Reblogging! Andi Grant's Why My First Time Home Buyers Didn't Make an Offer on Your Home
How would you like to provide your seller with this kind of feedback?
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Dark wood paneling with bulky overstuffed furniture(that made them feel closed in as if they've walke
d into a giant coffin - this was actually said by one of my first time home buyers recently!)
Ouch...that would hurt, wouldn't it. We don't list houses like the ones that Andi Grant has so eloquently described in her blunt, honest but humorous post today. Well, humorous to us agents anyway.
Even though we don't list them...we've definitely inadvertantly shown them! Yuck ! ! !
Here's a List of R
easons Why My First Time Home Buyers Didn't Make an Offer On Your Home
Ah the joys of househunting with first time home buyers. No matter how much I coach and advise them before setting out to please look beyond the home seller's clutter, wall colors and furnishings when viewing homes because those items are easy fixes, they nod vigorously
in agreement and then oftentimes shutdown when they physically see or smell the reality of the home in person.
Here are just a few things that have recently come up while home shopping with buyers this year and these weren't even my picky buyers:
- Odors and Smells (pets, cigarettes, b.o. - yes I said it B-O)
- Clutter (papers, clothes, cute AND creepy doll collections, choch-kies covering every shelving surface)
- Flower-power wallpaper (that obviously came as a bundle package because it matches the rug, sofa and throw pillows)
- Dark wood paneling with bulky overstuffed furniture(that made them feel closed in as if they've walke
d into a giant coffin - this was actually said by one of my first time home buyers recently!)
- Sparsely decorated home that was all white or mostly pale monochromatic colors that ended up feeling like a museum and/or cold and clinical (brrrrr)
- Heavy drapery that virtually eliminated all natural lighting in the middle of the day creating a dark oppressive atmosphere (think the Haunted House at your local theme park).
Crazy right? I mean some of those are really simple fixes that a coat of paint, an opened curtain and several bins couldn't easily have taken care of right? But you've heard it before that you only have one time to make a great first impression.
By the way just so you know, I LOVED your home because I could see the great potential in it, but my first time home buyers who have no past experience of making a house a home, simply couldn't get passed some of the things I mentioned and decided to make an offer on a home that had a similar floor plan as yours that made them feel much more comfortable. Did I mention it was just down the street from yours? Help me to help you with these simple fixes.
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Hideous bathroom photo courtesy of egazelle; Creeepy doll photo by thejustifiedsinner; cluttered desk by PuyoDead; pets on bed photo courtesy of Sheree K; cluttered hutch by evenllama18
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