Category: Seller Tips

good afternoon hello peeps Randall and Diane bro here we’re so happy to spend a few minutes with you and talk about uh real estate and life and life we always throw in little asides yeah we got a little sides here and there throw little things in yeah sides so today we’re going to talk about staging staging so we thought we’d play a a little game called the staging game staging game so on my trusty Dusty uh little pickle card here I’ve got a list of things that you might consider doing in anticipation of putting your home on the market okay so the question is would it make sense to do that or not should you bother doing that to put your home on the market 100% yes you don’t know what they are yet oh Well I can tell you any staging is a good thing any stage is a good thing but always all right first one number one repairs yes why do you think think repairs out well people if they see something that’s damaged or you know not working it gives them concern they’re like is this house in good operating order what am I buying I don’t want to take this on if I’ve got a ton of Repairs repairs to do yeah so we recently got a lovely listing here in Prescot lakes and love these folks shout out to them you know who you are yep on Solstice yep the mcclures lovely lovely folks and we recommended always always have your home pre-inspected before you go live on the market just in case you find something you didn’t even know you had wrong you know it’s always good to find out before not when you’re under contract and they agreed they did it they had a few cracked tiles on the roof immediately fixed it beautiful beautiful so now when I show their home I can tell everybody this home was pre-inspected there were a few little things that they had to repair they’ve already taken care of it gives a high yeah it gives people a high level of confidence that this home has been well taken care of and that they are buying something they can move in without having a lot of repairs later on down the road highly advis repair repair repair repair repair repair so so a couple things here first of all you may have repairs to make that you don’t know about that’s why you do a pre-inspection if your home is over four or five years Pre-Inspection do a pre-inspection yep and take care of it all excellent selling feature uh people love the confidence of you know we’ve had this inspected we’ve already done everything they love that you’re good to go you got we have a clear report if you have less than a few years you know you may not want to spend the money on the pre-inspection I think it’s still a good idea it’s not that much three or $400 it’s not a big investment it’s not a big investment really uh puts a feather in your cap in terms of selling the home if you have repairs that are visible we once went to a home yeah there was a wire hanging from the ceiling of the master bedroom yes yeah yeah with nothing else no light fixture no wire wires yeah anything like that oh God it dists people yeah they’re like what’s wrong is that is that safe is that is that a Live Wire yeah I actually found a problem with the home without even having an inspected you should probably have that repaired before you call your agent so if you got you know ripped carpeting or you know a lot of broken tiles and you’re flooring just address it yeah address it because people will tag you for that it will also not help you in terms of getting top dollar yeah you know people will be like well you know I need new carpeting it’s gross you’ve got broken tile so I’m gonna ding you for five grand yep so you know all things to keep in mind yep what’s our next one paint oh well we cannot ever say enough about pain I keep saying it paint paint paint pain if you have and your agent should be able to tell you this if you have a relatively contemporary color then you don’t need to and it’s recent I it looks good you don’t have to paint but if you have faux finishes oh yeah if you have anything that’s Peach yes if you know anything like that that people might think is weird mint green mint green Paint yeah paint it just do it it’s cheap it’s easy fast gives a whole new look and it also makes your house look super clean again um I know I have dogs so you know they hit the wall and you have marks and things like that so absolutely that’s the easiest cheapest thing you can do yeah and if even if your pain is up to speed yeah uh any dings on the wall paint them if you’ve taken don’t leave picture picture hooks on the wall yes if you’re taking all your pictures down take them down seal the holes seal it and lightly touch up yep these are this going to be harder okay uh oh okay what about adding a fireplace uh well I I’m a mix bag on that and I’ll tell you it’s an investment you might have to pay about five grand I this is my opinion um if I had a lot of money and I didn’t really care maybe I would consider hiring somebody to come install a fireplace you should know most homes you don’t have to go through the roof and punch a hole or anything you can vent it out through sidew wall so don’t get wigged out by that um but I would also consider just saying I’ll give you a fireplace um allowance allowance thank you I couldn’t dat word we’ve done that in the past uh we did a fireplace allowance and then I did um a a virtual uh