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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
I bought my house last May and it was a rough time for sellers. Inventory was pretty high and not moving at all. Finding comparable sales as a buyer was near impossible, and it was all guess work.
The amount of houses I went through that looked like absolute crap compared to the pictures was very disappointing. I grew to hate the photography tricks some people would use to make their place look better on the internet, but like crap in real life. They need to get higher resolution pictures on realtor.ca because it would have saved me hours of looking at junk.
It was just as shocking how many people put no effort into getting their place to show well. Clean up all your baby junk and tidy the place up a little. You're trying to stack up against hundreds of other sellers. There were some relocation agencies trying to sell places with dead lawns and interior paint in a horrible state of repair.
People can be picky right now, the attitude of "they can paint it the color they want and we'll knock $1000 off the price" doesn't work. Buyers can find places with all these things already taken care of and still move a lot on the price.
When I sold my place I ripped through everything and got rid of all my junk. I then packed up about half of my stuff to completely remove any clutter and make it look like I had ample storage. I sold my place in 6 days for more money than an identical place that was brand new. It was a lot of work to get it ready, but it was certainly worth it.
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It was like that for me when I bought, you probably looked at alot of places that have renters there - no incentive for the renter to clean up.