Selling House - Advice

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http://www.huntrealestate.com/listing/henrietta/ny/115-campus-dr-henrietta-ny-14623-R133536

Any advice, based on what you see in the pictures and description, to help move my house a little faster? We’ve been told it might not be a bad idea to paint the nursery a more neutral color, which we agree with, and that maybe pulling up the carpet downstairs and having the hardwoods refinished would be good. Is that worth doing?

We are 95% moved out of the house right now, just a few pieces of furniture we are looking to find a home for is left.

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Paint every wall you can white, tear off any wallpaper that you can.

As retarded as this sounds the colors turn off certain people and they cant get past it. Some people are extremely stupid

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It’s probably because there isn’t enough garage space.

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I wouldn’t recommend white. I would recommend neutral tones though.

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My suggestions of thing I would be likely to see as a downside if I was buying:

  • Wall paper in the kitchen. This is not my style and looks dated. Cabinets are a little dated too, so they just increase the dated feel. remove the wall paper in favor of a neutral color and maybe some new pulls like this style: http://www.lowes.com/pd_89226-89973-PA0226-SN_0__?productId=3061679&Ntt=cabinet+pull&pl=1&currentURL=%2Fpl__0__s%3FNtt%3Dcabinet%2Bpull

  • Island tile counter top. I wouldn’t change this, but it’s not really the style people are looking for at the moment.

  • Paint the nursury neutral.

  • remove the polka-dotted wall paper in the basement room. I get the Grandparents basement vibe out of it. Just paint the upper walls a white color and leave the paneling (or paint it, but I don’t think it’s necessary.)

  • remove the boarder along the top of the living room. The carpet doesn’t help, but I don’t think you’ll get as much out of removing it and refinishing it.

  • And what I think the #1 thing you can do to help it sell: Get New Pictures with all the stuff removed. The curtains, furniture, and such make some parts of the house feel like an old couple lived there. It also seems pretty cramped in those rooms with the pictures. The other thing is there is poor lighting in a lot of them. Get some new pictures during the day, and if need be, get dome extra lighting when taking the pictures so the buyers browsing the site can see what they are looking at. Also, if you are thinking of dropping the price at all, wait til after you make the changes and get new pictures. This will make people who looked at it before possibly give it another look since it will look different to them.

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what they all said. All that wallpaper needs to be gone yesterday and white or some neutral color.

beyond that the kitchen is probably hurting you at the price you’re looking for in this area, but who knows if it’s worth updating to help the sale.

the house is perfect as is if you want to rent to some RIT students,

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Grandparents vibe is the same thing we felt when we moved in. Eventually got used to it, ignored it, and now we have moved to a longer term house. I want to do as little as possible, but change whatever is needed to move this house.

Thanks for all the advice so far guys.

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Go with natural colors in a brown theme. Cappuccino, basket weave, etc Everyone likes those. Get rid of the wallpaper as mentioned before. I know you said you don’t want to do a lot so I’d say leave the carpet and border in the living room for now.

Make changes in stages.

Stage one: Remove wallpaper and paint rooms.

Still no sale?
Stage two: Rip up carpets refinish floor and remove border in living room, re-paint.

People are seriously retarded when it comes to buying a house. They are all about first impressions, make sure the house is super clean and if need be rent furniture that accent the house nicely. If people can envision themselves living in the house they will buy it.

If someone is coming to view the house, toss some cookies in the oven right before they come if possible. Its a comfort thing plus chicks dig it, and we all know who really picks out a house. LoL

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this

also, paint the cabinets so that it’s ALL white and add some more modern pulls.

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Honestly, I would probably start with new pictures on the website. You are hurting your first impression right there just by turning people off to going to look at the place. If you can get them there, they are more likely to overlook other stuff, or say to them selves that they could do the work.

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i would paint all the walls white because it gives the buyer the impression that this is newly renovated and never lived in since.

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Like other said, definitely lose the ugly wallpaper downstairs and the border in the living room. I doubt the mauve carpet is helping but tearing that up and finishing the hardwood is a lot more involved than stripping some wallpaper and painting.

You also might be overpriced for the market conditions and lack of updates, but I don’t know the Henrietta market that well. It’s 10k over the tax assessed value and looking on Zillow at other recent closings in the area is seems high.

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Also, when staging a home, most of the shows say to remove all personal affects. Kids Toys, Family Photos, Knick Nacks, etc. You can replace personal photos or paintings with some cheap wall art at Target or w/e (http://www.target.com/b/173717011/ref=sc_pgc_r_3_0_14289341_1?ie=UTF8&node=173717011).

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I like the stages idea, especially since that would be all I have time to do now anyway. Price drop to $134,900 and open house this Saturday. Our agent has been waiting for a descent day to take new pictures, been rainy and crummy since we got all of our stuff out.

New handles on the kitchen cabinets seems like an easy thing and makes sense. What to choose though? The appliances are black and stainless…

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I’d probably go with Stainless, since it’s a “neutral” so-to-speak.
http://www.homedepot.com/Stainless-Steel/Kitchen-Cabinets-Cabinet-Hardware-Cabinet-Hardware-Pulls/h_d1/N-5yc1vZbrg7Z1z12zqw/h_d2/Navigation?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053&Nu=P_PARENT_ID&searchNav=true

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knowing the area I think you can sell it or at least get some good offers for your new asking price without doing anything.

the weather improving will be the biggest help of all.

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I hope so…

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I totally forgot about pictures. Have them use a GOOD camera or get someone to. Nice pictures will bring a ton more people by.

Random house down my street with nice pictures/colors.
http://www.har.com/HomeValue/58-E-Rumplecreek-The-Woodlands-77381-M97470411.htm

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Ugh, that’s a great location (other than the railroad tracks), and it’s so close to RIT. I wish this was for sale a year and a half ago when I bought my house :frowning:

I wouldn’t worry about all of the picky things people said above, I would do the easy things like paint and wallpaper removal, and leave it at that.

–mark