virtual stadi picture where we added a fireplace so you can see what it looked like um that worked reasonably well but a lot of people they’re they home alert fireplace they looking for fireplace they specifically are requiring it they’re requesting it in their searches Fireplaces they want to only homes with fireplaces so something to consider especially in Prescot we’re a little mountain town people enjoy their fireplace love fireplace um it wouldn’t stop me from buying a home but I we’ve had buyers that did not buy because there was no fire and even though we say look you can add it it just seems to overwhelm them so um think if you got yeah if you got a huge wall that when you don’t have a fireplace might be a good idea you’re looking at $5,000 as just sort of an entrylevel fireplace if your home is in Phoenix no if your home is in Las Vegas on half the year it’s 120 degrees all right so people aren’t going to be looking for firls but we have four seasons here and there’s nothing more fun than sitting with you know your wife and the dogs and coffee fireplace depends on your wife I guess depends on the day it depends on the day but uh yeah that that’s a that’s part of prescot’s charm part of the charm sit in front of a warm fireplace when it’s snowing outside it’s lovely so yeah I’m I’m kind of sometimes I think yeah just add it sometimes I say just offer an allowance to make it happen yep but that’s my two cents on that two cents next next one granite countertops or Gran countertops it doesn’t have to be Granite the uh what is it quartz is really so upgrading the countertops what do you think yeah I think that’s a good one um we bought our house and immediately upgraded imately upgraded um and so had it been upgraded I would have appreciated that a whole lot more yeah um so yeah it certainly W especially if you have verica countertops or coron nobody wants that it screams dated dated dated my house your no the house it’s old so if you upgrade and you know you know you can get a reasonable s it’s not like you have to get you know the most Expensive Fossils expensive with fossils in it or something like that we don’t need to have a Bill Gates type of gr here you can just get some nice and people just think wow okay this is current this is current now if the homes in your neighborhood uh generally don’t have Granite uh you might be able to get away with it but it would give you an advantage here’s the thing about granite countertops a lot of agent and people in general use the countertops as an indicator of the upgrades of the whole home true so you could have everything upgraded if you’ve got formica they’re going to think of your home as not being updated right and that’s true yeah very dated and that’s true in the bathrooms too so if you get the counter marble in in the bathrooms I agree that’s a big indicator that people use you know because people don’t they’re not in the business they’re not in construction they don’t know what upgrades look like but they know what Countertops countertops look like yeah so a lot of people use that as a proxy if you’re spending seven or 800,000 you don’t want to see cultured marble count tops in the bathroom especially in the master y so just do it yep it’ll help you get top dollar yep okay this one’s harder uh oh lighting lighting uh well depends if you have a really dated like brass light fixture please get rid of it it it screams old I’m dated anything that’s you know not a current light fixture most people now want caned lights if you have them um change out the thing so it’s the the closed so the bulb isn’t hanging out you know that will be a little update up cans you can get cans now that led and you can dial we did a a video on this you can dial in the color of the light how bright it is yes we did one thing that people like a lot uh is bright yeah now there was a time people wanted cozy you they wanted it dark you know that’s when they had popcorn ceilings and all the rest and all of that will come back eventually people Popcorn Back start putting popcorn back on the ceilings probably before we die but um right now hopefully they want bright they want bright so some of the homes like we’ve seen homes where they added a cover on the back porch and it made the home dark yes the the interior the interior got dark be aware of that yeah so if you need to brighten it up with some cans do that get some new ceiling fans with a nice lighting kit none of that brass and little flowery looking you know that’s all dated get current fans current light fixtures and upgrade your can l yep absolutely none of that will hurt you ever ever and if your house is dark turn on the light when you’re having a show for every single show Absolutely you want to come in when she and I are showing homes that’s my job he’s the light guy yeah I’m the light guy so I will run through the house and I’ll quickly turn on any lights that I think need to be on and I’ll shut them all down before we leave yep uh most agents won’t do that so if you’re home particularly if your home is dark uh turn on the lights it’s a pain in the butt light up yeah now if your home is bright you know don’t turn them on and sometimes that actually plays in your favor because it’s it’s so bright and they don’t even have the lights on but if you don’t have that turn on lights