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House went on the market..feedback on listing please

So we put our townhome in Pittsburgh on the market on Friday.. We have a broker open house today, plus 2 showings...

Here is the link...

what do you guys think?

 

http://www.howardhanna.com/property/property.asp?PRM_MLSNumber=921877&PRM_MlsName=Westpenn

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Re: House went on the market..feedback on listing please

  • I think it looks great :) H and I just bought our first house, so we have looked at a ton of listings lately and yours is really good! Good luck!
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  • imageCaitS07:
    I think it looks great :) H and I just bought our first house, so we have looked at a ton of listings lately and yours is really good! Good luck!

    Thanks!  I wish there were more pictures up... I think we are going to see if we can get a few more... Typically I see about 18 photos on most listings.  We plan on talking to our RE today about it.

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  • Your pictures look really good.  I like it.
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    Your pictures look really good.  I like it.

     

    You wanna buy :)

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  • Ha ha!  I just bought my in Atlanta last month.  I don't ever want to go through that process again!
  • Gorgeous house! I love South Fayette.  It's totally out of our budget, though, which is why Bellevue's a perfect fit for now!  :)  
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  • Great looking house!

     

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  • Maybe I'm picky, but I'd like to see the living room and dining room from more views than just from up above. When looking at the pics from above, I can't get an idea of where it is in relation to the other rooms, and that's something I like to observe.
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  • I am curious why the pictures are so blurry? Maybe just my computer. I think you cleaned it up really well for still being lived in. If you want harsher opinions try Proboards. I put mine up for them to look at and they saw stuff I didnt even think about! Very helpful group. No sunshine and roses they will tell you how they see it. Smile  Good luck the house looks lovely to me
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  • I think the pics look great. If I were in the market for a townhouse, I would take a look at it from those pics. The only thing I don't like (that you have no control over), are the property taxes...they are pretty high for a townhouse. Do they include an HOA fee or is that seperate? We are paying $7,000 a year in our new house, but it's a detached home on a decent sized piece of property. Good luck!
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  • imageMrsDe2008:
    I think the pics look great. If I were in the market for a townhouse, I would take a look at it from those pics. The only thing I don't like (that you have no control over), are the property taxes...they are pretty high for a townhouse. Do they include an HOA fee or is that seperate? We are paying $7,000 a year in our new house, but it's a detached home on a decent sized piece of property. Good luck!
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    The HOA is $60 a month.  The taxes are ridiculous in the county that we live in, plus the school taxes are high.  But I guess that is part of the price you pay to be living in one of the more desirable school districts in our area of Western PA.  On our future home, if we stay in the same area.. our taxes will be close to $10,000 a year.

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    I am curious why the pictures are so blurry? Maybe just my computer. I think you cleaned it up really well for still being lived in. If you want harsher opinions try Proboards. I put mine up for them to look at and they saw stuff I didnt even think about! Very helpful group. No sunshine and roses they will tell you how they see it. Smile  Good luck the house looks lovely to me

     

    thanks for the suggestion about posting on proboards.  I think I found a link to them and posted over there.

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  • THAT's a townhouse??? omg I have got to get out of NY. I think its beautiful!
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  • It's nice. But, the photos are blurry.

    Also, I'd redo the pic of the front exterior so it's not having the garage in your face as much. Can you take the shot from the other side of the home, capturing more of the front entry area? I agree with the PP about the above pics of living and dining. It's tough to get an idea of the floor plan.

    The one bedroom with all the bright stuffed animals needs to be cleared out. Remove the animals. And, overall clear out your personal artifacts and photographs.

    You have nice, neutral walls and decor.

  • Front exterior is way too up close, but other than that.. it looks nicely staged, your house is basically new.. you wont have any trouble selling it. Im sure you probably already have an offer by now. 
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    Front exterior is way too up close, but other than that.. it looks nicely staged, your house is basically new.. you wont have any trouble selling it. Im sure you probably already have an offer by now. 

     

    No offer yet, we had 3 showings so far.  All potential buyers loved the house. 2 of 3 mentioned about location.  The one buyer wants to be in our township but on the other side of it.  The 2nd buyer is looking all around the area, I guess she currently lives in the city and most of her friends live east of the city (we are southwest) but she looked at our place because of our school district is top notch.  The 3rd set of buyers (retirement age) said the house was too big.

    We have an open house this Sunday.  I am hoping we get some foot traffic which will lead to an offer (I can only hope !)

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  • Completely a random lurker today but just looking through the link and noticed it doesn't say anything about square footage...  That's the first thing we look at when we were house hunting and have started to slowly do so again (need more room).  Maybe it was listed and I missed it.
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    Completely a random lurker today but just looking through the link and noticed it doesn't say anything about square footage...  That's the first thing we look at when we were house hunting and have started to slowly do so again (need more room).  Maybe it was listed and I missed it.

    That was the first thing I noticed too....when we were looking to buy we didnt even to to any properties if they didnt list the sq ft. because looking in a low budget we assumed they were not saying because its pretty cramped. BUt the pictures look good. Also we didn't look at any properties that didnt list what the HOA was because we didnt want to fall in love with anything that we could 'afford' but then had high HOA fees that pushed it out of our monthly abilities to pay.

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