Mistakes that will Keep Your Home from Selling

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Mistakes that will Keep Your Home from Selling
When you're selling your home, you need every
advantage you can get. And there are few homes
that are magically market ready without a little
help. If your home needs a touch more than a
little help, it's time to get focused. After all,
listing your home when it's not in the right
condition to sell will probably only end in
frustration. And, in this case, frustration
means your home sitting on the market for months
with no offers or the errant, offensive, lowball.
If you want to make sure you get home sold
quickly and for the right price, you'll want to
avoid listing it with the following
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Mistakes that will Keep Your Home from Selling
Excessive Damage
Maybe the home you're selling was used as a
rental and trashed by frat boy tenants, or maybe
you just haven't kept it up as you should. Either
way, those holes in the wall that look like the
living room was used as a boxing gym, the
scratched-up wood floors on which dinosaurs have
clearly been racing, and the yard that's barren
except for those two-foot-tall patches of weeds
are not what buyers are looking for.
Unless you're planning to offer your house for a
price that will make buyers emphasize the good
and ignore the bad and the ugly, it's going to
need some attention.
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Mistakes that will Keep Your Home from Selling

• Carpet in the Bathroom
• It's just gross. And everyone who walks into that
  bathroom is thinking one of two things
• There's gotta be mold under there
• There's gotta be pee on the floor around that
  toilet.
• This is one update you'll want to do before you
  list. Or, if you're already listed and your
  home's not selling.
• Big, Nasty Stains
• A buyer shouldn't know where your dog likes to
  mark or where your kids spilled the entire bowl
  of holiday punch. If the stains on your carpet
  are that bad, potential buyers will stroll in and
  run right back out. No one wants to buy a pigsty.
  Invest a few bucks in new carpet. You'll make the
  money back since you won't have to drop your
  sales price.

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Mistakes that will Keep Your Home from Selling
Loud dog who Bark When someone approaches the
home One last word on pets. Barking happens,
whether it's your dog or one that belongs to a
neighbour. But you don't need that on the day of
your open house. Offering to pay for doggie day
care for a neighbour's pooch can eliminate the
issue and help create the serene setting buyers
want.
Your Dead Lawn Lack of curb appeal won't
necessarily kill a deal. In many cases, you won't
even get potential buyers to get out of the car.
If the front yard is a mess, buyers will
naturally think the mess continues inside.
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Mistakes that will Keep Your Home from Selling
A Bad Agent Face it. Not all of them are winners.
If your agent is rude, uninformed, lazy,
uncommunicative, belligerent, or unwilling to
take your opinions into consideration, get a new
one. An agent who isn't giving their client the
right type of attention probably isn't going to
get the job done. Your sloppiness Those drawers
and cabinets you shoved everything into when you
cleaned off your kitchen and bathroom cabinets
could be a deal breaker for picky buyers. We all
know buyers open stuff. They look in drawers,
they open cabinets, they examine closets. If
these spaces are messy and overstuffed, they may
assume there's not enough storage space.
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Mistakes that will Keep Your Home from Selling
Pet Smells Speaking of petsthey smell. You
probably don't notice since you live with them
everyday, but buyers will, and it might be enough
to turn them off. Deep clean the carpets and the
upholstery, invest in some air fresheners, and
remove cat boxes from the house for showings. The
last thing you want is a potential buyer
referring to your house as "the stinky one."
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Mistakes that will Keep Your Home from Selling
Unreasonable sellers Big problems in your house
can be deal killers, but they can also be deal
sealers, if you are reasonable. If your
inspection uncovers plumbing, electrical, or
roofing problems (or all three!) and you're
unwilling to negotiate, you can kiss that sale
goodbye. Bad Taste Your poor decorating choices
and failure to keep up with trends from this year
- or century - may haunt you when it's time to
sell. If it's true that many buyers have no
visionand all you have to do is watch House
Hunters and observe a buyer getting hung up on a
paint color to know that's true - then you are
really in for it with your crowded house full of
ugly, outdated crap.
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