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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nightmare!  I put my house on the market several years ago.  I gave the agent instructions that no showings would be possible until a certain date to give me time to relocate my dog (a Lab) to my fiancé's house several hours away.  One Saturday morning my dog and I went for a run in the rain.  When we got back to the house I gave him a bath in my tub and then got in to take a shower.  Doorbell rings.  Dog is running through the house wiping his stinky wet dog body on everything, and I'm naked in the shower with the door open.  I turn off the water and hear voices entering the house.  I yell that it's not a good time, and they leave, but only after the agent asks 10 questions about when they can come back.  Another time I cleared out of the house before a scheduled showing.  The last thing I did before leaving was put a small amount of dirty laundry in the washer.  Upon my return I found that I had dropped a pair of underwear on the stairway landing, in the middle of the landing- not discretely balled up in a dark corner.  I think I cried when I found it.  Those people probably thought I was some kind of pervert, which didn't help my chances of selling quickly.[/quote]
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Why would you put your house on the market and have it accessible to agents when you're not ready to show it?[/b]

OP, you should have a bag ready to go with little toys, books, etc. that you can grab and take your daughter to Starbucks or something when people show up to look at the place. [/quote]

Well, gee, I guess I was naive to trust the sellers' agent when she told me there would be no showings until I gave the go-ahead.  Did I not indicate such in my post?[/quote]

you were not vaive, you were irrational. you do not put a house for sale if you cannot show it. as a buyer, if I see a house for sale but I cannot go in to see it, what would I think? that there is a major last moment problem that the seller is trying to hide/fix in a rush. wait until you are ready to show and then put your house up for sale. that simple[/quote]

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