Seven Tips To GUARANTEE Your Home Won’t Sell
There are thousands of articles written offering tips of how to sell a house. But what if you want to list your home just for fun, but don’t want it to sell, then what? If you want to make sure that your home doesn’t sell, here are some valuable tips for you.
- Don’t make it easy to have your home shown. Very few people are willing to purchase a home they have never seen. The first step to do this is to sell by owner rather than hire a professional real estate agent. Then, don’t answer your phone, and better yet, don’t have voice mail either. If you don’t answer the phone, they can’t see your home, and if they can’t see it, they won’t buy it.
- Make Your Home the Most Expensive — Almost everyone goes online to search Kennesaw Georgia homes for sale. If your home is more expensive than other homes buyers will consider.
- No Online Pictures - A picture is worth a thousand words. Buyers want online details to narrow down the houses they will actually visit with their real estate agent. If your house doesn’t have any online pictures, potential buyers won’t even realize that its actually listed at all.
- Keep Your Home Stuffy and Stinky — Foul smells can turn Tooele Real Estate buyers off faster than anything else. The smell of cats and stale tobacco are about the most effective odor creators out there. If the smell is apalling enough, lookers will turn away as soon as they open the front door.
- 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. Having lots of stuff will distract buyers from noticing your homes positive features. Home lookers will be so distracted by junk, that they won’t even realize there are positive features. Their brain power will be occupied pondering how anyone could sleep on a bed with so much junk on it.
- 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. Having lots of broken objects will seriously detract potential buyers. Consider cracked or broken windows, constant running toilets, holes in walls, stains on carpet, and doors and windows that don’t open.
- 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 your lawn, or even better allow it to die. It’s actually really simple to let weeds flourish and destroy any desirable vegetation. Make sure that the outside paint, doors, and trim look beat up. The stigma of loose paint chips on homes built before 1978 can transform opinions almost miraculously. If you really want to ice up the bad first impression, make sure your doorbell doesn’t work and the front door is very difficult to open.
By following these seven steps, you can guarantee that your house will never sell, even in this rough buyers market.
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