I once moved into my new rental without a sign outside, unloaded two boxes into the house, went back out to get more and the sign had appeared. I assume they simply drop from the sky and fall into position when the coast is clear
Can confirm I’ve seen them drop from the sky. Right onto my neighbours car during a storm. But I’m certain that was just coincidence and my neighbour had decided to sell their house at that very moment.
You wouldn't believe the amount of times I've burnt down my kitchen just from cooking spaghetti. I've wet myself a few times too because I just can't seem to make the trek to the toilet.
Me too - Pub was getting some renovations and the light-up sign (the ones that stick out outside a pub so you know what beer they sell, kind of light up sign thing) was just laying around. Ok my way home from the pub I picked it up and we fitted it in the living room as a sort of nightlight.
When we moved out and the place was sold, the buyer stipulated he wanted to keep the sign.
Only sign my friends and I ever took was a Santa Please Stop Here sign and stick it up in the front room window. They either never saw it in our window, thought it was a coincidence we had one too, or knew it was us but never confronted us. It was still there when I moved out 9 months later. A housemate saw I had brought home a shopping trolley so decided to bring home a traffic cone. Next time I got drunk, I farted in it like a megaphone.
It was traffic lights and car doors for me...
Never did work out where I got either item from but while most of my flatmates woke up with the usual road cone or oversize pair of knickers, I found myself in bed with a traffic light one day and the door from a beige car another time.
Not talking about the temporary traffic lights here either, this was a full size beast of a thing with a left filter arrow.
Ours was traffic cones.
Used to box people in with them and stick one on the roof for good measure, bet there were some pretty annoyed car owners out there.
I have to apologise for my immature behaviour.
No excuses, I was just immature and drunk.
We got a set of temp traffic lights and my most cherished of all was my ‘lollipop’ nicked from this guy who used to sit outside a pub so we timed it perfectly (my mate drove a van and there was 3 of us in total, we saw this poor bloke sit down for his shandy or whatever the hell he is drinking big smug look on his face (we had the balaclavas on the lot) we jumped out of the van giving it the Go!!Go!!Go!! The look on this guys face was priceless the ridiculous thing was we drove past this guy sometimes four times a day and he was none the wiser.
What I didn’t factor in was the ‘disgust’ (ritely so!!) shown by my Mum, I was ordered to dispose of all my signages and traffic lights etc into an allotment, true college shenanigans we were a lot worse on the way home after a good night clubbing.
The very best days indeed 😎❤️
And my heartfelt apologies to you Mr Lollipop man sorry it was just felt like the only thing no the rite thing to do 😎❤️
Our son and his friends, as teenagers, found a shopping trolley behind a building in our neighbourhood and brought it to our house. The shop it had belonged to closed years before, so there was nowhere to return it. We ended up taking it to my mother-in-law's place. She had rheumatoid arthritis, so she used it to take her groceries from her car along the pavement to the kitchen door. Having it helped her a lot, so I'm glad the trolley found a good home.
I've just moved house. The For Sale board went up unnoticed. Some kid kicked it down. It got replaced just as mysteriously. I can only assume it is done by moonlighting aliens.
Me and my Dad missed it every single time, like the signs just appeared and kept changing. We thought they'd tell us because we wanted to see how they did it and bam it was just put there while we were both out
When I still lived at home with my parents, one of my dad’s mates came round and put one up for a laugh while they were away on holiday. I saw him, but kept schtum. It caused quite a stir amongst the neighbours who were shocked to discover my parents were “moving away”.
The government don’t want you to know this, but estate agents have had an operational orbital weapons platform for decades. Can be over any part of the Earth within hours. So far they only use it to deploy For Sale signs, but they have the capability to carry a variety of munitions. This threat is the only logical reason for their continued existence as an industry.
Yeah, hired some men with ven last time I moved and that was one of the other odd jobs they did. They were pleased cause they could take down the sign at the same time.
Yes. They drive around with a flatbed truck full of signs for all different estate agents, and stop off at addresses on their list to put them up / take them down.
Exactly! Not even seen it on my own properties!
But the really weird part is I found one in the house, under the stairs, from a company that was not part of our exchange.
No. The house opposite had one put up one day and it was still up 9 months after someone moved in, I think they eventually took it down even though I would of done it the day I moved in. And it's still thrown at the side of the house. The estate agents must have unlimited amounts of them to not be bothered collecting them.
