes before their appointment without any notification
- agent leaves the house with sliding glass doors open, key in the lock, open lock box and her water bottle laying on the porch
- someone who came to see the house let their dog walk all over our sofa (we could see little paw prints)
- someone who came to see the house let their kids play our piano...not a super big deal (we could hear it on the Ring doorbell when the wife stepped out on the front porch to video the front yard.)
Luckily there were more together agents and showings. We did have to disclose that our Ring captures video. Some of the snippets of conversations we picked up were interesting. :-)
Send good selling vibes please!
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Post by leannec on May 28, 2024 2:46:40 GMT
People are self entitled idiots.  I was married to a realtor for 24 years and he would never do the things you mentioned ... he is a complete professional ... some definitely are not  Selling a house is so stressful ... I did it a year and a half ago ... we had it staged ... if someone had a dog on the furniture I would have really been steamed!  I hope you get a great offer soon! |
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Post by valincal on May 28, 2024 2:58:32 GMT
Ugh! Hope you have a speedy sale.
We sold our home in Palm Springs a couple of years ago, and it was shocking to see the condition of the house when I went there after the sale. We were in Canada and just left it in the hands of our realtor, but I had just stayed there a couple of months prior. For one thing, my golf clubs (in the garage) had been dumped out of the bag and were dented. 🤔 There was a giant cockroach roaming around the kitchen, and one of the bathrooms (with an exterior door) had about an inch of sand/dirt on the floor. One of the kitchen cupboards was practically ripped off the hinges!
I have to say it made leaving it a lot easier. That coupled with the fact that we bought and sold at the right time and got a good price for it. 😄
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Post by ~summer~ on May 28, 2024 3:14:56 GMT
I feel for you.
We are listing our house - but we have moved out and it is fully staged…so we won’t have to deal with any of this.
Best wishes that you get a great offer!!
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Post by tanya2 on May 28, 2024 4:21:19 GMT
I am in the middle of trying to sell my house too. And the market has stalled here so that just makes it more fun. I feel your pain!!
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Post by Darcy Collins on May 28, 2024 4:57:40 GMT
Best of luck - we sold a house with a newborn and 2 year old - fun times!
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Post by melanell on May 28, 2024 10:43:09 GMT
Ugh! People seem to forget that it's still someone else's home at the moment. It's not like they're walking through a model home or a spec home for goodness sakes. Sorry you've been dealing with nonsense like that.
Best of luck to you! I hope it sells quickly and without too much more hassle.
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Post by gramasue on May 28, 2024 12:17:05 GMT
So disrespectful! Some humans just make my head hurt. Good luck with the sale - hopefully it will be quick.
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Post by lily on May 28, 2024 12:26:51 GMT
I so agree!!! Back when we sold our first house, it was just me and the baby there and a female relator and her female customer came in. I went into the back yard to wait, and then when they left, I went back in. I was shocked to see that cupboard doors were all left open, and they actually took a curtain rod with curtain off the wall and left it laying on the bed in the babies room!
I went outside and confronted them and they got nasty saying 'you'll never sell this house if you're like that'. Well I did sell it a week later with no issues. And I was quite young at the time, first time doing this, husband deployed away.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 28, 2024 12:35:46 GMT
I have dogs and it would never, ever even occur to me to drag my dog along to look at other people’s houses.   WTH? Our kid was two when we were house hunting and I would never even set her down to walk around in the homes we toured because I didn’t want to take the remote chance of her getting into anything she shouldn’t. It’s just common sense, which sadly a lot of people don’t seem to have anymore. I would get really skeeved out by having so many randos going through my house and looking at all of our stuff. We intentionally bought a house we could age gracefully in, so hopefully this house will be our last stop. And valincal I know that feeling! Not long after my mom passed away, one of my brothers bought her house and we moved and sold our house to a different brother. We spent 20 years updating virtually every room in our cute little turn of the century 1900’s house, and you would never guess how much time, money and sweat we put into making that house nice by looking at it now.  And my mom’s house could easily be the setting of an episode of Hoarders.  It’s just sad. |
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Post by cmpeter on May 28, 2024 13:31:53 GMT
Open houses definitely freak me out. We’ve been to a few and you just wander around and there is no agent with you. At least with an agent showing a real estate agent should be paying attention to their customers.
Last night while watching tv we kept hearing a low level humming sound. Was driving us batty. Then dh noticed it was coming from our turntable. Someone had turned it on (guessing the piano playing child). The needle is completely toast.
Our agent did say she wanted to call and yell at the one who left the key in the lock, but not til after we have an offer…just in case they are considering writing one.
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Post by cmpeter on May 28, 2024 13:55:11 GMT
Good luck to the other sellers too.
We were hoping to be on the market a couple weeks ago before things started to slow for summer. But, we had a pre-inspection of our septic and found it needed some repairs. Hoping we didn’t miss the hot market.
