Has anyone ever showed prospective buyers around their home? I did it for about a month earlier in the year when I put my cottage on the market as I thought maybe a little rapport may aid the selling process.
I ended up feeeling violated in the end .
Here are some of the choice coments:
"The ceilings are too low, how can I possibly hold my zumba classes in here?"
"Eeewww...Rats! I'm not living here!" (on seeing my humane rat trap in the shed)
"Too close to the road" (it's a minor b-road 1/4 a mile away)
"I don't like that pond, the children could drown (addressing her husband & ignoring me)"
"Garden's too small. I'll have to buy the field behind to even consider living here"
"Those houses opposite look like council houses"
I'd also add that all the above comments were from prospective buyers from London. Smug middle class downshifter types who obviously have their own idea of what living in the countryside is all about that doesn't quite translate into reality.
People from elsewhere were generally complementary and polite oddly though.
Did accept an offer but it all fell through after 3 months of dicking around.
To be honest, I never actually found a place nice enough to justify getting in hock as much as I'd need to in order to be able to buy it so I've now taken it off the market & am getting a 2 storey extension built instead.
My other worry was buying somewhere & finding all the neighbours were like the people who made the comments above. Prefer the people in the council houses opposite to be honest.
I ended up feeeling violated in the end .
Here are some of the choice coments:
"The ceilings are too low, how can I possibly hold my zumba classes in here?"
"Eeewww...Rats! I'm not living here!" (on seeing my humane rat trap in the shed)
"Too close to the road" (it's a minor b-road 1/4 a mile away)
"I don't like that pond, the children could drown (addressing her husband & ignoring me)"
"Garden's too small. I'll have to buy the field behind to even consider living here"
"Those houses opposite look like council houses"
I'd also add that all the above comments were from prospective buyers from London. Smug middle class downshifter types who obviously have their own idea of what living in the countryside is all about that doesn't quite translate into reality.
People from elsewhere were generally complementary and polite oddly though.
Did accept an offer but it all fell through after 3 months of dicking around.
To be honest, I never actually found a place nice enough to justify getting in hock as much as I'd need to in order to be able to buy it so I've now taken it off the market & am getting a 2 storey extension built instead.
My other worry was buying somewhere & finding all the neighbours were like the people who made the comments above. Prefer the people in the council houses opposite to be honest.
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