Douglas Trudeau , Assoc. Broker
Prudential Foothills Real Estate
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Tucson , AZ 85748
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7 More Ways To Keep Your Home From Selling
Back in April I wrote my first blog, 10 Ways to Keep Your Home From Selling out of nervousness and to break the ice. To date it has been the most read blog I have written. Sometimes you just have to laugh with all the negative media. That has brought me to add seven more things sellers can do to keep their home from selling in Tucson’s real estate market. Here we go:
- Ignore the market, statistics, trends and reality in a Buyers Market. Insist on a set price and remain 90 to 180 days behind the market by refusing to reduce the price to a marketable level. Relate actions to that of an oil freighter in the ocean. It takes miles to make a turn. While a speed boat reacts quickly.
- Place your home on an already saturated market with expectations that buyers are going to see your home first without doing anything to make it stand out just because.
- Put terrible pictures on the Internet. Better yet, wait a week to put those terrible pictures on the Internet.
- Provide a telephone number that nobody answers or has been disconnected.
- Never leave the house when buyers want to see it. Make sure you stay so you can watch them closely.
- Expect the buyer pool to increase as more mortgage companies close and more media hype down grades the market.
- Insist that your Realtor not install a sign in the front yard. Go one step further, change the numbers on your house. Let the buyers guess at where your home is.
Considering the tough market we are in, I hope this provides a few laughs for everyone. Feel free to add to it.
More Reading
- Seven Steps For Selling Your Home
- Who Wants To Know How To Attract Buyers To A Listing?
- 7 Ways To Sell You Home In A Buyers Market
- Price, Price, Price. What are some sellers thinking?
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[…] Get yourself a chuckle from Doug Trudeau in Tuscon with his “7 More Ways To Keep Your Home From Selling” […]
September 24th, 2007 // OptionsRealty.com » Blog Archive » Todays Musings
I couldn’t have said it better! Fabulous!!
- Gena Riede
October 6th, 2007 // Sacramento Real Estate
I liked the last advice in particular… change numbers on the house:) you might be a perfect camoufleur))
October 17th, 2007 // USA homes