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Why Hasn't My House Sold? It's Not Always The Price!x=
A few years ago, I was approached to be the third agent for a stately colonial on upper 16th Street.  The first two agents had the distinction of being the guys who ranked number 1 and 2 in dollar volume in DC.  I'm nowhere close.
I reviewed the prior listing information.  The price didn't look bad.  Neither agent had made the place particularly easy to show - I hadn't been inside during either listing period.  Then, when I got inside, I quickly figured it out.
The owners had been in the Foreign Service for decades and had lived and worked all over the planet.  And there was some amazing art work on every surface in the house - floors, tables and walls.  
In the living room, on the first wall you saw upon entering the house, they displayed a huge collection of ceremonial masks.  They were beautiful, but awfully distracting, and some of them (the ones made to ward off burglars) were probably a little menacing to buyers crossing the threshold.  Then there were paintings and sculpture that was just distracting.  Also, I imagined that the owners were reluctant to allow a lock box on the door of their little ... more

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