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I once had a viewer leave feedback saying the back sliding door to the porch was obviously too old and need replacement. We we're speechless because we had that door replaced professionally with a brand new door just 3 months before we listed it.
I think I've posted this before, but maybe not...prospects would complain "it doesn't have a basement and we have to have one." The listing clearly indicated that there was no basement but there was a huge, unfinished attic with high ceilings and stair access, and it could be easily finished. Our agent said "well, I'm not going to drive over there and dig them one."
I think it would help if agents could encourage their buyers to word the feedback a little differently, e.g., "we weren't sure if a basement was a 'must have', but now we're thinking it is." But I also agree that a lot of the feedback is useless and may have nothing to do with the prospects' reactions. Maybe they sometimes just want to be polite and not say something like, "that is the ugliest kitchen we've ever seen."
We had a person say they only wanted one story. Another said they have small kids and didn't want a pool. Now why on earth did they make the appointment to see our home? These showings were both booked a couple days in advance. Lazy Realtor? Didn't look at online pictures? Our yard and pool both showcased,as was the back of the house. Our foyer and staircase featured as well.
Very frustrating to fuss for a showing and it's a total waste of time. Glad it's all over.
I think I can answer this. Lol! We did something similar one time. My husband is the the one who contacted the realtor and gave her his specifications. We got there and there and there was a pool. I said I don't want a pool we have small kids. I don't want to clean one either. My husband says I thought you would like one. We prefer one stories, but those aren't always readily available. A two story with most of the important stuff downstairs will work.
You gotta kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince.
We looked at 40 or 50 houses in this area before we bought, everything in our price range. I suppose we had weird-sounding reasons not to buy some of them:
"I don't like the way each room is a separate building, so you have to go outside and cross the weeds to get from bedroom to bathroom."
"It looks to me like the whole lot floods in the rainy season. Is that why the house is up on stilts?"
"The house wasn't bad, but the tons of old car parts, building supplies, and miscellaneous junk were a turnoff."
A lot of people have their mandatory requirements when choosing a house, but if the mandatory requirement was say one-story, if they want to look at a two-story, what's the problem? Maybe when they see a nice kitchen or huge backyard in the two-story, that may trump their one-story requirement. It's all about weighing the pros and cons and compromising wants and needs to get the perfect house for you.
Three years ago, my wife and I put our house up for sale. One prospective buyer hired a fortune teller to look at the house. After the fortune teller looked at the house, the prospective buyer did not submit an offer because the fortune teller said the house wasn't "feng shui".
Oh I remember another one. The prospective buyers were turned off by the sump pump in the crawl space.
We sold was in a part of the country where it rains all winter. Our house was on a crawl space built on rock, so the sump pump controlled the run off. But houses there are mostly built on slabs, or with an above ground basement on a slab, so sump pumps aren't all that common. It freaked buyers out.
Yeah my wife and I insisted that we wanted a house with a grand floor bedroom and complete bathroom. We had both been in the medical rehabilitation field and knew that this was essential after an accident - or just growing old and not being able to do stairs.
The house we bought ticked a lot of boxes (fenced in yard, good neighborhood, garage, not much fix-up) and lo and behold we bought it - even without the ground floor bed/bath.
We were selling a 10 year old townhouse in MA for $475K. The expression we heard a few times "is it is dated" which we interpreted to mean "we cannot afford it".....LOL
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