Potential Real Estate Agent #1 is coming to see the house today. I am getting the house ready with a little light cleaning. I had a very nice conversation with PREA #1. She said many things that I liked and wanted to hear. But you know me, ever the skeptic!
Husband and I are only interviewing potential agents at this point. We want to hear what they have to say, or what they don't say. We don't want to go through what this blogger and her family went through when selling their home. I am not down with all of that crazy staging crap that you see on HGTV like setting the dinning room table. I am all for making the house look presentable, but seriously, setting the table??
I also don't want to hear any crap about painting rooms. If someone doesn't like the color on the wall, let them change it! You have two kind of people: those who embrace color and those who don't. Either way, you are going to have one person who is going to want to change.
Well, I hope all goes well. Another sign will be how the Boy reacts to this person. He is a good judge of whether you are a jerk or not!
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6 comments:
yeah, I was going to say...interview them. we felt a little stuck because our realtor was a neighbor. then again, it's never good when a realtor is in cahoots with a general contractor. very bad sign.
As someone who is just waiting to exchange contracts on a house, I'd say that staging too much is weird! We looked around one house that was tidy, but each room was clearly defined. There was no TV in the dining room for example, there was a dining table. It was decluttered though- less 'family' stuff around.
The second house was staged. There was not an item out of place - right down to a top hat on a chest, and a soft toy on a pillow in the bed room. It was freaky, and it made me realize that the house was perfect, but someone elses vision of perfect.
We're going to buy the tidy but less perfect house. Both times we were shown around by the home owner which was OK for the second visit to the one we're hoping for, but for the first visits, I found that extremely stressful. What I thought of the owners really coloured my judgment.
I wouldn't bother with the hyper weird staging HGTV style, but I'd go with tidy, and a purpose for each room.
Good luck!
I am right there with you on the painting thing. When moving we saw so many ugly houses and first thing I thought was "well we'll be painting that" but even if everything was white or neutral, most normal people would change it.
Thanks everyone.
I just want people to see how comfortable and homey my house is. (GML and Rented Life know!)
I have really never understood "staging." Whenever my parents took me house shopping with them... the houses either had the owner's belongings in them the way they normally are OR they were empty....
Are most people so dumb they don't understand that they can change the home? Or arrange their furniture the way they want....?
We put our last house on the market, and it had thirteen visitors, and the first weekend resulted in an offer above our asking price which was market. I'm not about marketability either (take it or leave it, dammit!), but I think there's something to be said for it.
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