Category: Seller Tips

If you're trying to sell a house, it's a good idea to know the factors that affect the desirability of your home. From carpeting around the toilet to dated faux finishes, there are some things buyers can't unsee. Tune in as we share the styling details you want to avoid...lest they send buyers running away in horror.

good afternoon peeps friends and family and assorted others sorted others you’re welcome enemies yeah y’all can all watch yeah we do get some interesting emails from we do this is just for fun people don’t don’t be so serious relax it’s just for fun I don’t need negative emails uh well speaking of negative this episode is about horrify home Styles horrifying home Styles horrifying scary we should have done this for we should have done this for Halloween Halloween oh we’re recording this just a few days but that’s okay but that’s okay Rand and Dian bro here your local lady presc Arizona your local presc realtor team that’s right here in presc happy to uh help you out as you as you journey into our little town and try to find your next place so if you are this is primarily for sellers because buyers will know horrifying home Styles when they see them you may be a seller you may have inherited a home that has horrifying Styles in it now when you put these horrifying Styles in you know I’m sure it was the cats meow sure but we thought we’d mention just a few things that have been singled out either by us or experts uh as things you just you just can’t do so things that also make us laugh out loud so one of the things that really so saw this article article horrifying home Styles we had one we had we had a we have a horrifying home style in our home yes and that is the horrifying home style is bench seating at a dining room table I don’t see anything wrong with it I love it but hey evidentally it was a very trendy thing when we bought our dining room table that’s right it’s on the way way out it is on the way out something you might want to think about replacing as a practical standpoint if you are the middle person on the on in the bench you’re kind of screwed like if you have to go to the bathroom you got to it’s like sitting in the middle seat in an airline you it’s like you got to you got to get everyone up to to get out I agree but our friends are fun and it’s even more fun after several cocktails to see him try to wiggle out of try wiggle out yeah so that’s kind of part of the fun but apparently that’s dated evidently that’s horrifying that was that I didn’t think that was that horrifying I don’t think it was that yeah I cuz I own it yeah you know I have that so that’s kind of py I wouldn’t even blink at that but the other good one that we love is and we’ve come across it now several times saloon doors saloon doors into the bathroom yeah why yeah yeah saloon doors in a bathroom not saloon doors in the potty room yeah for your potty it’s just saloon doors that’s Salon doors I don’t know people well that’s not very effective if you know what I mean who side Cowboy I’m coming in I don’t know what the idea is I don’t know I mean you swing those doors open there’s no privacy because they don’t really cover anything uh it doesn’t cover anything and then there saloon doors just into the bathroom in general and it’s like wow saloon doors yeah we don’t have saloon doors no we don’t at least we don’t tell anybody Our Salon doors I don’t when we play Cowboy and make her go to the oh God yeah Sal doors listen saloon doors are a joke if you want to put saloon doors on your bar or your man cave is kind of something fun uh that’s fun and that’s fine we have restaurants downtown you know our town kind of has a little Western theme and they do the saloon doors but uh into the master bathroom not so much that’s a not not a western experience the other thing in bathrooms is all white whes white white white walls white counters white it’s too much yes it’s too much Hospital aren’t even all white anymore people will say oh it’s all white it looks like a hospital when’s the last time you saw an all-white hospital they don’t do it anymore they don’t cuz no one likes it looks clinical no one it looks yeah it does that’s a good word clinical and God forbid the splattering alone of any anything any any major event shows everything you might be having yes could be bad you want she that you don’t want to share that you don’t want to have carpeting carpeting in the bathroom carpeting in the bathroom that is horrifying particularly around the toilet oh every time and I’ve been in some beautiful homes with that carpeting all the way up to the potty and I think all the way up to the pot Yakama gross disgusting uh same thing splatter splatter I don’t want to even know what has been splattered on that carpeting yeah you you don’t put carpeting on a toilet seat you don’t put a carpeting around the toilet seed you don’t want anything absorbent other than toilet paper near your toilet it’s just none of none of that is good that is horrifying none of that is good peach peach walls peach peach Mau mauve mauve walls yeah peach peach is uh you know I I if you’re if you like Peach go a little darker for apricot or terracotta or up a lot yeah mix it up a little bit more the peach it was just overdone it looks very country in a bad the worst possible way uh yeah Peach and it looks very Grandma it screens old person lives here old person has lived here and our old person has died here yeah yeah yeah that is true that um and Mau walls and seafoam green carpeting