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Post by FrozenPea on May 28, 2024 15:57:23 GMT
I am so, so glad that when we went to sell our house a friend bought it. No showings and never even hit the market. She was our real estate agent and is renting it out.
I told dh that we had to be out of the house completely when we decided to sell before putting it on the market. I have watched too many house selling shows. People laying on the bed, climbing in the tub & shower with shoes on. Ugh.
Again so glad we didn't have to go through this.
Good luck with selling your home!
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Post by MichyM on May 28, 2024 15:58:35 GMT
Sending you "sell quickly" vibes! Have you decided which side of the mountains you're moving to?
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Post by rickmer on May 28, 2024 16:23:47 GMT
I worked in RE for about 7 years, all the things you have mentioned and totally common and totally annoying. there is more, using bathroom, leaving pee in toilet and toilet seat up, JUMPING on the bed, opening closet and rifling thru personal effects/opening drawers in dressers, turning on dishwasher (which was empty) and left to run full cycle. the list goes on. most common annoyances are the messed up appointments and not locking up properly, 99% of showing instructions to agents include "please lock up carefully and leave home how you found it". but some just ignore that.  it's a process, remind yourself that hopefully, it will be over soon, and this will all be in your rearview mirror. |
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Post by mikklynn on May 28, 2024 16:41:33 GMT
I took a risk and bought my townhouse with a mortgage, before listing my paid off house. So, house was completely empty when I listed it. I did it that way because I didn't have a firm close date on my new build townhouse. I couldn't risk being homeless by selling my house, then having a delay in construction. That happened to many of my new neighbors. I'm so glad I could make that work! I never went back into my house after it hit the market, until the day before closing when I walked through with the buyer and our agents. I hope you sell quickly, cmpeter! All of the things you said would have made me really mad. |
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Post by Ryann on May 28, 2024 16:46:15 GMT
I'm sure at one point I had a story to share but no longer remember.  Good luck on selling your house and picking the next one! |
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on May 28, 2024 18:37:40 GMT
We moved into our new home before listing the old one this last time and I’ll never do it any other way again.
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Post by cmpeter on May 28, 2024 21:35:31 GMT
I would have loved to move out first…but, financially that wouldn’t work for us. Unless you buy new construction, you pretty much need an all cash offer, people are not taking contingencies and all cash wins over a mortgage.
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Post by ~summer~ on May 28, 2024 22:04:14 GMT
I would have loved to move out first…but, financially that wouldn’t work for us. Unless you buy new construction, you pretty much need an all cash offer, people are not taking contingencies and all cash wins over a mortgage. how are you going to time finding a new house? Last time, and this time we moved into a rental so we can sell and take our time finding a new place. Our house isn’t going on the market for another couple weeks (we are doing so much work in it) - I really hope we do my time it wrong! Things seem to be pretty good here. |
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Post by scraplette on May 28, 2024 22:06:06 GMT
Good vibes for a quick and easy sale!
This must be my senior-citizen get-off-my-lawn moment. Who in their right mind takes a non-service dog into a home showing?
I don’t care how adorable your dog is, that’s just wrong.
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Post by cmpeter on May 29, 2024 1:24:18 GMT
We are staying on this side. Not sure if we'll go North or South though...we've seem some great houses in both areas.
We are planning to go into a rental first. We want to take our time and have some very specific things that are deal breakers. We would like this to be our last home.
We've been in our current house for 18 years. There are things we love and things we hate about this place.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 29, 2024 2:59:28 GMT
I worked in RE for about 7 years, all the things you have mentioned and totally common and totally annoying. there is more, using bathroom, leaving pee in toilet and toilet seat up, JUMPING on the bed, opening closet and rifling thru personal effects/opening drawers in dressers, turning on dishwasher (which was empty) and left to run full cycle. the list goes on. most common annoyances are the messed up appointments and not locking up properly, 99% of showing instructions to agents include "please lock up carefully and leave home how you found it". but some just ignore that. it's a process, remind yourself that hopefully, it will be over soon, and this will all be in your rearview mirror. What the hell is wrong with people? I could see looking in closets to see the size, or turning on a faucet to check water pressure, but I would never in a million years use the restroom, jump on someone’s bed or go through their dresser drawers. 😬😱 People are so gross and rude. |
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Post by samantha25 on May 29, 2024 3:01:54 GMT
We found a bunch of "used" sunflower seeds in the basement. Guess they couldn't spit them out in their cup or trash. This was last year when we sold our home.
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Post by cmpeter on May 29, 2024 13:46:09 GMT
Eww. That’s so gross.
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WTH? Our kid was two when we were house hunting and I would never even set her down to walk around in the homes we toured because I didn’t want to take the remote chance of her getting into anything she shouldn’t. It’s just common sense, which sadly a lot of people don’t seem to have anymore.
And my mom’s house could easily be the setting of an episode of Hoarders. 
It’s just sad.
Good luck on selling your house and picking the next one!
