How Not To Sell Your Home In A Housing Crisis

hethmar

The photos of that place look like they are going to be used for some sort of legal action. The vans seem to be there to clear the place out and hence the pics of the all the damage/rubbish. Some one has made an error there I think and not checked what photos they were.

hethmar

justme111 wrote: »

I don't understand what are you amused at.
are there any people in this world who will not understand the washing in the middle of a kitchen is not to stay there forever and ever even after they buy a house and they will be able to remove the bucket after they move in?
I feel like being amused at these people rather than sellers who don't bother clean their ashtray - after all if someone does not have enough of brain cells to understand throwing away the ashtray is not laborious and expensive can not deserve consideration:D

It always blew my mind in the property programmes when the wife would turn her nose up and say "I couldnt live with purple walls" - well, NO, you dont have to , you paint over them. People can be so feeble cant they.

Im one of the people who get more excited about the possibilities of a rough old dump than an immaculate one which seems boring.

before_hollywood

Cat695 wrote: »

awesome you get a whole new wardrobe of clothes and a van......should be sold as partly furnished :eek:

if picture 4 is to be believed you get 2 vans, a p reg renault and a modern lwb iveco (they are worth a fair bit actually)

LillyJ

I went to one with dog wee all over the floor not cleaned up (the rest of the house was no better).
I want a house that looks like it has been looked after. A washing basket on the floor will not be there forever, no, but ingrained dirt in the window frames for example or mould in the bathroom might be harder to shift.

I went to one where the teenage daughter had been left alone by the parents who were away, and when the EA and I turned up she was hungover and had had a party. She wouldn't let us in and talked to us through the letter box. She said it was too messy and that we would have to come back another day. Bet her parents were pleased!

PandaPants_2

I wouldn't be phased if i went to see an untidy house, when the people leave they will take their mess with them. I'm more interested in the condition of the building itself.

LillyJ

PandaPants wrote: »

when the people leave they will take their mess with them.

That's not quite true. A lot of people leave a lot of horrible things behind when they leave. Especially repos.

For example we have kept the (almost brand new) carpets in our house, meaning we didn't have the inconvenience or expense of new floor coverings. However if I had bought the dog wee one, I imagine that you wouldn't get away with just changing the carpets, you would need new floorboards.
Years worth of uncleaned-up dog wee doesn't shift very easily.

You would also need to replace the bathroom suite and kitchens in a dirty house, because ingrained dirt doesn't come off (as I discovered when moving in to a rented house). In our house everything was kept clean so we had a shining white bathroom suite ready for us.

Window frames and skirting boards would need repainting/replacing in a mucky house as well.

A few months of dirt you can shift with a good scrub. Years of neglect require a lot of work. (which we didn't want/have time for)

LillyJ

Also, if people are house proud, it often reflects in the way they maintain the house as a whole (roof, guttering, windows etc).