Selling Your House Strut
RAJ
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I'd like to hear other Strutter's experience with this.
My house goes on the market tomorrow. I'd like to think we've done as much as we could do to prep and market it so that we can get maximum return / exposure, but the market is crazy soft right now and especially in our price range.
Our realtor is all about having open houses. Anyone have experience with these? Kind of freaks me out because I know we're going to get a ton of looky lous because we renovated a large Victorian and brought it back to a single family.
This is my house BTW:
http://www.cressmanhouse.com/
My house goes on the market tomorrow. I'd like to think we've done as much as we could do to prep and market it so that we can get maximum return / exposure, but the market is crazy soft right now and especially in our price range.
Our realtor is all about having open houses. Anyone have experience with these? Kind of freaks me out because I know we're going to get a ton of looky lous because we renovated a large Victorian and brought it back to a single family.
This is my house BTW:
http://www.cressmanhouse.com/
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Thanks, it's been 8 long years and lots of $$$ later. Making the web site and documenting its history made me fall in love with it all over again. On to the next phase, though.
the open house was on mother's day
and that day's washington post's real estate section headline was
"why open houses don't matter anymore"
good luck
that is an awesome house
hope your move is positive
Seriously, your house is awesome.
Who is the Red Sox player you've got up on the wall?
b/w
Beautiful place. Even in a soft market you should attract some interest. Hopefully you don't have any equity issues.
b/w
awesome-awesome house raj! you thinking about moving somewhere more urban or out of the burbs to somewhere even more rural?
You might wanna make sure you tell the realtor to keep an eye on people at the open house. Muhfuckaz can get mad familiar, feeling the drapes and using your golf clubs and shit.
Tom Seaver
It can't hurt. I'm only interested in getting some buzz generated from it.
I do have some valuable guitars that I'll need to store at the in laws. Not really worried about the raers.
interesting.
when is this open house of which you speak?
are you staying in sellersville? is the house haunted?
Open houses are quite effective for selling homes here in Toronto, so hopefully that will be the case with you.
The web site you developed is, how do you say, um.... a genius move. Seriously nice touch.
Good luck, and feel proud of the home that you built. It really is beautiful and looks like someone could begin a new phase of their life there quite happily, and that is what sells a house.
Tony, we're building on Lake Nockamixon in Perkasie... basically a town over. Fortunately the house is not haunted :()
Asking $575,000... US DOLLARS that is ;-)
:micro:
The wife and I sold our home essentially ourselves
with a realty service that took a very small % of
the commission as we showed the home ourselves.
We sold in the Los Feliz area of LA. This was in
2009. Homes selling then had to be in immaculate
condition. We sold a Spanish Revival that was
built in 1927. Like you, we spent many years and
$$$ swankin' up the place. The good thing was
that I bought the place in 1996. At the height of
the market my next door neighbors sold their place
for 2M in 2005, but they bought later than us. Honestly
man, it's all about timing. We listed too high initially.
I felt that all the sweat equity we had put in that the
sky was the limit. In a stronger market it would have
been. I felt we had the dopest home on the market
at the time in our neighborhood and that our only
drawback was that we were on a busy street. The long
and short of it is, we ended up painting every room white,
as we had custom colors for most rooms - nice warm tones.
But the reality is that most people have no clue when
it comes to decorating and the more blank you leave
a space - the better. De-clutter as much as possible
because first impressions are everything.
The only reason we sold is that we really wanted to get
out of LA as my wife was pregnant. I totally loved the
place myself and it was really hard for me in the end to
let go as I felt a deep connection to that place and area
of LA. In the end I'm glad we sold but I would not want
to go through that process again nor wish it upon my
worst enemy.
Damn, that seems like a bargain compared to what you get for that around here.
Same here. In fact, it's downright depressing if I were
to show you what that would buy in these parts.
Hey Raj,
Would you consider some trades?
Ive got some Rawkus deadstock heat tha you might be interested in ;)
I don't even think the Rawkus record company is worth $575,000
a complete waste of time. Serious
buyers have an agent that will take
them to multiple listings on the same
day. From my experience that tended
to be Tues-Thurs. We showed the house
privately several times during the middle
of the week and the eventual buyers were
one of those couples who saw it then.
Open houses on Sunday are strictly for
Looky Lous..
Holy Hell, your house would be worth $10M in they bay area! Location, Location, Location I suppose. What is sad is that since living out here you asking price seems cheap, though the mid-westerner in me knows that is still a lot of money. SMH.