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Old 09-10-2011, 10:47 AM  
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House buying - What is your deal killer?
We may be putting our house on the market and the Realtor gave us a short list of things we should do. Some I understand but at least one I don't.

When you enter our house, the first thing you see is a hardwood floor hallway and a carpeted stairwell going upstairs. The Realtor wants us recarpet it because of the color. It is a slate blue. I've never had an issue with it and I've never had anyone who has come into our home comment on it.

Would any of you allow the color of a stairwell carpet dissuade you from purchasing an entire house?
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Old 09-10-2011, 12:42 PM   #31
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our house was on the market for about a year; had average carpet etc; no bites by buyers. after 6 months, offered a carpet allowance. nada.

replaced the carpet, and the house solde in 30 days. Odd. never know what will turn off a buyer.


But yeah...if it were me buying a house, i wouldn't care what color it was; or what color walls were etc. easy fix to my taste etc
Well crap. If I am spending money on carpet why am I moving.

Maybe I should start being THAT buyer.
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Old 09-10-2011, 12:43 PM   #32
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our house was on the market for about a year; had average carpet etc; no bites by buyers. after 6 months, offered a carpet allowance. nada.

replaced the carpet, and the house solde in 30 days. Odd. never know what will turn off a buyer.


But yeah...if it were me buying a house, i wouldn't care what color it was; or what color walls were etc. easy fix to my taste etc
I think a lot of it is that people are weighing the cost with how much effort they'll have to put into it. If the place has blue carpet, and most people won't like it, then everyone walks into the place thinking "OK, so is this worth the amount of effort it will take us to fix it."
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Old 09-10-2011, 12:51 PM   #33
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I think a lot of it is that people are weighing the cost with how much effort they'll have to put into it. If the place has blue carpet, and most people won't like it, then everyone walks into the place thinking "OK, so is this worth the amount of effort it will take us to fix it."
That's my point. They can keep looking and for the same price they can get what they want.
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Old 09-10-2011, 12:55 PM   #34
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Old 09-10-2011, 01:08 PM   #35
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I go into a home purchase/lease with the notion that I'm going to end up having to replace the carpets and paint the walls, so your blue carpet wouldn't really mean much to me.

For other people, though, who want a move-in ready home, it could be a turnoff.
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Old 09-10-2011, 01:14 PM   #36
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God I wish my wife would have never even found that house she fell in love with. We weren't even looking. This is just causing me all kinds of stress.

Crappy thing is that we can't even put a bid down on that house unless somebody commits to ours. That house may be gone by then and we just wasted time and money. Sellers won't take contingency offers.
Good luck to you. We just sold our house, it had been on the market like 45-60 days. take your realtors advice. You dont want to alienate a whole demographic of buyers who cant see the forest for the trees. Theres alot of them out there. I think most people want "move in ready"

Dont forget to stage your home as well. Get rid of the clutter and make spaces look bigger.
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Old 09-10-2011, 01:17 PM   #37
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A lot of people view a house and make decision based on whether they like the house or not. They don't even think about why they like it or don't like it. They don't think about what can be changed or how much work or money it would cost. They just look at it the same way they do a shirt and make a snap decision about whether they like it or not.

That is what your Realtor is trying to accomplish, based on some psychological mumbo jumbo that has been demonstrated to work in the past. Can you sell the house without recarpeting the stairs? Probably, but you might miss out on selling it sooner to a mindless zombie.
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My wife and I are in the process of buying our first home. I would rather be able to choose what gets done to my house....then have the previous owner replace shit that I might end up having to replace again.
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Good luck to you. We just sold our house, it had been on the market like 45-60 days. take your realtors advice. You dont want to alienate a whole demographic of buyers who cant see the forest for the trees. Theres alot of them out there. I think most people want "move in ready"

Dont forget to stage your home as well. Get rid of the clutter and make spaces look bigger.
The thing I am worried about is that if we change out both areas of carpet we are thinking, we will have to replace all of the other areas too so it doesn't clash as much.

My plan was to pull the carpet off our hardwood floors because they were finished. But, the condition of the hardwood floors was deteriorated enough that they need refinished. So that option got eliminated. As much as I would like to just have them refinished, I can't get the time off work it would take to get them done properly.

I am really getting to the point that, as much as I hate this house we live in, it just isn't worth all the money we will have to soak into it to get it sold right now. We need that money for the house we actually want.
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A good relator wouldn't let someone not purchase a home based on just changing carpet or paint color. Silly.
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A good relator wouldn't let someone not purchase a home based on just changing carpet or paint color. Silly.
A realtor will do whatever it takes to get a sale. Sellers realtors make you spend money to make their job easier. Buyers realtors try to get the sellers to spend money to make their clients happy and put more money in their pocket. Sellers lose no matter how you look at it. heh
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A realtor will do whatever it takes to get a sale. Sellers realtors make you spend money to make their job easier. Buyers realtors try to get the sellers to spend money to make their clients happy and put more money in their pocket. Sellers lose no matter how you look at it. heh
Sounds about right.
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A good relator wouldn't let someone not purchase a home based on just changing carpet or paint color. Silly.
LOL. The people who are looking at Guru's house will likely be represented by someone else. Someone who doesn't give one shit if they sell Guru's house or someone else's. Guru's agent's job is to make his house as marketable as possible to the most possible people. Changing the carpet would likely do that.
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