all of that Let It Go Let It Go obviously popcorn sealings we talked about popcorn sealings in our ASB bestus uh video popcorn sealings are a no no yep um what else uh some of these swag light fixtures yeah that just scream again grandma lived here grandma recently died here yeah be real careful with faux finishes oh yes we went into a beautiful beautiful million dooll home giant pillars which that was okay but then they did a faux finish that I don’t even think the Romans or or the the Greeks had painted cuz you know the Greeks did paint very garish yeah they did originally they did did you know that yes they did I did so but we don’t need to duplicate it now in the 2000s no no and so don’t do faux finishes everyone knows those everyone knows those columns are not real marble even though you tried to make it marble yeah it’s not you’re not fooling anybody they they do have some Modern faux finishes that don’t look dated but if your faux finish is more than a if you do a faux finish it’s going to age quickly yes you know you know you probably don’t want to keep your faux finished for more than about three or five years because they age very they’re very trendy and they age very quickly yes yes so you know things like that columns are kind of dated columns are dated are very dated so when you’re getting ready to sell maybe have someone come out and see you know how about if I put like a beautiful wooden column you know like more rustic or something anything but how about U fake crysanthemum oh yeah I have to take a deep breath all the silk flowers the silk it has to go by byebye horrifying uh plant shelves uh with covered with silk on top not good yeah so so not to be uh not to be insensitive but just to kind of state it for what it is chances are if you’re incet and you’re a seller you are of a certain age if you are a buyer you are of a certain age but not as old as the first uncertain age so your sellers you know they have faux finishes that have been around a while or whatever you need to understand that younger people come in even though they’re not really young anymore they’re younger than you are and they have a different sense of what style is and they will be horrified by the thing horrify is a good word because we’ve had people like they can’t see past it they can’t get P at all you’re right and not only that curtains no one uses curtains anymore yeah so you go in a house with the heavy drapes and the what do you call them the pleat at the top at the top it just screams or what do they call it pooling at the bottom what do they call pudd puddling pudd anything called puddling I like puddling though I have to say I’m not opposed to puddling I was okay with it until I heard it was called puddling and then I’m back to the I’m back to the carpet and the bathroom we could never do puddling because we have cats and dogs that would sleep on it and decide that’s a good spot to yeah take a Le yeah all of these things that we’re mentioning they’re things that are relatively easy and cheap to fix absolutely so then you know just by adjusting those few little things helps you get top dollar and sell quicker and S quicker um people look at something and you know especially if it’s in a higher price point and they think well gez I’m spending over a million dollars and I got to come in here and gut it I got to repaint it I got to scrape popcorn just do it now do it ahead of time people will put an offer in right away and you’ll get top dollar and and the sellers will say you know yeah but buyers can see past it they can’t no they can’t they just they can’t they can’t it is so horrifying they run screaming from your house even my people who say oh I can see past anything they they’re they can’t they’re in the middle of it and they’re like I just don’t When Buyers come in we show them a lot of homes and uh there are a lot of good homes here so you’re kind of you’re competing with other good homes and the one that they’re going to buy is the one that’s going to touch their heart yep and no one’s going to you’re not going to touch anyone’s heart with carpet in the bathroom it’s not going to touch anyone’s heart it’s it’s just not it’s not going to be it’s not going to touch their soul it’s not going to touch their soul yeah so fix that stuff fix it yeah but anyway so that’s uh some some of the horrifying home Styles we wanted to share with you so that’s our tip of the day if you like tips and place to goes pickle 411.com that is our free information site whether you’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between there’s something waiting for you that will Amaze to stound inform and entertain you and it’s only $10 no it’s free it’s absolutely a subscription no subscription that’s a joke no subscription no subscription it’s all free people it’s all free it’s all the best deal you ever get in real estate you’re welcome is our information site pickle 411.com who else is telling you about these horrifying home Styles you’re not going to get anywhere else we going to give it to you stra lady brings it to you that’s right all right friends hope to see you soon give us a call happy to take you around and tour you of our lovely city and check out some good homes we’d love to work with you give us a call have a great day bye bye

When serious buyers tour a dozen houses in one day, it's easy for them to forget which one is which. In this episode we share a secret about how they cope with this and how to use it to make your house stand out from the crowd.