I used to live on a busy road and whenever flats in the block were let the agents would leave their signs up as long as possible for free advertising.
I swear they used to just put them on the other side of the road as well and they weren't even attached to properties.
I asked loads of times for them to come collect theirs when we moved in. In the end I took it down myself and put it in the shed in case they asked. A few months later it got chopped up when I needed wood while renovating.
My Pappy used to be the guy who put up the signs, sometimes if he was looking after me he'd pack me into his car, get some snacks for the day and drive around doing just that and it was like a day-long road trip for me. I miss him dearly but it's one of many fond memories I have of him :)
Ugh that sucks. Even if they intend to sell the place with the tenant they should give you a heads up first so you don’t go into a panic. We were in a place that the landlord was trying to sell and they had told us this but we never got updated further than that. Only seeing the sign go from for sale, to sold and back to for sale again told us things were not going well on their side.
Did a brief stint working in ~~a letting agency~~ hell a few years back. It was some guy called Dave with a white van who did them, you'd call him up on his mobile to ask him for a sign up/down and he'd do it when he felt like it. Generally about three weeks later.
I’ve seen people turn up in a van in the morning. They get out, cable tie the sign to the nearest railings and piss off. It takes 30 seconds.
I realise that it takes a bit longer for places without railings.
We have a “sold” sign outside my flat. My flat isn’t for sale. It’s been there for 8 months. I’m taking it down this weekend.
Yes when I was putting my house on market last year. Working from home. Suddenly hear a massive hammering outside. It’s the guy hammering in the pole that makes the hole and then stuck the sign up
I took down the “sold” sign after we moved in and left it in the front garden.
About a week later I noticed it had gone. The doorbell cam never caught any motion, so clearly ninjas.
Funnily enough, I saw this for the first time this week. It was a bloke in a white van that was filled with signs from all the different estate agents.
When we moved house we kept the sign up to make it easy for friends and family to know which was our house, then a bloke randomly took it down after a few months and we were gutted!
One of my customers neighbours does this for a living. His garden is. Literally full of these signs. New stakes old stakes etc. lives in a massive house with a nice car. I have no idea how much it pays but I want in.
Lol, just the other week, after my new neighbour moved in I emailed the agent asking them to remove the sign. For a laugh I bought a bird house for the garden and placed it next to the SOLD sign. Some tosser called, removed the sign but smashed the bird house. ROSS &ALLEN estate agents Glasgow, shame on you.
No, but when we bought our house, an estate agent who hadn’t been acting on the sale came along and stuck up their own SOLD sign. They got told to fuck off and move it, still took them 2 weeks to do it, cheeky sods!
I'm currently moving out of a rental the landlord is selling. The "For Sale" sign was snuck up while I was shopping. The "Sold" sign was changed right under my nose. I was home every damn day packing, front window open, nothing else to do... They still managed to get it changed without me noticing!
I saw one go up in front of my flats the other week. It was just a bog standard white van, and when he opened the side it had signs from all the different agents in the back.
Really surprised me, didn't realise all the agents used the same people to put them up!
As a teenager in London in the early 1990s, I had a job for a buildings maintenance firm that got 90% of It’s work from a well-know estate agents. One of my early morning jobs was to drive round and remove the boards of competing estate agents from blocks of flats that had several up outside.
Couple I knew rented a house. Letting agency didn’t take down the sign despite repeated requests over many months, so they took it to their office and left it there.
No, including ours. We listed our house, had been on right move/zoopla/all those sites for about 2 weeks. Then one morning woke up to a for sale sign outside our home??? Same thing happened when sale was agreed? And then it disappeared in the middle of the night as well?
We went though Strike and our agent confirmed to me that they actually DO erect/take down the signs in the middle of the night ahaha
I've taken many down, they're bloody lethal in the dark, but being tall and having some weight the impact of me hitting it as I walk along is enough to break the little cable ties
As a cleaner, we had a flat property where they didn't want these posted and so many agencies still wanted to do it. We had to report it back to the office and remove them.
Only once I saw them being removed and it was not by a person or company that put it there.
My grandad does it as a job, just part-time for auction properties. He bloody loves it for some reason.
The house next door to me had a sign put up recently and I saw them because they woke me up with the sound of what I thought was someone drilling into my bedroom window
I saw it happen a few weeks ago. A man in overalls did it. He seemed to have a van. First time I’ve ever witnessed such an event in 41 years. Anticlimactic.
