Allowing Buyer Access To Your Home Before Closing

[Anonymous]

Would you do it?

We have already allowed access for a home inspection, appraisal and so on, and of course that doesn't include multiple visits before the contract was entered into. The contract is not contingent at this point.

I think if they wanted to have a contractor come look at stuff they could have brought him along previously or closed on the property and rented the house back to us. But they didn't and they don't own it yet. Our agent keeps going on about building good will, etc., but so far they have not shown any consideration towards us. They even insisted we give them our WiFi passcode during the home inspection in case they needed to get on the internet for anything, and their inspector - or somebody - either went through or carelessly dumped out all the drawers in our nightstand and left dirty fingerprints everywhere during the inspection.

I am really not happy about being railroaded into this by my agent. What do others think? Do I really have to let them in whenever they want when they don't own it?

[Anonymous]

Stop being petty.

[Anonymous]

Hmm. In general, I would say let them, but the wifi password and the dumped drawers are too much. Let them wait.

In general for reasonable people who are just trying to coordinate a lot of big decisions (as I assume you are on your next house) I'd err on the side of generosity.

[Anonymous]

Let them. We did that- scheduled a day where we had several contractors come through. The house needed work and we needed to get it scheduled starting the day we closed.

Inspectors should not ever need to go through drawers since they don't convey. That sounds unlikely.

[Anonymous]

when we bought our house, the seller let us in a week before closing to take some measurements.

Of course, we never asked for a wif-fi password. And we certainly didn't go through any of their drawers.

But if the sellers had refused to let us in, I would've gotten suspicious and worried they were hiding something. It might have jeopardized us closing. I would have needed reassurance that they weren't hiding something.

[Anonymous]

21:53 here.

I would add. We also did a walk through the day of closing. That's pretty standard.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't have given them the wifi password.

[Anonymous]

OP here. We are moving out two weeks prior to closing but they refuse to wait to do it until then. And it is true we are coordinating a lot of things at our new house, but since we have owned it for over a year we are not burdening anyone but ourselves with requests.

Regarding the drawers, our agent's theory was that the inspector was trying to move the nightstands out of the way to look at something and dumped the drawers out in the process (and left them hanging open as well). This was her second theory, after her first theory that our kids did it didn't fly with us since we left after them in the morning and got home before them that night (and saw the drawers and e-mailed her before they got home).

[Anonymous]

OP sounds pretty mean to me...such a shame

Be happy you sold the house, the other stuff is really petty as somebody else made a similar remark. Also, counting the appraiser visit and the home inspector as "letting" the buyer is ridiculous, that's part of the selling process. Try "not letting" these in and see if you would have sold your house.

[Anonymous]

I agree with PP

[Anonymous]

We allowed the buyers to come a few times for various things - after inspection.

BUT the wifi is unnecessary and the drawer thing is weird. Different issues though than access for the buyers.

[Anonymous]

you have already moved out and the agents have the key.
so what is the real issue here?

[Anonymous]

OP here. We would have been happy not to sell our house as we did not need to and told our agent to take it off the market so we didn't have to deal with any of the sale crap before we moved out. She instead insisted on bringing this offer. We would have been thrilled not to sell it right now.

There is no financing or appraisal contingency on the contract, so no we did not have to let the appraiser in. I did not realize home inspections these days included inspecting our WiFi router, especially since that moves with us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you have already moved out and the agents have the key.
so what is the real issue here?

We have not moved out. We are moving out two weeks before closing.

[Anonymous]

If they ask again, you can insist that your listing agent accompany them so that nothing untoward happens.