No Offense Meant, Home Seller, but some Buyers are Taller then You!!!

Good point! I'll have to tell sellers to make sure they take care of these items. And excuse me... I have to go get some cleaning materials and clean the tops of things in my house. Bye!

Funny, I was wondering what you were getting at! Good point.

Clean is defined to me without controversy or doubt. It is or it is not clean. Furthermore, there is nothing like the pine-sol smell after the fact. Yes to clean!

 I am the opposite of you. I am short. You can hide things on the refrigerator from me for months!  But you are so right about making sure those spaces are clean for buyers 

Little is worse than turning on a ceiling fan to see if it works and being blasted by flying dust bunnies and crap.

I hire a cleaning service who supplements my normal housekeeper by coming in once a year to do a thorough deep cleaning. They charge $500 but at least the place is spotless.

I've yet to find a seller willing to pay for THAT, though, and they rarely clean it well enough themselves.

Nothing says it better when you and or your clients have to duck in a doorway to an added room or covered back patio!  Not to mention getting nailed by a low hanging ceiling fan :)

Nice post. I teach buyers to look up when seeing homes to look at air clean vents, (are the air filters dirty, if so what else isn't too clean.  We check for water stains on the ceilings, cracks, etc.  It is normal to look at eye level but that usually isn't where the issues are found!  Great list!

As a tall guy I appreciate this.  Kind of related.  One time I am in a model home.  I am kind of weird and actually read the titles of the books on the shelves.  Often I find I have read some of them.  One time one was upside down.  Went to put it right side up and that is when I learned all the books were glued together. 

As a short person I find this interesting! But as a homeowner I am aware of those places where dirt and dust can hide.

Congrats on the feature, Marina.    We should counsel our sellers to have their cleaners look up and look down!

Thank you! Good post ! Yes for some buyers  is big deal and   some buyers don't care ...

 I am tall too and sometime feel uncomfortable to wearing heels if I working with a customers who are much shorter than me...

Aww! This is such a great post. A friend stopped over and I said give me a couple minutes to finish my ceiling fan. You clean your ceiling fans? If I don't who else will?"  Don't you just love it when they turn on the ceiling fan and the dust bunnies fly? Look out below! Hubby does help. I have him get the top of the fridge and on a weekly basis. I had him put the few things up there into a couple of nice baskets at least. I despise magnets on refrigerators. Looks like the refrigerator would just like to be able to walk away from under it all. 

I showed a property where there were all these artificial vines. That was one of the homeowner's favorite things all over the place. I call them spot fillers and spider abodes.

And don't forget the ceiling fans! Sometimes the dust bunnies are simply hanging there, waiting to fall on the unwary. 

Respectfully, not many, that's a lot of buyers either at private or open house showings inspected the homes as did your particular client. How many other clients did take the time to really inspect a property? 

Most buyers are thoroughly cleaning the home, painting and replacing items, basically upgrading or removing items in the home after purchase, so, while your post is informative, is it really relevant to most buyers? 

Nice post & oh so true.  

What's even worse for the seller is a tall home inspector :)

Good post, Marina.  I once did asked my appraiser what he looks at when he appraises a house, and he said the ceilings. 

Nicely done; a post with perspective on an unseen problem. :-)

I agree with Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Real Estate Agent, Top 1% of Lyon Agents . Some sellers could benefit from a cleaning service. Such experts will be able to put the polish to the areas that may go unnoticed. I have begun to offer a conceirge service as a part of the listing agreement. Sellers are given pre-sale advice and a spruce up to help the property edge out the competition.

And those would be my issues, too!  Tee hee!  Actually i do own several ladders, step stools and various other tools to reach those tall spots, but I like most short folks, ignore them.  Great reminder for us!

I am 5'7" so a little less than average. I have never seen a house cleaned to 6 ft, usually its all or nothing, but I appreciate the different point of view and will think about it when showing my next house.

I enjoyed your informative post, glad I came across it in the archives.