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Honest Assesment on our property please...

RedfordML
RedfordML Posts: 914 Forumite
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edited 25 March 2012 at 5:03PM in House buying, renting & selling
Got enough feedback thank you, EA emailed plenty of ammendments taking place next week.

Thanks for all the replies...
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  • Werdnal
    Werdnal Posts: 3,780 Forumite
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    Everything looks well presented, but one thing that lets down your photos is they were taken on a dull day. Now the better weather is here, get photos re-done on a sunny morning. Nothing makes rooms look better than some natural sunshine flooding in through the windows. Why no rear garden shot?
  • busiscoming2
    busiscoming2 Posts: 4,464 Forumite
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    It looks nice enough to me. Just don't like the blind being down completely on the kitchen window. Perhaps a plant or two to add colour to the front?
  • RedfordML
    RedfordML Posts: 914 Forumite
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    Werdnal wrote: »
    Everything looks well presented, but one thing that lets down your photos is they were taken on a dull day. Now the better weather is here, get photos re-done on a sunny morning. Nothing makes rooms look better than some natural sunshine flooding in through the windows. Why no rear garden shot?

    We have a lot of trees to the rear of the property and around April time they start to bloom so will wait until this happens then add the rear garden photo's...
  • Annisele
    Annisele Posts: 4,835 Forumite
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    I'm not looking to buy, and I've no imagination - so take my comments with the pinch of salt they deserve.

    I can't comment on price; I don't know the area. It looks nice though - if you were selling at that price where I live (zone 2 London) I'd bite your hand off.

    No floorplan, and I'm rubbish at working out whether a place is big enough without one.

    Apparently you have a rear garden, but I've no clue how big it is or whether it's an overgrown mess.

    Is there space for a table in the "kitchen/diner"? (Looks like it's just a kitchen to me).

    3 bed house, but pictures of only two bedrooms - so I'd assume the third was a shoebox. You might want to lose pictures 4 and 5 to show the other bedroom unless it really is properly tiny.

    If being super-picky, you could get rid of the sticky things on the fridge and clear your worktops before you took the kitchen photos.
  • McKneff
    McKneff Posts: 38,857 Forumite
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    edited 10 March 2012 at 11:45PM
    What a lovely home you have, I'm into black and white so I love your kitchen, a few colourful plants might be nice. I wouldnt do anything else to it, if you cleared the fridge and the worktops, it would look too clinical.

    Love the lounge too..........

    The only thing I dont like is the frontage, the small window, is that the bathroom
    make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
    and we will never, ever return.
  • phill99
    phill99 Posts: 9,092 Forumite
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    Nice house, but lacks kerb appeal. I would add some colour to the front. Maybe a couple of hanging baskets, nicely tended lawn and some pots/ flowerbed to add colour, especially as we are entering spring and have some lovely coloured flowers coming -daffodils, tulips etc.
    Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.
  • Werdnal
    Werdnal Posts: 3,780 Forumite
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    Is it your Wheelie bin? I know they are a fact of life, but maybe move it for the new photos!
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    Move the bin.

    Take the pictures in the daytime, with daylight flooding in, not in the half-light of dusk, with that leading to the overall dull & dark look

    Clear away the shampoo etc in bathroom.

    Take the front photo again on a dry sunny day.
  • Dunroamin
    Dunroamin Posts: 16,908 Forumite
    phill99 wrote: »
    Nice house, but lacks kerb appeal. I would add some colour to the front. Maybe a couple of hanging baskets, nicely tended lawn and some pots/ flowerbed to add colour, especially as we are entering spring and have some lovely coloured flowers coming -daffodils, tulips etc.

    You beat me to it - very dull from the outside.
  • Mobeer
    Mobeer Posts: 1,851 Forumite
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    Price - no idea

    Description - ok

    No floorplan - this is a real let down to me

    Pics - first is very dull. and this is your first impression
    The others are often dark - should be light coming in through the windows, and all the lights turned on
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