Seven Tips To GUARANTEE Your Home Won’t Sell
There are all kinds of articles out there giving advise of how to sell your home. It seems like some sellers, actually do all they can to prevent their homes from selling, what are their secrets? Some “sellers” don’t really want their homes to sell, here are some of the steps they implement.
- Make it hard to have your home shown. Very few people are willing to purchase a home they have never seen. The best way to do this is to not hire a Realtor, but instead have your home for sale by owner. Then, don’t answer your phone, and better yet, don’t have voice mail either. If you never answer, they will never make an appointment, and with no appointment, there will be no showings, and no selling.
- Make Your Home the Most Expensive — Almost everyone goes online to search Kennesaw Georgia homes for sale. If your home is priced well above the competition, more expensive than other similar homes of the same size and age.
- Don’t include photo’s on your MLS listing – Buyers love photo’s. Buyers want online details to narrow down the houses they will actually visit with their real estate agent. By not having pictures, buyers will most likely completely ignore your house.
- Make Sure Your Home Has Foul Odors – Nothing will detract a potential buyer from considering Everett Washington Homes more than a foul smell. The smell of cats and stale tobacco are about the most effective odor creators out there. If the smell is putrid enough, buyers may not even have to open the door to realize your house is not for them.
- Keep Your Home Cluttered and Messy – If your home has a great floor plan, you can totally detract from this by having stuff, especially garbage, everywhere. Lots of clutter draws attention away from your homes selling points. Potential buyers will be so distracted by all of your stuff, they will completely ignore the positive features. Baffle these potential buyers minds as they ponder how anyone could live in such filth.
- Prominently Feature Broken Things – Home shoopers generally want to be able to visualize themselves living in the home, broken things make a great distraction from positive visualizations. They want to know that they aren’t going to have to fix problems as soon as they move into their new house. One way to help detract this is to make sure there are plenty of broken items buyers will notice while viewing your home. Some easily noticed broken items include, broken windows, leaky toilets, holes in the wall, ripped carpet, and doors that won’t open and close.
- Minimize Curb Appeal – First impressions are most important, so if you can give a bad first impression, your chances of not selling your house are pretty good. The best way to give a bad first impression is with poor curb appeal. Don’t mow, trim, or edge your lawn, but do consider including attractive dandelions. It takes only minimal effort to allow weeds to completely consume all planter areas. Ensure that your exterior paint, doors, trim and general exterior look beat up and warn out. Unsightly chipped paint, preferably on older houses, is a great way to scare off those who fear lead poisoning.To add to the negative first impression, make sure you have a door bell out of order sign.
By following these seven steps, you can guarantee that your house will never sell, even in this rough buyers market.
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