Feeling quite disheartened

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We've been on the market for five months, and have had approx. 20 viewings. Our rightmove listing gives all room sizes, plus a floor plan. Yet still, time and time again, the feedback is about the house/rooms being too small. I'm getting really fed up of it at this stage. We dropped the price by 5K last week, and yesterday had two viewings. We have two more tonight. The couple that came around yesterday stayed for half an hour and seemed very keen. Today their feedback consists of: bathrooms too small. We are in a three bed detatched, with integrated garage. House is ten years old, and many of the new builds in the area are now smaller than ours, and more expensive. We've had one second viewing, and then heard no more. Really not sure where we're going wrong

I noticed that you have your fridge-freezer in the dining room. That gives the impression the kitchen is too small for a fridge-freezer, although the kitchen is a lovely size. If you put a door on it to hide it people would assume it is in the kitchen already.

Tis a lovely house BTW.

Do you use your garage? I am frequently at the amount of floorspace of some houses that are frankly wasted as garages when most of us leave our cars in the driveway. You could say to prospective buyers: "We've been thinking of getting this converted, it'd make a lovely playroom, but haven't got around to it yet" to put the idea in their heads.

(We had ours converted and I am chuffed to buggery with it!)

Balloonslayer, it is a kitchen diner The table is just up one end of the kitchen. Have already been playing up the conversion angle, as a few houses on our street have done the same.

Do you think that part of the problem is that it's being described as a 'larger' house with 3 double bedrooms? And so people are going to see it with the idea that it's positively spacious?

I think that might have something to do with it, Grendelsmum. Magnolia pointed out something similair. TBH, I haven't taken much notice of the blurb since it was originally added. Definitely something to discuus with the agent. Thing is, in this area, it is a larger three bed new build IYSWIM. Most don't have the integrated garage, and the third bedroom isn't big enough to hold a normal sized single.

Hi Chickens, I realised it was in the diner part of the kitchen diner - sorry, dunno why I put dining room.

I do think that it would be a PITA for some people. I speak from experience as I have at last after 8 years got my freezer back into the kitchen after it being in various places (including the dining part of our k-d) all that time and it's bliss. I might definitely see a fridge/freezer in the dining part of a kitchen-diner and think "oh gawd, no." Especially if I had young DCs and wanted to put a safety gate over the kitchen bit. Hence my cunning plan to hide it...

Well, maybe its better if people go to see it expecting it to be the same size as the rest, and it's bigger - then it gives them a pleasant surprise, rather than going round expecting it to be positively roomy, ifswim

I also think calling the 3rd bedroom a double is misleading. I would want a double bedroom as a third bedroom so if I arrived to see 8x8 ft I'd be disappointed. I know people should read all the gumph but they don't, alas!

You've presented it really nicely though...

I think your house looks lovely - dont think you need to do anything with the decor.

As others have pointed out, advertising as 3 double bedrooms when in fact the 3rd is unusable as a double is very misleading and anyone who views who needs 3 good sized doubles (like us, we have 3 dc's)will immediately write it off.

We went to view a rental propertly recently that was described like yours and were disappointed - it has been on the market for ages and I suspect this is the reason why as houses go like wildfire round here.

I would go with master bedroom, 1st bedroom, 2nd bedroom. That way those who do come through the door know exactly what they are getting.

It is better to be pleasantly surprised at how big it is, than disappointed that its not as big as described.

Well, we had four viewings in 24 hours. One viewer seems very keen, but is going to view a totally different type of house monday. He will then make his decision. We have everything crossed.