Can't go on the market because it won't stop raining!

Mindymomo · 14/07/2023 17:08

Personally it would put me off and I’m sure Estate Agent will ask you to tidy it up. Sunday should be dry.

Herewego81 · 14/07/2023 17:14

Have the pics already been taken?

Twiglets1 · 14/07/2023 17:15

YABU - you need to do what you can to present the house in the best possible light if you want the best price and that includes weeding the gravel drive and mowing the grass before the photos get taken.

Theunamedcat · 14/07/2023 17:19

Cut it anyway just cut high at first

KievLoverTwo · 14/07/2023 17:34

Get the agent to put at the very beginning of the advert 'half an acre (X trees, etc) outdoor pictures to follow shortly'

Or

Do you have pics you have taken yourself over the years?

Or

The original advert URL they can pinch old photos from?

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UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 14/07/2023 17:35

It won't be dry here on Sunday, we're in Ireland and due rain every bloody day for the next week. The pictures haven't been taken. And the lawnmower has an electric starter with a big battery so I'm not going to take that out in the rain.

I suppose that gives me a week to tackle the weeding in a raincoat...

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Whatwaste · 14/07/2023 20:10

KievLoverTwo · 14/07/2023 17:34

Get the agent to put at the very beginning of the advert 'half an acre (X trees, etc) outdoor pictures to follow shortly'

Or

Do you have pics you have taken yourself over the years?

Or

The original advert URL they can pinch old photos from?

Don't do this...

Just wait for better weather, tidy and weed, sunny day, photos and list!

KievLoverTwo · 14/07/2023 20:11

Whatwaste · 14/07/2023 20:10

Don't do this...

Just wait for better weather, tidy and weed, sunny day, photos and list!

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Or, do.

The minute the BoE put the base rate up again on 3rd August, the more nervous even more people will be about buying.

Whatwaste · 14/07/2023 20:21

UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 14/07/2023 17:35

It won't be dry here on Sunday, we're in Ireland and due rain every bloody day for the next week. The pictures haven't been taken. And the lawnmower has an electric starter with a big battery so I'm not going to take that out in the rain.

I suppose that gives me a week to tackle the weeding in a raincoat...

Waiting until you can show how it is now, once tidy, is definitely the best way forward. Hope it doesn't come to weeding in your raincoat though!

BunnyBettChetwynd · 14/07/2023 21:58

Could you bung a gardener a few quid to do it for you. They will have a better mower and might be able to blitz it in a couple of hours.

You're going to find that when the long grass is cut it looks pretty bloody awful for a few weeks as the cut grass will not have seen the light and will be patchy and yellow, so the old summer photo idea might be a good one.

Herewego81 · 15/07/2023 08:51

BunnyBettChetwynd · 14/07/2023 21:58

Could you bung a gardener a few quid to do it for you. They will have a better mower and might be able to blitz it in a couple of hours.

You're going to find that when the long grass is cut it looks pretty bloody awful for a few weeks as the cut grass will not have seen the light and will be patchy and yellow, so the old summer photo idea might be a good one.

Ha! Bung a gardener a few quid

you haven’t used a gardener in the last decade have you?! 😂

BunnyBettChetwynd · 15/07/2023 10:01

@Herewego81 I've been working as a gardener for the past decade. £20 an hour for proper hard graft from an RHS qualified professional and to cover insurance, running a van, providing and servicing all tools, PPE, course to update skills, fuel for running mower etc. It's not a bad deal.

Herewego81 · 15/07/2023 10:03

BunnyBettChetwynd · 15/07/2023 10:01

@Herewego81 I've been working as a gardener for the past decade. £20 an hour for proper hard graft from an RHS qualified professional and to cover insurance, running a van, providing and servicing all tools, PPE, course to update skills, fuel for running mower etc. It's not a bad deal.

Yep.

