When you visit an open house...

[Anonymous]

I took a dump at an open house to make sure the plumbing worked right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Do agents enforce the
"thank you for removing your shoes" request?

....or is that unheard of?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Do agents enforce the
"thank you for removing your shoes" request?

In the last 6 years I've probably toured over 100 homes and its never been enforced. In fact sometimes I start to take them off and the agent says, "oh, you don't need to do that!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's probably just a habit to turn off lights before exiting a room. I'm sure they are not doing it to purposely annoy you.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ITA regarding the children. It is not your house, after all.

What I don't like is when you are selling a home and the agent insists on an open house even though you don't really need one.

We all know the purpose of open houses is for the agent to drum up business.

I know people say this, but as someone who has bought TWO houses as a result of seeing them at open houses, I would not sell my house without doing at least one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Do agents enforce the
"thank you for removing your shoes" request?

We've gone to lots of open houses over the years and I have seen this enforced a couple of times. Once or twice we were asked to put on those blue shoe cover things. It's slightly annoying, but once I'm there it's not like I'm going to turn around and go home because I had to take off or cover my shoes. And actually, I guess it does sort of give you the impression that the owners take good care of their home.

[Anonymous]

If I were buying a house, I would hope that all the others going through said home would TAKE THEIR DAMN SHOES OFF.

[Anonymous]

It would never occur to me to insist that others take off an article of clothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did an open house today, and I wish the only thing people did was turn off lights. How about asking before you use the bathroom and then leave the toilet seat up and a towel thrown in the sink or change your baby's diaper in the rec room and leave the smelly old diaper in the basement laundry room trash can. Don't even get me started on controlling your children.

Yes this is a PSA from a PISSED agent.

Calm the F down. I think you might be in the wrong profession. If you are selling in family neighborhood, people are going to bring kids to the open house. if you don't want that, don't have one. God forbid you should do any actual work to earn your 6%.

hey, I have two kids, when we bought our home they were 18 months and 4 yr old. we dragged them to tons of open houses and even just houses opened by our agent for us, so I am definitely not a kid hater. the behavior described by the agent above is outrageous. changing a dirty diaper in somebody else's house, which has be open to you only to let you see it if you are interested in buying it, is incredibly unpolite. a diaper change can always wait for 5 minutes, and you can always change it in the car, AFTER the open house. but leaving the dirty and smelly diaper inside the trash can is simply unacceptable. this is has nothing to do with selling in a family neighborhood. having a family and kids is not equivalent to be lacking basic manners and respect for others

[Anonymous]

I turn the lights off in a room when I leave it out of habit, but I have no trouble leaving them on during an open house. I do turn them off to see how much natural light the room gets, but I turn them back on.

Using the toilet??? Um, when you gotta go, you gotta go. I'm sure you would prefer that I let my 3yo use your toilet rather than let her pee on your floor. I wait until I get home, but my child does not have that sort of control yet. We've toured so many houses now that I even carry tissues with me because many of the vacant homes have no toilet paper in them.

I have also changed my 1yo's diaper in houses I've toured, but the dirty diaper always leaves with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow PP, you really think that it's okay to leave a dirty diaper in someone else's house, or place of business? I've made it through diapers with two kids and have never done that.

Guess you didn't go house hunting with poopy kids then....twice even. ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Do agents enforce the
"thank you for removing your shoes" request?

More importantly, who are the idiots who walk in with shoes right past the "Thank you for removing shoes" sign?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Do agents enforce the
"thank you for removing your shoes" request?

In the last 6 years I've probably toured over 100 homes and its never been enforced. In fact sometimes I start to take them off and the agent says, "oh, you don't need to do that!"

You've toured over a 100 houses with this type of sign?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow PP, you really think that it's okay to leave a dirty diaper in someone else's house, or place of business? I've made it through diapers with two kids and have never done that.

Guess you didn't go house hunting with poopy kids then....twice even. ok.

Not PP but we did. Just because your kid is poopy doesn't mean you have to leave the poopy diaper in someone else's fucking house. Get your shit together, literally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow PP, you really think that it's okay to leave a dirty diaper in someone else's house, or place of business? I've made it through diapers with two kids and have never done that.

Guess you didn't go house hunting with poopy kids then....twice even. ok.

Not PP but we did. Just because your kid is poopy doesn't mean you have to leave the poopy diaper in someone else's fucking house. Get your shit together, literally.

But they provided a trash can. It's not like I left it in the basement or anything.