We sold my mother's house last year in a London suburb. It had not been touched much since the 60s and it was by far the tattiest house in the road but it had large rooms, was in a good location near the tube with a large garden and potential for substantial extension and we had a lot of interest - the eventual buyer replaced the kitchen bathroom and windows and redecorated throughout and it now looks lovely. If I liked a house I could see past what is there and just look at what I would like to do myself. We are doing up our own house gradually as we can afford it.
@@cafsixtieslover if refurbishing been started the value of the house goes down until the place is presentable. I keep telling myself if I can mostly get a joiner then jobs will get done.
As a realtor, he should Never had mentioned the before. Always talk about the new: new floors, freshly painted (this means new buyers won't need to paint), work finished in the bathroom. Owner needs to clean up the outside area, too. Perhaps a couple of planters on the front stoop
The outside still looks very untidy and first impressions count. If the lounge and dining rooms were so disorganised and dated, how does the kitchen and main bedroom look. One has to have an overall impression of the house to be able to evaluate if it is indeed now sellable.
With all those unfinished jobs & the Graffiti decor I’m surprised she got ANY offers. The woman is in the Business world so surely she knew dark colours & messy rooms just doesn’t sell. It seemed to me she wasn’t bothered whether she sold it or not at first.
People are seriously commenting negatively a renovation tv show that's seemed very old to me? Come on!.. It’s back in 2008. Back then makers did not used to concern outside. That practically needs to look as beautiful as inside is. They cared about just the house inside the viewers going to see and admire & thus show will get some viewership . Designers designs and builders do as per the maker's wish.
The one thing that kept going through my mind is... why on earth is she selling? I mean, it seems a lovely area, has the potential to be a really nice home, her kids are young... and they have to live somewhere? I know money is probably an issue but she's going to lose SO much on solicitor and auctioneers fees. My advice would be to STAY PUT❤
If she can find somewhere with lower outgoings- smaller mortgage, lower council tax, better energy efficiency etc, maybe a semi-detached/ terraced house, then that will lower her monthly costs a huge amount.
It clearly stated in the show that she cannot afford the house. If you cant afford it, you cant afford it and need to downscale to something which is affordable. she wouldnt go through all of this uprooting her children if she had a choice!
So instead of showing a cluttered dirty house, now they show a nicer house but tell everybody how cluttered and dirty it was. Even though it's gone, that doesn't help sales because now people will think: hm, is that still under there? Why tell someone who is there for the first time the state is was in? There is one thing important and that's the state it is now.
This always amazes me why do you want it to be perfect i wouldnt buy a house for the owners decor its greedy agents setting prices high that means the house has to be perfection 40 years ago we wanted to sell our house we decorated it from top to bottom new carpets it was pristine two weeks after we moved out everythjng had been changed different carpet new wallpaper what did we waste our time and effort for if we had dropped the price to cover the cost of the work we had carried out we would have been no worse no beter off loke i said greedy estate agents
I'm getting ready to sell my house now. I'm not going to do anything. I painted and put down hard wood flooring 2 years ago. I figure the new owners will change everything anyway. So I hear you
It's a choice you have to make. Either you spend a few thousand on making it appealing, with a view to selling quickly for a higher price, or you have to drop the asking price - sometimes quite substancially- to attract the buyers. These sorts of programmes are quite useful in giving you tips on how to stage your home to sell, even if you don't go the whole hog and redecorate.
I was wondering. Not watching live tv I missed this programme altogether and judging by the house pricesthought it must be quite old. They are not Kirsty and Phil wanna bes are they? 😅
I live in rural Texas. I have the same problem. I'm selling my home now. I'm selling as is. Nothing major wrong as it was refined 2 years ago with new flooring, but what few little things I would have liked to do first is impossible. And no one is going to do handyman work reasonable. Most of them want 1 hundred dollars plus, to just walk in the door before they even see what needs to be done. I understand your situation.
The realtor knows who a handyman is. I got a list 12 years ago of: Internet providers, plumber, landscapers, trash removal, electrician, painter, roofers, the handyman, and many other needed products. It was and still is helpful. My town has a senior resource center. (ie. Meals on Wheels, In home healthcare, making a will, etc..) In the library, there is a free, small booklet advertising things for seniors, like a 'yellow pages.' I hope something works out for you.
@@Elizabeth-rk3do yes the realtor knows handyman, however they still want 50 to 100 dollars just to walk through the door. We decide to sell as is. Let the next owner deal with little things.
I would enjoy watching and LISTENING to these videos more if it wasn't for the noisy irritating background music you Brits insist on playing on many sites. Just get rid of it.
I cannot understand an Agent not being at a viewing, a prospective buyer will always feel a little awkward with the vendor there and could mess up a potential sale. I would've been really upset if she'd cannibalised my four poster bed!
