Now, we don’t claim to be real estate experts. But it seems to us that when you post a listing on your home, you might want to clean it up first – especially if you’re asking for £1.25 million for it. (That’s $2.2 million Australian).
Apparently, that’s not what the owners of a three-bedroom terrace house in London thought when they allowed a real estate agent to post an ad for their home.
Because well, this home, in its current state, doesn’t look like it should be worth anything near one million dollars, let alone two.
From baths with bags of laundry in them and towels scattered everywhere, to a Communist calendar hanging in a hallway - this house is untidy, to say the least. In one photo there's even a toilet seat up revealing a stained bowl.
And while the location may be sought after, it's not exactly in the heart of London, placed in the northern suburb of Stoke Newington, about half an hour's drive from the CBD.
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Either these owners are stubborn and refuse to listen to their agent's advice - or they have a terrible agent. If they don't want to tidy, that's up to them, but I would imagine they'll get much less for their house. If their agent hasn't told them what a terrible idea it is to advertise their house like this, the agent should probably be fired.
Given how many agents will aggressively pursue a higher price to fatten their own commission, my assumption is that it's either a fixed price and not sliding fee so the agent doesn't care, or it's a rental and the tenants weren't given an incentive to clean the place up.
On the flip side, when we were renting the landlord put the house on the market and there was nothing we could do to stop photographers taking photos or clients walking through "our home" and our stuff.
Of course we cleaned up and it was presentable and clean but some tenants don't care and put it in the "not my problem" category.
My hunch is that this the case here.