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Old 07-15-2008, 11:38 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by mykalberta View Post
Have to agree, renters are the cause of the most of it.

Cant really blame them though, its not their responsibility to have it neat for a home sale, their responsibility is when they move out and while there to not to damage the home.
Being renters in a house for sale last year, I can tell you that we didn't thouroughly clean the house everytime there was going to be a showing. We didn't leave it in a total mess either, but the house was just crappy enough that it wasn't going to sell anyway. It was a great house to rent, as it was decent, and the rent was cheap, but it wouldn't be a place that I'd want to buy to live in. At the price they were asking, you couldn't buy it to rent it out.

For a few of the open houses, we cleaned the house up pretty good, but after a while, there were so many open houses and showings that we gave up. We finally bought a place and ended our misery. The place was on the market for at least a year. No one lived there for at least 9 months after we left - It nows has peole in it, but we don't know whether the house sold, or whether the owner finally just rented it out again.
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