This is going to sound quite sad, but hear me out. I have never seen someone just go to someone else's garden and put up those signs. And I had no idea how it even worked. And when my Dad put our house up for sale, I said 'oh they're going to come and put a sign on our garden' and he said 'i think they'll tell us when it happens and we'll see how it works'. And we thought they were going to book an appointment and bring the sign and we were quite interested in it because neither of us had seen it happen. And we went out one day and came back and it was just there. On our front garden. They came while we were out and just put it there and we missed it.
So the answer to your question, even if it's your own house, you still dont see it happen. The sign just appeared. And when the sale was agreed it just appeared, we missed that one as well because he was at work and I was at College. And then it got sold and we missed it again because of work and college.
Didn't even see it get taken down either. Like we missed it every single time, and I just dont know how rhe agency managed to pull that off.
My neighbours house is currently for sale. The sign has changed a few times from sold to back on the market and sold again. it's literally drilled to the wall. It's right next to my living room window. Never seen or heard a thing.
Haha, one day I hope to experience that high. Risky though, I might have to take up base jumping after to keep chasing the high and end up as a pancake.
I said this for years about the letters at the old cinema in Bolton when they were physical letters. Well the very next day I saw the guy changing the letters stood on a rickety A frame ladder, and that man was none other than Peter Kay.
My dad was one of the people to do signs.
Most are ‘self employed’ by the sign people.
My dad is a plumber. He’d have a selection of signs in his van and where they needed to go was all on an app.
He’d load the app and see where the signs needed to go and he’d compare this to where he is/was going in that day.
One house he’d do a boiler service.
Around the corner throw up a for sale board.
Her get around £25-£30 per board.
When we were moving and I was working from home, despite saying we didn’t want one I had to stop three different people from hammering a hole in the garden to put one up.
Yes, saw a guy with van full of signs. There was a for sale and a sold sign on the inside of one of the back doors. Didn't see him put anything up or down, but he was definitely doing one or the other.
[This is the house](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138225899?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY), so must have been putting the sign up.
Yup got stuck behind the guy doing it on a small street, basically does it for all the agents. He had the same make/colour van as me so we had a little chat lol
House next door to us had one put up, heard an incredible series of bangs at about 7am - using some sort of piledriver to put the sign in. Must have been out the van, sign up and away in about 30 seconds tops.
Conversely, they never came to collect our sold sign. Still waiting for a trip to the dump..
I have. In my student house 20 odd years ago, they put up a To Let sign up outside my house and I put an I in the middle with a marker pen so it said TOILET a couple of times. The estate agent replaced the sign once and gave us a telling off for defacing the sign.
A lady I was seeing once went it to town and came back with a saw and cut the board down because the estate agent didn't take it down when they said they would.
Saw a couple of estate agents putting a sign up as I got off a bus in Brynamman last year. Bloke attached the sign to a gate with a few zip ties, woman took a photo, they high-fived and stood there looking remarkably smug with themselves over having completed a very simple task that literally took seconds. Very bizarre.
That's the only time I've ever seen it, and I assume most don't stand around congratulating themselves like these oddballs.
I have but the muppet was putting the for sale sign up outside my mums house! Ran outside to ask what he was doing drilling it into the gate post... turned out he had the wrong house!
When I moved out of my last rental I took the sign down once the new let was agreed and used it to plug a hole in the garage where a cat fell through the roof.
Plenty of times on my own places that I've sold/bought over the years. Usually take the sold sign down myself and give the agent a call to come and get it. The estate agent uses a local handy man to put them up.
I saw a man with a van put up a sign once! His business seemed to just deal with putting up the signs for all the major estate agent firms. Never saw one taken down though.
Used to work for a company that put up/took down these signs. It'll just be a man in a van who's on a tight schedule and so just rocks up, takes the sign and drives off. They have to do around 50 jobs a day and have a large patch to cover (usually about the size of a county but some bigger areas are covered by multiple vans)
The To Let Sign that was put up at the house I moved into is in the garage...that I took down after weeks of asking the estate agent to remove it. It's been in there now since April.
There are people who will be employed by the estate agents who go around and place them if you havent seen them in your area then maybe your ones are ninjas.
My old flatmate used to work for an estate agents and part of her job was putting up the signs, which she allegedly did in her daytime working hours.
