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How does your home sound?

Sellers "you never get a second chance to make a first impression".

How a house sounds can be just as important as how it looks. However, it is often overlooked. If you have a noisy refrigerator you may want to remove it from the property if you have already moved out. If you have a buzzing transformer on a light fixture have it replaced. If your heater makes funny noises have it checked out and serviced.

If something in the home makes noise fix or remove it if at all possible. Just because you are used to the noise and don't notice it anymore doesn't mean potential buyers won't.

Jim Houlihan

Sunnyvale Real Estate Santa Clara Real Estate Cupertino Real Estate

Posted by Jim Houlihan on 02/15/2008 10:12 AM

Comments (7)

7 Comments on How does your home sound?

FEB

2008

Jim - You make an excellent point, and one I hadn't given much thought to before. Nice.

FEB

2008

This is something I never thought about, but you are so right there is more than just visual things going on in a house when we look at it.

FEB

2008

You have hit a point Jim that no one every thinks about. Great post!!

Tom - You are not alone the sounds in a house are often overlooked.

Todd- Thanks, yes buyers use all 5 of their senses when looking at homes.

Tara- Thank you!

MAR

2008

Good advice...

I frequently in my town have to take into account freeway noise when price a property.

I find that water features are great in areas that you can't eliminate unwanted noise.

Thanks Adam. A water feature is an excellent way to help some of the noises we can not eliminate.

JUL

2008

Thanks for yout taking the time to provide us with this information in the Active Rain network. AR is the new "cyber backbone" of the industry, and with it's uplink to Localism.com it will transfrom the marketplace. Agents who don't see which way the cyberwind is blowing are going to find themselves at a considerable disadvantage inside of three to five years.

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