How To Make Sure Your Home Won’t Sell

August 19th, 2010 by MyAt_28 Leave a reply »

There are thousands of articles written offering tips of how to sell a house. It seems like some sellers, actually do all they can to prevent their homes from selling, what are their secrets?   If you want to make sure that your home doesn’t sell, here are some valuable tips for you.

  1. Don’t make it easy to have your home shown. If nobody ever walks through your home, then your chances of it not selling are pretty good. The first step to accomplish this is by not hiring a real estate agent, but just sell it by your self. Then, don’t even answer your telephone when people call seeking more information. If you never answer, they will never make an appointment, and with no appointment, there will be no showings, and no selling.
  2. Make Your Home the Most Expensive — Almost everyone goes online to search Kennesaw Georgia homes for sale. If your home is priced well above the competition, more expensive than other similar homes of the same size and age.
  3. Don’t have Photos – Buyers love looking at pictures of their possible future home. Buyers want online details to narrow down the houses they will actually visit with their real estate agent. By not having pictures, buyers will most likely completely ignore your house.
  4. Smell Can Be Very Powerful — Very few things can turn a buyer off more quickly than a foul odor. One of the easiest way to develop that potent smell you’re looking for to drive potential buyers away is by having lots of animals living in your house. If the odor is bad enough, buyers won’t even bother seeing anything beyond the entry room.
  5. 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. Clutter will detract from any positive selling point your home has. Home viewers will be mesmerized by all of your stuff and won’t notice any of the positives. Baffle these potential buyers minds as they ponder how anyone could live in such filth.
  6. 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. A great way to discourage potential buyers is to highlight all of the broken features in your home. Common broken items include, windows, toilets, faucets, holes in walls, soiled carpet, and non functioning doors.
  7. Implement Negative Curb Appeal — It’s always best to start the showing experience off poorly. The initial step to creating a bad impression is by having poor curb appeal. Don’t mow, trim, or edge your lawn, but do consider including attractive dandelions. It’s actually really simple to let weeds flourish and destroy any desirable vegetation. Ensure that your exterior paint, doors, trim and general exterior look beat up and warn out. The stigma of loose paint chips on homes built before 1978 can transform opinions almost miraculously.To really help set that bad first impression, jam the front door so it is really hard to get open.

These seven steps are proven to be most effective ways to not sell your house.

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