I am tall. Well, not super tall, just a bit taller then average. The problem is that I can also see higher then average. And I have quite a few buyer clients who are way taller then me and obviously they can see even higher.
For some reason many home sellers expect their potential home buyers to be the size of a 5-year old. What makes me think so?
Well, of course, the way some home sellers clean and prepare their house for sale. Often enough the house is spotless and sparkly all the way up to about 6 feet. 6 feet and up is often the area of unpleasant discoveries.
Dear Home Sellers, cleaning the bottom of your rooms and forgetting the top just brings all your hard work next to nothing, simply because many people can see higher without even having to reach up!
And here are the most commonly offended spots (and by the way, after years in business, those are the spots I check out first – don’t try to fool me with your shiny floors)
1. Top of the light fixtures, especially the ones in the kitchen – grease, dead insects and dust. I actually had a client who walked away from the house because the tops of the chandeliers looked disgusting. The comment was: “If they cant clean their lights, what else crucial for the house maintenance they didn’t bother doing?”
2. Curtain rods, and top of the actual curtains – excellent accumulators of dust and spider webs
3. Top of the fridge – I will not even start a list of things that I happened to see over the years over there.
4. Top of the door and window frames
5. Picture and photograph frames
6. Top shelves of the book cases also books on the top shelves
7. Duct grills
8. Crown moldings
9. And finally – kitchen vent hoods!
Dear Home Sellers, please, have mercy for your tall buyers, take care of the tops not just the bottoms!
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Your Real Estate Connection:
Marina Gavrylyuk
Real Estate Agent with Sutton Group Summit Realty
www.MarinaG.ca
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Marina Gavrylyuk
Sales Representative
Sutton Group-Summit Realty Inc. Brokerage
1100 Burnhamthorpe Road West #27
Mississauga, Ontario, L5C 4G4
Cell: 416-843-1515 Tel.: 905-897-9555
Email: Marina@MarinaG.ca
Web: www.MarinaG.ca
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