okay all right final one final one I got a bunch of others we’ll do another game okay yeah final one okay tearing down the furniture yes yes and I actually had this happen to us in our in our house in Texas yeah we went out and Showroom on the floor the showroom uh the sofa and the love seat looked fine we got it home huge tremendous yeah it it dwarfed the room yes it fit it fit fine but it it was just too tall too big it was like the whole room was just sofa yeah so always uh it’s better to remove some furniture if you’ve got a lot of pieces if you have a lot of end tape sofa table this that this table that table the in the hallways pull it out you want spacious clear clean areas yes particularly if your square footage is below say 2,000 square fet that’s right it’s you get down to 1,500 and you got a lot of furniture yeah yeah you need to pull furniture out to make that sucker look as big as possible yeah some people have a huge master I’m sorry primary bedroom suite um with huge dresser and mirror and then another chest on chest and then GI and then the room just you know you just have a little room in front of the bed to walk pull some of that out and put it in storage um it just will show more spacious it looks cleaner it looks uh great to walk in you feel like oh yeah this is a nice siiz room this is lovely so it never will hurt to kind of purge some of the furniture even we did it in Texas just go put it in storage for a month or two till you sell it’s well worth it yes look especially in hallways entranceways foyers uh anywhere where people are walking through a room pull it out pull it out pull it out that’s what she said and yeah that is what she said so I can’t take her anywhere one thing also one piece of furniture that will always be suspect in my mind is anything called the hutch hutches are tend to be Generation To Generation Big Y they tend to be passed down from generation to generation and people keep them because they feel they have to yep they take up a lot of space uh and you get used to seeing it you don’t realize how big it is usually you should remove the Hut yeah people come in and they’re like well there really isn’t a lot of room in in these spaces um it seems crowded yeah and that is the wrong impression that is and they’re not going to buy they’re not going to buy can tell them oh but this piece is really big they’re not going to buy they can’t see it they can’t see they can’t see it yeah all right so I think that was a fun game I think we did Gooding game number one staging game number one we actually agreed on pretty much we did we’re winners ding ding ding ding ding ding so those I like this game no rules no rules I like that yeah you can even make uh offhand you know dirty jokes that’s right pardon me if that offends anybody offend you I’m sorry we’ll pair down it’s just funny yeah I mean you know all right so that is our our staging tips of the day if you like tips place to go is pickle 411.com that is our free information site whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between there’ll be something there waiting for you that will Amaze Astound delight and form and Entertain You did I say entertain educate educate educate educate yeah yes overwhel go overwhelm yes yeah it’s a lot disparage dispar we don’t dispar it’s all free too it’s all free we don’t even charge you for this that’s all good we’re happy yeah all right my friends we hope to hear from you soon please look out uh and check us out and give us a call we’re happy to help you on your search here in Prescot take care and have a wonderful afternoon bye bye

hello hello hello hello peeps Diane and Randall bro here I’m Randall she’s the Presa picin that is correct uh we are your local uh mom and pop Realtors pop Realtors sure yeah I gu yeah she’s a mom I’m a pop I guess yeah we’re parents yeah we’re parents we can identify as that yeah absolutely um but anyway we are we live here in Prescot we love it we came here 7 years ago have not looked back um we’ve gotten into real estate and we absolutely love it we’ve met so many wonderful people we’ve been in so many beautiful homes and one thing that we always mention when we go in with our buyers there are certain houses that just hit you right in the heart as soon as you walk in and it’s the zenfield zenfi and we have been in multi-million doll homes does not feel z y and we’ve been in little tiny Cottages that are very you know low priced homes that has the perfect as the Zen feel here’s the thing if a buyer describes your home as Zen they’re halfway to buying that’s right if they use the zword they like it the zword it’s an emotional feeling when people walk into a home it’s the emotion and the feelings that it evokes in them either it’s a connection from a child childhood home in the past it’s a smell from a home in the past a happy time in their life and it connects with them and the key to Zen is it doesn’t have to have Buddha statues it doesn’t have to be although those are my favorite as you know I got a Buddha we got Buddhas I got a big I got a big fat wooden Buddha yeah yeah which I got from I don’t know how Zen he is but he makes me feel good I rub his tummy every time I leave for good luck um but anyway um it’s really not just you know whatever Buddhist chanting in the background it’s just a good feeling