30 viewings, no offers

olibrofiz

.... me making a few comments. Your house is sweet and I'd buy it if I was looking for that type of property. I have a few suggestions, if you don't mind?

Firstly if your garden has no rear access I'd move the motorbike - personally I don;t think of things unless I'm presented with them - if I saw the bike I'd think 'oh, anything I store here has to go through the house. eg the rubbish, the kids bikes, the 30 foot tree I intend to plant' ..... whereas without the bike I'd be olblivious If you do have rear access I'd get it put on the EA's details.

I'd get some bushy plants and colourful pansies or similar to put in the border, or put them in pots (you can always take them with you) I'd also hide the drainer in the kitchen as it breaks up the length of the worktop, buy a green bowl for the sink and some £1.99 herbs from ASDA/Tesco for the windowsill.

New cream rug for in front of the fire, cheap and cheerful (yellow?) cushion covers, stash the kiddie rug and the table cloth (nice vase of flowers?)

I'm ashamed to say that I've been quite devious while selling my house - stashing stuff in the boot of my car prior to a viewing, shoving Fizzy the dobie's beanbag and toys under my bed and as much of DD's toy collection I can in the wardrobe. But hey, in these days of property makeover TV progs and stuff you gotta do what you can

Alanland

billigmeister wrote: »

Alan

Just happens that my wife viewed the property this week.

I don't think it is that off the mark in terms of price maybe £5K or something and obviously it isn't a great big place but people know that before they look.

We were looking cos we are putting ours on market and it is a fairly similar sort of place and were checking the market out (so would not be real buyers as such). However the one thing we can tell you is that the estate agent taking my wife round (she doesn't remember her name), was really not a nice person and extremely pushy. Even though my wife said she wasn't interested in it she still asked "So will you be putting in an offer then?", just an unpleasant and cold estate agent. Even called the next day to check if we wanted to put an offer in. Pushy estate agents don't tend to warm people to a house.

Perhaps it was a one off but she was like it on other viewings we had with her.

Thought had best share our thoughts

good luck with sale

Thanks a lot for this post, interesting what you say about EA, very interesting! We are now in the process of changing agents and I may well post the new details and new pictures in a few weeks if we are still on the market. And it feels like we will be!

nelly_2

olibrofiz wrote: »

.... me making a few comments. Your house is sweet and I'd buy it if I was looking for that type of property. I have a few suggestions, if you don't mind?

Firstly if your garden has no rear access I'd move the motorbike - personally I don;t think of things unless I'm presented with them - if I saw the bike I'd think 'oh, anything I store here has to go through the house. eg the rubbish, the kids bikes, the 30 foot tree I intend to plant' ..... whereas without the bike I'd be olblivious If you do have rear access I'd get it put on the EA's details.

I'd get some bushy plants and colourful pansies or similar to put in the border, or put them in pots (you can always take them with you) I'd also hide the drainer in the kitchen as it breaks up the length of the worktop, buy a green bowl for the sink and some £1.99 herbs from ASDA/Tesco for the windowsill.

New cream rug for in front of the fire, cheap and cheerful (yellow?) cushion covers, stash the kiddie rug and the table cloth (nice vase of flowers?)

I'm ashamed to say that I've been quite devious while selling my house - stashing stuff in the boot of my car prior to a viewing, shoving Fizzy the dobie's beanbag and toys under my bed and as much of DD's toy collection I can in the wardrobe. But hey, in these days of property makeover TV progs and stuff you gotta do what you can

No disrespect to what you are saying but if all that crap works then the morons (house buyers) of this country are even thicker than I thought.

olibrofiz

lol, thanks for that nelly!

Personally I feel a few nice things that catch the eye are better than the full, expensive, redecoration thingie that some of these TV make-over shows promote. I like to save the cash to do things to the house I'm moving to.

Lets face it, hands up any one who's never moved and looked at something in their 'new' house when they've moved in and thought 'hang on a minute...'

Or maybe it IS just me (damn, must remember to take the shades off when I go viewing)

nelly_2

olibrofiz wrote: »

lol, thanks for that nelly!

Personally I feel a few nice things that catch the eye are better than the full, expensive, redecoration thingie that some of these TV make-over shows promote. I like to save the cash to do things to the house I'm moving to.

Lets face it, hands up any one who's never moved and looked at something in their 'new' house when they've moved in and thought 'hang on a minute...'

Or maybe it IS just me (damn, must remember to take the shades off when I go viewing)

Its just me I work in about 250 different houses a year and dont even see decoration and stuff only what is important

Melissa177

I am never ceased to be amazed by morons on property programs who say that they would pay more for a property because it's been decorated nicely.

olive84

Me neither, I can't stand it when they say, oh, look at the carpets and the wallpaper. Hello? you're buying the bricks and mortar? The worst is people that look at the furniture. Some people have no imagination, that's the problem. The flat we are buying is typical of these programs, magnolia everywhere. I can't wait to put some character in!

olibrofiz

I agree Melissa177, I look at whether the house could be MY home, never mind the decor. And with my new one, I'll get round to the decorating - after the damproofing, roof repairs, plumbing, fencing, new floorboards, double glazing - err, think I may have taken on a little too much this time Cheese on toast for da next 5 years

Alan, how's it going? I couldn't access your house through the website, any developments? Good ones I hope?

Alanland

Have now changed agent and this is the new property details.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-15545378.rsp?pa_n=3&tr_t=buy

Looks better than before, lime kitchen now magnolia and less clutter so let's see. Ended up with 37 viewings, no offers from first agent - wish me luck with agent number 2!

Doozergirl

It does look better! It looks more neutral and sophistacted, actually.

Tidy your bookcase in the living room so that it's nice and organised and that whole thing about stashing stuff in your car when you have viewings really does work if you don't have homes for everything. Space is obviously at a premium and it really is going to be the issue for people when they compare what they see in the house to the asking price. You need to negate that as much as possible by having as little as possible in the house.

You need to have a good and proper clearout when you move so I think you should do this now. Make sure that all of your storage areas are neat, tidy and organised so that your buyers are given the impression that there is space for everything.

Selling effectively does involve living artificially for as long as it takes to get that offer.