Things Ottawa Buyers May Notice #22 – In Your Bedroom Closets

Posted on February 16, 2009 
Filed Under Listing and Selling Your Home, Things Buyers May Notice, Valerie Zinger

As I go out with Buyers and host Open Houses, there are things that Buyers will notice in homes.  This series looks at the good and not-so-good things that Buyers notice.

“Clothes”  Closet

Every buyer looking at a house opens the closet doors.  Sometimes I wondered if home sellers understand that this will be done.  A few weeks ago, I was with my Buyer in a newer home.  When we opened the closet doors, there was the woman of the house’s bras hanging on a hook.  Okay, maybe we are all getting used to seeing other people’s underwear but….  I mean, if you are going to expose your bras,  leave those really expensive lacy ones out for the men and women buyers to see.  Do sellers know how curious buyers are?  While we quickly shut the door and had a little laugh, I am not so sure that everyone else would have felt like they were invading some one’s privacy.  While your house is for sale, you might want to put away your underwear, both clean and dirty. 

There are levels of exposure.  In most places, the underwear is not left strewn on the floors and beds, chairs and dressers.  However, I have been in homes where there were renters and, from all appearances, the renters were not going to help the landlord sell the house by keeping their unmentionables to themselves.

There is a time and place to air your dirty linen but it is not when your house is for sale.

 

Photo credit:  El Rastro. Flea market. Oviedo. Asturias. Spain. Bras @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasfano/2935305360/

Valerie Zinger ~ Ottawa, Canada ~ 613-723-5300 ~ vzinger@royallepage.ca

 

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