I was surfing the MLS last night when I ran across a listing that very proudly dispalyed a video of the home. The house I'm speaking about was probably 25 years old, vacant, tired and very crusty. But that didn't stop the Listing Agent from playing Mozart in the background as he walked around filming and stumbling.
I think he was more impressed with his new video camera than he was with the house. Please play the song below and visualize the ugliest house you could imagine and then we can continue....
When I hear this music I visualize dancing with my wife in a beautiful Victorian home on it's original hard wood fllors -- in that time period. Or a crisp glass of wine as I lean over the 5 story balcony of my Itallian resort. Maybe even a calm evening drive in somebody elses BMW (I don't own one) as I pass the rolling hills of East Texas. (Please laugh, there are no rolling hills in East TX).
The point is simple. You can't put lipstick on a pig and attempt to sell it as something it isn't. During his video it was apparent the appliances were the original. The avacodo green formica, bent mini-blinds, unstretched carpet and upside down cockroach made it all very, very unsavory as the brittish might say. Certainly not Mozart worthy.
Perhaps this song would have been more apporpriate:
If you do play the appropriate music and you do find the right house then learn to shoot a decent video. Don't shake the camera, film toilets, rotten wood, dirty pools with dead cats and so forth. It's better to leave a little mystery to that road kill.
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