At a recent open house, I placed shoe covers in a basket just outside the door of the house I had just staged. There beside the basket, I placed a beautifully framed notice that sayed:
" Please be so kind as to wear shoe protectors
while viewing this beautiful estate.
Thank you!"
It was a gorgeous estate
with custom hardwood flooring
and light colored plush carpeting throughout the home.
I suggested to the realtor that we use the shoe covers to protect the flooring from any stilletto heels coming through or any dirty shoes walking on the carpet. This is something I usually offer as a courtesy to my selling agents and the homeowners of the homes I have staged.
In this particular open house, things changed drastically, when a potential buyer came to look at the house and was so offended that he had to put on the shoe covers before entering, that he STORMED OFF the property! Not only that, but he made such a RUCKUS, that another couple coming up the walkway turned around and left before even getting half way up the walkway!
I felt bad for the realtor and the homeowner,after all, I was the one who suggested using the shoe covers in the first place!
Normally you would think that the general public would understand that the shoe coverings are to protect the flooring of a home that they may potentially be buying, so why not?
Are shoe protectors scaring away potential buyers, what do you think? Or do you think that this customer was just a BAD seed!
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