Weird feedback on your house

[labradorandkids]

I fully renovated my house last year.
It's on the market now, viewer feedback 'needs to much work doing'
It's done to a good standard, it's had:
New kitchen inc warranties on all new inter grated appliances/electrics/RCD/boiler/rads/bathroom/decorated all clean neutral with some pops of colour.
It's a lovely family home, I came into better financial stability so I had the work done for me but decided I needed to move ( cheaper than raising the roof for a loft conversion as need an extra bedroom and already extended to side )
All big major works are done.
My EA is also banging her head on the desk, she tried to ask more in depth what work viewer felt needed doing but got 'it's not for them' and put the phone down.
Make me giggle please, I've spent 2 days cleaning Around kids/work now sat eating a family size bar of dairy milk as I've burnt of the calories with the hoovering and polishing windows alone
I think she's feedback on the wrong house!

When we sold our last house we had a viewer who said that they wanted to offer, but would be turning it into a hotel, so needed us to drop the price by £150k to cover the costs of their renovations. It was a beautiful (if fairly large) family home that had been renovated top to toe to a very high (neutral) standard and only completed a few months before we had to move for work.

I think some people are simply bonkers.

My house is on the market right now. One person who viewed it was put off by the “beware of alligators” sign by the lake behind my house. Good luck finding a house by water in our area that doesn’t have alligators!

When estate agents insist on specific feedback people make up any old rubbish. Often people like or dislike a house for reasons that they cannot really put into words.

I think either they just said that as an easy answer to the EA. Or for them it genuinely needs work. We sold our house in September and despite it having a clean, recently refurbished neutral kitchen dinner the new owners have ripped the whole thing out as they wanted all Miele (??) intergrated appliances with a sparkly worktop. So for them it did need work.

Agree that they may just have felt pressed to say something and came out with that. If they viewed a few houses on the same day, it's even possible that they may have mixed it up with another viewing. Also possible that although everything is new and in good condition it may just not be decorated to their preference so in their minds there would be a lot to (re)do.

Thanks all
Probably was just not to their taste.
First SSTC person we had and had all my fingers crossed!
The hotel story another one of ours was not enough parking, my drive holds 5 cars !!
I'd like to have seen what they where selling!

They've just made up an excuse, don't let it bother you.

Feedback on houses is hilarious, if it's not for you fine, but don't make up some knobby excuse!

Maybe they are craving an avocado corner bath, a hot tub and a layout that renders a hostess trolley essential. Who knows, everyone's got their own views. We've seen some immaculately kept homes where we'd want to rip it all out, and of course we weren't prepared to offer what they wanted for their pristine home. On the flip side, we put in a lovely new kitchen in our last place, and saw it in a skip shortly after we'd sold. Those buyers also opened up the hallway and living room into one so the stairs were now in the living room... seemed bonkers to me.

No advice but I saw this on FB this morning, made me howl 🤣

Some of mine were:

"It's too high."
It said on the particulars 'Top floor of a five storey building'.

"It doesn't have a private garden."
It said on the particulars that it's a flat in a block with a communal garden.

"It only has two bedrooms/one bathroom/blah blah blah something"
It said so on the bloody particulars!

Don't people read?

I’ve explained this to DP the “it’ll add value” man till my eyes roll..
It needs work to suit them. A nice swish neutral kitchen might be cold and not have enough practical storage to them. Might be all laminate/hard floors and they want carpet. 100 daft things that make it nearly pointless renovating to sell unless it really is in need.

And people lie.. a lot don’t want to admit they can’t afford it.

I saw a house like this, it had been “newly renovated” but had been done so to the exact opposite of my taste. Stuff like silvery plush carpets, navy blue kitchen units etc. Clearly they’d spent a lot of money on it but it would have cost us another £50k or so to get it to how we’d want it and we thought there was no point in spending a premium on a house that had been newly refurbished and then have to spend that money again.

That’s all it means! Not to their taste!

We’ve been getting we don’t like the shape of the garden, it hasn’t changed since google earth satellite images it.......

We keep getting "love the house, but it doesn't have off street parking" READ THE ADVERT!! so disheartening isn't it.

We were told they were pulling out because the survey said it was on a flood plain.
Sydenham- I went the the environment agency about that one, no risk of flooding according to them!!

Yes exactly I'm on the biggest plot of the estate, I've seen people come and park and look, book in for a viewing and pull the garden size!
I'm like you saw it 2 days ago when you were parked outside.
Most of the land is on the front, I swear some people do it for a cheap afternoon out 🤣

Could have been hobby viewers? No intention of buying, just wanted some inspiration for decorating their own home, which they have no intention of leaving...

We went to see a house that looked awesome on paper/photos but when we viewed it had obviously been done 20+ years previously.
The owner went on and on about the high spec but it really wasn't.
And the built-in wardrobe stank of his BO!
The EA couldn't get off the phone quick enough when she called for feedback.

We went to see some houses that we then rejected because of things listed in the particulars. Eg one because of courtyard parking. We were ok with courtyard parking, but this was very cramped and the neighbours were obviously used to being able to encroach on the house's parking spaces in the car port. You could argue that we knew it was courtyard parking beforehand, but it was the detail of that parking that put us off ifyswim.

Or you look at stuff to see if it's a compromise worth making. Sometimes it isn't!

Nothing from the seller end, but when we were looking for our first home we offered the asking price on a house and it was declined. Does that happen often?!

We were selling a house that had 4 bedrooms plus a study. The feedback was that the study was too small. Erm, you could have chosen any of the four bedrooms as a study, we just used the tiny room as a study!
But I agree, some people just say anything as feedback..

Apparently a couple who viewed our house told the EA that they didn't have enough books to fill the many built in bookshelves in what was our study ( we have thousands of books) Er, take the shelves down or put something else on them?

@doginahat we had this a few weeks ago-put offer in at asking price, and it was rejected. We were told if we offered an extra 5k they'd take it off the market there and then. We laughed, and said forget it.
Surprise surpise 2 hours later they rang back and said they'd accept asking price. Just people trying their luck.

Doginahat, I’ve known it happen, because the vendors happened to prefer buyer A to buyer B. Not saying that was true in your case though!

A dd’s offer was accepted even though someone else had offered slightly more (so we were told) because dd was a first time buyer and the other was open about being a buy to let investor who was just going to rent it out.
Dd was obviously lucky - I don’t suppose there are many vendors like hers around.

We were also once turned down because the vendor had only just accepted another offer, and felt morally obliged to stick to it - despite telling us that he didn’t much care for the other buyer and would have preferred us to have it!

There aren’t many like him around any more, either.

It must be frustrating to not know the real reason. We sold a flat in London zone 1 and got feedback that it didn’t have a dedicated parking spot 😂

I think good taste is subjective, so they could think it still needs work. The vendor of our new house installed a kitchen I don’t particularly like (with wooden work tops), a bath that has really weird angles and he tiled the whole of the ensuite (rather than just the shower and around the sink... and he installed massive chunky grey fitted wardrobes in the master bedroom. The bathroom and kitchen were fitted 2 years before we bought and the wardrobes were fitted 6 months before. I forgot to mention the ugly expensive “designer” radiators.

So it looks “done”, but we’ll be moving out for a couple months to renovate it...again lol

Good luck getting a quick sale!