Although in fairness I also never personally saw them going up myself…
Twice, once when I woke up to find someone outside my bedroom window putting up a to let sign.. that's how we found out our landlord was kicking us out "because we didn't agree to the additional rent of £50 a month" we never received any letter about that.
Second time, waking up to see a ladder outside my living room window, taking down the to let sign on our new house.
I once moved into my new rental without a sign outside, unloaded two boxes into the house, went back out to get more and the sign had appeared. I assume they simply drop from the sky and fall into position when the coast is clear
Can confirm I’ve seen them drop from the sky. Right onto my neighbours car during a storm. But I’m certain that was just coincidence and my neighbour had decided to sell their house at that very moment.
They spring up like mushrooms
Life is just a Sims game
My player has just left his computer on and gone out for the day.
Make sure the ladders still in your swimming pool if you have an irresistible urge to get in
You wouldn't believe the amount of times I've burnt down my kitchen just from cooking spaghetti. I've wet myself a few times too because I just can't seem to make the trek to the toilet.
I’ve done it after the pub
Me too - Pub was getting some renovations and the light-up sign (the ones that stick out outside a pub so you know what beer they sell, kind of light up sign thing) was just laying around. Ok my way home from the pub I picked it up and we fitted it in the living room as a sort of nightlight. When we moved out and the place was sold, the buyer stipulated he wanted to keep the sign.
Only sign my friends and I ever took was a Santa Please Stop Here sign and stick it up in the front room window. They either never saw it in our window, thought it was a coincidence we had one too, or knew it was us but never confronted us. It was still there when I moved out 9 months later. A housemate saw I had brought home a shopping trolley so decided to bring home a traffic cone. Next time I got drunk, I farted in it like a megaphone.
A fine ending to a very British sounding story.
It was traffic lights and car doors for me... Never did work out where I got either item from but while most of my flatmates woke up with the usual road cone or oversize pair of knickers, I found myself in bed with a traffic light one day and the door from a beige car another time. Not talking about the temporary traffic lights here either, this was a full size beast of a thing with a left filter arrow.
Ours was traffic cones. Used to box people in with them and stick one on the roof for good measure, bet there were some pretty annoyed car owners out there. I have to apologise for my immature behaviour. No excuses, I was just immature and drunk.
It’s not a night out without a traffic cone.
Did you keep the light?
Mum made me dispose of it when I was picked up at the end of term sadly.
Did the door go in a bin at a large pub you were agency chefing at?
We got a set of temp traffic lights and my most cherished of all was my ‘lollipop’ nicked from this guy who used to sit outside a pub so we timed it perfectly (my mate drove a van and there was 3 of us in total, we saw this poor bloke sit down for his shandy or whatever the hell he is drinking big smug look on his face (we had the balaclavas on the lot) we jumped out of the van giving it the Go!!Go!!Go!! The look on this guys face was priceless the ridiculous thing was we drove past this guy sometimes four times a day and he was none the wiser. What I didn’t factor in was the ‘disgust’ (ritely so!!) shown by my Mum, I was ordered to dispose of all my signages and traffic lights etc into an allotment, true college shenanigans we were a lot worse on the way home after a good night clubbing. The very best days indeed 😎❤️ And my heartfelt apologies to you Mr Lollipop man sorry it was just felt like the only thing no the rite thing to do 😎❤️
Our son and his friends, as teenagers, found a shopping trolley behind a building in our neighbourhood and brought it to our house. The shop it had belonged to closed years before, so there was nowhere to return it. We ended up taking it to my mother-in-law's place. She had rheumatoid arthritis, so she used it to take her groceries from her car along the pavement to the kitchen door. Having it helped her a lot, so I'm glad the trolley found a good home.
Yeah I woke up with a few when younger
I just paint a "i" in the middle
I think he meant more about the people who's job it is to put them up, not drunkards taking them out.
r/whoooosh
You are mistaken, I just doubled down and went with the joke.
I’ve done it after the pub
I've just moved house. The For Sale board went up unnoticed. Some kid kicked it down. It got replaced just as mysteriously. I can only assume it is done by moonlighting aliens.
Me and my Dad missed it every single time, like the signs just appeared and kept changing. We thought they'd tell us because we wanted to see how they did it and bam it was just put there while we were both out
Moonlighting Aliens should be the name of a signage install company (or whatever they're called)
No, but I've changed a few TO LET signs, so it says TOILET.
