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. |
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 |
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. |
+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. |
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? |
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. |
+1. Same. Lots of ignorance here. |
+1 Curb appeal makes the home. |
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. |
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!) |