The Five Biggest Turn-Offs For Homebuyers 🦅 🌎 ⚓️
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The Five Biggest Turn-Offs For Homebuyers
Introduction: Picky Buyers in the Market
Buyers are picky buyers, and they're working slowly. You see it in the data that I show you that Buyers are taking their time. They're not freaking out Spending four hundred thousand dollars over the listing price just to get into a house that they Which means that you as a seller need to be more aware of what buyers are looking for and what buyers What turns off buyers and that's what this article is about.
Imagine that Let's drop this in here to firm up my Focal view there. All right.
Top 5 Turnoffs for Home Buyers
Five biggest turnoffs for home buyers. It is true buyers.
Importance of Pricing Your Home Right
I talk about this a lot and in a lot of different topics and angles, price is the most important thing. I could do everything right. I have a process. I've shown you my process before.
I walk you through the process. And when we walk through that process, including pricing your house sells. If your house is overpriced, and I've sold 10 other houses so far year to date, and your house isn't selling, it might not be me as your agent. It might be overpriced based on market conditions, the house condition, and the price, right?
I also talked about being a market maker or attracting the market. If you attract the market, you list it low, and you get a bunch of eyeballs on the MLS on your listing. And then when you have an open house or you have, you get more showings because it's priced really well.
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And then it means that there are more interested buyers. That means you're going to get more. Disclosure downloads and more disclosure downloads mean you're going to get more offers, right? If it's priced right, you're going to get multiple offers. If you try to be a market maker, you're saying, I'm okay waiting for the right buyer to come along.
For the right price. The problem is when you're attracting the market, they're looking at fast paced houses to sell. And if you have your house price, let's say 2. 5 million and it's been three months. It's not worth 2. 5 million. Okay. That was two minutes of my little rant.
Smells and Their Impact on Home Sales
Other things that turn buyers off or smell and I am smelling my it's raining here. So my dogs are a little more stinky than usual.
I'm noticing my house smelling a little bit more and my truck is smelling a little bit more, which means I have to go out and vacuum everything and change the air filters and make sure that, don't do curry, don't do fish, don't do anything that's super stinky when you're cooking stuff.
Just kind of tone that down, make sure you put flowers and whatever. Don't do the little plug-ins. That, to me, as an experienced agent, tells me that you're covering up a smell. You're covering up something. Mildew. Mold, some kind of fungal rot, some kind of nastiness. That plugin is a big red flag for me when I'm looking at the house that you might buy saying, Hey, there's something wrong in this area.
And I start looking into what's going on in that little area. So plug-ins are actually a bad thing. Smoke, obviously, if you smoke, replace the carpet, replace the furniture, clean out your ducts, and repaint everything, because smoke gets everywhere. Every nook and cranny. And you can cover it up, but you also have to disclose it.
Decluttering and Home Maintenance Tips
Clutter, shown 200 times. Right there, look at that. That is a cluttered shelf right there. That's how I live. That's how most people live. But when you're selling your house, you need to declutter. You need to drop it down to three things on any surface, a wall shelf, right? I try to keep it to three, but I can't, I just, cause there's just stuff.
My desk looks like I'm a hoarder, but I'm not, I just. I just, I'm busy. So I know where all my stuff is, but if I was going to sell my house, I would take everything, box it up, put it in storage or in my garage and out of sight, out of mind, you'd never see it. And you're looking at a big, huge area, like these big, huge umbrella lights that I have, I don't know, deferred maintenance.
Now I'm just at this point in my life where I'm getting a handyman to do stuff around the house right now because I am busy and I don't have time to do it. And I don't have the gumption anymore. 20 years ago, I was a little bit younger and I had a lot more energy and I was willing to do more stuff around the house.
I have done a lot of stuff around my house. I'm not willing to do it anymore. I'm just older and maybe I'm persnickety or maybe I'm just whatever, but also it gets done professionally. Now you can hire a handyman and now in California, you can go up to a thousand dollars a day for a handyman, which is nice, or you can use a contractor.
You can use a specific tradesman, like a landscaper or painter. Painter or a plumber to get stuff done. And I had have come through and knock out the electrical in my house. There were some things that, caused houses to break down over time. You need to maintain it. And when. When a buyer comes through and you're not maintaining something, like I looked at a house last week, I saw a big soft spot in the siding of this house.
And I'm like, there's something wrong here. And then when that keyed me off, I started looking at everything. I noticed the floor was a little wonky. I saw that there was more wood rot in the fascia of the roof. The roof line is just a little thing. So if I'm looking at a house in the beginning, it looks perfect to me.
And then I start digging into it and I poke point stuff out to my client and day-to-day core. Now it could be tile. It could be appliances. It could be. Your sink. It could be the poles, the handle poles on your cabinets. It could be the decoration on your cabinets. Typically we don't see that anymore.
