Help please - no viewings :(

Mojisola

flightsoffanciful wrote: »

Well I called the EA at lunchtime and asked them to find some better pictures of the kitchen that at least show the dining table. They said they have found 2 better photos so they should be on the site soon

For some reason they won't send me the pictures to choose myself. We are tied in with them for another 8 weeks so I guess we need to make the best of it with or without their help!

There are two over-exposed photos of the kitchen showing the table but they are separated by other photos.

The order of the photos is strange. Why are there two photos of the outside as the last two photos? One of the those should be first, followed by a series showing a logical progression round the house and finishing with the garden.

Check your contract with them. I had to change EA when selling (the agent who came out to the house was good but the office was awful) and didn't have to pay the first one anything.

DumbMuscle

Mojisola wrote: »

There are two over-exposed photos of the kitchen showing the table but they are separated by other photos.

The order of the photos is strange. Why are there two photos of the outside as the last two photos? One of the those should be first, followed by a series showing a logical progression round the house and finishing with the garden.

Check your contract with them. I had to change EA when selling (the agent who came out to the house was good but the office was awful) and didn't have to pay the first one anything.

It's worth noting that the photos have been changing as this thread has gone on. The first photo of the kitchen is alright, apart from the nuclear explosion going on in the garden. The current photo 5 (with the fridge and a bit of stairwell) is incredibly pointless

parking_question_chap

Change it to offers over £110k, its too expensive.

If you have no viewings its not the photos, its the price.

Hiding a guitar or moving a plant pot will not make a difference, the photos are perfectly fine.

Photos are just for rough guidance, thats the point of them, if they were the be all and end all why would people bother viewing in person?

mrginge

Given the amount of flooding seen in West Yorkshire over the last couple of years plus the sheer number of identikit matchbox sized townhouses dumped on flood planes, I'm not sure that opening the pitch with 'next to the canal' is a particularly wise idea.

flightsoffanciful

Thanks ParkingQueen - I know photos are just for rough guidance, but I don't think that some of the photos even give a rough idea of the house at the moment. I do agree that moving a guitar definitely isn't going to sell this house. I have tidied up the garden this evening and have a better photo for the EA to upload - and the kitchen photo is at least gives a rough idea now (although I would prefer better!). I don't think the house is overpriced at £120k, but accept we would need to go lower for a quicker sale. We aren't at that stage now but I do appreciate the feedback.


Mrginge - The house is on a hill, with houses on the opposite side of the road. It has views over the canal, but wouldn't be at risk of flooding. Not clear from the current description and, again, I don't think a change of wording about the canal will sell the house, but hopefully it will stop putting potential viewers off!

ReadingTim

flightsoffanciful wrote: »

I don't think the house is overpriced at £120k, but accept we would need to go lower for a quicker sale.

You may not think the house is overpriced at £120k, but your potential buyers do, as you haven't had any offers.

You don't need to go lower if you want a "quicker" sale, you need to go lower if you want "any" sale.

Crashy_Time

Interest in this house will pick up in the region of 80 - 100k IMO.

Slinky

Don't know if anybody else has mentioned it, but I'd rotate the bed with the green cover so its head is against the wall. I've never been keen on rooms where the bed only fits with the windows behind the bedhead as I envisage light leaking round the curtains in the summer and waking me up.

Crashy_Time

Slinky wrote: »

Don't know if anybody else has mentioned it, but I'd rotate the bed with the green cover so its head is against the wall. I've never been keen on rooms where the bed only fits with the windows behind the bedhead as I envisage light leaking round the curtains in the summer and waking me up.

Yes, there are endless tweaks and tricks one can do to make a house look better for viewings/photos, we have the "Twigs in a Vase/Baking bread" TV nonsense to thank for that, but in a declining market, and this is a crash in the making, people are looking only at location, size and PRICE. IMHO.

k3lvc

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Interest in this house will pick up in the region of 80 - 100k IMO.

And if it sells for £80k you can then use this single transaction as your long sought evidence to prove your theory :rotfl: