Selling a house

Hi Group, Ok, I feel I can vent here. Yesterday I had a Realtor come to look at my house because we will be selling this spring and downsizing our quarters. Mind you I will have a bigger sewing room in the new house. After all, I have my priorities. To those who know me, you are wondering, yes it will have a kitchen (unfortunately)! Anyway I digress, This guy likes what he sees and compliments most of it until he gets to my little sewing room that is admittedly filled with machines and such. He informed me that "all this stuff" must be boxed up and gone to the attic. Right, we are 6 months away from the house being finished. Obviously this guy is not the agent for me. Thanks for letting me vent! Linda in Tx

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nana2b
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That's a relief!

Linda, I'm glad to hear that you didn't just do as he said! What a jerk! "All this stuff" is what keeps us sane in the midst of things like selling houses and moving. Of course, the prospective buyers need to see the space as uncluttered as possible (makes it look bigger, more desirable, usually), but there's no need to get rid of everything, even temporarily. Best of luck!

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Sandy Foster

I do beg to disagree. If it's time for buyers to look at the house, then it's time to eliminate as much 'stuff' as possible, even if it means renting a storage area. Not fun, but very important. Buyers as a rule have no imagination whatsoever.

joan

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joan8904 in Bellevue Nebraska

I suppose it depends on the real estate market too. In this area things are still pretty hot. 10 minutes is not unusual, actually the r.e. guys have more buyers than houses. If it would make a difference in how fast or how much money I made I'd pack away. I have a few tops that I could hand quilt pretty easy and that would work for awhile. Taria

joan8904 > I do beg to disagree. If it's time for buyers to look at the house,

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Taria

I know where you're coming from! We're selling our house too and today has been spent deciding what stuff we can put into storage until we move. Hubby came across the two large crates containing my stash and was just about to open his mouth and speak before he saw the look on my face.

The stash is staying.

morag

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Morag in Oxford

Howdy! We talked about this at lunch yesterday, the RCTQ group at the Dallas Quilt Show. We all agreed that this is NOT the realtor for Linda. I contributed my story of selling our last house ( I sold it myself in 7 days), when I rented a small storage unit, moved the extra stuff in there, clearing out the old house. Last things into storage were the Christmas decorations and then, last of all, my quilting stash and craft supplies. I kept my current project w/ me, sold the house, moved into the new house the same day. First in: the quilting stash from the storage room. Around here, the bigger the rooms look, the better the sale. While Linda understands that most of that room will have to be de-cluttered, cleared up, the twit from the realty office needed to step back and re-think his approach. I mean: DUH! Get a clue, Mister!

You're right about many of the buyers and their lack of imagination. Watch any of those sell-your-house and new home shows on t.v. and hear the prospective buyers get hung up over curtains and dishes: "you're buying the house, not the furnishings!" But people remember what they first see. I even left most of the walls white in the old house, just to sell it.

Cheers! Ragmop/Sandy--not a white wall in this house!

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Ellison

Having just been through the home buying process, I can tell you cluttered houses are a big turn off for buyers, myself included. It's really, really hard to imagine that house without the clutter, or with my clutter instead of theirs. :(

Yes, yes, I know. Sewing stuff isn't clutter to us. But it is to 90% of the buyers out there. Sad but true.

And having been through the "being packed for an indefinite time" thing, I can vouch that well labeled boxes with everything but the current project packed up is quite doable. Make a master list of what's in what box, and you'll be able to get what you need any time you need it. (Now if only the boxes DH packed had been labeled as nicely. Grrrr....)

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Kathy Applebaum

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