Diane and Randall bro here your local Prescott area real estate agent wife combo uh so far so good we’re marginally French correct he’s Cajun French 100 I am not but that’s okay um so we’re here to talk to you about something that’s kind of fun we love it we do it all the time you can’t help but not do it when you see so many houses when you take buyers out it’s hard to remember each and every house so you start to nickname the houses yeah so you could say the Moosehead house yeah the house has a Moosehead a Moosehead house yeah or crazy paint color the greenhouse The Pink House the uh the many cats house yeah sometimes there’s a lot of cats in there there’s a lot of cats cat memorabilia that’s right and you have to do this because I you know particularly if somebody is as we say in the shoot like they they have to find a house and they want to find the house as soon as possible we’ll show our 12 homes we might show Ted homes in one day your eyes will be crossing my eyes start to Nicknaming Your Home cross and you really have difficulty remembering wait what house was that so if we nickname it it comes back yeah so something fun that we like to tell our listeners is think of something positive about your home that we can nickname your home so we should say oh my gosh I had the greatest Jewel ever yeah it’s just like a little Jewel a little a little jewelry box it’s a jewel you know and then you know try Positivity to do something like a jewelry box or something put something out uh positive mind you we don’t want to have the stinky house yes the kitty cat smell house yeah yeah we’re looking for a positive positive it was pretty bad so think of something cute you know or put a decorative item out that that other buyers coming in will instantly identify and remember and be like you know that house that had that cute um Standing Out puppy dog pillow great yeah I know exactly which one you’re talking about so uh think of something positive and fun that people will see and say and remember later because it’s very important it is you know believe it or not and sellers don’t realize buyers realize because they’re experiencing it sellers don’t think of their house you know they tend to think of their house in isolation not part of a buyer tour of 12 other homes that’s right so that’s what you’re competing with and uh usually the buyers who are on who are seeing the most homes those are the ones who are definitely going to buy yeah so this is important along those lines as Clever Marketing well a very clever marketing attack just a little something do something really cute really uh special that sets your house apart from the others that people will remember yes like if you have beautiful flowers have a lot of flowers throughout the house if you have a beautiful garden you don’t have things oh remember that flower house believe me it works and people will remember and you know people are people aren’t always clever Marketing Ideas um so don’t be afraid to be obvious so let’s say you decide you’re going to leave a plate of cookies from time to time we’ll have a plate of cookies very nice I love that and everybody remembers remember the cookies that house the cookie house the cookie house so if you’re if you’re gonna do that and I’m just using this as an example you’re going to do cookies uh leave a note it’s always nice when we walk in and a seller has left the note for buyers please have some cookies or some cookies or water and say welcome to the cookie house yeah and then people will call you the cookie house so tell them what to call your home yeah and make it something good positive and um and it’s something kind Conclusion of fun yeah absolutely something fun and positive because positive we don’t want to call you the stinky house like I said or the poop house or the beige house you know beige house yes we want to something special so think about that if you’re getting ready to list your home if you list with us well we’ll tell you the same thing we’ll make it happen so just something fun we wanted to share with you we thought it would be kind of interesting something different um so tonight when you’re going to sleep think of a cute game for your house what are you going to be what is your house going to be what are people going to call you what are people going to call your house that’s our tip of the day if you like tips the place to go is pickle411.com whether you are a buyer seller or somewhere in between there’s something there waiting especially for you that will Amaze Astound entertain and inform you and it’s only a hundred dollars no no absolutely free absolutely well hell I wish if you want to send us a hundred dollars you can no you don’t have to no Wind Down you don’t you don’t know it’s all free we’re happy to offer our our infinite amounts of wisdom wisdom and Shenanigans Shenanigans wisdom and shenanigans that’s it okay folks this is Diane Randall bro your local Prescott area real estate agents here to help you whether you’re buying or selling so look us up give us a call and let us make it happen for you bye bye

Have you ever walked into a house and thought "wow, it's so crowded and cramped in here!"? If you're trying to sell your home, this is definitely not an impression you want to give prospective buyers. In this video we tell you how to avoid this and help your home sell fast.