What I pay my gardener

half acre mowing and very overgrown will be more than an hour so not “a few quid”

Diyextension · 15/07/2023 10:06

Since when has mowing someone’s lawn and weeding a drive been “ proper hard graft ?

Herewego81 · 15/07/2023 10:11

Diyextension · 15/07/2023 10:06

Since when has mowing someone’s lawn and weeding a drive been “ proper hard graft ?

i regard mowing half acre of overgrown land as “proper hard graft” 😂

Herewego81 · 15/07/2023 10:11

Hence being very happy to pay my gardener to do it for me!

Oakbeam · 15/07/2023 10:11

And the lawnmower has an electric starter with a big battery so I'm not going to take that out in the rain.

Poor excuse. It will be 12 volts, possibly 6.

12 volt motors and batteries will work completely immersed in water without electrocuting anybody.

Rainsdropskeepfalling · 15/07/2023 10:15

Why can't an electric lawn mower be used in the rain? (Genuine question - I'm trying to fanthom the physics of this not being an ok thing to do)

BunnyBettChetwynd · 15/07/2023 10:16

Diyextension · 15/07/2023 10:06

Since when has mowing someone’s lawn and weeding a drive been “ proper hard graft ?

Crikey, I only came on here to offer a hopefully helpful suggestion, not for an argument about whether the job I know to be hard work is hard work.

FFSwhatisthis · 15/07/2023 10:24

BunnyBettChetwynd · 15/07/2023 10:16

Crikey, I only came on here to offer a hopefully helpful suggestion, not for an argument about whether the job I know to be hard work is hard work.

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@BunnyBettChetwynd have a nice cup of tea/coffee and a large slice of 'ignore the twats'. Seriously people go looking for a bun fight!

of course gardening as a job is 'hard graft' 🙄

FFSwhatisthis · 15/07/2023 10:31

UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 14/07/2023 17:06

It's just raining endlessly, and it's due to for the next week. We want to get the house on the market but half the grass is a bit long and untidy looking, and the rest is thigh high (because wildlife). And the gravel drive is weedy. AIBU to just go ahead list a house surrounded by a half acre of very happy greenery?

I @UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername personally I'd be happy to have photos of 'happy greenery' but lots of people can't see beyond anything that's not permanent. Or decide if the lawn is long, the entire house is badly maintained, so I think waiting is your best option.

the first time you list is your best opportunity to sell, so be patient.

I'd plough on through the rain (as I don't mind the rain) & so it was done & the first ray of sunshine could be used for photos, not gardening.

if I really hated the rain I'd pay a gardener, it's nothing £££ wise when you're buying/selling houses.

have you found houses on the market you'd like to buy??? There is nothing going on here (in my price bracket anyway, though some going on for much more really shouldn't be!!)

best of luck when you do list

BunnyBettChetwynd · 15/07/2023 10:32

@FFSwhatisthis Thank you! I was beginning to wish I'd not said anything then you pop up and say something lovely.

It's definitely hard work for me but then I am nearly 60...I'm sure it was easier in my 30s. 😀

Herewego81 · 15/07/2023 10:32

BunnyBettChetwynd · 15/07/2023 10:32

@FFSwhatisthis Thank you! I was beginning to wish I'd not said anything then you pop up and say something lovely.

It's definitely hard work for me but then I am nearly 60...I'm sure it was easier in my 30s. 😀

Of course it’s hard work

PP was being very peculiar

Diyextension · 15/07/2023 10:41

BunnyBettChetwynd · 15/07/2023 10:16

Crikey, I only came on here to offer a hopefully helpful suggestion, not for an argument about whether the job I know to be hard work is hard work.

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Who was arguing? It was a simple question . I’ve mowed plenty of lawns over the years and never found it hard work . It’s even easier if it’s a petrol mover as they propel themselves.

Although I understand some peoples hard graft is very different to another’s.

BunnyBettChetwynd · 15/07/2023 10:50

@Diyextension I'm sure you're right. Sigh.