Inappropriate Things to Do When You Are a Potential Buyer Walking Through a Stranger's Home

I am posting this because I want to teach you all how to appropriately househunt. Actually I'm sure you all are polite, courteous people when walking through a home you may possibly buy and wouldn't trash or make a mess in someone's bathroom while you are househunting...especially when the owners are in the backyard! (What you are about to read are true events...no exaggeration...)

First Rule of Househunting: If you bring your small children along, please make sure they are well behaved. Do not let them touch a stranger's toys or pour water in them or pee or juice or whatever that was...(I found Chase's shopping cart moved from where I usually park it and filled with at least in inch of water or some kind of liquid...why are you touching my child's toys and pouring liquid in them and where did you even get a liquid from??)

Second Rule of Househunting: You do NOT own the house yet even if you did make an offer and you certainly do NOT own the things in it, so please respect the things in the house and do NOT touch! (I guess the people just let their young kids make themselves at home in Chase's playroom while they looked through the house, it was much messier than it previously had been and I truly do not apreciate strangers whose hands have been who knows where touching any of my stuff! Who knows what else those kids went through, they were here awhile)

Third Rule of Househunting: Again you do not OWN the house yet, so if you need to use the bathroom, it is very polite to ask the homeowner first, I would have gladly obliged. And if your daughter has a poo mess upstairs in my house and runs to the bathroom, takes off her own diaper/underwear full of poo and continues to poo in the toilet, it is always polite to flush the mess down the toilet, not leave it. In fact, you should be watching what your child is doing when you are in a stranger's house and be aware that she has run into the bathroom to make a mess of it. And when we smell poo all throughout the downstairs of our house (oh it was soo foul, worse than any of Chase's diapers) and hear water running for a full 5 minutes, please don't just rush out of the house with your daughter and say "Thank you, I'm sorry, my daughter is learning about poop." Own up to what happened and just tell us so I know what needs to be cleaned and dont forget to FLUSH THE TOILET!!!


I don't have any ill-will towards these people, I was just utterly shocked by their behavior. I thought it was rude to let their children play with all of Chase's toys and rude to not explain what kind of mess happened in our bathroom and rude not to clean it up a little and flush the toilet. And rude to let that foul smell permeate the majority of our house rather than turn on the fan! I am peeved that now I have to scrub the entire bathroom. I am peeved that Jason had to call our real estate agent to find out exactly what happened. We didn't know if she pooed on the floor in Chase's playroom, if she touched it or got poo on any of his toys. We had no idea what learning about poo meant!

I am sick of letting weird people walk through our house all the time. I curse the economy for being so bad that we have to sell our house. I want to stay, I want to stay so bad and I continue to pray for a loan modification instead. All we ever needed was a lower interest rate!! But if we have to go, I guess we are meant to go elsewhere. I just pray that next time we buy a house, we are there for a long long time and I don't have to put up with strange, inconsiderate people walking through it all the time.

Thank you for listening to my ranting and raving. I hope you can understand and I hope you never act like that or let your kids act like that when looking at homes.