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To expect this NOT to happen when viewing a house for sale..

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harrigran Mon 14-Aug-17 16:19:39

This must be more common than I thought. I went to view a house with DS and DIL and the DD of the house was in bed but lady told us to feel free to walk into the teenager's room. We later heard that lady was selling under duress from husband as they were in the process of divorcing and she hoped the house wouldn't sell.

Deedaa Mon 14-Aug-17 16:13:00

I suppose that they may have thought it would cause less disruption for the tenants to have all the viewings done at once rather than people turning up day after day.

travelsafar Mon 14-Aug-17 12:07:41

i certainky would not rent from someone like this.Shows no respect for human dignity!!!! Shocking behaviour IMO

maryeliza54 Mon 14-Aug-17 12:04:28

Iam - if the owner is having problems getting the tenants to leave, surely he has legal avenues to go through. What he is doing at the moment with an apparently seriously ill woman could be construed as harassment under the law. It sounds awful but of course we don't know the full story

Stansgran Mon 14-Aug-17 11:26:31

We were once shown round a house by the owner(?) who showed us a bedroom with someone asleep in bed. He said it was his mother and she was dying. Embarrassed and shocked to say the least.

Witzend Mon 14-Aug-17 10:49:38

All other matters aside, can you be sure the house is being sold with vacant possession? Can you be sure that the tenants would have left, and you wouldn't have an awful lot of headaches gaining possession?

Having said that, I have a rental property and I wouldn't dream of expecting my tenants to put up with viewings in what is their home - sundry strangers traipsing all over it - until after they would have left.

Iam64 Sun 13-Aug-17 13:29:08

Horrible but - is it possible the owner has been trying to get these tenants to leave and all attempts have failed, hence putting the house up for sale.
Don't shoot me please - I've seen some awful landlords, some excellent landlords. Same with tenants, some of who deliberately destroy fixtures and fittings then leave owing months of rent.

Moneyboss Sat 12-Aug-17 17:51:18

That's awful. Whatever the reason for the mass viewings, things should have been organised in such a way as to be sympathetic to the tenants.

glammanana Sat 12-Aug-17 17:21:56

How awful for the tenant,are we sure that the couple on the sofa with the dog lived there or where they in the property to support the poorly lady,either way it is a dispicable arrangement the things EAs will do to secure the sale of a property,open house viewing is getting more and more popular but most EA stagger the viewing times and arrange for any offers to be presented over the few days following.

Riverwalk Sat 12-Aug-17 16:04:34

As I understand it, tenants don't even have to agree to any viewings.

This sounds an awful scenario - poor tenants.

Kateykrunch Sat 12-Aug-17 15:18:09

Harrigan, neither senario, we arn't and he isn't.

paddyann Sat 12-Aug-17 14:36:20

selling a property is one of the few reasons you can ask a tenant to leave ,you cant just throw people out nowadays even if they owe you a fortune in rent

harrigran Sat 12-Aug-17 14:09:13

I might be missing the point but why would you buy a house with a sitting tenant ? Or is the landlord expecting the tenant to die and leave the property vacant ?

DameJudyClench Sat 12-Aug-17 14:01:50

Good grief! - that's appalling! shock

NanaandGrampy Sat 12-Aug-17 13:55:36

That's appalling. When we arranged mass viewing the rules ( as set by the agent) were one family at a time, and taken round each room by the agent.

That sounds awful and if I was the tenant I'd be lodging some complaints .

paddyann Sat 12-Aug-17 13:50:23

What kind of landlord would put a tenant with cancer through that? And what kind of estate agent would agree to it? Its totally unacceptable in my book and we are landlords.He knows the tenant is ill and her family wont leave her on her own yet he parades 20 people through her HOME .Shocking,I'd be letting both the the agent and the landlord know exactly what I think of them ,in no uncertain terms.

Kateykrunch Sat 12-Aug-17 13:44:17

We are bungalow hunting, were were told by the Estate Agent that as the property had a tenant in and due to there being a lot of interest they would do a mass viewing this morning at 11am. When we got there, there were around 20 other people milling around on the driveway. The rep let everyone inside and around the exterior of the property. We went inside, into the lounge where a man and woman were sat on the sofa and chair, the woman was holding a little dog, she said the dog was a little scared of all the people, obviously they were the tenants, I thought, I wonder why they didnt just go out for an hour. We continued our look around, my hubby poked his head into a bedroom and someone said to him, its okay, you can come in and look round! (She was naked on the bed lol, she wasn't I just couldn't resist sorry). As I was about to enter, hubby is scuttling out and says, there is someone in bed, to which the voice says, its okay come and look round, I am just poorly!, I didnt go in, I thought it really inappropriate and on leaving, I said to the rep. there is someone ill in bed in that room, he said, yes I know, she has Cancer! I can see now that that is why the tenants may not have gone out. If the viewings needed to go ahead rather than being cancelled, I think it would have been acceptable to just explain that, that room was off limits at that time. I really can't quite believe it.