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Is The Home You are Showing Camouflaged ?
Do you ever get the feeling about a home you are showing that it has been really prepped a bit too good? The listing agent must have a background in camoflage!  I am not talking about staging, but rather what I refer to in the real estate trade as "Real Estate Camouflage!"  Carpets look like they've been dyed, ceilings are painted strange colors.  Instead of a white ceiling paint, try hunter green or or some dark color.  Why darker colors?  To hide water stains of course!  I always assume that if my vision were real good, I would be able to make out the outlines of water stains on the ceiling by their daker edges.  It's hard to do when they are painted hunter green! When you think about it it make sense for the seller...it is probably a lot cheaper to paint the ceiling rather than replace a roof, and clean gutters.  The newly painted basement floors also remind me to look if there are sealed cracks I should be looking for!  I once showed a home that had carpeting in one section of the basement that looked out of place, I tripped over it.  And underneath the basement slab had shifted upwards about 2 ... more

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