Question: A real estate agent cane to my home recently
to evaluate my home and give me an estimate of value. He told me my home needed
to be decluttered & made to look sparkling clean. He was a nice person, but
I was insulted by his insinuation that my home needed more cleaning. My home
may not be updated but my house is clean. Are all you real estate agents this
rude?
Answer: You called a Realtor for advice and a selling
price for your home. So, let’s make sense of what you are saying. You said he
was a nice person, so obviously he wasn’t rude. Your
home is cluttered & not updated. He told you to declutter & to make
your home Sparkling clean for showings and you are upset with his advice?
Any good Realtor would give you this advice. Our job is to
sell your home for the best possible price, at the least expense to you &
in the shortest possible amount of time. By telling you to declutter, your home
will look larger, which will help you in obtaining a higher selling price and
it will look nicer and more appealing to a buyer. By
making your home sparkling clean, your home will look refreshed & more
attractive to buyers. Sparkling clean will make your home look and feel newer,
which will make up for some of that updating you chose not to do. All this
“rudeness” creates a bigger demand for your home and basic economics dictates
that demand increases prices.
The alternative would be for him to say your home looks
wonderful and it needs nothing. The result would be a
home that sits on the market longer and begs for a low offer.
My advice would be to listen to your Realtor. He is a
professional who works for you and only wants the best for you. Stop being so
sensitive and spend your energy decluttering and making your home Sparkling
clean. Sounds like excellent, inexpensive & sparkling advice to me.
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