Is it too much to ask?

Those are my observations too Allen!!! Not its not too much to ask, just common courtesy

Alan:

It's clearly not common courtesy to leave things as you found them when touring homes, and I don't think it's just buyers.  Here's hoping you will have a contract very soon with all that activity.

Jeff

Good morning, Alan... that's how I was trained some 30 years ago, as well... to leave a home exactly as I found it. Fortunately, I don't come across this problem very often. The biggest problem I find is that agents leave homes without making certain all the doors are locked.

As a certified professional facilitator, trainer and speaker I was always told to leave the room as you found it. For me that meant cleaning up tables, pushing in chairs to making sure the sink if one was available not filled with trash. I agree, I have had close exterior doors, lock doors, etc.  Again this returns to the Code of Ethics. Thank you for sharing this post and hopefully it should be featured.

Good morning Alan,

No it is not to much to ask and should be the norm..leave the house like you found it. I'm appalled at the number of agents who forget to lock the doors!! Really..in this day and age that isn't the first thing you check upon leaving the house you just showed.

Apparently for some people, it is too much to ask. The disregard for other people that we see every day is sometimes appalling.

I ask if they want me to turn off lights, some sellers do and some don't.  And I always check behind buyers to make sure things are put back like they were (doors locked, windows closed, blinds closed etc)  That's the way I was instructed by my broker.

Hi Alan- No, it's NOT too much to ask!!!  I saw your response to Nina Hollander, Broker and would understand why you locked the door. I was on a consultation once and the seller and I found laundry in what had been a never-used washing machine. We never did figure that one out. 

Oh my gosh, it should just be a no brainer to leave things as they were. If you open a door to look inside, close it. If the doors were locked, relock them. If you knock something over, pick it up.

It is not too much to ask.

If there are no specific instructions given, I will normally leave a house how I found it or in a lot of instances leave it how it should be, haha.

Hi,

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Hi Alan,
It is not too much to ask but, as you know, Common sense and common courtesy are not all that common these days.