As you may or may not know we are "trying" to sell our home. No luck as yet and we have said all along if we sell, we sell, if we don't no problem we will put it back on the market next year.
One thing we don't want to do is buy another home before we sell this one; makes sense right?
We have viewed some homes however that were having open houses; so no appointment needed and no need to go in with a real estate agent.
On Saturday one house that looked "really good" on paper and in photos was having an open house, so we thought we would take a look. As soon as we walked in our first reaction was the photos make this house look so, so much better. On looking around, the place needed a good clean. The kitchen cabinets had been painted; quite poorly. The window tracks had NOT been cleaned in years. The floors were "bouncy," so not installed properly. The a/c wasn't on, she said the owners didn't like a/c? And on and on it went. $50,000 and you could fix the majority of the issues, but it was already at the top of our budget.
Another house we looked at, in the main bathroom they had put the FULL bathroom garbage bin behind the shower curtain in the bath tub? I am quite sure I am not the only one who pulls back the shower curtain to see if there is mold on the tiles or the grout needs redoing? That was just laziness on the owners part.
I am not sure if we are just picky, or what but I am beginning to despair that it is going to be an uphill battle to find another house if we do end up selling ours.
Have you viewed a house for sale and seen strange things?