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Selling your house - how did you handle inconvenient appt times?

Were there instances where you turned down showing someone your house? I want to be accommodating and get as many people in as possible but I just got a call to show our house tonight at 8pm. The girls usually go to sleep at 8:30 so this will screw up our routine a bit?. I approved this appointment (that makes 3 today!) but I?m not sure I can keep up with it. Would you have taken the appointment, or asked that they reschedule for an earlier time? 

Re: Selling your house - how did you handle inconvenient appt times?

  • When my realtor sends me MLS listings, there are often notes like "please give x hour notice because of dogs" or no showings after x o'clock. So maybe the realtor can update your listing with a note like this so that it won't happen again.

     Personally, I would never ask to tour a home so late but that is me. But then again, our realtor had people who insisted she take them out on Christmas Eve and at 8:00am on the 26th. So some people really don't take into consideration others time.

  • Like Kris said, our listing said no showings after 7pm.  I would ask your Realtor to put some restriction in your MLS listing.  I had no problem in telling our agent that a time did not work for us and asking her to work with the buyer's agent to get something more mutually agreeable.  I hope you sell it quickly and won't have to deal with this for very long!
  • We requested 24 hours notice but we tried to honor all requests.  It's hard when you have small kids.  Selling our house was one of the most stressful things I've ever had to do.  We had several showings a month for a year before our house sold.  We did ask a couple people if they could come and hour sooner or later than their requested time.   
     
  • So we better get an offer bc these people JUST left - it's 9:25pm!!! My kids are so cranky.
  • I never said no to an appointment time. It was very inconvenient, with a kid and a dog, but I wanted to sell my house so I put up with it.
    "Never go with a hippie to a second location." ~ Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
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    I never said no to an appointment time. It was very inconvenient, with a kid and a dog, but I wanted to sell my house so I put up with it.

    This.  Although we did have a 24 hour notice request on the MLS listing because of the dogs/Eleni.  I worked at home a lot to accommodate showings. and even rushed home one afternoon to get them out of the house before a second showing.  We had a few nights where we were forced into eating dinner out- or ones that messed up bedtime. But we wanted to sell. And were willing to do whatever we could to assist in that happening.

  • ak111ak111 member
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    We had a lot of missed nap times in the beginning due to Saturday and Sunday afternoon showings and did have to eat dinner out more than usual.  One day I had to go home from work at lunchtime and bring my dog back to the office with me (she was a nervous wreck in my office so it was kind of a pain).  We never turned down a showing although I may have considered it if people wanted to come that late at night, especially on a weeknight.  Then again, we had a ton of showings in the beginning and now have had only ONE showing in the last 2 months, so at this point even if someone wanted to come at 2AM, I would probably say yes...

    ETA:  We did ask for the 24 hour notice too although we didn't always get it.


     
    -Abbey
  • This is exactly why I said no showings after 7 and 24 hours notice.  I hope you get an offer as well! We interrupted one showing as well because we had to get DS to bed.  I wanted to sell the house, but not so badly that I would throw our entire schedule off.  My 2?. 
    imageSPonchette:
    So we better get an offer bc these people JUST left - it's 9:25pm!!! My kids are so cranky.
  • Sounds like from your above post you won't have to worry about this too much  longer.  Fingers crossed that one of the two offers are ageeable.
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  • Our realtor wouldn't schedule anything past 7:30-7:45 b/c of the kids.

    The only appointment we had to push back on was one that wanted to come during nap time the day of Lanna's dance recital. We just had to get Wes's nap in or he would've been unbearable and there was too much going on, so we pushed it earlier (and they still came late).

     

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