well good morning and hello hello hello Randall and Diane bro here coming to you from our beautiful little mountain town of Prescott Arizona uh I’m the pickle lady uh this is the pickle team um team of two her idea of teamwork is she tells she tells me what to do when I do it there you go that’s how it works that’s how it works that’s how it works keep telling yourself that here today to talk about pinch points pinch points all right so this is yeah yeah not that kind of pinch um this is a subtle staging tip yes a lot of people get wrong and it’s very important and it’s easy to fix it’s so easy to fix so easy to fix a lot of people like for instance me and herit grandfather clocks inherit Grandma’s sideboard and her Grandma’s Furniture this that and the other and they incorporate it with their existing and then things get a little tight in the house and so you come into the foyer and you’ve got two chairs and a and a table and this on the other and people are kind of going in sideways because they can’t quite maneuver around all those clocks and this that when you’re getting ready to sell weed some of that stuff up go put it in storage take everything out make it look almost as bare as you can yeah because Randall’s so right about this when you walk in your first impression you’re going through a foyer and if it’s really tight in there with you know pinch points like you can barely get through because of all the furniture um people leave with the impression gee that house is small yeah I really didn’t have a lot of room in there and it could be the furthest thing from the truth yeah um it could be quite big square footage yeah we see this all the time if you show as many homes as we do you see it again and again and again and it’s easy so ideally you reduce the amount of furniture make things look kind of sparse but honestly even in homes that don’t have that much furniture that are plenty you have ample space for everything that’s in there they just put the chair too close to the couch or the coffee table too close to the chair and they create a space that people can’t walk through easily yes the worst possible place to do that is in your foyer and just the other day we walked in a foyer and they had a seating area in the foyer why would someone sit in the foyer I don’t know why someone would do that unless they’re a dog and your dog dog doesn’t need a chair so we walk through the door and immediately we all had to scoop to the side yes to pass it and the home other than that was fine in plenty of space but it’s still left an impression in the buyer even said something about well that’s kind of cramped in here it’s cramped Russian sticks with them and it’s easy to fix just move the chair over a little bit look for Pinch points even if you can’t remove everything you don’t want to put it in storage and everything avoid the pinch points if you’re not able to avoid pinch points you have too much Furniture you need to remove things that’s it that’s it that’s it shortens venge points look pinch points get rid of your or just move it over a little bit or correct a little bit over and over a little bit so you can get on the sofa easily yeah keep in mind that people are going to walk around your coffee table they’re going to take paths that you might not take and if there’s any path that’s tight they’re gonna say it’s cramped it’s true that’s what we hear it all the time we hear it all the time so just try to divest yourself put it in storage move things around just have a better flow through whatever the flow is so important it’s all about flowing in and flowing in and flowing if they flowing easily that there’s a lot more chance of buying them that’s right all right so that is our tip for the day when you’re staging your house to go on the market pinch points pinch points so we got a whole bunch of uh staging and seller tips on our Channel you can look for those uh the place to find them if you don’t know where to go is pickle411.com that as our free information site we’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between there’s something waiting for you that will Amaze the sound delight and entertain you and it’s all free that is correct cost you nothing we aim to please put your credit card away we try to help nothing to buy Here folks all right so cheers we hope to see see you soon and uh show you around some hopefully emptied homes without any pinch points not any pinch points all right hope to hear from you soon take care bye

We all have smells that we like and dislike. Trouble is, not everyone agrees on which scents are best. Watch this episode to find out how scent can sell your home -- or prevent it from selling. 

