House value with Inside Stairway Facing the Entrance (Plano, McKinney: real estate, rental)

[skids929]

Originally Posted by razydroid

Thanks a lot for all of your advice. We are first time home buyers & want to make sure that we are not getting in to something which is not very common or not so desirable among others.



Thanks BstYet2Be for sharing the link about “Feng shui principl”. First time I am hearing about this.


Once again appreciate all your help.

Your Realtor might have mentioned it because there are alot of Asian buyers in the Plano area potentially..Either way I would consider a new Realtor if they are steering you based on that. Seems silly

[MurphyPl1]

This has to be one of the oddest things anyone has posted on here as a concern on a new house. There are houses like that ALL over the south and Texas. Very traditional floor plans and also the newer floor plans.

You can take fung shui into account, but then you are going to have to not have certain numbers, not have a house with a street that "splits your home" etc.

[ETex2]

Originally Posted by MurphyPl1

This has to be one of the oddest things anyone has posted on here as a concern on a new house. There are houses like that ALL over the south and Texas. Very traditional floor plans and also the newer floor plans.

You can take fung shui into account, but then you are going to have to not have certain numbers, not have a house with a street that "splits your home" etc.

THIS ^^^

Find a better realtor, shouldn't be hard.

[Linzy]

Actually, the realtor is doing his/her job by giving all the information and concerns that some people might have. The majority wouldn't know the Feng shui concern which mostly apply to Chinese. Of course if you don't know anything about Feng shui then it doesn't matter at all.

[Falafelosophy]

Only issues are that if children make staircase carpet messy then it's noticeable from the enterance and if someone is at the door and you want to run upstairs or downstairs then you must face them or wait ... well and feng shui, bad karma but not many American Asian care for that. In my experience hardly 20% homes have staircase in the back or middle and only 1 or 2% with two staircases.

[6am]

There is a huge difference between a big open foyer with a staircase facing front further from the door versus a small enclosed foyer with the staircase facing the main door directly. I have seen many homes with larger foyer and stairway towards the middle or angled to the left or right of the foyer, this seems to be a very traditional floor plan . However I have also seen a friend's house in Hurst with a small foyer with stairs less than five steps facing squaring at the door. That was one of the stranger stairway layout I have seen so far.

I believe the better fengshui applies only to the former larger foyer where energy needs to be balance and flow evenly throughout the entire house ..not straight out of the door . Not a fengshui expert but sound only logical. Similarly fengshui also says that the back door must never align directly with front door... all the good fortune must be directed inside the house and not directly out through the back.

[Double-G]

Feng Shui is a very niche fetish with a very small following of mostly strange Chinese people.

There is a significant minority (approx 12%) of 'asians' in Plano. Asian extends to Japan, the Philipines, most of the 'Stans, etc - places where they've never heard of feng shui.

The feng shui fetishists will be a tiny minority of that, if they exist.

And tbh if feng shui was important to you as a buyer you would write off the entire city of Plano - the entire place has awful feng shui and its chakras are literally all over the place.

6 lane grid-patterned concrete streets running NS and EW with minimal greenery is totally un-feng shoobox, dahling. So are schools that look like Ammo Dumps (hello PESH, PSH, PWSH?)

[Brookside]

It was not racist or silly of your realtor to mention this because of the demographics of the area.

Plano has a high number of Asians (who value the area because of its excellent schools and low crime), and bad feng shui would potentially knock out quite few buyers who would otherwise be interested in purchasing your home should you ever put it on the market later. So your realtor was in fact doing his/her job by pointing out something specific to the area that could affect your home's resale value.

BTW -- this is an accepted fact on the West Coast, which has an even greater concentration of Asians. I have friends in the Seattle area who actually tore out and re-built their staircase before putting their home on the market. It cost them about $20K, but they were able to list their home at a much higher price and easily recoup their investment.

[mSooner]

Sounds like you could possibly eliminate some buyers, but would I really worry about it? Absolutely not.

[FalconheadWest]

You need to clarify if you're talking about an entry having a foyer and then the staircare is a few steps away from the foyer vs the staircase being at the front door when you open it. I've shown houses time and time again where if the stairs are directly at the front door, YES, it will completely HURT resale as you've got a lot less buyers who are ok with this.

It's not always about the Feng Shui, it's about the look and feel. Who wants to open their front door to immediately have a banister right there? Some stairs you can't even get to if the front door is open because the stairs are right there on the other side of the door.

These properties do have a hard time reselling and anyone who tells you it's not an issue is just trying to "sell" you the house and not tell you the reality of the "Average" person.