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If you describe a house you've viewed as "very tired"...

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abbey44 · 08/06/2019 21:57

...what exactly do you mean...?

I've got my house on the market at the moment, not for the first time, so I thought I knew the ropes. I had it redecorated inside and out, neutral (F&B) colours, decluttered, all the odd jobs done, professionally cleaned top to bottom, you know the sort of thing. Got it as close as I thought was humanly possible to show home state, booked the dog into kennels and me away for a couple of weeks. (So no chance of it being messed up!)

Had a viewing and the feedback was "has everything we're looking for but very tired, needs completely redecorating and recarpeting to our taste, concrete dug out between flagstones (???), will think about it and let you know"

Now, I know you haven't to take these things personally, but I'm quite honestly baffled by this. I can sort of see the redecorating and recarpeting thing, as everyone likes to put their own mark on a place, I've just come back home, and been over the flagstones to look for these dug out bits, no sign, so I don't know what that's all about, but it's the "very tired" that I'm a tiny bit miffed about, if I'm honest. To me that says it's tatty and outdated, avocado bathroom and swirly carpet territory, but it's a world away from that...

Anyone got a grip to hand to me...?

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abbey44 · 09/06/2019 10:26

Thank you again for all your comments. I'm feeling a bit better about it now. It's so difficult not to take it personally, when you've tried hard to get it looking what you think is how it should. Anyway, I'll just file it along with all the other feedback comments and wait and see what happens. They weren't the first or only viewers, and I'm sure there will be more. I'll just keep everything crossed that someone who really likes it comes along soon.

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HollyBollyBooBoo · 09/06/2019 10:34

Stunning pics! Doesn't look tired at all. They are not your buyers, brush it off x

Downunderduchess · 09/06/2019 11:25

It looks lovely actually, well maintained. Not sure what they meant by their comments, they must have wildly different taste or perhaps just making up a reason not to buy/make an offer etc.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 09/06/2019 11:30

I suspect that they'd done more than one viewing that day, and had muddled the feedback they'd given to the EA. Clearly not applicable to yours.

Densol999 · 09/06/2019 11:45

Im jealous ! I want it its the exact style I love
After reading the other thread on horror house viewings, some people live in a crazy mess and some buyers are crazy too ! If it wasnt for them fair enough, but dont make up crazy feedback lol

DaphneduM · 09/06/2019 11:48

It's a very beautiful, tastefully decorated house. Who knows what some people's motivation is - ignore it OP - you have a fab house which I'm sure will sell in due course.

Sockworkshop · 09/06/2019 11:56

Your house is beautiful OP
It means they cant afford it and want to knock the price down

Beautiful3 · 09/06/2019 12:06

I think it means needs updating. However your home looks beautiful from the photographs! So can only imagine the estate agent mixed up feedback meant for another property?!

IHeartArya · 09/06/2019 12:15

They are either

Barking
Barking
Barking

HTH

Your home is beautiful. Idiots.

Singingcricket · 09/06/2019 12:24

Ignore them op. They have either got their viewings mixed up or they are taking the Michael!

Ericaceae · 09/06/2019 12:27

Ach, OP, it's hard not to take it personally. Sounds very like they're priming you for a low offer.
The most frustrating feedback we got was "location", i.e. proximity to the city - feel like saying you see that wee map on the listing, and this wee thing called Google Maps...
Some folk just come for a nosey, or just don't know what to say, especially if they realise they can't afford it. Good luck!

needsleepzzz · 09/06/2019 15:30

Gorgeous house OP! Don't suppose there is a Rightmove link for us to nosy at?

Theworldcouldbemymollusc · 09/06/2019 15:33

Tired??????

ThorosOfMyr · 09/06/2019 15:53

Going slightly against the grain here - sorry OP, but I think your kitchen is quite dated actually. Cream or white units with black work surfaces are dated as are cooker hood chimneys. The kitchen floor isn't that modern either. So I'd hazard a guess these buyers are younger and want something more up to date kitchen wise. Take a look at kitchens on Houzz for example - very few have black granite work surfaces. Your other photos look perfectly fine.

SingingLily · 09/06/2019 15:59

OP, your house is beautiful and far from "tired" but please don't try and overthink it. Selling your house is stressful, as everyone knows, and even if your estate agent manages to weed out the Sunday trippers and serial time wasters, I'm afraid you are likely to get feedback from others that will make you roll your eyes so much they'll be in danger of falling out. And it will be all about them, not about you, I promise. Here are some classics from when we last had our house on the market:

"There's nowhere to store my canoe". The EA then showed the buyer to our garage which had open rafters inside on which was perched...a canoe.

"It's just what I'm looking for but I'm worried the sitting room isn't big enough for my grand piano". This was from a woman recently widowed and looking to downsize. I suggested to the EA that she wasn't really ready to downsize and actually, probably, wasn't really ready to sell her family home either.

You'll get there in the end because it really is a lovely house. You just haven't met the new owner yet.

AnotherEmma · 09/06/2019 16:05

"Tired" means tatty, poorly maintained, needs updating. I went to see a property which was very tired indeed, the internal doors and woodwork were in poor condition, kitchen and bathrooms needed replacing.

The viewer must have got confused with another property or they're talking bullshit.

JenMumma · 09/06/2019 16:11

Huh ?!?! It's BEAUTIFUL XX

Wallywobbles · 09/06/2019 16:12

Don't allow the estate agent to bring them back or make an offer. They're clearly not ok.

EL8888 · 09/06/2019 16:15

Tired to me would mean grubby, scuffed paint work and dated. The pictures however don’t look any of those things! Maybe they don’t know what tired means with regards to the house. The other feedback they gave makes them sound very fussy

isseywithcats · 09/06/2019 16:47

your house is lovely the one we are buying could be described as tired as it has 1990s axminster carpets in horrid florals all the way through, every room needs redecorating, the woodwork all needs painting and the kitchen though clean is going to have to go. think big fitted in oven with a microwave over it, a gas fire in the kitchen and a built in under counter fridge and electric in counter hob thats got to go, it does have a brand new bathroom but the is the only new room,,

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 09/06/2019 16:59

The only feedback a buyer needs to give is "thank you, lovely house but it's not for us!" Anything else is just rude.

AlexaAmbidextra · 09/06/2019 20:28

They’re idiots. It may not be to their taste but it’s lovely and a long way from tired. Tired to me means scruffy and not well-maintained. Your house is beautiful.

BillywigSting · 09/06/2019 20:33

Good grief op your house is absolutely beautiful and about as far from tired as it gets.

Totally agree with pp, they're talking absolute bollocks.

I think you've just had a cf buyer here tbh.

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