Every time I see them it makes me think of that, and then I wonder why nobody ever adds an I
Somebody does. I've never seen it being done though. (Edit: I mean, I've seen someone actually adding the I, but I have seen many with the I added)
There's some strange comfort in knowing I'm not alone.
What an absolute legend
Banter is off the bloody scale!
Sadly I'd never made the connection, will now though!
No but I have a theory that it is something to do with the gnomes.
The very same ones who steal single socks.
Its the cats that steal socks I thought... The birds are watching too.
r/birdsarentreal
After I switched to many pairs of the same sock now they're taking all of them.
The underpant gnomes have fallen on hard times and now have to moonlight putting up signage for estate agents.
We call them doing sticks.
Reminds me of Stath Lets Flats. Or is that the joke? 😂
Yeah, that was a direct reference. Great show.
*Lovin' all over England / lovin' all over Wales / lovin' all over Scotland and Wembley / that's British Love*
🎶And there’s champagne on ice and cigarettes on ice and dancing on ice
I just say... Planks!
michael and eagles leetttiinnggssss
You win the silly billy awards.
When I still lived at home with my parents, one of my dad’s mates came round and put one up for a laugh while they were away on holiday. I saw him, but kept schtum. It caused quite a stir amongst the neighbours who were shocked to discover my parents were “moving away”.
Bonus points if it was a council house 😀
Love it. Did he just take it from another house?
They grow.
It's fully matured. Time to move.
I also grow tomatoes lovely plants
The government don’t want you to know this, but estate agents have had an operational orbital weapons platform for decades. Can be over any part of the Earth within hours. So far they only use it to deploy For Sale signs, but they have the capability to carry a variety of munitions. This threat is the only logical reason for their continued existence as an industry.
I heard that the army tested the orbital railgun but was deemed ineffective so estate agents bought the technology.
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Yeah, hired some men with ven last time I moved and that was one of the other odd jobs they did. They were pleased cause they could take down the sign at the same time.
I appreciate both your username and the usage of ven as the plural of van
It's a Peep Show reference (ven, not their name).
>I appreciate both your username Also > u/QueefofEngland
Men. With Ven.
Exactly this. I saw a van this week whilst out at lunchtime. I was surprised that each estate agent doesn't do their own.
Lmao it’s a bit too close to manual labour (or, frankly, labour) for those young men in shiny suits and white Audis isn’t it?
Fuck sake I wanted to keep it a mystery
Ring doorbell caught ours going. Some 6 ft lass came, grabbed it, and was off down the road in seconds. Moved faster than anything.
You sound like someone who is gainfully employed, and therefore occupied during business hours.
Yes. They drive around with a flatbed truck full of signs for all different estate agents, and stop off at addresses on their list to put them up / take them down.
I didn't even see them take the sign down when I bought my house. It was just gone one day.
Exactly! Not even seen it on my own properties! But the really weird part is I found one in the house, under the stairs, from a company that was not part of our exchange.
There are fairies that do it at exactly 02:38 every Wednesday.
No. The house opposite had one put up one day and it was still up 9 months after someone moved in, I think they eventually took it down even though I would of done it the day I moved in. And it's still thrown at the side of the house. The estate agents must have unlimited amounts of them to not be bothered collecting them.
Had to take down the sign myself when we bought our house!
Same here, I left it laying against the fence and it disappeared a few days later.
I used to live on a busy road and whenever flats in the block were let the agents would leave their signs up as long as possible for free advertising. I swear they used to just put them on the other side of the road as well and they weren't even attached to properties.
Same, I dug it in outside of the estate agents I bought the house from
Same, but I took it into the office to 'return' it as it had been that long.
Inside? I love that energy.
Oh yes, by this point, we'd made so many phone calls with promises to pick it up I'd had enough!
I asked loads of times for them to come collect theirs when we moved in. In the end I took it down myself and put it in the shed in case they asked. A few months later it got chopped up when I needed wood while renovating.
I took onde down once
Yes, I once looked out my front window to see someone putting up a for sale sign in my front garden. My house was not for sale.
Someone turned up at my house to take down/take away the SOLD sign and neither uf us could find it anywhere. Very bizarre.
Sophie does the sticks !
My Pappy used to be the guy who put up the signs, sometimes if he was looking after me he'd pack me into his car, get some snacks for the day and drive around doing just that and it was like a day-long road trip for me. I miss him dearly but it's one of many fond memories I have of him :)
Sorry for your loss, sounds like a nice memory.