what’s the Danish word remember there’s something hug Huga Huga is too I don’t know if I’m saying that right it’s like a cozy so we like Huga we like Zen and the key to all of those things declutter declutter declutter honestly it’s not about the palet it’s not about the Buddhas it’s about Simplicity yes and people see a home that is simple but but functional you have everything you need and not a bit more yep uh and there’s space and and it’s a peaceful feeling and people want to have that life now they will buy your Zen home and they will fill it with all our trash and it won’t be very Zen which is what we do which is what we do yeah but in terms of selling you’re going for the Zen Zen is uh get rid of the brick of bre yeah the Zen is a good place to be yeah get rid of the Bricker Breck get rid of anything extra and I mean I’m just as guilty as everybody else I I I somehow I have things from my parents house from my in-law’s house from every person that has died somehow grav it lands in my house well also I have two malan NOS I would not describe them as Zen they’re not Zen yeah but when we’re buying we like Zen but yeah when I go in a house that is properly you know just decluttered it just just feels so refreshing yeah it feels like it doesn’t you know what it is it doesn’t feel chaotic yes it’s like this home is calm this home is cool and collected another key to Zen is a a pallet that coordinates throughout the home now if you have kids you know I want a purple room I you know you have some of that but a home where all of the rooms may not necessarily be the same color but it’s on the same palette all the pictures go together it gives a a coordinated sort of Harmony to the home that is Z yeah yeah and it’s a very calming thing I love going in a house like that especially when I’m showing 10 houses and I go in one it’s like I mean you cannot you really feel it it’s a it’s a it’s a real feeling it’s a visceral thing I mean you get in there and you’re like you know what I mean um you you just feel it in your shoulders so try hard to be Zen and Zen can be beautiful flowers and plants and you know nature a lot of nature not too much of anything not too yes simp not too much of anything not too much of just enough of everything that’s it yeah and it could be a complete lie you Mayan not live that life that might not be you but we’re telling you as Buyer Agents if our clients say Zen they’re probably going to buy you they’re like oh I love it I love how I feel I love how I feel in this house and that’s how everyone should feel you know so I’m working out of my own house it’s it’s a work in progress work in progress but I do appreciate a good Zen yes what’s the other word hooi h Huga Huga H yeah either one of those it makes me feel good cozy I dig it I dig that cozy is another good word yeah yeah okay my friends so I hope that you’re planning a visit soon I’d love to take you into some beautiful Zen Hogie houses I like saying that Hogie houses houses and uh show you what it’s all about so give us a call are you going to fill in here what am I filling in 411.com oh the pickle 411.com I forgot what’s wrong with you are you losing it I’m lost my Cube yeah yeah if you want tips the place to go is our free information site pickle 411.com doesn’t matter if you’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between there’s something waiting for you that will Astound Amaze in warm and delight and it’s all absolutely free so go there right now go there right now anyway give us a call hope to hear from you soon take care and have a wonderful day bye bye

no we’re very French to lot of guttural sounds trying to sound French I’m Randall this is Diane our last name is bro we’re sort of French mostly cajan mostly K she’s the pickle lady we’re here in Prescot Arizona we’re both real estate agents and we’re here bringing you Vital Information very vital yes VV very vital very vital VV yeah VV today we’re going to talk about lot lock boxes which doesn’t sound like an exciting thing and it isn’t and it isn’t I hate lock boxes I’m going to be honest I they are the bane of my existence um but as an agent and and so this is really directed towards our clients who are getting ready to sell yeah um we’re going to give you some advice because they always say I don’t want a lock box on my front door I don’t want my neighbors to see it I don’t want this I don’t want that and I get that but as an agent showing many buyers many homes in one day there’s nothing worse than arriving at a home and you cannot find the lock box yes where is it where have they put it I found it in a tree I found it uh on the gas meter which can be dangerous if you do that sometimes you can pop something off on that I found it I’ve had one agent who put it between the security door and the main door and when you closed the security door it got trapped and then you couldn’t open the door yes so uh it gets rather dicey and especially when it’s uh snowing or it’s broiling and you’re like where is the lock box unlike a lot of the unlike a lot of the listing agents in the preset area we do a lot of buyers too yes we do do both so we know the buying process really really well and we’re here to tell you that lock boxes and the way you do your lock boxes is very very important it’s kind of part of the selling process