On market for nearly 5 weeks but no viewings

googler

zaksmum wrote: »

My garden's wrecked where my female dog wees so I'd be interested...!

...and you let your children play there ??!?!?
and store their toys there ???!?!?!

!!!!!!......

moneybunny123

I don't know the area, so have no idea if the price realistic or not. So based solely on the photographs, these are my first impressions:

Photo 1: The fence needs staining and the conservatory roof needs cleaning. The front lawn has seen better days and there is no sign of colour or "life" - perhaps a colourful hanging basket or pot of flowers is needed?

Photo 2: Obviously expensive to put right, but the artex ceiling is a turn-off. Perhaps turn your small sofa around too - the feng shui is all wrong.

Photo 3: Those bird cages are VERY off putting. If you have to keep them indoors, I'd have pulled them out of the way for the photos.

Photo 4: You've got children, and I know just how much stuff they accumulate(!), but for the purpose of the photo, pull their stuff out of the way to make it LOOK like a dining area.

Photo 5: Remove most of the kids stuff from the photo. Stain the fences, and inject a bit of love into your garden.

Photo 6: As photo 5.

Photo 7: No problems, except it looks a little dark. Have them turn all the lights on in the rooms for the photos.

Photo 8: Sack the photographer! Very blurry. Have them re-take it. Lovely child's room though.

Photo 9: See Photo 5. I'm not sure why your estate agent thought we needed to see a photograph of your washing line!

Photo 10: Strange to have a photograph of the outside of the summerhouse but not the inside.

Photo 11: The house looks quite isolated (which can be a good thing - quiet, not overlooked, etc) but it just appears in this photo to look a little bare at the front. It's a bit of a strange photo, and not really needed.

In general, I think other than a little tidying up and injection of colour outside, the main problem here is the photographer. Why we don't have a photo of the bathroom, master bedroom, or inside of the summerhouse is beyond me. And the photographs we do have are taken from funny angles and because the photos were taken on a grey day just makes the house appear to be grey too.

I would get onto your agents PRONTO and ask them to retake them when you've given the fences a lick of ronseal and moved the bird cages and kiddies toys out of the frame for the photos, and taken with a lovely, blue sky in the background.

Good luck.

sambuick

I would:

1. Spray fence
2. Put a 'feed and green' treatment on the lawns - front and back
3. Put up another hanging basket by the front door (the other side of the window from the existing one)
4. Jetwash drive and conservatory roof
5. Arrange for cages and their occupants to be elsewhere for new photographs (and viewings)
6. Serious tidy up of back garden and weed flagstones
7. Tidy away toys - it looks like there isn't enough storage
8. Do something about washing line
9. Try and set the conservatory up as a useable room. You've already got a dining area, so you don't really need another one, and, you've already got an office. So i would put a small sofa in there, coffee table perhaps and present it as another living room.

But that's just me ...

kr15snw

Eeeek, your agent worries me! Ours was downright mean at times with the photo's (move this, do this, do that). Worked though!

Is that 2 greys? Couldn't see the bird in the 2nd cage

We hid our parrot cage for the photo's, you'd be amazed how much bigger it made the room look!! Lol

KaratePigeon

lol, a grey and a sun conure. not sure why the pic of the grey ended up on rightmove, it is a bit strange! will definatley move them for the photos, though they will have to stay for the viewings unfortunatley!

DPJames

Listen man, it's nothing to do with moving bird cages, hiding the kids toys and putting picnic tables in the garden, All that is horse !!!!!! and totally unnecessary. Serious buyers will see straight through all that and will picture the place empty and then visualise what they'd do to the place. So don't worry about that. Defo tidy up the front though to give it more kerb appeal to passers by. And other than that you're in the same boat as the rest of us. The market is painfully slow and only the real bargains are getting sold, so maybe drop the price as low as you can afford to stir up some interest, that's the only thing that makes houses stand out at the minute. But that's about all you can do i'm afraid, if you can't lower the price you're just going to have to sit tight and wait for things to pick up.

Good luck amigo

Doozergirl

If the office cost £10k then you really need to take a picture of the interior, not the exterior! It's an attractive building, but with the splattering of toys around it, it looks like a glorified shed. Show that it is a proper room!

googler

DPJames wrote: »

Listen man, it's nothing to do with moving bird cages, hiding the kids toys and putting picnic tables in the garden, All that is horse !!!!!! and totally unnecessary. Serious buyers will see straight through all that and will picture the place empty and then visualise what they'd do to the place.

Why make it more difficult for them, though?

Why not present it at its best, and make it easy for buyers to visualise it, rather than putting all the clutter and distractions in their way?

Oldernotwiser

KaratePigeon wrote: »

Yeah, we have too much stuff now there are 4 of us, that's why we need to move. Really trying to hide things away but no room - did think of getting some self-storage somewhere but it's money out of an already tight budget (would it really help sell the house, if so it'd be worth it?)

Self storage is really worth it and doesn't have to be expensive when you consider how much you can get in a small space when you allow for packing things in the full height.

It also makes moving much easier as there's less to pack and you can take the stored stuff out of storage a few days (or weeks) after you move, allowing you to settle in more easily.

Oldernotwiser

DPJames wrote: »

Listen man, it's nothing to do with moving bird cages, hiding the kids toys and putting picnic tables in the garden, All that is horse !!!!!! and totally unnecessary. Serious buyers will see straight through all that and will picture the place empty and then visualise what they'd do to the place. So don't worry about that.

Never underestimate the stupidity or lack of imagination of the great British public, particularly when they're first time buyers!