Can you please sell my 'Mouse House'?
Friday I had the pleasure to be introduced to a new program on HGTV which is called ‘Unsellables’ and I wanted to report back to you all on the very first riveting episode! As the title of the post is eluding too, I never thought that I would hear a seller say ‘it’s a problem there are mouse droppings on the dining room table?’. Will that restrict my showings ya think? DUH.
Seller is also saying
‘is that what all that
stuff is on the
back porch too? I
used to have a lot of
food out there, I guess they ate it!
DUH.
Yes it gets better! Besides the mouse droppings all over the house, the seller also has ‘creative and artistic’ girls that draw all over the walls and woodwork in their rooms! Will that restrict my showings – the bright paint color (magenta and yellow)? DUH.
The fact that I haven’t cleaned the house in 2 years but I need to sell right away because now that we are blending our families and we have 2 mortgage payments – that might be a problem? DUH.
Can you help me Sofie? I don’t know what to do! (Bats her eyes here).
Now
Sofie, the very photogenic stager from England
mind
you, says no problem Ms. Common Sense Challenged Seller. In spite of
the fact you are a complete
slob
and they don’t pay me enough money to actually pick up mouse
droppings on TV –
let’s get started turning your lemon into lemonade! (Giggles).
So poor Sofie obviously helps Ms. Mentally Handicapped Scrub Challenged Seller to fix up her home and truly turns it into a pretty nice looking place!
Duh, duh and triple duh! I can’t believe that people can be that ridiculously stupid when they sell their homes. I try constantly to educate my sellers as to the current market place in my area where there are A LOT of great homes for buyers to choose. But I can’t remember ever having to mention the mouse droppings on the dining room table!
Yes Mr. and Mrs. Seller, you will have to scrape your dirty underwear off the floor if you want to sell your home! Sorry, there are no excuses here. People do not want to see your unmentionables at all, in any form, at any time. Put them away with the hand cuffs.
Yes Mr. and Mrs. Seller, you cannot charge extra for the small oak trees growing in your gutters on the front of your stunning hovel. If it weren’t for the falling gutters the other landscaping wouldn’t get watered you say? How nice. Ever hear of ‘curb appeal’?
I just can’t believe that HGTV actually finds these people to open up their homes and be totally dissected ‘on the telly’ by a Brit decorator! I would be absolutely mortified! Change that - mortified X 2.
Lyn Sims (847)230-7324 RE/MAX Suburban
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From cluttered homes to messy bedrooms, from dated decor to filthy interiors, The Unsellables transforms unsightly and unsellable properties into real estate gems — and encourages homeowners to let go of the past, get smart and prepare for a sale. Join property guru and British TV personality Sofie Allsopp and her trusty contractor Anthony Sayers as she coaches and cajoles home sellers through a major clean-up and targeted makeover that will help them seal the deal. There's plenty of drama and inspiration along the way — and lots of how-to tips for turning real estate lemons into lemonade!
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Andrea will soon have two mortgages, so she needs host Sofie Allsopp's
help in
marketing her home.
Just say 'no' to the Mouse House - 2009 Lyn Sims and RealEstateConsumerInfo.com
© 2010 Lyn Sims
maybe, Lyn, they can rename the show "DUH!"
Alan: Sell this mouse shows that people have no shame any more. Anything goes and then the seller doesn't understand why her house isn't selling. The 2 'artistically gifted' girls (brats I'll call em) didn't help the situation either. I guess that is the way the mother chooses to express her girls 'valdalism' of their home. They needed a politically correct 'smack'.
Lyn...the mice should not be a problem!!! As long as the interested parties have a few cats! LOL
William-I couldn't help but think....Turn that Mouse House into a Cat House? It is amazing that some people just have no shame! I am one of those who would clean the house before I would let a maid in! LOL!
Zane: Your right about the Jerry Springer aspect.
Bill: Not a cat in sight, but your right that would have taken care of it but then the show would have been rated R. R for Rodent! I crack myself up.
Sherry: Cat House, also makes it get an R rating. Back in the days when I could afford a cleaning service, you are right I had to clean the day before she came! LOL Friends at the office where the same way!
Lyn; It's definitely true that truth is stranger than fiction! Ugh!
Mouse droppings just aren't that popular anymore - LOL
I saw that show, how stupid they think the viewers or buyers are? nobody in their right mind would show mouse droppings on the table or would they ? sometimes there is a lot of exaggeration. I just cannot stand it sometimes but you still have to put up with the show to see the end result, nowadays I just set my DVR to record them and fast forward them to see the end result, so I do not have to see mouse droppings !!!
Shobha
Better mice than rats!!! I wish I did not have to deal with this but in the rural markets mice are a fairly common problem as are bats. They are easy to keep out if one is clean and does regular maintenanceon the home or cabin property. But as for the program, I have seen it and would have to say yes some are dumbing down when it comes to common sense.
Lyn, too funny (Next on HGTV.....DUH!) I am hooked on Clean House and it amazes me that someone would allow their home to look like that to begin with, but to let cameras in, NO WAY!
Debbie: I also watch Clean House but this was a little different, I had my mouth open the entire time going - they can't be serious are they?