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If you are trying to sell your home-might consider getting rid of the plug-ins.
We were in the market to buy a home the past few months, still might be who knows yet. Two homes we went into in 45' and 48' had those disgusting plug-ins and they had one in every room!
It is not only disgusting and polluting to people like us, but can be a sign you are covering up a smell.
In our case we had to run out of the two homes within 3 minutes because we could not breathe.
What was also scary was each home had a cat, and one of the homes seemed to have a child live there.
What future health issues might your family (including pets) get from choosing to put these chemicals in your proximity to breathe 24 hours a day. The poor cat's head is level with the stuff!
My response to them would have been the same as yours! Oh well, there are plenty of fish in the sea, as they say, plenty of other houses on the market.
If you're so "fragile" that a glade plug-in will send you into a spin, you should only be looking at new builds. My costco store has 2 pallets of plug-ins on the floor, because lots of normal (non delicate) people enjoy them.
If you're so "fragile" that a glade plug-in will send you into a spin, you should only be looking at new builds. My costco store has 2 pallets of plug-ins on the floor, because lots of normal (non delicate) people enjoy them.
They are talking about the overuse of them. Like the others, I have walked into homes where they are abused to the point of having to walk out. It's the same as the use of perfume and colognes, we have all encountered the person who over did it; air fresheners can be wrongly used as well.
If you're so "fragile" that a glade plug-in will send you into a spin, you should only be looking at new builds. My costco store has 2 pallets of plug-ins on the floor, because lots of normal (non delicate) people enjoy them.
It's not about being fragile. My guess is that you haven't been in the overly scented homes very often. I don't know anyone that walks into one of those and says, "Oh lovely smell."
I don't care if someone likes them. It makes no difference to me. Use all of them that you want. However, if I am buying, I am going to assume that all the plug-ins are an attempt to cover up bad odors and that if I buy the house, I will have to deal with mold, mildew, and/or carpets and baseboard ruined by pet urine, or that someone in the house smokes and I will have the expense, which is fairly substantial, of dealing with removing smoke odors.
Therefore, if I really like everything else about the house, except that it has plug-ins or air fresheners of some sort, I am going to drop my offer by a very substantial amount to cover my potential costs of getting rid of whatever foul odor is being covered up.
Some of the other potential buyers are simply going to turn around and walk away. So, if you perfume your house while you are trying to sell, you are going to limit your pool of buyers to people who like plug-ins and who are too naive to realize that plug-ins can be used to cover up unpleasant odors.
If I drop my offer by a "substantial amount" how much are we talking about here? I've made offers 20-25% below market value.. Not only that, but I have had those offers accepted, because no one else was willing to find out what damage was being covered up with air fresheners. So sellers using those things are risking a substantial financial loss.
The interesting thing to me is that conventional wisdom says it's a good idea to bake cookies, a cake, etc. before showings and open houses so the home smells good but use a vanilla (or similar) candle or plug in and people have fits. Personally, unless it is overwhelmingly strong, I like certain scents in homes when showing but I have had people with me who have thought the same smells were horrendous.
Like everything else in real estate, you can never please everyone and some things that appeal to some can repulse others. It can be paint color, cabinets, counter tops, floor plan, decor.....and smell.
The interesting thing to me is that conventional wisdom says it's a good idea to bake cookies, a cake, etc. before showings and open houses so the home smells good but use a vanilla (or similar) candle or plug in and people have fits. Personally, unless it is overwhelmingly strong, I like certain scents in homes when showing but I have had people with me who have thought the same smells were horrendous.
Like everything else in real estate, you can never please everyone and some things that appeal to some can repulse others. It can be paint color, cabinets, counter tops, floor plan, decor.....and smell.
Could it be that fresh air and aroma of chocolate chip cookies appeals to more people than the smell of chemical carcinogens?
The interesting thing to me is that conventional wisdom says it's a good idea to bake cookies, a cake, etc. before showings and open houses so the home smells good but use a vanilla (or similar) candle or plug in and people have fits. Personally, unless it is overwhelmingly strong, I like certain scents in homes when showing but I have had people with me who have thought the same smells were horrendous.
Like everything else in real estate, you can never please everyone and some things that appeal to some can repulse others. It can be paint color, cabinets, counter tops, floor plan, decor.....and smell.
I have bath and body works wallflowers throughout my home not because they mask odors but because I like my entire house smelling like a particular scent. When we sold our house there was one left in a room but it didn't overpower and pretty much blended in with the rest of the air.
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