That's 1960s. Paint that stuff, put new handle poles, put new lights on, put new doorknobs on, paint your doors, and make them look white or black. Some people like to go the sheer black side and that's. Totally up to you. Get rid of old mirrors, put in new mirrors, make the house look modern er. More modern era.
There you go. All right, that's seven minutes. Let's go. And before you start your honey-dooo list, drop down this. Pull down this home inspection checklist.
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Spotlight on Bank-Owned Property
It'll get your honey-do list in order and quickly All right, the reo speaking of smells and deferred maintenance This is not my listing. This is bank-owned property of the week and it is in San Francisco, but look it's just screaming help me, please Three bedrooms two baths 1745 square feet built in 1916 It was like 10 years after 1906 After the big earthquake.
Yeah, and it's right off a 280. Right there. So this might be a nice little flip. I don't know if it's worth 900, 000 so let's keep an eye on it. It just popped on the market. Oh, let's see
It's not even available right now. It's coming soon But let's go back and take a look at these awesome four pictures basically the same picture just different angles You can look at the stairwell and just imagine the smell that you will smell when you walk into that house Remember the last article we just talked about is smells when I see that I smell, sweet, acrid, moist fungal rot.
And that's what I'm telling you. This could be completely fixed up, dolled up, and may look pretty. Just get rid of that front porch, rebuild those stairs because it. That's cement right there, but this is all wood and wood deteriorates over a hundred years. It's going, you're going to need some stuff, right? But just imagine what it's going to look like inside too, and what that's going to smell like.
So that's why you have to be careful of smells.
Flip or Flop: Evaluating Potential Investments
These are homes for sale near Apple. This just popped up, not my listing. Peacock Ave, four bedroom, two bath, 1400 square feet built in 1958, 10 years older than me. And yes, I am that old.
I don't know why you would do that. That's odd. So remember decor? Look, they took a new, they put in a new door, they put in new windows, but they took the old brick and painted it and made it look fresh. This is screaming flip to me just so you know. Because you look at all this and somebody bought this probably for a million or a million and a half and they put a couple hundred grand into it.
They fixed and flipped it. And now they're selling it for 2.7. Maybe they spent 1.8 on it. We can do a quick. Dig through. See if I have that up.
Yeah. Yeah, look, see the key indicator that this is a flip. That's a very stylish garage. Typically the windows are just across the top and opaque. Now this is cool, whatever, but then it's a half garage, which I don't really care for. You should be parking in your garage. But see the decor here, dated decor.
This is all brand-new stuff. Very boxy. My lights look like this. My, address looks like this. It looks nice in front. They actually did a nice job in the back where they have grass in the back. You don't see that too often with flips, but. There you go. I want to do a quick look real quick and pop this up for you.
All right, that's it on the actual MLS. And let's see if I can drop this here.
No, looks like they bought it off the market then. All right, there you go. Or somebody came to them and said, hey, fix it up. And we can do that too, right? This, they spent probably 150. 1, 000 to fix up with the new kitchens and new flooring and then all the landscaping. That's something you have to consider when you're looking at it.
Almost 3 million houses, 150, 000 investment. It's pretty decent, right?
Mountain View home of the week
Mountain View Home of the Week
This is a mountain view home of the week and it's within walking distance. It's a pretty decent stroll to CastroStreett where all the nice restaurants are. Again, 2. 6, nine, eight, 2. 6, nine, eight. Huh? What? This other one? Oh, it's 900. Okay, not my listing.
This is 355 Palo Alto Ave, three bedroom, two bath, 1, 500 square feet, built in 1912. I like this because it's more half-man.
I don't like that I whisper like that. That's icky, but it's a nice craftsman style. It has nice wood trim everywhere. This is a really great-looking house. I don't know what it looks like. In person or what it smells like but everything is well appointed I love the dark wood for this style of house a craftsman house Having a dining room that looks like this Is beautiful.
This is what people look for when they're looking at Crossman for 3 million bucks. That's what it is. And it looks like the bathrooms are updated. The walls were updated. The floors were updated. I can't tell if that's laminate flooring. Even the backyard looks nice. Detached garage slash shed.
There's a garage right there. Looks like it slides.
But again, it's nice because you're within walking distance to Mountain View, downtown Mountain View, and 40 days on the market report.
Market Report and Conclusion
40 days on the market report is 85 days for 40 days. 85 houses have been on sale for more than 40 days in Santa Clara County. Same thing with the 90 days. It's 47. Bank owns just a little bit more.
Something happened. Don't know what happened. Anyway, that's it for now. I'll let you go. Have a great day. I will see you tomorrow. I'm Vito with Abitano. We'll see you out there.
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