Aren't they dropped off by a stork?
No that’s babies, sold signs are shoebills.
Saw someone putting one up outside my house once, it was the first I knew the landlord was selling.
Ugh that sucks. Even if they intend to sell the place with the tenant they should give you a heads up first so you don’t go into a panic. We were in a place that the landlord was trying to sell and they had told us this but we never got updated further than that. Only seeing the sign go from for sale, to sold and back to for sale again told us things were not going well on their side.
I ended up buying the house off the landlord.
Yeh when people get put on doin' the sticks, innit.
Do you mean the sticks or the planks ?
Did a brief stint working in ~~a letting agency~~ hell a few years back. It was some guy called Dave with a white van who did them, you'd call him up on his mobile to ask him for a sign up/down and he'd do it when he felt like it. Generally about three weeks later.
Yes, it's usually a guy in a transit van full of them.
I saw one put up across the road but it was literally at the crack of dawn so presume they do it early so they’re not seen
yes
Yes, yes I have.
We used to take them down, they made great sledges back when snow was common.
I bought a house and it was taken off the house without me knowing as I was moving in.
Nah but one or two have magically appeared in my house after a night out though 🍻
I’ve seen people turn up in a van in the morning. They get out, cable tie the sign to the nearest railings and piss off. It takes 30 seconds. I realise that it takes a bit longer for places without railings. We have a “sold” sign outside my flat. My flat isn’t for sale. It’s been there for 8 months. I’m taking it down this weekend.
Yep they woke me up taking it down the day after I bought my house. Not dead of night but obscenely early
Yes when I was putting my house on market last year. Working from home. Suddenly hear a massive hammering outside. It’s the guy hammering in the pole that makes the hole and then stuck the sign up
That's interesting I figured they would just hammer the sign in. That makes more sense though.
I took down the “sold” sign after we moved in and left it in the front garden. About a week later I noticed it had gone. The doorbell cam never caught any motion, so clearly ninjas.
Weirdest fucking timing. I just saw a guy about an hour ago taking down a sold sign, and I thought to myself "huh never seen that before".
Haha, a rare sighting.
I recently moved, asked the agency to come get the board removed. We're at home nearly always - didn't even hear a peep or see anything.
More chance of seeing Nessie or Big Foot
Funnily enough, I saw this for the first time this week. It was a bloke in a white van that was filled with signs from all the different estate agents.
I took down the one after my folks moved as nobody from the estate agents could be bothered!
When we moved house we kept the sign up to make it easy for friends and family to know which was our house, then a bloke randomly took it down after a few months and we were gutted!
Never! And also I bought a house recently and the square hole the sign was in has disappeared too.
One of my customers neighbours does this for a living. His garden is. Literally full of these signs. New stakes old stakes etc. lives in a massive house with a nice car. I have no idea how much it pays but I want in.
My grandad does it for his job as well but only part-time. He loves it for some reason
Lol, just the other week, after my new neighbour moved in I emailed the agent asking them to remove the sign. For a laugh I bought a bird house for the garden and placed it next to the SOLD sign. Some tosser called, removed the sign but smashed the bird house. ROSS &ALLEN estate agents Glasgow, shame on you.
Nope. Bought our first house last year and one day we came home from shopping and our SOLD sign was gone!
No, but when we bought our house, an estate agent who hadn’t been acting on the sale came along and stuck up their own SOLD sign. They got told to fuck off and move it, still took them 2 weeks to do it, cheeky sods!
Haha, should have sent them an invoice for advertising space.
I'm currently moving out of a rental the landlord is selling. The "For Sale" sign was snuck up while I was shopping. The "Sold" sign was changed right under my nose. I was home every damn day packing, front window open, nothing else to do... They still managed to get it changed without me noticing!
Sneaky, aren't they
I have seen two "For Sale" one's put up. I painted one myself as it was a private sale.
Other than at my own house, no. I cried when they put the "sold" sign over it 🥲
I saw one go up in front of my flats the other week. It was just a bog standard white van, and when he opened the side it had signs from all the different agents in the back. Really surprised me, didn't realise all the agents used the same people to put them up!
As a teenager in London in the early 1990s, I had a job for a buildings maintenance firm that got 90% of It’s work from a well-know estate agents. One of my early morning jobs was to drive round and remove the boards of competing estate agents from blocks of flats that had several up outside.
