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I never saw this coming...
I thought this would be our forever house so I hung a lot of wallpaper. We don't have off street parking. We never got around to putting new flooring in the kitchen and 1st floor bathroom. The exterior needs to be painted. These were all the things I felt would be potential problems when we put our house on the market after falling in love with another house.
Never in a million years did I think the biggest obstacle would be the ceiling height upstairs! DH is 6' and he bought this house when he was a bachelor. He has never hit his head on a doorway. The ceiling is 6'6" and the doorways are only 5' 11 1/2". Apparently everyone who is coming to see our house is hitting their heads upstairs. This seems unbelievable to me, non of our friends or family who have stayed here are running into doorways? I guess I just don't understand tall people problems.
From the feedback we are getting, people really, really love the house and the only thing holding them back from making an offer is the doorways.
I'm so discouraged. I feel like we'll never sell it now. We already lowered the price (that's when people stopped complaining about the lack of driveway.)
Anyone else have something come up that they didn't think would be a problem when trying to sell?
Re: I never saw this coming...
Yikes, yes, hopefully you'll get some short people coming through
The only thing I could never believe is people complaining about things they knew before coming to look (1 car garage). Come on, read the listing people!
People will complain about anything really even when it's specified in the listing! Our old listing had probably 2 or 3 pictures of the spiral staircase. It was the only way to get from the main floor up to the bedrooms. People still complained about it when they left or said they "couldn't carry kids up there". Well, you can because I have carried kids there but obviously not ideal. I don't know what they expected me to do about it! One person complained that our very large deck (which was awesome) was "bad for resale to the general public". I don't even know what that meant.
I hate to say it but don't take it personally. There were some homes that just didn't "click" or work for us for no reason at all. Sometimes there is nothing the seller could do to get us to buy the house.
After 7 months on the market, I feel your pain! Our showings are saying that our garage is too small (you can tell it's a one car garage from the listing/photos) and that our closets are too small. Our house is almost 80 years old - I really don't know what they expect!
Hopefully the right buyer will come along soon!
Ditto! DH and I are both around 5'6''.
Your house sounds like it has loads of charm and that counts for a lot. The offer will come - it's almost spring!
I say take the feedback with a grain of salt. Are you hearing from everyone that has viewed the house, or just a few? In our case, we only received feedback from 2 of 10 showings, and in both cases it was people who weren't interested in the house. One set was pretty harsh, saying that our house was overpriced, nothing special, was average (as opposed to being clean and well maintained), and they didn't like the carpet (that was clearly visible in the pictures). Despite that, the house was sold on day 6.
Hopefully you just aren't hearing from the people who are interested in the house because they don't want to give you the advantage. Good luck!