it is if you have an agent like me and I’m standing there and some people have much older lock boxes and I’ve actually had one agent you know because I see you had trouble with the lock box again well you know what at some point I’m just going to give up and not even show your house so it’s important um have your lock boxes you know working and functioning and it really sets a bad example or a bad Vibe when you show up with a buyer and it takes you 15 minutes to get in the house they lose it they’re like okay I don’t even want to see it now yes cuz your home might be like number seven that day you know yeah so uh for our future sellers if we say hey let’s put the lock box someplace convenient my other favorite thing is when they put it on the on the um railing of a porch and then you have to get on your hands and knees and bend over that’s great that’s a lot of fun too so try to make it easy convenient tell when we tell you we have a nice little cushion thing that we put on the back of the door so it doesn’t bang on your door and Mark it um you know just try to put it someplace convenient and uh so people can get to it easily do not do combo boxes H nobody wants to have to call the agent oh my God I’m standing out here what’s the code what’s the code always it’s l so the basic the basic process is you you you know you make the appointment you you the appointment’s confirmed you go up to the door you punch in the the the you know the connect to the door it opens you’re in the house that’s what you want don’t do a combo box because most agents that you know they don’t notice that there’s a combo box they lose the combination or they don’t know to ask for the combination now they’re calling the selling agent trying to get the combination box listen lock boxes are cheap you think they’re like $300 a piece they’re not they’re like 50 bucks or something you don’t have to secure them nobody’s going around stealing lock boxes you know sometimes you said they chain them to things I’m like oh my God you know so this is really uh dedicated and directed to our future sellers so if you’re calling us to help you sell um we’re going to advise you where to put your lock box and how to do it and just follow our lead um and let’s not do anything special now wor comes the wor just put it on the ground beside the front door but that’s silly too no nobody’s going to walk up what that’s better than the railing the railing I gotta bend over you know just if it’s on the ground I can pick it up I can deal with and put it right back down and so I think for a lot of our potential sellers out there too there’s a lot of fear like people will be able to get the key and get in my house they really can’t um it’s all designed through your phone uh they have special codes that they have to enter it communicates to the lock box and you have to punch it in and it’s a whole process and then you can release the but the key um and it’s all logged yes so you know which agent is doing it at what time what day and and how long were they in there looking at your house which is another thing we do have some clients who do not want to lock box at all it’s important to have it we want to be able to see who’s in your house and how long so if you’ve got a buyer who goes in there and they’re in there 45 minutes that’s a good buying signal so we know they’re interested if you got somebody who goes in and and they’re out in five minutes then we know that didn’t go well so it’s kind of also a psychological thing and kind of see how your home is being received by other buyers so and don’t do a CVS code oh my God defeats the purpose of the lock box don’t put a CBS code well you need a CBS code for contractors for contractors not for the Don’t Force the agents to do agents don’t want to have to like a combo box it defeats the purpose of the lock box that’s a lot of work it is a lot of work when you’re out there showing 7 to 10 homes it’s tiring so you want to be able to get up there and knock it out and and the vast majority of sellers do not require CVS code so you’re not looking for CVS code again your house number seven and yours has a CVS code yeah not a good idea yes so anyway for our future sellers give us a call we love to sell your home we’ve got a lot of different little um plans to help you sell and uh some of our advice about lock boxes and stuff like that and we want to make it as simple and painless as possible if you’re interviewing selling agents listing agents ask about the lock boxes they’re more important than you think absolutely and just you’re asking about the lock box will uh signal to the uh the listing agent you know what you’re talking about that’s right you’re Sav it’s important you’ve been schooled yeah okay friends um if you’re thinking about selling give us a call we you we got plenty of lock boxes we got plenty of lock boxes we know how to use them that’s right and we do it the right way all right nice to uh well I guess I haven’t seen you but anyway nice to have this little hear my voice maybe not but nice to visit with you and we hope to hear from you soon take care bye bye

How do you like your light? Bright white, or more of a warm, glowy feeling? This video will clue you in on how the latest innovations in lighting can help your home suit your needs now, and appeal to buyers later.