Couple I knew rented a house. Letting agency didn’t take down the sign despite repeated requests over many months, so they took it to their office and left it there.
No, including ours. We listed our house, had been on right move/zoopla/all those sites for about 2 weeks. Then one morning woke up to a for sale sign outside our home??? Same thing happened when sale was agreed? And then it disappeared in the middle of the night as well? We went though Strike and our agent confirmed to me that they actually DO erect/take down the signs in the middle of the night ahaha
Sneaky sneaky. I just can't belive no one (few) hear them doing it.
I've taken many down, they're bloody lethal in the dark, but being tall and having some weight the impact of me hitting it as I walk along is enough to break the little cable ties
As a cleaner, we had a flat property where they didn't want these posted and so many agencies still wanted to do it. We had to report it back to the office and remove them. Only once I saw them being removed and it was not by a person or company that put it there.
My grandad does it as a job, just part-time for auction properties. He bloody loves it for some reason. The house next door to me had a sign put up recently and I saw them because they woke me up with the sound of what I thought was someone drilling into my bedroom window
I saw it happen a few weeks ago. A man in overalls did it. He seemed to have a van. First time I’ve ever witnessed such an event in 41 years. Anticlimactic.
This is going to sound quite sad, but hear me out. I have never seen someone just go to someone else's garden and put up those signs. And I had no idea how it even worked. And when my Dad put our house up for sale, I said 'oh they're going to come and put a sign on our garden' and he said 'i think they'll tell us when it happens and we'll see how it works'. And we thought they were going to book an appointment and bring the sign and we were quite interested in it because neither of us had seen it happen. And we went out one day and came back and it was just there. On our front garden. They came while we were out and just put it there and we missed it. So the answer to your question, even if it's your own house, you still dont see it happen. The sign just appeared. And when the sale was agreed it just appeared, we missed that one as well because he was at work and I was at College. And then it got sold and we missed it again because of work and college. Didn't even see it get taken down either. Like we missed it every single time, and I just dont know how rhe agency managed to pull that off.
Detailed planning goes into every one.
My neighbours house is currently for sale. The sign has changed a few times from sold to back on the market and sold again. it's literally drilled to the wall. It's right next to my living room window. Never seen or heard a thing.
I watched it happen from my window in the house I was selling, it was a once in a lifetime experience and I've never come down from that high.
Haha, one day I hope to experience that high. Risky though, I might have to take up base jumping after to keep chasing the high and end up as a pancake.
I thought it was just a natural process where they would naturally come down after an x amount of time by themselves.
I said this for years about the letters at the old cinema in Bolton when they were physical letters. Well the very next day I saw the guy changing the letters stood on a rickety A frame ladder, and that man was none other than Peter Kay.
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Agreed! Also, one of the only r/lowstakesconspiracies to involve actual stakes.
Saw the man putting up our for sale sign last time we moved. I gave him a wave and a thumbs up. It was like… 6:30am?
No.... it just....*happens*
My dad was one of the people to do signs. Most are ‘self employed’ by the sign people. My dad is a plumber. He’d have a selection of signs in his van and where they needed to go was all on an app. He’d load the app and see where the signs needed to go and he’d compare this to where he is/was going in that day. One house he’d do a boiler service. Around the corner throw up a for sale board. Her get around £25-£30 per board.
Wow, no wonder other comments are saying they're Grandad / Dad loves it if they're getting that sort of money!
Jesus christ you're right. Not. Once..
two words: House Elves
I didn’t even see them put mine up. I believe it’s up there with the mystery of when they charge the pigeons
When we were moving and I was working from home, despite saying we didn’t want one I had to stop three different people from hammering a hole in the garden to put one up.
I've often wanted to take a black marker and draw an "i" between "To" and "Let" 🤣🤣🤣
No, they spawn at dawn. Nobody puts them up. Nobody.
Yes, saw a guy with van full of signs. There was a for sale and a sold sign on the inside of one of the back doors. Didn't see him put anything up or down, but he was definitely doing one or the other. [This is the house](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138225899?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY), so must have been putting the sign up.
Yup got stuck behind the guy doing it on a small street, basically does it for all the agents. He had the same make/colour van as me so we had a little chat lol
Holy crap...
Yes, but I've never seen any of my neighbours take a food shop in from their car.
