Easy Fixes that Home Sellers Always Seem to Miss

[Anonymous]

I'm from Chevy Chase. We put our house on the market with no fixups other than vacuuming and got 300K over listing.

Location still counts for everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Odors

Whether it’s mold, cigarettes, pet or Indian food. Get your house deep cleaned. It’s offensive.

You're offensive.

There's no denying that garlic and curry odors (amongst other odors like cat urine) are lingering and impossible to get rid of.

It's a fact. Nothing to be offended about

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they are easy fixes, then fix them yourself. I'm not grinding tree stumps for buyers.

Ok but you’re losing money on the sale because you were too cheap to spend a few hundred on your landscaping.

I got a house for list, and Im sure part of the reason there was only 1 other offer was because the landscaping was neglected.

You must not be from around here. Where are you posting from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they are easy fixes, then fix them yourself. I'm not grinding tree stumps for buyers.

Ok but you’re losing money on the sale because you were too cheap to spend a few hundred on your landscaping.

I got a house for list, and Im sure part of the reason there was only 1 other offer was because the landscaping was neglected.

You must not be from around here. Where are you posting from?

This was in Montgomery County in 2021. We spent a couple thousand to cut back the overgrown trees and spruce up the landscaping. It really improved the curb appeal. We’d lost out on another house in the neighborhood just 2 weeks earlier that sold for $80K more. It was more airy feeling and more recently renovated, but worth only an extra $30K in my opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neutral paint colors!!!!!

WHY is this THAT hard?!

+100000
orange kitchen walls, bright yellow bathroom, mid-night blue bedroom, red dining room, dark purple bathroom, it's just wayyyyy too much. I don't understand how sellers don't see this and agents don't suggest they paint at least a few of the rooms FFS.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know why people leave their toiletries out in the bathroom when they know the house is being shown or that professional photos are being taken. How hard is it to put the bottle of head and shoulders in a cabinet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neutral paint colors!!!!!

WHY is this THAT hard?!

+100000
orange kitchen walls, bright yellow bathroom, mid-night blue bedroom, red dining room, dark purple bathroom, it's just wayyyyy too much. I don't understand how sellers don't see this and agents don't suggest they paint at least a few of the rooms FFS.

Because the home will sell regardless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neutral paint colors!!!!!

WHY is this THAT hard?!

+100000
orange kitchen walls, bright yellow bathroom, mid-night blue bedroom, red dining room, dark purple bathroom, it's just wayyyyy too much. I don't understand how sellers don't see this and agents don't suggest they paint at least a few of the rooms FFS.

Because the home will sell regardless.

There are plenty of clown houses still up for sale with no takers like this around and they're not selling.

Two tone cabinet doors and closet doors missing or barn doors suck. But the closet doors? Please just put them back up! Easy things like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neutral paint colors!!!!!

WHY is this THAT hard?!

+100000
orange kitchen walls, bright yellow bathroom, mid-night blue bedroom, red dining room, dark purple bathroom, it's just wayyyyy too much. I don't understand how sellers don't see this and agents don't suggest they paint at least a few of the rooms FFS.

Because the home will sell regardless.

There are plenty of clown houses still up for sale with no takers like this around and they're not selling.

Two tone cabinet doors and closet doors missing or barn doors suck. But the closet doors? Please just put them back up! Easy things like this.

We've bought two homes that adult children inherited from their deceased parents. The heirs wouldn't put any money or effort into it. Both properties were filthy because the heirs wouldn't even split the costs for a cleaning. Both realtors told us this is typical in this situation because no one wants to spend the money or do the work that would yield profits for all of them. Plus they're grieving, but mostly it's a stalemate amongst the adult siblings. It also took days to turn around any correspondence or negotiations.

It gets really complicated when adult children share inherited assets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deep clean - steam carpets, empty fridge, clean trashcans, clean windows (incl second floor), clean door and window tracks, overhead light fixtures. This is a ton of work.

Overgrown or poorly maintained gardens (dead stuff, weeds, old mulch) - seriously, just go to home depot and pop some new mulch in the garden

Clearly broken anything- tiles, fixtures, wobbly hardware in bathroom

Obvious touchup paint - especially a flag on the ceilings

Clutter - literally anything on any counter, and please for the love of God do not leave an old plunger next to the toilet unless you are leaving me a sellers credit to replace pipes

LOL! I would've never thought of that. DD clogs our toilets semiregularly because we use good TP, and she uses up like half a roll each time. The plunger is totally for her, and there are no other problems with pipes.

+1. Same. Lots of ignorance here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re in the market to buy, what are some examples of easy fixes that would significantly improve the curb appeal or interior of a home, but for whatever reason are just completely ignored by home sellers?

I’ll start: Tree stumps in the front yard. Nothing looks worse when you’re walking up to the front door during an open house. Pay someone to grind that down! And then put down some grass seed. Easy.

+1 Curb appeal makes the home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neutral paint colors!!!!!

WHY is this THAT hard?!

+100000
orange kitchen walls, bright yellow bathroom, mid-night blue bedroom, red dining room, dark purple bathroom, it's just wayyyyy too much. I don't understand how sellers don't see this and agents don't suggest they paint at least a few of the rooms FFS.

Because the home will sell regardless.

There are plenty of clown houses still up for sale with no takers like this around and they're not selling.

Two tone cabinet doors and closet doors missing or barn doors suck. But the closet doors? Please just put them back up! Easy things like this.

We've bought two homes that adult children inherited from their deceased parents. The heirs wouldn't put any money or effort into it. Both properties were filthy because the heirs wouldn't even split the costs for a cleaning. Both realtors told us this is typical in this situation because no one wants to spend the money or do the work that would yield profits for all of them. Plus they're grieving, but mostly it's a stalemate amongst the adult siblings. It also took days to turn around any correspondence or negotiations.

It gets really complicated when adult children share inherited assets.

Can you not afford the home, if you can not afford the easy fixes? Why does anyone owe you an HGTV home? Buy it or don't buy it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Refinish orange floors!

No way. Let the buyer go light or dark on their own, as they please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Refinish orange floors!

No way. Let the buyer go light or dark on their own, as they please.

+1. I just said the same about buyer going light or dark on the thread about restaining red oak floors to sell (don't do it!)