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We have solid wood trims too and have been told they wanted white - duh it is on the MLS !!!
Best one was house is overpriced considering they would have to decorate to their own personal taste !!!
Also want to change gas boiler to electric as it is safer ??
OK I'll confess to my own bad comments.. and I can look past wallpaper, paint, flooring and lighting. Believe, me the neighborhood we are looking in is all fixer uppers and still the same price point of our entirely done home!
I went into this one home a couple weeks ago, this nice looking tudor. I am not a tall person but for some reason when I went in there it felt like the entire home (built in the 80s I think so not incredibly old) felt small and built for people no taller than 4 10". It was the wierdest thing. Showed very well, everything had been updated but it just didn't feel... right. It was the oddest feeling ever. So, I wonder what my agent said fpr feedback on that one?
There's a house in my neighborhood that sold last year that actually did need $100k worth of work. The kitchen had fake grey stones on the walls, with this cave-like structure built around the stove. Every room had mirrors on the ceilings, and the living and dining rooms had them on the walls also. Most rooms were painted red. The shrubs around the house were so overgrown, you couldn't see any of the windows. The front and back yards were full of statues and fountains. The bathrooms were also a mess and needed to be done over. Could you live in the house? Sure, but for me, the place would give me nightmares.
Okay from the sounds of THAT house I probably could NOT have lived in it. mirrors on the ceiling in every room. mmmm...... wonder why they needed those up there.
What is THE most silly/annoying/dumb/shocking/fill-in-the-blank-adjective piece of feedback you've ever received from a showing???? This outta be fun! (hat tip DJ)
At one of our open houses a lady said our master bedroom was very small. It's 14'X16'. Granid you can't play a game of hoops in there but it's pretty large for a master in this price range. That's about as crazy as the comments got for us.
Other than that at our home inpection the inspector said that it appeared that the return air filters had "Never been Changed". But we change them every month or two. I don't know what he was smoking.
OK I'll confess to my own bad comments.. and I can look past wallpaper, paint, flooring and lighting. Believe, me the neighborhood we are looking in is all fixer uppers and still the same price point of our entirely done home!
I went into this one home a couple weeks ago, this nice looking tudor. I am not a tall person but for some reason when I went in there it felt like the entire home (built in the 80s I think so not incredibly old) felt small and built for people no taller than 4 10". It was the wierdest thing. Showed very well, everything had been updated but it just didn't feel... right. It was the oddest feeling ever. So, I wonder what my agent said fpr feedback on that one?
OMG this made me remember a house my dh and i looked at a few years ago when we were thinking of moving to cape cod, mass. now dh and i are NOT tall people (i'm 4' 10" and he's 5'5"). the house had a finished basement so we were all excited to see it. we get down there, dh for the first time in his life had to duck and I could actually touch the ceiling! CRAZY!!!!
OK I'll confess to my own bad comments.. and I can look past wallpaper, paint, flooring and lighting. Believe, me the neighborhood we are looking in is all fixer uppers and still the same price point of our entirely done home!
I went into this one home a couple weeks ago, this nice looking tudor. I am not a tall person but for some reason when I went in there it felt like the entire home (built in the 80s I think so not incredibly old) felt small and built for people no taller than 4 10". It was the wierdest thing. Showed very well, everything had been updated but it just didn't feel... right. It was the oddest feeling ever. So, I wonder what my agent said fpr feedback on that one?
well if you're used to 9'-10' ceilings and they had 8' then I know exactly what you are saying. Every time I go back to my parent's hous I feel like that because they have mostly 8' ceilings.
We have solid wood trims too and have been told they wanted white - duh it is on the MLS !!!
Best one was house is overpriced considering they would have to decorate to their own personal taste !!!
Also want to change gas boiler to electric as it is safer ??
I'm getting ready to move to Wichita, KS and the big thing there is stained oak. It almost a yellow tone. It makes me want to gag. I appreiciate the craftmanship of the work but some of the kitchens will have oak floors, oak trim, oak cabinets, oak built-ins, etc etc. They just take it too far.
I asked a home builder if we could just get the trim painted instead of stained and he said it would actually cost more! I could have sworn that stain was more expensive than paint but....whatever.
In Fort Worth where our current home is the standard thing to do there was painting the trim...which I like...it would actually cost a significant amount more to have it stained instead.
I once got feedback that they didn't like the location of my (portable) composter & thought it was too small. Good thing I was selling my home, not my composter, otherwise that thing would've been on the market for years!
That was just about the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
LOL...that's just like when people look at the house and say they don't like the furniture....WTH are they looking at the furniture for? Do they want that too?
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