# Would you let a potential buyer spend the night in your home? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 2, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143 "2013-02-02T20:49:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143/21 "2013-02-03T01:54:39Z")
Depends. Is the house haunted? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143/22 "2013-02-03T01:59:04Z")
Not only no, but hell no. Come visit in the evening, morning or afternoon. But after an hour, get the fuck out. ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143/23 "2013-02-03T02:00:15Z")
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**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143/24 "2013-02-03T02:47:42Z")
Are they going to sleep in my bed? Yuck. Nope, not gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143/25 "2013-02-03T03:33:48Z")
Is the buyer Anne Hathaway or Natalie Portman? I’m sure we could come to some arrangement in that case. Um, there’s just the one bed, of course. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143/26 "2013-02-04T01:38:37Z")
Having been lied to without compunction while place shopping, I would consider it if I felt the buyers were legit. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143/27 "2013-02-04T18:25:07Z")
Not unless I knew them very well, and trusted them of course. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143/28 "2013-02-04T18:40:24Z")
Anytime after closing takes place, sure. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143/29 "2013-02-04T19:09:03Z")
Friend told a story about a condo that he bought in an urban area. He and his wife asked if they could come over on a weekend evening to see what it was like at that hour. The seller hesitated, and asked for more specifics. Friend said they would come over, drink wine, and leave by 11 pm. The seller immediately agreed. Things seemed OK, so they bought the place. They quickly found out about the loud after-hours club that got going around 1 or 2 in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143/30 "2013-02-08T03:19:37Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > Hell no. I’m iffy if they can even come in and look around. This. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-a-potential-buyer-spend-the-night-in-your-home/649143.md?page=1)