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Know how your buyer thinks!

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Home Inspector with United Professional Real Estate Inspectors, Inc.

Sellers can gain a competitive edge by studying the research of the psychology of home buying.  According to Smart Money’s David Rout, subtle factors can be deal breakers in today’s buyer’s market.  You and I know that a bad paint floor in a room can be rectified by a few coats of paint.  Research shows that subtle factors like these can be deal breakers.

A study from the University of Texas really may surprise you.  It turns out that listings that boast renovations like “new paint, new carpet, and/or roof work actually end up with lower sales prices.  Buyers become suspicious and may wonder what is being covered up.

 

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Gay E. Rosen
Julia B. Fee Sotheby's International Realty - Larchmont, NY
As Real as Real Estate Gets!

Hi Russ: Interesting.... I am always leary of newly painted basements....  and then look for water lines' on the items stored down there.. if nothing stored then definite alarm bells...U once saw a basement , newly paitned with the washer/dryer on 4 foot blocks..... we did not buy that house. Gay

Oct 15, 2010 04:53 AM
Noreen Fennell
Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty - Tuxedo, NY
Professional Service, Serious Results

Russ:

Very interesting point.  It could subtley infer that prior to selling the client was satisfied with living with "old paint, old carpet" and and not concerned with regular maintenance of the home.

Oct 15, 2010 06:59 AM