Buyers get visually distracted by bright colors & too much stuff. The eyes start to dart around, trying to focus on something pleasant, and then the brain shuts down, eliminating this room from any consideration. Note the pair of pants on the computer chair. Also, buyers are turned off by glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling; buyers think they are a pain in the neck to remove.
Buyers get confused when rooms do not look like their original function. Is this a bedroom? Or an office? And then when we pan to the right, we see pink paint and the name Cynthia. Is this a little girl’s room? Or a TV viewing room? Or an exercise room? How’d you like to be the kid who sleeps here and has to put up with mom or dad on the computer, sis playing toys, & mom or dad exercising?
Buyers will mentally discount this room from the home’s total square footage. Better to clear everything out and spray it with white Kilz paint and start over.
Note the human hand in the bottom right corner.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Wayne // Dec 23, 2009 at 9:18 am
It’s like Gold’s Gym,IBM and Romper Room all in one chinsy lil’ room!
2 adrienne // Dec 23, 2009 at 9:49 am
Whatever the room might actually be, the paint job suggests it was previously used as a room for boy (Yamir) & girl (Cynthia) twins.
It looks like Cynthia got another room and Yamir now gets to share his space with everyone else (lucky boy).
3 WildCard~ // Dec 23, 2009 at 11:10 am
Man how many people are sharing this space???? It clear they made one half for the boy, another for a gal, then threw in a toddler !! Then mom and dad can’t be left out moved in their crap as well….
4 Murphy // Dec 23, 2009 at 12:29 pm
And it’s going to take multiple gallons of Kilz to cover those colors.
Leif, I look at these homes from the viewpoint of a prospective buyer. If I can see past someone’s ugly decorating, I may pick up a bargain that others have bypassed.
5 Murphy // Dec 23, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Leif, and I know you see the opposite side, wanting to make the house appealing to the most people to sell it at the highest price.
6 Leif // Dec 23, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Murphy, you’re right. There are buyers who can see the potential (like you said, the bargain hunters). But how many buyers did a seller lose and how much money did they lose by not sprucing up his/her house first?
There’s another trend for bargain hunters: seeking out homes for sale with no photos. 90% of buyers will not visit those homes. The seller wonders why no one is coming to visit. Then the bargain hunters swoop in.
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