Things I hate about selling a home “EVERYTHING”

Things I hate about selling a house “EVERYTHING” . Absolutely hate it.

Here's a list of the things I hated about selling a house. We have sold two houses. This is about all the stress we went through trying to sell them.

House No: 1

I hate keeping the house spotless clean. My house is clean but when selling it's dfferent. When selling a home you do need to keep it spotless everything should be clean and smelling good and freshened up. Counter tops are cleared. Items are put away. You know the deep corner cleaning.

Buyers who don't like my decorating. I didn't decorate for them and I removed everything I thought would be to personal.

Trying to find those items later! I would stuff things in every place I could that they could not see. Hiding under beds etc. Placing in baskets.

Realtors that call at the last minute to show my house or just pop in’.

I hate my realtor acting like I’m the bad guy.

I hate real-estate company changing my realtor without letting me know and not giving me a chance to pick who I want. Not only did I not like the realtor they gave me. I knew her and she was selling her house which was pretty close to the same as ours. Who’s do you think she will show?

Items disappearing from my home and not knowing about it until later. We had a camera disappear at one house. Take your valuables with you when you leave the house. We later heard that our realtor had taken money from a place.

Realtors that don’t show our house in a YEAR, until it’s time to renew and suddenly we have someone looking at our house, now you know it’s just another realtor.

Finally sold it ourselves with-in two months without any mark down in price.

House No 2:

Putting all the pets into the car and leaving the house for God only knows how long.

Realtors bringing her kids and letting them run through our house and hang out by the lake while she’s showing the house. I’m sure the customers were not thrilled with that. We sure weren’t and we let the real estate company know.

Realtors not pointing out what is good about the house.

Realtors not telling us what the people liked or disliked about the house, giving us no feedback at all.

Letting kids go into our private items that had nothing to do with the house, so afraid of the customer and not speaking up for us.

Being late for an appointment or not showing up at all, happened many times.

Leaving doors open and not turning off lights.

Going to sign final papers when the buyer jumps all over me about something. My realtor takes up for him to the point where I finally stood up and said “Fine then I guess you haven’t bought a house.”

I see this bully around town ever so often and I still do not speak to him.

Sold our house through the realtor but by the time the buyer tried to pay $10,000.00 less we were so mad at everything that had happened we said “No take it or leave it at this price” They took it even though they tried to con us into more stuff later.

We learned one lesson sale your house as is, " promise nothing, nothing at all." If you say you will remove all items from property they will come up with things that are connected that you never expected to have to move.

This buyer told our realtor we had thrown all our stuff into the lake concrete blocks etc. and he wanted us to remove it because we had promised to remove all things around the house. We didn't throw the blocks in the lake they had been put there the year the boathouse was built by whoever built the boathouse in the 1930's.. Our realtor took his side. We were not going to remove something we hadn't put there and have the DNR come down on our heads and fine us for disturbing the lake. Many years before when we bought the property we had tried to clear the block out but the DNR wouldn't let us.

The day I left the realtor office after papers were signed. I was so mad and upset that I went to the house to start to remove things that needed to be removed. I went in our boathouse and started throwing things out the door. (Little Temper Here). Now let me tell you our boathouse was always full of dock spiders. I didn't like them and when I would see one I would be out of the boat house, but that day if those spiders had got in my way I would have grabbed them by the leg and they would have went flying out of the boathouse just like the rest of the stuff.

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SALE

I see our old house on YouTube now. Their trying to sell it again. My husband loved this house because he built it from scratch. Hated to sell it but when retirement was looming we knew we could not afford the taxes. I would love to put the photos of this house on but I won't.

Tell me your house selling or buying experience. I know there are always problems with buying a house too. If you ask the people who bought our second house they would very likely blame us.