Top 10 Reasons You Should Not Take Your Children With You When Househunting
Families naturally want to be with a buyer when they are ready to find a new home. Parents can be very supportive, but there are some who believe that if their baby buys a home, they’ll lose them forever. Those parents do whatever it takes to scare and intimidate a buyer.
Besides parents and in-laws, children may be the other biggest impediment of a house-search. If you must bring the kids, here are some tips about making the trip easier. However, here are my Top 10 “Reasons You Should Not Take Your Children With You when Househunting.”
- A decision as important as buying a home needs your undivided attention.
- The seller may feel very uncomfortable about children running through their home, especially if they have pets.
- The Realtor feels great stress when your child(ren) touch and pick-up everything.
- Children have to make frequent bathroom stops (Every ten minutes is too often!).
- Sometimes they don’t make it to the bathroom stop.
- When you have a teenager with a cell phone, the constant beeping of incoming text messages will drive one nuts.
- When you have a teenager without a cell phone, the constant haranguing about turning the radio UP is nerve-wracking (not to mention the lyrics which make one say, “What did he say?” or “Did he just say what I think he said?”).
- The temper tantrums can induce a migraine for your Realtor!
- The spills in your Realtor’s car don’t easily clean (soured milk in the heat is not a pretty smell).
- It’s not fair to the children to force them to sit in a closed space for hours and hours.
Leave the next generation with a babysitter when you tour homes! And here’s what you CAN DO to help make the at-home kiddos feel more comfortable about moving.
