Selling a Pig, A Farmer’s Futile Chore

It would be cool to hybrid all these platforms in open source. I wonder what might happen! :)

I'm working with a seller right now who needs to get tile scrubbed and a professional cleaning before an agent or buyer breaches the doorway.  They don't understand that it will pay for itself.

Wowzer!  Can't believe that would be the main picture for a listing!  Can't imagine how the place must have smelled!

Videos for the show and tell are not new and so so powerful in the connection. The agent if the seller is not up for the task can whip, stage the place if it is priced right and wants the images, video clips to take it up a notch.

To shine without looking like just lipstick was added to that "pig". Oink. The low price and tell them dirty but nice, structurally sound but look out. Looks a little like a Stephen King movie set when the director with the tall leather riding boots, crop and slightly cocked beret screams "that's a wrap, print, get them in the can man."

Chris Griffith makes good sense when she says..."it will pay for itself". Prep for sale is a prep for success

That photo looked like some of the foreclosures I have handled, and I never would have put a photo like that in a listing on the MLS, let alone as a main listing photo.  What were they thinking?

It depends on the seller to clean up and stage, or not. Many pigs have been sold, just not at top market price. 

Great post Teri. No matter how great you present your property online but still messy inside,  buyers won't get it as they view the house.

I guess the moral of the story is you pay a price for marketing pigsty style. There is a buyer for every property but as Pamela Seley points out a poorly presented pig rarely fetches top price.  A little lipstick, please!  And take that offensive poster off the wall for starters

well I agree with. all the comments here…and particularly that anybody would post that dirty closet as their main listing photo. My clients even make fun of listings that don't have photos or decent photos. I know that sometimes you can end up with a seller who has a dirty place and getting them to clean it up even 50% is a challenge. I had a friend who listed a the short sale and took photos of the place and then wrote "See through all the crap and imagine what it could be!" I laughed when I read it and mentioned it to him and he felt he was being honest because it was a nice, newer home but not very clean. They did get an offer but the price was also very favorable. 

Hey, I'll call that truth in advertising.  Suppose this is how the place really looks, well then . . . no one is going to be surprised when touring.

So many sellers refuse to listen...Buyer's can see past the clutter, Buyer's will understand the room is really big because of all the furniture I have in here, Buyer's can see past the repairs and they are small and simply and easily done, etc etc

I actually saw a MLS listing that had a picture of a kitchen sink filled a mile high with dirty dishes!  There had to of been an ulterior motive for that!

Thanks for the laugh.  It always amazes me what some people put on the MLS for pictures!

Wow you really have found some dusie out there.

I can't believe either of those 2 photos.  And yet, I've seen enough to know those have happened.  Of course, for the buyer, that sure screams "opportunity".  If that's what the listing agent is doing, then maybe they aren't all that interested and careful with this home and that can be used to the buyer's advantage.