Don't get me wrong!: We are so grateful that our home is attracting terrific realtors who want to show it to their buyers. Often, I am racing home from work or spending a weekend morning cleaning because we have pets. Fighting those kitty and puppy "tumbleweeds" of fur can be a challenge and this is a 5 bed, 4 story colonial!
So, the floors are the last thing that I prep as a seller, for us and our great realtor team. We have a niche market home from the late 1800s and want to make it look its best! We have done a lot of restoration, sanding and refinishing -- thanks to Debbie Gartner, the Flooring Girl -- and are still painting, too.
But, either way, it's a lot of house to keep clean and we have to live here, too. When we get a call for an hour window -- say 1p to 2p today for a showing -- the selling agent may want to arrive at 1:01p or later because:
1) they want to show a home with clean floors I'll bet and, 2) it is just polite.
Didn't all of our mama's tell us to never arrive early to a hostess's home?
Just saying...especially because I may be dripping sweat and jumping in the shower 40 minutes before "show time!" Please arrive on time or later and give us a chance to create house beautiful, so your buyer can find the home of their dreams (here we hope) and we can sell it to them.
It's been awhile since I've lived in a home for sale -- like the several houses my mom and I flipped before it was cool in Victorian home central in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our dream home on a Virginia lake was empty and easier to sell, after we moved back to NY.
We need to clean and clear out and just have to have exactly enough time to do so, in a river of puppy hair!
Thanks for your understanding!
You may not want to arrive 40 minutes early at our home for sale in southern Westchester County.
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