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Sep 15th, 2008 by jkproperties

I understand you can’t leave your Benoni home for every viewing, but when you can’t please try and stay out of the way.

I don’t mean to offend anyone but a seller being present during a viewing does more harm than good. Sellers are always worried that the Estate Agents don’t mention something to the buyers, if its so important make sure the Estate Agent makes a note of it when he lists the property.

Let me explain why its best if you are not present when buyers are viewing your home.

Buyers will definitely not feel welcome and comfortable if you are present and even less so if you are following them around watching their every move pleasing and explaining about the dirty dishes. You might feel better after explaining why the dishes are dirty, an untidy house is not an ideal situation but its far worse when you make a big deal about it, this focuses all the attention on the mess and removes the attention from the house and its features like the granite tops you had installed last month, which could result in the buyers choosing your home above the one next door.

You will not only cause a huge distraction to the buyers but your efforts in pointing out all the strong points of your home will make you seem desperate to sell and this will cause concern with the buyers.

The buyers will also try and rush the viewing to get out of your way and not spend the necessary time in your benoni home to imagine what it would feel like to live there.

They won’t explore and look through cupboards to see the space they won’t criticise your home while viewing, worried they might offend you, and they probably would offend you if they said something about the ugly rug in the lounge.

Not being able to point out the problems they have with the property to their Real Estate Agent is possibly one of the biggest problems cause the agent could let them see a solution to the problem and maybe change their entire opinion from its not what I’m looking for to this can be my dream home.

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Jaco Viljoen 082 712 4352 http://www.jkproperties.co.za/ Property for sale in Benoni

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5 Responses to “Sellers please get out of your house, so I can sell it.”

on 16 Sep 2008 at 2:16 pm1Wees kjind Q

EERSTE!
on 16 Sep 2008 at 2:20 pm2Wees kjind Q

Weet jy… Ek het nog nooit so da aan gedink nie. My magtag! Kan jy nou meer! Dit maak rerig baie sin wat jy in jou post sê. Laat mens diep dink… Somme oor alles in jou lewe
on 17 Sep 2008 at 1:47 am3Jaco Viljoen

Ek is baie bly dat jy iets hieruit kon kry en hopelik sal aanpas
hoop jy het n fantastiese dag.
on 17 Sep 2008 at 10:45 am4Johan

Hi Jaco
Good point.
Any real estate agent gets paid to sell a home.

And a home owner is so emotionally involved that they stuff it all up. It’s like selling a home and all the family photos hang in the passage. These photos scare the potential buyers.
Sellers must remove themselves and there scary photos and other personal items.
on 19 Sep 2008 at 9:16 am5jkproperties

@Johan
Good point on the pictures and personal belongings.
This creates the idea that the seller isn’t really ready to leave, its like marking their territory if you will.

This also makes it very hard for the potential Buyers to imagine what the house would look like with their personal belongings.

plus people tend to collect a lot of clutter and this causes spaces to seem less spacious.
Have a great day.