Allowing Buyer Access To Your Home Before Closing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Change your wifi password and require your agent to supervise them throughout their presence (meaning your agent commits to follow them around and not leave them or their contractora alone in your house) and they get one visit, they have to coordinate everything then or they can wait until you move out. Your agent wants the sale your agent can ensure nothing of yours is touched this time.

I would be pissed off about the drawer and the fingerprints. OP does not need to sell, the buyers are demanding and inconsiderate.

Yes, give them one more day with your agent accompanying them. Tell them that the dumped drawers and fingerprints are the reason for that. That is their chance to measure whatever they want to measure, etc. If that can't be agreed to then they will have to wait. It is still your home.

Change your WiFi password, they don't need that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I would allow it. When we bought our home I did not trust the builder, so I did the last walk through to make sure the toilets weren't clogged with wet cement, etc., while my husband finished the closing. He didn't finalize the closing until I gave the all clear. The builder had a nasty habit of not paying his subcontractors. They would take revenge by pouring cement into the toilets, dismantling electronics, trashing whatever they could. The subs had keys. Under VA law (well at least then) the subs could place a lien against the house for any unpaid bills and the owner then becomes responsible. We forced the builder to buy us an insurance policy against unpaid sub liens. We had enough evidence to know his standard practice even though this was before email, yelp, etc. He went bankrupt.

Why would you buy a house from someone like this? You sound like the dumb party here.

[Anonymous]

You have no legal obligation to let buyers in after they make the offer. The time for tire kicking is done until the inspection or appraisal. It's nice of you to let people in, but these people are taking advantage. The wifi thing is just ridiculous and the drawers are grounds for an ass whuppin'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the big deal? We just sold our house and let the new buyers come in a number of times to measure for drapes, etc. who cares?

Imagine if someone trips and falls? Cuts themselves? Etc. Lawsuit comes to mind.

The "me me me" attitude of the responses here tell me what I already knew - people in this area are very self-centered. Once you close and get the key, THEN you go about measuring for drapes, etc. Until that point? It's till SOMEONE ELSE'S home.

[Anonymous]

I have seen too much price-fixing in my area to trust agents. Agents want to sell homes and some are totally unscrupulous in the way they go about it. "Building good will" is code for "I don't want to lose the sale".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

Don't if you don't want to. But saying you allowed access for home inspection makes it sound like you did them a favor. You didn't, it's part of the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Change your wifi password and require your agent to supervise them throughout their presence (meaning your agent commits to follow them around and not leave them or their contractora alone in your house) and they get one visit, they have to coordinate everything then or they can wait until you move out. Your agent wants the sale your agent can ensure nothing of yours is touched this time.

I would be pissed off about the drawer and the fingerprints. OP does not need to sell, the buyers are demanding and inconsiderate.

Yes, give them one more day with your agent accompanying them. Tell them that the dumped drawers and fingerprints are the reason for that. That is their chance to measure whatever they want to measure, etc. If that can't be agreed to then they will have to wait. It is still your home.

Change your WiFi password, they don't need that.

This is, at most, what I would do. Although as a buyer, I can't imagine asking for a favor like this. The house is yours when the house is yours.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone ever pay attention to dates around here?

This was posted 3 years ago. OP is likely long gone. Then it was revived for some reason in February and again this weekend. Why do people revive old threads? Just ask a new question because all the quotes and responses are falling on deaf ears - literally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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).

Good use of the word theory. Makes you sound smart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone ever pay attention to dates around here?

This was posted 3 years ago. OP is likely long gone. Then it was revived for some reason in February and again this weekend. Why do people revive old threads? Just ask a new question because all the quotes and responses are falling on deaf ears - literally.

Are you the same person who complains about people who start new threads when one already existed? Let it go - someone searched and found this and instead of starting a new one piggy-backed onto existing.

[Anonymous]

We are sellling our parents home. The home they built, cared for, loved and we grew up in. It is a gem and the buyers should be thrilled. We appreciate their quick offer, settled on a price. All the inspections were done, and went well. We allowed them to bring family through over the holidays so they could see. Currently waiting for closing. Our realtor staff told their realtor they could bring in someone regarding flooring, without asking us. Even though no one is living at the house, we find it distressing and emotional to us that we were not asked until after she said they could. This implies they are going to come in and "tear" up something. We view the home as perfect as it is; it is to destroy something our parents lovingly selected. The home is beautiful as is. We understand they are excited, but it is distressing to us that someone felt they could allow this without asking us and we asked if they can respect us and refrain until after the sale; hopefully within the next couple of weeks. We are still the owners and wish to continue to honor our parents and their home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are sellling our parents home. The home they built, cared for, loved and we grew up in. It is a gem and the buyers should be thrilled. We appreciate their quick offer, settled on a price. All the inspections were done, and went well. We allowed them to bring family through over the holidays so they could see. Currently waiting for closing. Our realtor staff told their realtor they could bring in someone regarding flooring, without asking us. Even though no one is living at the house, we find it distressing and emotional to us that we were not asked until after she said they could. This implies they are going to come in and "tear" up something. We view the home as perfect as it is; it is to destroy something our parents lovingly selected. The home is beautiful as is. We understand they are excited, but it is distressing to us that someone felt they could allow this without asking us and we asked if they can respect us and refrain until after the sale; hopefully within the next couple of weeks. We are still the owners and wish to continue to honor our parents and their home.

If they're just bringing someone in to measure for new floors--that's not a big deal. While you likely love the floors you grew up with, they may not fit the needs of a young family today.

But a hard no to doing any work on the house whatsoever until after closing. So no, they definitely cannot tear anything out before then.

[Anonymous]

If you own an older home there is new scam some of the buyers agents in Arlington are now pulling.
Put a strong offer in with no contingency- inspection for information only.
Then they ask to have an additional inspection of the fire place.
The fire place guy is in on the scam and scares the crap out of the buyer ( often a younger family). He’ll tell them that the chimney isn’t up to code and must be replaced. It will sound like that home could burn at any moment, and they send the agent back to the seller asking for money back... often to the tune of 20- 30k
Of course the chimney won’t be up to current code. The house was built fifty years ago. Most buyers are ignorant to homes and the maintenance involved.
It’s a scheme to give the buyer some leverage after the fact and bargaining in bad faith.
Do not let a buyer back in after inspection.
It’s a liability to the seller and no good can come of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are sellling our parents home. The home they built, cared for, loved and we grew up in. It is a gem and the buyers should be thrilled. We appreciate their quick offer, settled on a price. All the inspections were done, and went well. We allowed them to bring family through over the holidays so they could see. Currently waiting for closing. Our realtor staff told their realtor they could bring in someone regarding flooring, without asking us. Even though no one is living at the house, we find it distressing and emotional to us that we were not asked until after she said they could. This implies they are going to come in and "tear" up something. We view the home as perfect as it is; it is to destroy something our parents lovingly selected. The home is beautiful as is. We understand they are excited, but it is distressing to us that someone felt they could allow this without asking us and we asked if they can respect us and refrain until after the sale; hopefully within the next couple of weeks. We are still the owners and wish to continue to honor our parents and their home.

Detach yourself it's a property not a child

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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).

Your agent shouldn’t have a theory about this because he/she should have been there the whole time and witnessed whatever happened. I would have no problem providing access to the buyer because I would expect my agent to be there looking out for me. That’s part of their service unless you got a 1% one and frankly even then.