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If an animal is taken care of properly they should not smell especially a cat. Ditto for litter boxes. I clean mine twice a day and I buy the best litter out there. Now the smell of cigarette smoke would turn me off. That smell is hard to get rid of if the owners smoked inside.
It's just disrespect imo. Why are you showing a house that is so dirty it smells? I'm not one to clean top to bottom everyday and wasn't when I had a condo. I've never had an odor in my home. You have to be really dirty to smell. Also, as a nonpet owner (and a pet disliker), many people don't realize how horrible pets can smell. Not their waste just their waste, their fur and bodies smell.
I don't think Scooby Snack is showing any houses. And sorry, you don't have to be really dirty to have a distinctive odor in a house. There are all kinds of cooking odors, soaps, etc.
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I appreciate bakery smells so it might sway me. If one house smells bad and the other smells good---all other things being equal, I'm going with the great smelling house.
I don't know why, but if I hear a washing machine while looking at houses, it leaves a negative impression. I can't explain it. It took me awhile to realize this was happening.
I'd rather buy a scrupulously clean home with no discernible scent than a dirty, unkempt home offering freshly baked cookies. But combine the two, and you might just have a winner. I do love cookies!
I haven't bought a house because it smells like cookies, but baking smell is part of creating a first impression to the buyer that the buyer can picture himself living in the house.
There are a lot of things that really should not affect the choice of a house but that do. Some people (a lot of people ) are easily manipulated and are oblivious to the manipulation.
I haven't bought a house because it smells like cookies, but baking smell is part of creating a first impression to the buyer that the buyer can picture himself living in the house.
There are a lot of things that really should not affect the choice of a house but that do. Some people (a lot of people ) are easily manipulated and are oblivious to the manipulation.
I agree with this. It's not about masking odors but recreating that warm, homey feeling ... like walking into someone's house on Thanksgiving morning (as opposed to a showroom). It's not supposed to be a conscious thing. Most of us have spent too much time on this board so we'd be immune to (or turned off by) it because we'd notice it as a sales tactic.
Of course I've never bought a house because the seller baked cookies. But it's something nice to do, same as you showering and using perfume before going out in the morning.
Also, in my experience, it's not very common. We looked for 7 months in 2 states and I can count in one hand the times cookies were present.
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