Keenans Estate Agents
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Refused a second viewing
We viewed a house as first time buyers, we loved the home but as a young couple that’s never looked to purchase a house before, we had a look around briefly and then later that day put an offer in because we loved what we saw! Our offer hadn’t yet been accepted but we called to arrange another viewing to have another look around and explained that we didn’t look properly and wanted to check to see if things were working but were told that they presume things are working as it’s being lived in at the moment and if we wanted another viewing we would have to retract our offer as they want to know we’re ‘serious’ about buying. As first time buyers we weren’t sure of the process and didn’t want to miss out on the house so we stuck with our offer and didn’t view again before our offer was accepted. After speaking to a mortgage advisor, we’ve realised this isn’t standard practice and has resulted in us living in a property we aren’t entirely happy with, one of the issues being damp. If we could have had a look again with others maybe they would have been able to point out signs to us. Really unprofessional and quite upsetting for us now living in a house with problems we can’t afford to fix.