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What do you look for at an Open House?
Hi! I am sure this has been asked a gazillion times before- I tried to search but no such luck.
We are having our first open house this Sunday and I want to make sure everything is just right. The house is in good shape, and we have nothing to hide, I just want to make sure there is nothing I am missing.
Anything you particulary look for? Anything you've noticed that was an automatic turn off?
Any tips or advice will help! Thanks!
Re: What do you look for at an Open House?
When I went to open houses, I primarily was looking at location, layout and size. Of course, the overall shape of the house too. But I didn't look at the details too closely- open houses were more of a recognisant mission for me to see if any were homes I felt DH would like too and that we'd want to come back and look at together.
While I think it's important to stage a house (we did), I always tried to look past the decorations and personal belongings. so... there isn't much there that you could do to sway me one way or the other.
However, there is one negative I strongly remember from one house I looked at. I walked into the sunroom and was OVERPOWERED by the scent of candles. It made me stop and really look around, and I saw a cat dish and could then tell that there was cat hair on the furniture.
They were using the candles to hide the smell of cat.
SO - my advice is to not try to do the "lets make the house smell like a home" thing because people will think you're hiding someth8ing!
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
Cookies. Yeah my first thought was totally cookies. Haha.
We really appreciated a non pushy realtor, not that you have too much control over that. It's just so much easier to imagine yourself in a place without a realtor breathing down your neck.
I would say the best thing is to have everything clean and orderly, also think about organizing your closets. Closet space was really important to us so I always looked in the closets. If a closest looked crammed in with stuff it makes me think that my stuff would never fit.
Clean
Bright
NO CANDLES OR SPRAYS
Make every room seem as big as it can - remove some furniture and paint the walls if you need to
Great tips, thank you!
And thanks for the link to the other post, very helpful.