Wow Lighter! Can you elaborate on what is happening with your house? I am thinking the best way to move this house is to list it low! It is hard to swallow losing some money-but 200k?
Our neighborhood is O L D.
Lots of little 50 year old ranch style houses... built like institutions with metal door and window frames... a bitch to wrestle OUT during a renovation, for sure.
Anyway... I knew this was a great area... so I did an addition and renovated, the outside looks great but... let's face it..... still an odd duck ranch that will some day be buried in million dollar+ much taller homes and nobody wants to pay much more for it than LOT PRICE so.....
might as well take a hit and sell it to someone who will improve the neighborhood.
I could wait around for more but.... I didn't have any luck when I was trying very hard to sell so....
we just did it.
You may want to consider dropping your price lower than your competition, if there's lots of other houses in your price range, for a quicker sale.
You should also know that some buyers won't even consiider a home if it's been smoked in, and for good reasons.
Sometimes fixing odd things, that aren't inexpensive, can make all the difference in the world.
The best realtor I know has an open house with other realtors and they make a list of possible deal breaker problems and then he requires you FIX these things. Then he guarantees a sale within 3 months
Do you have an odd shaped bathroom that opens right off the dining room?
A tub in the floor that presents a danger?
No wall dividing bathroom from bedroom?
We HAD some of those problems... not the bathroom off the dining room but... you get my drift.
Take away all the reasons buyers say NO.
Price reasonably from the start bc you don't want people looking in a lower price range to skip you and the ones looking higher to dismiss you bc you priced incorrectly thinking you could always come down
::sending another prayer your way::
Clean clutter free space.... NO CLUTTER: )