hello hello hello hello peeps it’s your little local preset pickle lady team that’s us I’m part of the team he’s the other part of the team she’s pickle lady I’m part of the team that’s right yes randn Dian bro here and our little local Hamlet yes that’s a cute word Hamlet I like Hamlet it’s like a small ham I like that I know yeah today we’re going to talk about I love ham ham is good today we want to talk about a little tip for well buyers and sell I guess and that’s to do with lighting first of all if you are selling your home and you are a fan of blue hogen lights bright white you need to change that it’s too much too much well you know and people go in and it kind of feels a little sterile and it kind of feels industrial industrial and and you know I guess it’s all personal preference so hey we’re not here to tell you what to do but for us for instance our whole house had like 40 um canned lights throughout the entire house and we had the oldfashioned kind where you screw in the um flood lights so we had some that were bright white and we had some that were warm and some and it looked terrible none of it looked uniform yeah the thing about the the lights they don’t all burn out at the same time so you go to the store and you replace one and over time you end up with just a random combination of different kinds of and it looks terrible ter I was so excited this is my tip of the day if you’re in Costco they sell packs of four all inclusive one unit with the lens over it no light bulb anymore it’s really cool it’s all LED lights four in a pack for $20 and then we had our electrician come and he replaced all the old ones but here’s the cool thing that we were so excited about is I was like I just can’t have that bright blue I just I hate it he goes no no no no no look and in the lights you can now pick the the varying degrees of light you want do you want the Warm Glow do you want the bright white do you want in between so you can adjust all of this people yeah that’s right yeah in the future You’ be able to turn on your blue H hallogen light and then when you want to sell your house you can make it warmer yeah so if you like the bright white hey go for it for it have that bright white the whole time you live there when you go to sell put it on uh the warmer glow um people want to look in the mirror and say damn I look good yeah you know but if if it’s that bright white sometimes you look a little washed out so it just makes the house warmer and the paint looks nicer and this that and the other but it it’s nice now that you have an option so it’s a very cheap and reasonable thing to do to kind of update your house from those old yucky can lights and flood lights get these yeah and it looks so good and even in the front of your home we had a neighbor in our old neighbor neighborhood she had that hallogen thing oh my God it looked like she had she was running some kind of utility uh it was just horrible a beautiful home nice and quaint and then she puts this H blue H hallogen light in oh God I mean the whole neighborhood was lit up yeah so they I’ll tell you a secret they sold their home and they moved so the the movers moved they left and the uh the new owners weren’t in yet and I may have gone across the street and traded out the the light honestly it lit up our whole living area from across the street thank you new owners by the way no no charge no charge yeah yeah it’s that bad some people just are not sensitive to that but most people are that’s a big deal well especially people like this one people like me yeah yeah he’s I hate I hate that stuff yeah it’s a it’s fun it’s fun to live with him yeah I’m always right always right right about the light but you know if you do the LED thing you know you don’t have to make a choice you can have your cake and then eat it too that’s right so if you know you’re kind of looking to do something just a simple little reasonable cheap thing to kind of update your home that’s one thing to do replace those canned lights with these all-in-one units it’s amazing yes and well worth it at the very least use warm lights on the front porch and in the entryway the very least yes so you don’t have to good first impression that’s right as you pull up to a house with a hall it looks it looks industrial it does not look oh my gosh yeah okay there it is someone’s got a little It’s My Thing a little thing I’m in there about lights lights and pens that’s our tip of the day if you like tips the place to go is pickle 411.com that’s our free information site whether you’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between there’s something there for you that will Amaze Astound delight and inform and largely entertained and The Price is Right is absolutely free absolutely free like we don’t ask you for anything like nothing that might not encourage them that might be like why is it free I don’t want free yeah where’s the value there’s plenty of value why are these people doing this for free our contribution to society we don’t know why we do this for in these in these dark times when our society is declining we’re there providing free entertaining information to help prop up all of our all of our society all of the society that’s a lot wow one of the pillars of society really is pickle 411.com do tell yeah I did not know that yeah MH we’re keeping the Huns [Laughter] away okay my friends we hope to see jeez we hope to hear and see from you soon um we’d love to take you around show you our lovely town and look at some great houses and and invite you to move here and become an official prescon prescan with the rest of us all right friends good to see you have a great rest of your day bye bye

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 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