hello hello peeps how are you today I hope you’re good we hope you’re good yeah here with the pickle lady my name is Randall I’m her sidekick and this is Diane bro we are coming to you live from Prescott Arizona in Arizona we are um I I have little real estate team here in our lovely town at least in the top three I hope we sure try let me try we sure drawing you today talk about smell smells p u p u y karumi p u is a is a very ancient term if you know that poo you know it’s one of the very first words I guess I’m gonna find out yeah yeah it’s like a very ancient word poo okay all right so the with regard to real estate that smells what we we show a lot of houses and sometimes you go in houses and things don’t smell right people may have a lot of pets I mean we’re guilty of this we have dogs so I understand dogs um pets maybe you have kids maybe you have you cook with a lot of heavy seasoning yeah garlic or Curry or even fish or yeah yeah we cook Cajun Styles so sometimes it’s a heavy smell in the house and after a while you stop smelling it like you’re used to that smell but you put your home on the market and people who don’t live there come in and guess what happens yeah they’re like they’re hit they walk into the smell and they’re like I don’t it sometimes it’s just a bad memory for them oh I hate Seafood I hate this I hate that this oh you know and it turns them off Forever on your house 100 um that along with paint color choices we go over that a million times yeah and it’s an easy thing to fix easy thing to fix now listen you may be thinking oh you know I have a dog have a daughter doesn’t snow that bad it does we would like well it could it does you shouldn’t yeah you should get an objective opinion have somebody come over and get tell me honestly can you smell the dog the thing is though if you have a smell that doesn’t hit you on top of the head it will still make a negative impression yes it may even just be subconscious to the buyer yeah there’s something about this house I just don’t I can’t put my finger on it so my favorite thing is I’m a huge sentaholic he knows he hates it I I’m a big fan of plug-ins I’ve got all kinds of candles I’ve got room diffusers I can’t get enough of it I got sprays no problem with any of those things what’s the thing what’s the thing I don’t like I don’t like when she puts the plug-ins up to the maximum set all right well we’re gonna have a fight I don’t put it on the maximum she doesn’t anymore she used to he had he think he’s just very he has sensitive olfactory yes I do it’s ridiculous it’s what it is listen don’t if you’re gonna get sense whether it’s a candle or Plug-In or whatever don’t crank it so high that that becomes the smell that turns people that’s true because then people think what are they trying to hide yeah people think is there mildew in here that they’re trying to disguise so my favorite sense that I put it in all houses that I get ready to list is lavender or vanilla yeah it’s simple it’s easy people have a good feeling with that it makes them feel good and it’s not too heavily scented any kind of florals is usually bad tomorrow’s bad we must start frankincense yes we love Patchouli oh Patchouli is good too but the thing about those is some people find like Patchouli has kind of a gamey thing and same thing with frankincense a little too much it might be a little a little off the beaten path for some people so pick something and just be mainstream two yeah you know two plug-ins yeah yeah but just just a few will be enough and put it you know in the middle or kind of on the low side over particularly if you’re not living in the home yes uh the smell will build over time so you can sail in there if someone’s not living and they’re not running the AC the air gets still so when people come in that’s a first impression does it smell nice and clean and a good you know vanilla lavender don’t do any heavy heavy florals roses roses yeah have sometimes a negative reaction to that but anyway that’s our small little tip um that’s my favorite sense um I put them all throughout the house yeah and it just um it’s also kind of lavender’s calming so you want your buyers coming in to be calm relaxed and enjoy the process so uh just a little tidbit be careful with the smells if you’re gonna have a showing the next day don’t cook liver and onions you know don’t cook cabbage don’t cook seafood if you know you’re gonna have like two back-to-back appointments the next day yeah yeah it won’t go over well that’s that’s the stuff I like I like to eat stinky things though yeah and that’s the stuff he builds I’m like oh my God it smells like a garbage can in here so a little a little pointer for you when you’re getting ready to go live get those air fresheners plug-ins ready to go get lavender vanilla whatever get something nice and calming a calm scent yeah and don’t do any heavy duty cooking the day before showing yeah it’ll help you believe me in the long run absolutely all right another seller tip there you go if you want more tips the place to get it is pickle411.com that is our free information site whether you are buy or seller somewhere in between there’s information that is there free Astound Amaze entertain and destroy you I don’t know I don’t know if I just worth it yeah it’s all free people yeah it’s all free yeah we don’t get anything for this we don’t get anything no I’m waiting to get picked up by HGTV that’s right we’re open yeah yeah we’re holding it yeah HGTV yeah right here yeah I think they need to even have our own green screen that’s right we’re ready we’re ready Hollywood yes it was gone all right that is all for today see you soon bye