What not to do when you have your house on the market.


OK, last week I was showing houses to some buyers of mine and we went into the first house of the night and there was a barking dog in one of the rooms. He couldn't get out because there was one of those plastic blocker things but he was super annoying. He was barking so loud and my buyers couldn't even take a good look around. NOT smart of the sellers to leave their dog inside.

Also, at one of the other houses (it was vacant) the heat was turned down to about 59 degrees and it was freezing cold inside. Plus when we got there I had to put my SUV in 4-wheel drive to get into the driveway because it wasn't plowed. Do these people want to sell their house??

Another bad thing.... one house had just cooked chinese or something and as soon as you walked in it had a strong cooking odor.

Most of these things can be looked past but not in a buyer's market. Buyers will just go on to the next house if something turns them off. Don't make any of the above mistakes.