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The house we did buy had a terrible listing but was a great house with some updates, so you never know.
Smart not to let little things trigger you not to buy.
There is so much rampant overreaction to small stuff, and so many buyers who needlessly hobble their own efforts worrying about wording and photos rather than houses and features.
Needs some TLC = this house has been beat to h-e-double hockey sticks!!! full gut job.
Misspellings get me, too. "rod" iron for wrought iron, hand "scrapped" wood floors (really....these floors are made from scrapped wood?), "Parkay" wood floors for parquet. This cracks me up....makes me think of the old Parkay margarine commercials. "it's not butter; it's Parkay!"
OH, I know another one! "Updated" kitchen usually means they replaced Formica counters with some cheap, ugly granite and replaced the sink faucet. Still has old cabinets, same layout, same flooring, may or may not have mismatched appliances.
Not a listing, but I can't tell you how many open houses I've been to where the agent points out "they've updated the kitchen". yeah, looks like they updated it in 1986!
saw one today that referenced a "quarter bath." This was in 3 year old construction and I will bet money they don't have a standalone toilet in the non-existent basement.
So not really the wording exactly but not bothering to pay any attention to details is very off putting. I surely don't want that person involved in drafting a contract to spend several hundred thousand dollars!
The misspellings bother me for the same reason - rod iron, dinning rooms, walking closet. Or when someone misspells the location or street names.
It makes me think that many people do not bother to proofread at all.
The misspellings bug the heck out of me, too. And based on the listings I read in my area, we have a large population who has no grasp of phonics! (dinning/dining, scrapped/scraped, etc.)
The misspellings bug the heck out of me, too. And based on the listings I read in my area, we have a large population who has no grasp of phonics! (dinning/dining, scrapped/scraped, etc.)
I see "quite" when they meant "quiet" constantly.
And it seems like a larger percentage of time, I have first hand knowledge that the house is not actually really located in a "quiet" part of town or a "quiet" neighborhood, so I wonder how subliminal that mistake was in the first place....
And it seems like a larger percentage of time, I have first hand knowledge that the house is not actually really located in a "quiet" part of town or a "quiet" neighborhood, so I wonder how subliminal that mistake was in the first place....
The misspellings bug the heck out of me, too. And based on the listings I read in my area, we have a large population who has no grasp of phonics! (dinning/dining, scrapped/scraped, etc.)
Yes--the dinning one drives me crazy! I've made the comment that there must be quite a din in there--to blank stares.
And there are so many homes with plantation shudders.
There is a successful agent in my area that uses the phrase "entertaining" family room/bonus room/kitchen (whatever room). I keep wondering how the room is going to be entertaining me.
I cringe each time I read one of his ads with this phrase. He's a smart guy and a great agent so it's hard for me to understand this from him. Maybe one of his assistants writes the descriptions....
The other one that bugs me is "gourmet kitchen." I'm pretty sure it's not a gourmet kitchen.
Every show I've ever seen on cable includes comments from the potential buyer and/or the agent about how great this layout would be for entertaining.
How often does the average person have 15 people over for dinner/party/etc? Imagine buying a Chevy Suburban SUV to drive yourself around town, in case you might have 7 passengers that one time?
That said, I would love an island, outdated or otherwise. Only two of us working on different dishes at the same time can trip over each other. I'd get much more use out of that than a massive open floorplan.
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