Tips to make buyers want your house?

mark987_2

make your house look clean and neat..re painting the walls and things like that will make the house look like it has been taken care of well..do not have too much of furniture..make it simple and nice..look into the prices of the others who are selling around the area..so you have a better idea of how to set the prices so that it will attract the buyers..

mark987_2

as mentioned in an earlier post, have friends and family there as buyers if you can manage it..more buyers show that the house has more demand..that will attract the buyers too..it is actually a good marketing trick..

m_curiousity

Yeh he is chinese, I know what it means just didnt want to go into the whole reason on here as it was kinda irrelevant to the EAs who clearly thought I was a nutter!

I'd have no problem living at a number 13, I'm not supersticious and someones got to right??

jenny74

kittie wrote: »

Having a dh with asthma, there is no way on earth we would even view a house that has or had a cat

What a load of tripe! Sorry to be blunt but being asthmatic has nothing to do with cats! I am (moderately to occasionally severely) asthmatic and it has never stopped me keeping cats as pets. Now being allergic to cats would obviously be more of an issue... But even so, for it to prevent someone viewing a house is nonsensical and a bit extreme... It would be the cat that would be causing the allergy, not the house. A cat cannot permanently contaminamate a house... It can be cleaned!

justme111

grind some coffee before viewing
bake a bread/croissants/apple pie etc

sooz

our EA's have a childrens' contract in the sales pack

1) I promise to always flush the toilet

& another 9 things...be nice, not sulky, towards viewers & turn tv off IIRC

They forgot, don't leave lego trip hazards on the stairs & make sure the spider is still in his tank.

googler

sooz wrote: »

our EA's have a childrens' contract in the sales pack

1) I promise to always flush the toilet

My children's contract would basically say

"Leave the house (and take your parents with you) when the EA is doing the viewings"

poppy10_2

jenny74 wrote: »

What a load of tripe! Sorry to be blunt but being asthmatic has nothing to do with cats!

In many cases it does.

BaldPlumber

Get you and your brood out for a viewing and let the little 19 year old ASBO EA demonstrate his expertise in the property market. After all, he probably has about 20 A* examination passes in relevant subjects such as darnce and texting, which is more than you have and is still fresh in his memory.

When I am viewing a house I would not want to have any contact with your appallingly badly behaved children. I would not want to be embarrassed about your dreadful attempts at DIY. I would want to pour scorn on your dreadful taste in decor and not feel that I have to be polite. If I look in your cupboards, I wouldn't want to feel despair at your preference for shopping at Lidl, which would undoubtedly be the reason why your entire family is obese. I would not want to undergo the horror of looking you in the eye after seeing that you or one of yours, is incapable of cleaning the toilet, or even worse flushing it, after use. I would want to discover all of the obvious faults with the house without you attempting to block my every move. I would hate to hear you pathetically referring any queries to 'she who must be obeyed' or 'the other half', who conveniently won't be there. I don't want to listen to your lies about your dust covered 40 year old boiler which is kept in 'tip top' condition, whilst it is actually haemorrhaging £5 notes up its flue because you were too tight to upgrade it.

In short, you should not be there. I would be potentially buying your house and can see no reason whatsoever why your presence would be required, twittering nervously about stuff that matters not one jot to me, whilst simultaneously lying your !!!!! off at every opportunity.

Give me a spotty and sullen EA youth who thinks his duties are fulfilled by moodily slouching in a corner, resolutely refusing to declare his complete ignorance by offering even a token gesture of sales ability or acumen.

Or maybe it's just me

mufi

justme111 wrote: »

grind some coffee before viewing
bake a bread/croissants/apple pie etc

These ideas are so cliched that if anyone actually did it, I would be far too busy rocking with cynical laughter to view the house.

Other amusing little things that we've encountered are scented candles lit during broad daylight (why? what's the scent hiding?) and dining tables, fully laid with expensive china and glasses. Some vendors have been watching too many house selling programmes...

As others have said, get the price right and present the house at its best. Don't do what one vendor did - our greeting on rolling up to the viewing was an Alsation hurling itself against the perimeter fence:eek:.