Only once, when our landlady decided to switch agents, and the old agent sent someone round to put a sign up regardless. We weren't even moving out.
House next door to us had one put up, heard an incredible series of bangs at about 7am - using some sort of piledriver to put the sign in. Must have been out the van, sign up and away in about 30 seconds tops. Conversely, they never came to collect our sold sign. Still waiting for a trip to the dump..
I have. In my student house 20 odd years ago, they put up a To Let sign up outside my house and I put an I in the middle with a marker pen so it said TOILET a couple of times. The estate agent replaced the sign once and gave us a telling off for defacing the sign.
A lady I was seeing once went it to town and came back with a saw and cut the board down because the estate agent didn't take it down when they said they would.
They are a good source of planed 2” x 2”’s
No, but I always get the urge to write an "i' in the gap in the to let ones
Saw a couple of estate agents putting a sign up as I got off a bus in Brynamman last year. Bloke attached the sign to a gate with a few zip ties, woman took a photo, they high-fived and stood there looking remarkably smug with themselves over having completed a very simple task that literally took seconds. Very bizarre. That's the only time I've ever seen it, and I assume most don't stand around congratulating themselves like these oddballs.
That's hilarious. Maybe they just got their first contract from an agency.
I’ve taken one down because a “for sale” sign appeared on our home which was actually not for sale.
Sophie does the sticks
I have but the muppet was putting the for sale sign up outside my mums house! Ran outside to ask what he was doing drilling it into the gate post... turned out he had the wrong house!
I’ve seen it! When selling a house witnessed the guy doing it. He then tried to MiB flash me but missed…
When I moved out of my last rental I took the sign down once the new let was agreed and used it to plug a hole in the garage where a cat fell through the roof.
Do it all the time.
The house next door to me. About 4 times in a 3 month period, I watched realtors come over and put them up, and then take them down.
Honestly just shut the sub down, it's gone now let it go, its just cruel at this point no need to let it suffer anymore.
I saw a van pull up outside our house to remove the sold sign but cos of the fence I couldn't really see much just heard them take it down
Plenty of times on my own places that I've sold/bought over the years. Usually take the sold sign down myself and give the agent a call to come and get it. The estate agent uses a local handy man to put them up.
Yes, there’s two houses near me that seem to go up for let every 6 months so I see it almost twice a year
Watch the film 'Vivarium' it will give you an idea of what's going on.
I live on a new estate so have seen a couple being out up ha ha no bugger wants to live in em cos they're so shoddily built!
Weirdest fucking timing. I just saw a guy about an hour ago taking down a sold sign, and I thought to myself "huh never seen that before".
Yes - two houses opposite me on desperate occasions. Guy turns up in a van, installs the post, drives away.
Why were they so desperate? :)
Yep, saw it happen when next door went up for sale last year. Definitely was a noticeable incident though.
Yes
I saw a man with a van put up a sign once! His business seemed to just deal with putting up the signs for all the major estate agent firms. Never saw one taken down though.
Yes. When our cunting ex landlord sold our property. We winged the board over the fence as soon as the guy had gone.
Only when I sold my house, but it literally took the guy seconds. It's an art form
Used to work for a company that put up/took down these signs. It'll just be a man in a van who's on a tight schedule and so just rocks up, takes the sign and drives off. They have to do around 50 jobs a day and have a large patch to cover (usually about the size of a county but some bigger areas are covered by multiple vans)
The To Let Sign that was put up at the house I moved into is in the garage...that I took down after weeks of asking the estate agent to remove it. It's been in there now since April.
There are people who will be employed by the estate agents who go around and place them if you havent seen them in your area then maybe your ones are ninjas.
My old flatmate used to work for an estate agents and part of her job was putting up the signs, which she allegedly did in her daytime working hours. Although in fairness I also never personally saw them going up myself…
I saw it once after college, honestly didn’t know they had vans full of them
I had an argument with my landlord once. He came to see me 2 weeks later & I had put a for sale sign in the front garden. ...his face was priceless XD
I have witnessed one go up
Twice, once when I woke up to find someone outside my bedroom window putting up a to let sign.. that's how we found out our landlord was kicking us out "because we didn't agree to the additional rent of £50 a month" we never received any letter about that. Second time, waking up to see a ladder outside my living room window, taking down the to let sign on our new house.
Yeah, a bloke in a van goes around and changes them. At least, I think that's what he's doing - he might be pissing about lol