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Technically Perfect Home...Otherwise a Home Without a Heart

By Trey Thurmond

Real Estate Agent with BCR Realtors 262359

September 26, 2009 04:51 PM

While showing a home recently something dawned on me.....this home is almost in mint condition ...technically speaking. Everything is spotless. Everything works as designed mechanically. There literally is a place for everything and everything is in its place. There was only one problem . The material used to build the home was pretty much as cheap as mankind could invent. This Home had NO warmth to it at all . It had the heart and soul of a computer. It was a heartless home! How sad I thought. Aesthetically on a ten scale I would give it a 2. It was nothing more than a place to eat, sleep, and pay bills. How sad for this home and the sellers.

Do Not make this mistake when you build your next home. Please insert a heart!

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Heather Adkinson

Windermere K-2 Realty LLC www.propertiesinmoseslake.com - Moses Lake, WA

Real Estate Agent - Moses Lake

I call it character when I go into houses obviously most of the production homes are lacking it.

Sep 26, 2009 05:04 PM

Steve Shatsky

Dallas, TX

Hi Trey... good observation! So many homes suffer from the same lack of heart you describe.

Sep 26, 2009 06:21 PM

Trey Thurmond

BCR Realtors - College Station, TX

College Station , Texas Homes

Heather

Character.......hmm. You are right, It also lacked character. It was just an address.

Steve

I hope that builders, And most of them do I believe, include a little heart in their homes.

Sep 27, 2009 12:20 AM

Julia Odom

Select Realty Professionals - Chattanooga, TN

Chattanooga Homes for Sale

That's one reason that I prefer historic homes (or at least houses that have stood a little of the test of time). It makes my heart small to see a house that a lot of resources went into but that just doesn't feel like a home.

Sep 27, 2009 12:40 AM

Evelyn Johnston

Friends & Neighbors Real Estate - Elkhart, IN

The People You Know, Like and Trust!

Not until Julia compared a home to a historic home did I "get" what you were blogging about.

Sep 27, 2009 01:42 AM

Chris Ann Cleland

Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA

Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

Trey: I've been in those homes too. Those are the ones that exceed what a buyer is looking for, yet no one is jumping up and down about it.

Sep 27, 2009 01:46 AM

Robin Rogers

Robin Rogers, Silverbridge Realty, San Antonio, Texas - San Antonio, TX

CRS, TRC, MRP - Real Estate Investment Adviser

I have a listing that the sellers put their "heart" into landscaping, as well as thousands of dollars. It is surrounded with young trees as well as rose bushes that are now starting to bloom after the rain. But the inside is kind of nondescript, so I've tried to add some staging items to give it if not heart, at least personality!

Cheers,

Robin

Sep 27, 2009 02:04 AM

William J. Archambault, Jr.

The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

Trey,

What you've described is a house not a home! They are not the same all most all homes are houses but the heart you talk about only occurs when people interact with the house.

I've seen 4 room square boxes covered with slate with heart and palaces with none. "Aesthetically on a ten scale" Aesthetics have nothing to do with heart. "Character"yes but there is no heart with out people!

Love it,

Bill

Sep 27, 2009 02:18 AM

Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - Wanda Can!

Red Rock Real Estate (435) 632-9374 - St. George, UT

St. George Utah Area Residential Sales Agent

Trey, When I see a house like that, I describe it as I would ice cream...that probably is a vanilla house, not a rocky road with extra nuts and marshmallows and chocolate sauce house!...I think I may be hungry...hmmm.

Sep 27, 2009 08:00 AM

Dale Baker

Baker Energy Audits and Commercial Properties Inspections - Claremont, NH

New Hampshire Relocation Real Estate Information

Howdy there Trey

A home sure does need to have a haert, It sure is really sad when you come along a house that the owners have not visited the wizard of OZ. So their house could have a haert, so it could become a happy home.

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Sep 27, 2009 04:23 PM

Julia

Older homes sure seem to have a lot of heart don't they? I particularly love selling antique or historical homes.

Sep 27, 2009 04:29 PM

Monique Combs

Royal Shell Real Estate - Bonita Springs, FL

Royal Shell Real Estate - Monique Combs

Hi Trey ~ I love old home and the character. As we show homes and in a "cookie cutter neighborhood" per say, , to me yes they have different tile, paint on the walls etc... It is all the same to me in time at looking at homes. Do you ever pull up to a home a look at the exterior an know what is on the inside before step foot?

Sep 29, 2009 12:30 PM

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